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March 6, 2020

Uh-oh...

She's too much. She makes me leave the room.

March 5, 2020

Moscow Barbie!

March 5, 2020

Malrovia!

March 5, 2020

Well they may be allowed to buy tickets to the opening

but they sure as hell will NEVER be invited to play.

March 5, 2020

And don't forget the insult to injury in 2012

when Bernie decided President Obama needed to be primaried!

OMG! I find that absolutely outrageous, unforgivable, and galling as hell. And I’m a old white woman. I can only imagine how upsetting that must be to the African/American community when some cantankerous know-it-all who should know better threatens to primary the first black president.

BIG mistake. And just what we DID NOT need when our first black president was up for re-election, had already brought us the Affordable Care Act, gotten rid of Osama bin Laden, and saved General Motors while starting to pull America out of the economic disaster that bush/cheney left us with. And we were really supposed to consider primarying him?

Seriously???

My late mother had a favorite phrase that kept going through my mind back then - about somebody who’s “got more nerve than the guy who ate the first oyster.”

March 5, 2020

Oooooh, GOOD one!

And BRAVO to BootinUp!

“A Revelation Instead of a Revolution.”

March 5, 2020

My guess: Bernie's saying something positive about Fidel Castro

would make Florida a nonstarter for Bernie.

The reality is - if you’re “doing well with young people,” you’re NOT necessarily doing well, if they don’t show up to VOTE. And the reality is - they don’t. Which is a shame.

Who DOES show up to vote? Older people. AND older people of color. Probably because they’ve been around long enough to see, understand, and remember. And it’s the older demographic that “gets” why bringing up Castro is a BIG mistake. They remember the Cuban missile crisis and the “Commie 90 miles off our shores.”

Praising Castro is just stupid. Bringing Castro up in the first place was just stupid. Especially for a self-proclaimed “socialist”! Especially when the very word “socialist” spooks a huge chunk of the public. Lordy, can you say CLUELESS?!?!? And Florida has such a sizeable Cuban demographic - and they remember Castro and not in any positive sense. Is Bernie that stuck in his ivory tower that he does not realize this? That there’s no way you can sell “socialist” and make people warm to it? It’s a labeling thing. One can argue “it’s just a word.” Maybe, but it’s still a fucking LOADED word that evokes some of our most basic fears of totalitarianism that have creeped Amerian ca out for decades. And fears that deep and that visceral take a LONG time to overcome.

It does no good to try to explain about “the issues”. It does no good to try to explain the fine points of what Bernie says we should be doing and enacting as public policy. Nobody has time for that. As has been said before, “if you’re explaining, you’re losing.” We’ve had decades to imprint on, and internalize, the very simple and visceral meme “Socialism = Bad.” And when that impression has had decades to seep all the way into the American bone marrow, it’s a LOSER. And all the “well it SHOULDN’T be” arguments, even while sensible and justifiable, won’t change that. I suspect the demographics who actually show up to vote in Florida will RUN, not walk, to support Biden. I can’t help but suspect that Bernie’s numbers in Florida, if he had any of significance, will head toward the basement.

Campaign Rule Number One: DO NOT hand your opponent free ammo. DO NOT give your opponent ANY opening of ANY size or shape! PERIOD. Bernie, for Pete’s sake, WHAT ON EARTH WERE YOU THINKING???”

March 5, 2020

Agreed.

March 5, 2020

I like that, joshdawg!

Flush the Turd
November Third!

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About calimary

Female. Retired. Wife-Mom-Grandma. Approx. 30 years in broadcasting, at least 20 of those in news biz. Taurus. Loves chocolate - preferably without nuts or cocoanut. Animal lover. Rock-hound from pre-school age. Proud Democrat for life. Ardent environmentalist and pro-choicer. Hoping to use my skills set for the greater good. Still married to the same guy for 40+ years. Probably because he's a proud Democrat, too. Penmanship absolutely stinks, so I'm glad I'm a fast typist! I will always love Hillary and she will always be my President.
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