Posted on 06/27/2019 5:22:36 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Todays Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
I did not watch last nights Democrat debate, aka, Fauxcahontas Fest. Life is just too damn short to put myself through that nonsense. Plus, my blood pressures been a little elevated lately, and theres no use monkeying around with that, right? Right.
But we can still draw plenty of conclusions from the festivities just from perusing the news coverage of the event this morning. Lets go through some of them now:
Beto ORourke made an ass of himself, and we have photographic proof. Irish Bob broke out in Spanish in a non-answer to a question posed to him early in the debate, and the look on Cory Bookers face while he was doing it is priceless:
Fauxcahontas is standing there trying to figure out how to say of that in Cherokee. Klobuchars looking for a notebook to throw at him. But I digress.
The best part was when the lights went out. Some enterprising NBC technician apparently decided that the paltry audience for this debate needed a break from all the larceny and nitwittery taking place, and doused the lights just as Chuck Todd and the guy sitting next to him wait, that was a woman? Rachel Maddow? So hard to tell were about to take their turn asking questions. President Donald Trump did the nation a service and sent out a tweet with a clip of that segment this morning:
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Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Thank you @MSNBC, real professionals! @chucktodd @maddow
38.5K 4:36 AM - Jun 27, 2019 19.3K people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy Everybody lied about everything. Well, what did you expect? These are all Democrats. Of course they all lied about everything. If Democrats started telling the truth theyd never win another election.
Lieawatha did not get the most camera time. According to the New York Times (cough) that title when to the always verbose and dramatic Cory Booker. This isnt all that surprising, really. Booker can filibuster with the best of them. Irish Bob got the second most time, but nobody understood anything he was saying, and all the arm-waving meant nobody was listening anyway.
Little Big Mouth Always Running, meanwhile, came in third place in the minutes race, 90 seconds behind Booker. Down at the bottom of the list were two outright Marxists, Bill Deblasio and Jay Inslee, both of whom need to pack things up, go back home and focus on ruining New York City and the state of Washington, which is their core competency.
Julian Castro, an actual Hispanic, apparently felt he needed to his fellow Texan and fake Hispanic in the gut last night in order to stand out. He repeatedly interrupted Irish Bob, and at one point also broke out into Spanish just to show the audience what a real Mexican American sounds like. Not sure it got him anywhere, but hey, when youre polling at less than 1% you start to take desperate measures.
They all had favorite boogeymen. Because of course they did theyre Democrats. Boogeymen are their stock in trade. Most notable boogeymen of the evening were: Climate Change, Mitch McConnell, and of course, Donald Trump. *sigh*
Tulsi Gabbard had a good night, but it probably wont matter. Heres what I wrote about Gabbard and this debate on June 15, after the lineups for the two nights were announced:
You know who really got screwed by that draw? Tulsi Gabbard, who needs people to be watching in order to notice that shes the only person on that stage who will be saying what she actually thinks, rather than reciting talking points written for her by other people, as all the others will be doing. Trust me, thats not an accident, either, given that the Obama people who run the DNC detest Rep. Gabbard.
Well, Gabbard did have a good night, as evidenced by this chart showing which candidate was the most-Googled during the debate in each state:
Gabbard also overwhelmingly won the Drudge Report insta-poll following the debate, coming in at almost 40%:
Surprisingly, nearly 40 per cent of those who took the survey chose the 38-year-old congresswoman from Hawaii as the runaway winner
Unfortunately for the congresswoman from Hawaii, initial estimates are that just 9 million viewers were tuned into last nights festivities (See? Life is just too short for most of you, too). That compares to the more than 30 million who regularly tuned in to watch the early Republican debates featuring Donald Trump in 2015.
So, Tulsi is likely to get a little bump in the polls out of this debate, but it will be difficult for her money-starved campaign to capitalize on it. Still, she remains the only actually interesting person in the entire field, simply because, like Donald Trump in 2015, she stands out as the only authentic person on the stage. If nothing else, she certainly elevated her prospects for being selected as a vice-presidential running mate.
Now, lets talk a little bit about Fauxcahontas, because she is doing something interesting that I only see a few picking up on this morning. She is actually picking spots to channel the policies of wait for it Donald J. Trump.
No, seriously, think about it: Shes been running around the country lately talking about the need to break up the big social media giants, focusing especially on Facebook and Google. Who else has been talking in those terms? Your President.
Last night, she talked at length about the need to bring jobs back to America. President Trump has spent the last two-and-a-half years not just talking about that very thing, but making it happen. Bigly.
Whether you like the fake Indian or not and honestly, how could any sentient being actually like her you do have to recognize the clever nature of this approach. Expect her to start triangulating to adopt more successful Trump policies into her repertoire as the campaign goes on.
