Posted on 07/20/2018 11:55:11 PM PDT by BBell
In an embarrassing gaffe that is being ridiculed by left and right, far left New York candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accidentally misidentified what party she is campaigning for.
Heres what she said
After her shocking upset in New Yorks 14th congressional district that unseated party boss Rep. Joe Crowley (D), Ocasio-Cortez has gone on to campaign for other similarly far left candidates wishing to bend the politics of the Democratic party.
But on one campaign stop with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), she appeared to forget, or simply misstate, what party she was campaigning for.
And Bernie Sanders tweeted the video of the gaffe out from his social media account.
He wisely neglected to quote her directly, saying, Here in Kansas City with [Ocasio-Cortez] to support [Brent Welder] and flip this seat in November.
Ocasio-Cortez unfortunately said something else entirely.
Were gonna flip this seat red
Hello everybody, Ocasio-Cortez said, um, so excited to be hopping on here, Senator Sanders account, and were here in Kansas City to rally for Brent Welder, were gonna flip this seat red in November!
But red is typically considered the color signifying the Republican party, while blue is considered the color signifying the Democrat party, so Ocasio-Cortez was saying that she was going to help Republicans win the seat.
Ocasio-Cortez has become a controversial figure even among Democrats, where some of the more traditional party adherents have chafed at the upstart campaign.
Welder has an uphill battle in unseating Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-N.Y.) in the district.
Dunno why, IIRC the first CBS & NBC News color election maps had the GOP in blue and the DEMs in red. Today, of course, they’re flipped.
Be an interesting subject for someone to research.
Anyway, socialist du jour Cortez is scheduled to appear on “Face The Nation” this Sunday.
At first I was concerned that a genuine socialist had been nominated. But the more I listen to Casio the more she seems a gift. She has no thought-through positions and her comments are poorly worded so that she seems like a complete idiot. One would think that the fact Crowley, the ten term Democrat she defeated and who is running against her as an independent, would create an opportunity for Republicans. But, I have not even heard the Republican’s name or seen it in any article. I had to try several times on Google to find it. Perhaps it’s time to send Republican Anthony Pappas some love.
Yes, the television networks used to alternate colors. Then they ALL switched to Republican red and Democrat blue. ALL of them. At the SAME time. With the change in the SAME direction. Funny how the hive operates. But we're not supposed to accuse them of collusion.
Sanders honeymoon was actually in the Soviet Union. That country going for world domination was definitely RED then. All literary references to communism used the color red. Those references are still there. Just another way to try to fool people.
It would great if they ran as a 3rd party ticket in 2020. Great for us.
I think Cortez has sucked on one too many Tide pods. She might want to cut down.
Or she was saying they want to flip that seat to be communist since red is the color associated with the russian communists who won the civil war in russia against the whites.
http://www3.telus.net/EKaminski/redsvswhite%20notes.htm
JoMa
The press used to alternate the blue and red between the incumbents and the challengers.
After the 1980 election, where Reagan turned the nation red, the press decided that it was a most opportune moment to stop the alternation of colours and permanently assign the COMMUNIST colour to the Republicans, and assign blue to the demonrats.
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It also helped the MSM to exacerbate the divisions in the country. You can’t foment hatred unless you permanently label your “enemy”.
It used to be incumbent blue, challenger red on most TV channels
Media switched it in 2000. Bush Gore
The woman tells the truth - Commie trash.
I think it would be a real mind-game for republicans to take over blue as their color and just use it.
Always insist on blue.
Point out that red is the color of communists and socialists and that CONSERVATIVS PREFER TO BE INDENIFIED WITH THE COLOR BLUE, NOT THE COLOR OF WORLDWIDE SOCIAL AND ECONONIC FAILURE, RED.
Wiki..."Red is traditionally associated with socialism and communism. The oldest symbol of socialism (and by extension communism) is the Red Flag, which dates back to the French Revolution in the 18th century and the revolutions of 1848. Before this nascence, the color red was generally associated with monarchy or the Church due to the symbolism and association of Christ's blood. The colour red was chosen to represent the blood of the workers who died in the struggle against capitalism. All major socialist and communist alliances and organisationsincluding the First, Second and Third Internationalsused red as their official colour. The association between the colour red and communism is particularly strong. Communists use red much more often and more extensively than other ideologies use their respective traditional colors."
"57 States":
Wiki..."The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC; Arabic: منظمة التعاون الإسلامي; French: Organisation de la coopération islamique) is an international organization founded in 1969, consisting of 57 member states, with a collective population of over 1.3 billion as of 2009 with 47 countries being Muslim Majority countries."At the time, many of us really thought Obama's gaffe was going to sink him.
Honest mistake when you think about it...
We’re better off with red. It’s a more energizing color.
Red Star Over Queens
Third party? I thought I heard Bernie was interested in running as a Dem candidate for president in 2020 (seriously). Hillary lost due to diminished black support (compared to Obama); these two unassimilated, un-American dopes would lose due to NO black support.
The race-baiting and gender warring hurt Hillary badly, it would hurt these two as well. Despite the portrayal of Hispanics as a monolithic voting group (similar to blacks), it is just a myth. While a Puerto Rican on the ticket may solidify performance in the urban sh!tholes in which the largest clusters live, I know from the invasion of my town by Central and South Americans that many people in those groups don’t have a very high opinion of Puerto Ricans.
She is truly a gift; I hope she keeps the cameras on herself for years to come. She is from a sh!thole district (defined by the fact that the Dem primary is the de facto general election), and a dying socialist nanny-state that would be tough for Republicans to win.
The more the Dems parade their freak show nationally, the more motivated normals (of any color) are motivated to support Republicans. The Republican wave in 2016 was fueled by many traditional Dems voting the “normal” line from the top of the ticket down.
And best answer is . . .
When that didn’t work the media shed its objective facade altogether.
“By causing intellectual whiplash the MSM’s goal was to break-down and eliminate rational thought.”
Well, I’ll be danged iffen they didn’t have a fair degree of success!
Commie reds?
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