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(24,110 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)She's on fire! Did you see her "non-concession" speech?
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I'm 100% glad of and behind her refusal to concede this stolen election. I will never regard Kemp as a legitimate official. He belongs in prison for his crimes.
So let's be clear -- this is not a speech of concession, because concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true or proper. As a woman of conscience and faith, I cannot concede that. But, my assessment is the law currently allows no further viable remedy.
Now, I can certainly bring a new case to keep this one contest alive, but I don't want to hold public office if I need to scheme my way into the post. Because the title of governor isn't nearly as important as our shared title -- voters. And that is why we fight on."
PhilosopherKing
(317 posts)Why not?
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Small-Axe
(359 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Oh yeah, baby! She has the goods and could deliver us big time.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)Tarc
(10,472 posts)One failed gubernatorial bid does not elevate a person to presidential material. The White House is not a consolation prize for being wronged by a bigoted asshat like Kemp, sorry.
SCantiGOP
(13,855 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)She is super qualified, and she has the character to be president.
Takket
(21,421 posts)Shes never won a statewide campaign or served in any sort of capacity at the Federal level. Her experience doesnt extend beyond her own Georgia House district.
Her electability even at the Dem primary level is almost zero compared to the other names being bandied about for 2020.
Shes only 45. Win a state or Federal election, gain the experience, and well talk again in ten or fifteen years.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)that excludes a lot of big names I've been seeing here on DU, many names who are not nearly as qualified as Abrams.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)Wouldn't it be something if she and AG ran in 2020!!
When one's high-water mark is minority leader of a state legislature for 11 years, no, that isn't enough to say that one is qualified to run the country. I mentioned the loss to Kemp to note that it should not be used as a pity/consolation reason.
People get worked up when a flavor-of-the-moment person takes the spotlight, they lose their heads and do the "Person for President 20XX!" cheer-leading.
Remember "Avenatti 2020!" ? How's that sounding right abut now?
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...there is precedent(sic)...
Tarc
(10,472 posts)Honestly....
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)JI7
(89,172 posts)her win isn't any less because of bigots like kemp.
allgood33
(1,584 posts)Being black and UNAFRAID is the terror of the RW white men. Obama was unafraid and they knew it. That is why they called out every resource to obstruct him, smear him, and defy him. He still beat them but the country did not advance as much as it would have had the McConnells and Grahams and the Wall Street not opposed him and stayed out of the game until he was out of office.
Times are a little different now and someone like Stacey would get a bit more support and less obstruction against sound economic policies and fair civil rights and environmental justice issues. People generally appreciate and follow a fearless servant leader.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)the Racist-in-Chief would be toast!! It wouldn't even be close.
BlueintheSTL
(135 posts)I prefer candidates who can actually win.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Moderator Frank Luntz described McCain a former naval pilot taken prisoner for almost six years during the Vietnam War as a "war hero."
"He's not a war hero," Trump said mockingly. "He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/hes-not-war-hero-donald-trump-mocks-john-mccains-service-n394391
BlueintheSTL
(135 posts)But sure, let's nominate Stacey Abrams who could not beat Brian Kemp, yet will somehow beat Donald Trump. Makes perfect sense to me. I can already think of at least two dozen candidates that would have a better chance, but let's go with Abrams just because????
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)If she can almost win Georgia that is a great sign.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)oasis
(49,150 posts)aikoaiko
(34,127 posts)In 2016 she cosponsored a gun bill that would have banned so-called assault weapons and required that current owners either sell them to someone out of state or turn them in.
179 (a) Notwithstanding Code Sections 16-11-115 and Code Section 16-11-116, any person
180 who possesses any assault weapon or large capacity magazine on July 1, 2016, shall have
181 until October 31, 2016, to accomplish any of the following actions without any prosecution
182 under the law:
183 (1) Modify such assault weapon or large capacity magazine to render it permanently
184 inoperable or such that it is no longer an assault weapon or large capacity magazine; or
185 (2) Surrender such assault weapon or large capacity magazine to the Georgia Bureau of
186 Investigation for destruction pursuant to this part.
http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/154275.pdf
Even though she didn't campaign on banning/confiscating guns and didn't mention it at all on her campaign webpage, the NRA hit her hard on it and it cost her the election. That will never go away.
I know many people here will like this record, but confiscating firearms will never win the presidency.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Nice that is actually trying to do something about the problem.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)Should be dismantled, just like ICE... there should be no safe place for these extremists.
greyl
(22,990 posts)elocs
(22,474 posts)I don't think so.