Posted on 05/29/2019 5:27:50 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Apology accepted, you giant a**hole! – Desperate times call for desperate measures, as they say, and no Democrat candidates are more desperate these days than Eric “Otter” Swalwell and Irish Bob “Beto” O’Rourke. This week, both campaigns decided it would be best for their failing candidates to apologize for being exactly who they are.
So, Swalwell went out on Monday and, in on of the most stilted, palpably insincere moments of 2019, made a video in which he apologized to a woman for being a white man, saying “I may be another white guy, but I know there are gaps in my knowledge or in my experience and I know when to pass the mic.”
Ummmm, no, dude, the very existence of this video clearly demonstrates you haven’t the slightest clue about when to do that.
When questioned by Fox News’s Martha MaCallum about Swalwell’s gesture, Trey Gowdy nailed it, saying “Well, Eric’s clearly riding a wave. I think he’s all the way up to zero in the polling.” Ooof.
Not to be outdone by one of the shrinking handful of contenders he still leads in the polling, Irish Bob O’Rourke issued a video of his own on Tuesday. In this one, he apologizes to his 2018 senate campaign staff for being “a giant asshole.” Which, of course, is what everyone was thinking about him but afraid to say in polite company. But we aren’t in polite company here at Today’s Campaign Update, so we just plow right ahead and say it.
Hey, this is a really promising trend we have going on here for the Democrats. Maybe the rest of the field will take this opportunity issue some heartfelt apologies of their own for their past misdeeds that we are all totally aware of. Wouldn’t that be fun?
Here are some examples of the apology opportunities that lie out there in Democrat land:
Joe Biden could apologize for being a serial woman-and-child groper; Kamala Harris could apologize for being a floozy who slept her way to the Senate; Fauxcahontas could apologize for being, well, Fauxcahontas; The Commie could apologize for being an America-hating Marxist; Pete Buttigieg could apologize for being just so darn cute; Amy Klobuchar could apologize for being a heinously-abusive boss; Cory Booker could apologize to Spartacus; Kirstin Gillibrand could apologize for ever announcing her candidacy in the first place; John Hickenlooper could apologize for having been a pretty good governor, thus ending any hope that he might actually succeed in Democrat presidential politics; Jay Inslee, a horrible governor, could apologize in advance to all those future dead Washingtonians whose bodies will be mixed with leaves and manure to become compost; Bill DeBlasio could apologize for being the worst mayor in a city whose history is filled with an endless series of awful mayors, interrupted only by 8 years of Rudy Giuliani; Tulsi Gabbard could apologize to the other contenders for being the only actually interesting candidate in the entire field; Marianne Williamson could apologize for being someone… I don’t even know who she is; Seth Moulton could apologize to Fox News viewers for denying their ability to cringe and laugh out loud at every opinion uttered on-air by Marie Harf; Julian Castro could apologize for being too authentically Hispanic to ever hope to attract the votes of Democrat voters who just love to be deceived. This could go on almost endlessly, given the collection of miscreants, hacks and life-long frauds that are leading the race right now.
But of course, it won’t. Being a leftist asshole means never really having say you’re sorry, unless you think there’s some political advantage to doing it. Pretty sure that was in a movie once.
That is all.
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Not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
All the men in the clown car are neutered and the women have brass balls.
I agree, Swalwell is a pathetic she-man confused about his gender apparently.
The DNC must be frightened beyond belief. If no one can’t stand out in this crowd of clowns, then they don’t have a candidate. Timer to roll out Hillary for the third time. Or maybe Michelle. At least this Obama is a legitimate US citizen.
“Honk honk!”
Dem party is a complete clown car.
Michele probably realizes that as pres all she would really have to do is show up at parties, events, ceremonies, and read a script once in a while.
An easy gig with a HUGE payoff while letting her handlers do all the tough work in the background while she gets her fat ass kissed more than ever before.
She probably really is thinking about it.
Not only the first female pres but a black one as well.
HISTORIC!!!
historically scary..
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I’m half Hispanic, half white. Olive skin. Most people wouldn’t identify me as white. So I suppose I have some distance from having a dog in this fight. For the life of me I can’t figure out the white bashing by a party that needs the votes of tens of millions of white people to win next year. When the white bashing is done by white people like O’Rourke, Swalwell and Pelosi it’s all the more bizarre
“Not only the first female pres but a black one as well.
HISTORIC!!!
historically scary..”
A Michelle Obama administration means the return of Valerie Jarrett as behind the scenes POTUS. Perhaps it isn’t coincidental she is living with the Obamas.
Consider the dilemma for the Democrats. Biden is probably the announced candidate most able to beat Trump. He may pick up enough of the blue collar voters who defected to Trump in 2016, plus take advantage of the demographic trend which is in the Democrats favor. However, Biden is old and has a number of potential problems (son’s relationship with the Chicoms, his own groping). None of the rest of the field is as strong on name recognition with independents nor seems capable of assembling a winning coalition of Democrat leftists, traditional Democrats and independents.
Michelle at the top of the ticket, or running as POTUS with Biden, solves the problem. She has a lock on the black vote. She will gain a disproportionate share of the female vote. Likely a disproportionate share of the young vote. She also ensures high minority turnout. Trump won by small margins in quite a few states. Michelle, on the ticket, should swing enough votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, Wisconsin to put those states in the Democrat column. Plus Michelle, and the demographic shifts since 2016, may also move South Carolina and Georgia too Dem.
The Obamas, with Valjar, didn’t stay in Washington for no reason.
That's my biggest fear - a Biden/obama ticket would draw in all those you mention, and they are legion.
If Eric Swallowell is so racked with guilt over his White masculinity, he should do the right thing and practice harakiri. But, that would be cultural appropriation, he may offend the Japanese-American population. It’s so tough being PC these days!
Biden would not live very long with Michelle as his running mate. He will have a heart attack shorty after taking office.
But this is the plan. Run 20 idiotic candidates that could not win the POTUS even with no one running against them. No one would win. Then they draft Michelle to save the Democratic party.
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