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Democrats' pick to respond to Trump's speech was selected for one huge reason
Yahoo News ^ | 3/1/2017 | Bob Bryan

Posted on 03/01/2017 6:31:33 AM PST by detective

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To: detective

Trump’s remark about Obamacare collapsing in Kentucky was clearly a pre-emptive strike at Beshear. Very clever.


21 posted on 03/01/2017 6:49:06 AM PST by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: detective

I almost felt sorry for the poor slob.

It’s obvious that the democrat leadership threw him to the wolves because none of them wanted to make such an asinine rebuttal on national TV.

In a way it reminded me of the way Obama and Hillary sent Susan Rice out to mislead the public about Benghazi because they didn’t want their fingerprints on what they knew would be a disaster.

It was clear that Beshear’s response was written without regard to what the president had just said in his speech.

Just about every item he carped about had been addressed by the president only a few minutes earlier.

It was a pitiful performance and helped make the democrats look even weaker and more clueless.


22 posted on 03/01/2017 6:49:16 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler ("Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory." --Miguel de Cervantes)
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To: Liz

LOL!!


23 posted on 03/01/2017 6:51:36 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Lopeover

This. Noone currently in office wanted to take on Trump’s speech.


24 posted on 03/01/2017 6:58:57 AM PST by mykroar (Congratulations President Trump)
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To: bryan999

A lot of people thought of the comet guy.

I heard this song by Bob Rivers many many years ago. You can sing along in honor the weird pick that Dems chose to respond to Trump

Magic Comet Ride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fgpxCcOojA


25 posted on 03/01/2017 7:01:08 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: detective
So why was he selected? The choice of Beshear seems to be aimed at one of the Democrats most important policy goals: the preservation of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.
26 posted on 03/01/2017 7:01:08 AM PST by plain talk
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To: Carl Vehse

27 posted on 03/01/2017 7:01:17 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

You’re exactly right. It was a feeble attempt to reach out to their traditional base of rural southern and midwestern white voters by trotting out someone that can supposedly identify with them. Given that the Dems have spent the last decade...at least...taking one gigantic, continuous steaming dump on those same rural white voters, somehow, I don’t think its going to work.


28 posted on 03/01/2017 7:03:07 AM PST by VOR78
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To: Hotlanta Mike

The first time I EVER heard the term ‘white privilege’ was during the 2012 election. I laughed so hard because I thought the media was overstepping by giving any screen time to this ludicrous and racist thought process.

But I was wrong, half the population are easily brainwashed by the media. But many of us don’t fall for it, and the racism against white people will continue to haunt the democrat party. They own it now. The media will have to work overtime to brainwash people back the other direction.


29 posted on 03/01/2017 7:03:55 AM PST by bigtoona (Make America Great Again! America First! Th)
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To: Carl Vehse

That’s great!


30 posted on 03/01/2017 7:14:09 AM PST by day10 (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: Lopeover

Yeah, Stevenson was dead so they could not put him out there.

Too bad, I was hoping for Liawatha to do it or perhaps one of the other rabid lefties.


31 posted on 03/01/2017 7:15:59 AM PST by Mouton (There is a new sheriff in town.)
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To: detective

“Before the state move to a federal exchange by new Republican governor Matt Bevin, 33% of Kentuckians approved of Kynect while 29% disapproved accoridng to a poll by Public Policy Polling in 2015. By comparison the Affordable Care Act had a 33% approval and 47% disapproval in the same poll.”

Does anyone else see the problems with the poll? 


32 posted on 03/01/2017 7:16:12 AM PST by Beagle8U (Long live Yoga Pants! ( and boycott 84 lumber. Let's bankrupt the bastards!))
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33% of Kentuckians approved of Kynect while 29% disapproved according to a poll by Public Policy Polling in 2015. By comparison the Affordable Care Act had a 33% approval and 47% disapproval in the same poll.

So only 1/3 approve of either one, but slightly fewer people hate Kynect so that makes it a rousing success?

33 posted on 03/01/2017 7:16:44 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: detective

I could only stand about five minutes of this guy.


34 posted on 03/01/2017 7:18:44 AM PST by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: detective

My guess is that they picked this Political Fossil to give the speech because after Trump’s speech, Keith Ellison needed to get back to his ISIS membership drive.


35 posted on 03/01/2017 7:21:58 AM PST by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: N. Theknow

Still wiping coffee off my 34” Samsung curved monitor.


36 posted on 03/01/2017 7:26:37 AM PST by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war.")
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To: detective

“Democrats’ pick to respond to Trump’s speech was selected for one huge reason”

They needed a retard?


37 posted on 03/01/2017 7:28:06 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler
I almost felt sorry for the poor slob.

If the caption under the video they were showing hadn't said that it was the official Democrat response, how many people would have been able to figure out why the guy was on TV? He was completely irrelevant and just capped off a disastrous evening for the Democrats. All his effort did was help reinforce the perception that the Democrats are the problem and not part of the solution to anything.

38 posted on 03/01/2017 7:33:12 AM PST by fireman15 (How many illegal aliens voted for Hillary in CA and NY alone?)
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To: VRWCarea51

Fossil? I’m 5 years older than the Governor and I’m no fossil. Trump will soon be 71 on April 26th I believe. No fossil there either. They should have had a more presentable spokesperson but frankly their bench is empty.


39 posted on 03/01/2017 7:41:09 AM PST by JeanLM (Obama proves melanin is just enough to win elections)
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To: detective

The Dems ran away from race. They kept their anti white crap to themselves. That was the first sign of intelligence in 18 months.

They are trying to get back the middle of the country. Good luck.


40 posted on 03/01/2017 7:47:14 AM PST by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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