Posted on 03/01/2025 11:13:56 AM PST by DFG
“Nature hates a vacuum” is a truism that applies especially to politics.
Since President Trump defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris in November, peeling off many formerly loyal Democratic voters from diverse communities, much of the talk has been about the Democratic Party being rudderless, leaderless and lost.
Viewers of CNN and MSNBC — as well as various other left-of-center media outlets — will have noticed that Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) have been making regular appearances of late. Why?
One explanation I have heard from Democratic operatives is that Crockett and Ocasio-Cortez are trying to fill the vacuum created by Harris’s loss, the absence of a clear 2028 frontrunner and a coherent agenda. With chaos comes opportunity — opportunity, perhaps, for them.
They are correct to believe that such chaos has created a timely window for them to generate a great deal of attention for themselves. But what cost might their rise inflict upon the Democratic Party in 2028?
To paraphrase the line from “Top Gun,” are the egos of Crockett and Ocasio-Cortez writing checks that their records and real-world experience can’t cash? Do they even care? Or have they so bought into the calculation that they could become president that nothing else matters — not even the good of the Democratic Party?
Long ago, my old boss, former Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) joked, “The most dangerous place in Washington is between Chuck Schumer and a TV camera.” That same joke seems to apply today to Crockett and Ocasio-Cortez.
The two have a built-in constituency, but it is a constituency that is shrinking rapidly, built around messages that failed in 2024.
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who cares. long as they keep doing it.
Let them keep believing they represent mainstream America.... their ignorance and stupidity will only hasten their demise.
That reminds me when I was the hardware store and asked the guy for a stud finder and all he did was give me her photo and phone number.
“Sabotage” is not the right word here, for it necessarily means purposeful destruction. They aren’t playing for the other team, they really believe that crap. They are “true believers” most likely.
“Sabotage” is not the right word here, for it necessarily means purposeful destruction. They aren’t playing for the other team, they really believe that crap. They are “true believers” most likely.
The last batch of sane rats were called Blue Dogs. Most of them departed when they were forced to sign on to obamacare.
So no, there is no sane wing of the rat party. The Fascist/Nazi’s are the centrists. The communists are the far left. Anyone to the right of that trash were run off and are now Republicans.
The vacuous Harris created the vacuum, now the vacuous Crockett & Cortez try to fill it. You can’t write a better script.
The memes just keep on coming!
Hogg, Walz, Klobberjar? Who’s next...Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz?
Meanwhile, the Trump/MAGA team keeps on saving America.
I posted a LONG time ago not to underestimate AOC. I’m going to do it one more time. She has something most other Democrats don’t have, raw, unbending, immutable determination. If we were in the same room together, we’d be arrested for trying to kill each other. I am not bribable per what my goals are and I honestly don’t believe she is either.
AOC is.
“We underestimate at our own peril, Republicans often shoot ourselves in the foot with things like letting Ronna McDaniel lead the RNC for so long.”
and it was even WORSE before her when that PoS Michael Steele was put in charge solely BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK ...
I remember attending a County party meeting to watch him on closed circuit TV and was sickened even then ... even more sickening were the country club Republicans who made up the bulk of the audience who looked like a gaggle of syncopated bobbleheads nodding in unison to the nonsense that Steele was spewing ...
Given that 48-49% of the voting public voted for Harris, I’d say these two can stir up a base of support. I know they are idiots, but half the country seems to be idiots, so they may be able to do some business.
Exactly, and this should sober us. Even as Trump acts upon a mandate, it’s still important to remember the numbers behind the other side, which is significant.
Nah, they are just two of the most vocal morons belonging to a political party that has nothing to offer the US except lies about how great their policies are compared to Trump’s.
Too much truth even for X.
BS. Both are stupid; communist scum.
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