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If they will have to steal it. . .
I'm convinced Christie is going to win here in NJ in November. He wins - it's over for 2016.
But I suspect - there are quite a few anti-The Current Democratic Party 'Liberals, Progressive, Democratic Party members" that will be okay with that.
Then they can have their bloody revolution in the streets. 
I will blame them as much as the Republican party - only I'll be doing it sipping homemade wine from my mountain side home in Acri, Italy. 
I have my pick of our building on the side of the mountain, his mothers home in the village (she passed two weeks ago and left it to us), a flat in Firenze, a flat in Rome - or his flat in Paris.
But what I'd really like to do is chuck them all and buy a house in Ramatuelle (outside of St. Tropez France). 
I hope I'm wrong - but if the most foaming at the mouth Democratic voters (such as at DU) are hell bent on Warren/Grayson/Sanders etc. etc. in 2016 - we've lost the White House.
And I have no doubt - with the overturn of the key elements of the VRA - they've lost the House/Senate too.
I think we are spitting in the wind here. 
And I'm sure that will make you happy! 
None of those three can win. They can't.
And again -you've lost the black vote in America - because they (the Powers that Be) don't WANT us to vote. So it's not going to happen. The Democratic Party has lost it's 'sure' thing . . . it doesn't have us to kick around anymore and taunt with , "Well where else are you going to go?"
So you better pick someone palatable to center white independents if you want a fighting chance. And although I like those three . . . I've seen how powerful Christie is and how 'seductive' he is. I'm telling you - you've lost in 2016.
The minute he starts yelling about any ONE of those three who are currently IN Washington (insiders) -he'll bring out he knuckle dragging basement dwelling "I hate the gubmint' vote". They will come out full force for him.
And if you don't think he's running for President right this very minute - then you obviously aren't getting bombarded with his annoying 'stronger than the storm' commercials we are in NJ, NYC, Philly, CT, etc. etc.
Reliable - At all . . . You can have your opinion. I'll have mine. He'll have his wife's opinion- i.e. ultimately say what she wants him to.
When they see him go balls to the walls and viciously attack the other folks - they'll go for him.
He's a strident anti-choice Republican. That alone is going to get their rocks off! He's also good buddies with Rove. If they can steal two G.E.'s - what makes you think they can't outright steal the South Carolina primary? *raised eyebrow*
Why so quick to think that after the Palin and Romney debacles - they are going to let Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio be on the top of the ticket? Koch Brothers love him - so does Wall Street. The guy is in like Flynn. I'm sure the Kochs are already sipping a scotch and smoking a cigar at the South Carolina primary victory in 2016 . . .
I'm a cynical generation X asshole.
I'm officially cynical and untrusting of old guard baby boomer democratic PUNDITS. No way - no how. He's one of them. When he holds an office some day - then he will get street cred. If he's so good - why hasn't he ever run for and won a national office?
Everywhere black people go we are going to face hatre - how is America any better than any place else? Oh - wait -
If we have a son - due to their extremely restrictive gun laws - he can't get shot if I send him down to the Gelateria for some orange pellegrino and a gelato. Or he can - but there the shooter is guilty and has to prove he is innocent.
I love when white folks in America point out how racist other countries are - when their own country's face is filthy as a used condom.
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Besides - where the good sex with my hot sexy Calabrese hubby goes? I go too! 
You don't see asses and juicy shoulders like his (a life of hard physical work, good food, good living) on most 44 year old American born and raised men like you do on my husband. 
And I'm well traveled - and I'm a home owner there. I'll make my stand.
Italy is no different than Germany where as a mixed race black kid in the 1970's - we had to fear for our lives with all of those old Nazis running around.
BTW- My husband agrees with you on Northern Italians. He'll take their money and that's pretty much it. And he detests how they refuse to admit they are black and middle eastern.
Ahhh - but I've spent many hours in the kitchen with my late MIL, Zia Dora, Zia Philomena! My husband will only eat his mother's pesto recipe! Never ever go against a Calabrese Man's Mama!
Old battles between Irish Protestants and Catholics - right here in America!
My Gramfeathers was a peach - no prejudice - unless it was Irish Catholics. 
Or Catholics in general. But she was born out West in 1904. She changed her tune a few years before she died - in her 90's. But took - like 87 years.
Big difference.
But you brought up Hillary as an example. She was a kid when she campaigned for Goldwater. Warren was middle aged. Don't get me wrong, I like Warren just fine. I just don't believe that she's ready to run for president. She barely won her Senate seat a few months ago and had never ran for elective office before that campaign. Besides, there's a lot more to being president than just opposing Wall Street.