Optics matter. Irish Bob deciding to pander to Hispanics by breaking into Spanish at random was really poor optics, as are his constant head-bobbing and arm-waving. He is well and truly done after this debate, and should just run back home to Texas and challenge John Cornyn for the senate.
Though she had a good night overall, Warren really missed the boat with her spot on center stage by choosing to wear a dull purple jacket. Its shallow, and more than a little sexist, but one of the reasons why Gabbard stood out so clearly on that stage last night was because she wore bright red. The human eye is attracted to bright colors. If you want to call me sexist for saying that, then youre a moron and I dont have time for you.
So, judging from the media coverage of the debate this morning, here are the winners and losers:
Winners:
Donald Trump
Tulsi Gabbard
Fauxcahontas
Mitch McConnell (who got more air time last night than half of the contestants)
Cory Booker
Losers:
Irish Bob
Bill DeBlasio
Jay Inslee
Amy Klobuchar
Meh:
Everyone else.
I wont be watching tonights second debate, either, but I will certainly provide another un-watched summary of events tomorrow morning.
That is all.
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Tulsi seems very shallow to me. Most of her platform seems to consist of “I was in the military”. Which is nice, but insufficient to attract votes from anyone.
Warren is the only one from last night who will have longevity. Tomorrow, Biden and Bernie will stand out.
It’s already a 3-way race, IMO.
Julian Castro is not fluent in Spanish and has never given a speech in Spanish.
True, but he actually is an authentic Hispanic person, unlike the more-fluent Beto.
First thin I noticed was that NBC, knowing the audience would drift off in the second half, gave Warren most of the time to speak in the first half. DeBlasio will poll lower than 0% Pataki. Beto should be a comic, he is a total clown. Tulsi offered nothing, except that she served. Booker lives in a Brown Black neighborhood, other than that I don’t know. Warren wants to take away your private health Insurance. The Washington Governor is living in the past thinking Unions are a hot topic. Julian Castro is a lightweight, reminds me of Marco. Nobody won that debate, they all lost.
Tulsi seems very shallow to me. Most of her platform seems to consist of I was in the military. Which is nice, but insufficient to attract votes from anyone.
You make the mistake of assuming that substance matters in Democrat politics. It doesn’t. Not at all.
The mere fact that Democrat, Congresswoman, Tulsi Gabbard overwhelmingly beat out and destroyed every Democrat 2020 POTUS candidate that was on stage with her...simply proves how weak the entire Democrat Party really is in the mind of the overwhelming number of the American people and voters.
Also, the total number of votes of this Drudge Straw Poll was significantly below the massive lead numbers, POTUS, Donald J. Trump got in all of his Straw Polls as he comfortably easily, destroyed his seventeen opponents. The Tulsi number of votes indicates that very few people actually watched the POTUS debate last evening, which is a stain on the failure of both the Democrat Party and their twisted, biased, Media cohorts, NBC/MSNBC. Bottom line, this debate farce was a bust...a big one.
Now...tonight, Matt Drudge should just add the name of POTUS, Donald J. Trump to the bottom of his POTUS Debate Straw Poll right under the names of all the Democrats, debating tonight and, let us all see where Trumpie and the Democrats really stand in POTUS rank!!!
Shucks...Drudge would become the most famous and recognized man in the universe...overnight!!! Would be great fun & games!!!
I guess Beto asked her right before the show if she wanted to borrow his comb and it threw her off her game.
I agree. Tulsi seemed shallow from what I saw. The one who came out best was Delaney (?), perhaps aided by the fact that he was given the least amount of time because he wouldn’t stick to the party line?
there will never be a President Castro.
But his command of Klingon and Vulcan is impeccable ...
Gabbard is dangerous. Shes a howling moonbat same as the rest of them, but she doesnt come off as one. She would actually have a chance of winning.
Fortunately the DNC seems to detest her and are sabotaging her at every opportunity.
What is Tulsi? Is it the feminine form of Tulsa? Her theme song should be “Living on Tulsi Time.”
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How many people attended this circus?
Other than staffers and local Democrat committeemen, 0.
The ONLY reason Tulsi got the attention is because she is beautiful. And that is OK. Its the Sarah Palin effect.
When I went to Drudge and voted for her, I made sure I changed my VPN to pretend I lived in Russia. Just to give them something to chew on.
I’ve noticed that about Tulsi; using her military experience to make it look likes she’s an expert on foreign policy. Well I did 20 years, and you definitely don’t want me in charge of foreign policy, as the world would be glowing, and we’d be out of nukes, but on the plus side, plenty of glass parking lots. :-)
Who is “Uncle Dick ?”
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