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2020-03-02 Home Front: Politix
Conservatives Think They Have This Election Won
[Kurt at Town Hall] - You would have thought that the vibe at CPAC this year would involve stressing about our November election prospects, but even as the market dipped over the coronavirus scare the general consensus was that whether we face Vermont Stalin or that miserable monied midget, we got this.

The common image of conservatives is one of dour pessimism, but that is less due to some inherent doom-mongering on the right than to the decades of failure by Conservative Inc. Under the wise, steady guidance of our establishment betters, all we did was lose, but Donald Trump gave the cons a taste of winning, and they like it. At CPAC, you could feel the excitement. In contrast, just down the road, the Losercon remnants held their "National Summit on Principled Conservatism," oblivious of the fact that if you abuse yourself with too much principled conservativing you will go blind.

...It is not a bad idea to take your opponents seriously, and anyone who gets a major party nomination can theoretically win. But if you look at someone like Bernie Sanders, a crusty anti-American weirdo who wants to take your money and give it to his doofus supporters, and you have to imagine that next year at CPAC, with Trump safely re-elected and the House back in our hands, we will be wondering what the hell the Democrats were thinking nominating Marxist Mondale.

Lots of Dem-leaning voters fashionably despise the president and enjoy their progressive posing, but Sanders actually believes the nonsense he’s spewing. He totally would take their doctors and SUVs, jack up their taxes, and hand them the bill for other people’s kids’ Oppression Studies degrees. Liberalism is all fine and dandy with them until they have to actually live it. Get ready for even more secret Trump voters as folks with fading "I’m With Her" stickers on their Teslas walk into the voting booth with their still-strong 401(k) numbers on their minds and flip the lever for The Donald.

...Those folks probably would have been perfectly happy to submit to the furry shackles of the soft fascism of Soda-Banning Frodo. Bloomberg would keep their status and wealth intact and if the price is their freedom, well, okay. Some people are just pathetic submissives. And they might have the chance to sell out their liberty for a little fake security because the Democrat establishment totally gets that Sanders is not only a loser at the top of the ticket but his gooey commie ichor will trickle down defeat all the way to the bottom of the ballot. So, mark my words - they are going to try to steal the nomination that Sanders is winning fair and square and toss it to the tiny tycoon who will open his massive wallet and make it rain to make that happen.
China favored candidate
Yes, they are trying everything they can to derail the Trump Train. We’ve seen RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA 2.0 happen and then quickly unhappen. There’s the ridiculous attempt to blame Trump for the coronavirus, as if he went to China to make the locals slurp bat soup and lick pangolins. The pandemic meme won’t pan out. In a couple of months we will likely have forgotten it and moved on to new hyped-up atrocities. In the meantime, Trump will be getting us out of Afghanistan, a move the Dems will denounce because of Trump’s magical power to make liberals even stupider.

The 2020 vibe is good. We’re winning. We shouldn’t take anything for granted. Instead, we should run up the score and send Nancy Pelosi back to Scat Francisco for good.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-02 03:34|| || Front Page|| [12 views ]  Top

#1 Nothing is won.

You must Counter them
Posted by newc 2020-03-02 05:44||   2020-03-02 05:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Does anyone else remember the Hillary Care laws that Clinton tried to pass?

The biggest explosion came when people realized that this meant government control of doctors as in how many there could be in each specialty and how many could graduate and how much they would get paid.

You never hear about that with Bernie's plan but I figure that all that s#it is in there and I never see anyone questioning it.

Debate ammo?
Posted by AlanC 2020-03-02 08:21||   2020-03-02 08:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Even if it were won, we want a landslide of historic proportions.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-03-02 10:28||   2020-03-02 10:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Kurt et. al. are right. Always play the game like you're 6 pts. behind and the two minute warning just sounded. Complacency kills...
Posted by Warthog 2020-03-02 11:48||   2020-03-02 11:48|| Front Page Top

#5 One possible problem I see is people not voting because it’s ‘in the bag’.

Scat Francisco. Got to remember that.
Posted by CrazyFool 2020-03-02 11:52||   2020-03-02 11:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Hubris will be the Pub's downfall if they lose.

This can be lost.

Don't stop the pressure.

Don't stop voting.

Don't gloat and keep presenting a sane, rational case.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-03-02 12:11||   2020-03-02 12:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Just take into account - Trump is not the Stupid Party. He also plays the game from the same playbook the Donks have used for decades and is not 'shamed' to play that game.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-03-02 19:11||   2020-03-02 19:11|| Front Page Top

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