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elocs

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13. "NOTE: Acting angry, waving your arms, rolling your eyes, and making promises that have no chance
Wed Jul 31, 2019, 10:23 AM
Jul 2019

of going anywhere only impresses the further left of the party who are thoroughly convinced you won the night."
Absolutely right!
Promises are cheap and easy when you do not have a plan for as to how they will ever become law because the truth is that none of them will become law anytime soon.
But then too many Democrats have the notion that anybody they throw at Trump can beat him so it doesn't matter how far left the nominee is.
Of course if a far left candidate gets nominated and loses to Trump, none of them will ever admit that their views contributed to that defeat.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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