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De Blasio sets sights on presidential draft candidacy vs. Hillary
NY Post ^ | April 20, 2015 | Fredric U. Dicker

Posted on 04/19/2015 10:31:09 PM PDT by Zakeet

Despite repeated claims to the contrary, Mayor de Blasio is positioning himself to be the leftist “progressive” alternative to Wall Street-friendly Hillary Rodham Clinton as the Democratic candidate for president, a national party operative told The Post.

De Blasio’s hope, the operative said, is a “draft de Blasio’’ movement will develop among progressive activists over the next several months that will lead to the mayor being able to defeat Clinton in the primary elections next year in much the same way leftist Sen. George McGovern successfully challenged the initially front-running establishment Democratic candidate, Sen. Edmund Muskie, more than 40 years ago.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; alsharpton; andrewcuomo; billdeblasio; chirlanemccray; clinton; deblasio; democrat; democratic; democrats; draft; draftdeblasio; hillary; hillaryclinton; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; progressive
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You Freepers have to admit that this Fruit Cake has the perfect credentials to be a Rat presidential candidate.

1 posted on 04/19/2015 10:31:09 PM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet
Mayor de Blasio is positioning himself to be the leftist “progressive” alternative

Isn't Bernie Sanders already doing that?

2 posted on 04/19/2015 10:53:23 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: Zakeet; sickoflibs; Impy

Too many Stalinists already pondering the Presidency: Squaw Spreading Bull, Kaiser Wilhelm, the Butcheress of Benghazi, Bawlamer Maumau O’Malley & Burnout Sanders.


3 posted on 04/19/2015 10:58:08 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

That list you just gave made me ill, VERY ill.
For the record, his real last name is not Italian!! We of Italian heritage here on staten island dislike him immensely. He says he changed the name to reflect his closer tis to his mother’s ethnicity. No, he just wanted to sound ethnic.
I don’t know what I want to happen. Which of these baboons is the easiest to defeat?


4 posted on 04/19/2015 11:01:21 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: Zakeet
Not buying it. De Blaze is a Clinton plot to split the ultra left wing primary vote.


5 posted on 04/19/2015 11:02:55 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort (The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it ~ G Orwell)
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To: dp0622

I get a kick out of idiots in the media (I repeat myself) going on about how “right wing” the GOP is compared to decades ago, while ignoring the fact that the Democrats now make the old Soviet hardliners look like a bunch of pansies. These peoples heroes are Che Guevera, Castro, Ho. Contrast that with the old liberal Hubert Humphrey. He wouldn’t believe that the pro-Soviet freakshow he chased out of the old Minnesota DFL are running the nation today. HHH may have been of the left, but he wasn’t a bitter anti-American hater.


6 posted on 04/19/2015 11:15:04 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Zakeet

REVOLUTION! No Stalinists no more


7 posted on 04/19/2015 11:15:32 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: Leroy S. Mort

I agree, it will keep Grandma Warren out. But am all for him jumping in. It will keep the party on its course to be a regional costal party.


8 posted on 04/19/2015 11:16:13 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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so stupid. the dems would never run a white, Christian, male. their whole political philosophy is running some kind of minority and then claiming the gop is racist, sexist, etc.


9 posted on 04/19/2015 11:18:24 PM PDT by willywill
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To: fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy

Seriously Wilhelm, you think America is ready for a Black lesbian first lady.....oh wait.

Someone needs to convince Bernie Sanders that a hopeless run in the rat primaries is not the answer, he needs to make a 3rd party bid!

10 posted on 04/19/2015 11:23:57 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Zakeet

I miss the America of my youth, i.e., the one that wasn’t so freaking Marxist.


11 posted on 04/19/2015 11:24:11 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I didn’t agree with them on most issues for sure, but Pat Moynihan was a good man who said about Clinton “we are defining deviancy down” and saw the fatherless black culture as a disaster.
I disliked Kennedy until I started reading up on home. Not in love with him now but he would HATE what the party is now. And he slashed tax rates.
Dylan was right..the times they are a changing, but they didn’t change for the better


12 posted on 04/19/2015 11:27:15 PM PDT by dp0622
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back in the day Leninists and the Trotskyists offed each other...maybe that bloody in fighting is returning!!!


13 posted on 04/19/2015 11:28:44 PM PDT by RginTN
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nothing like a good RAT fight


14 posted on 04/20/2015 2:19:47 AM PDT by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
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To: Zakeet

So, he hasn’t even been mayor of NY for 2 years and he wants to be President, eh? Simply amazing.


15 posted on 04/20/2015 3:30:51 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: Zakeet

End Times.


16 posted on 04/20/2015 3:31:05 AM PDT by paterfamilias
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To: Zakeet

This guy impresses me as a doofus.


17 posted on 04/20/2015 4:37:14 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Unfortunately, Lil’Marty will get a lot of the LIV vote.

Least threatening (if you don’t listen to what he is saying)and good looking.


18 posted on 04/20/2015 4:38:54 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: Zakeet

de blasio is out of his mind if he thinks he has any creds outside commie nuevo yorke, the sanctuary freeshit commie crowd... the city is starting to revert to the dinkins days... with homeless in the train terminals and all over the street... ah the smell of urine and feces... that is the de blasio trademark stench. when is his book “i married a lesbian” going to come out? the jews genetially vote democrat and you could run a monkey and he gets their vote and they are the ones to thank for de blobio...or wahtever his name is..


19 posted on 04/20/2015 5:19:11 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: Zakeet

BHAAAAA!BHAAAAA!BHAAAAA!BHAAAAA!BHAAAAA!BHAAAAA!BHAAAAA!


20 posted on 04/20/2015 5:40:15 AM PDT by ontap
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