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Democrat Presidential Candidates are Killing Their Party With Honesty
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 06/29/2019 5:35:23 AM PDT by EyesOfTX

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)

Of course, Kamala Harris lied: She’s a Democrat. – Several readers responded to yesterday’s Campaign Update by informing me about media reports indicating Kamala Harris lied during Thursday’s debate when she claimed her elementary school class was the first to be integrated when she went into first grade in 1970.

Jim Hoft at Gatewaypundit.com dug up 1963 yearbook photos from the high school Harris attended in Berkeley, CA (because of course she grew up in Berkeley – where else?). That yearbook shows a fully-integrated class of students. Harris, as a reminder, was born in 1964.

So, she lied. She’s a Democrat, after all, and Democrats lie to get elected. It’s what they do. It’s what they have to do in order to win elections. That is as it has always been, and it is as it always will be. The moment Democrats start telling voters the truth about what they really plan to do, and the impact their plans would really have on our society is the moment their party becomes completely non-viable as a national entity.

In fact, it doesn’t even take Democrats being honest about their policies to see this phenomenon happen – all it takes is for them to begin implementing their real agenda so that the people begin to see with their own eyes what it really is. That happened when Barack Hussein Obama his own self got elected in 2009 and immediately nationalized the nation’s healthcare industry and tried to saddle the country with an economy-destroying cap-and-trade system on carbon.

Even though Democrats continued to shamelessly lie about all of that (“If you want your plan, you can keep your plan”), the blowback against the party was immediate and harsh. Voters who suddenly realized the horrible mistake they’d made in the 2008 elections went out and turned the House of Representatives over to the Republicans in the 2010 mid-terms. The gridlock that created in the legislative process, combined with the GOP nominating the feckless Mitt Romney enabled Obama to recover enough to be re-elected in 2012. But, after Obama switched tactics from legislating to trying to kill the economy by regulating it to death, we had the sea-change 2014 election in which Republicans swept to big majorities in both houses of congress, 33 of the 50 governor’s offices and full control of both houses in over 30 state legislatures.

In six short years, voters seeing the reality of the Obama agenda had relegated the Democrat Party to a marginalized, regional party concentrated in the coastal Northeast, and the West coast. The rest of the national map was a virtual sea of red, interrupted only by small blue pockets concentrated in inner cities.

Remember, Obama had to lie his butt off in order to get elected in 2008. Most people forget this, but he actually ran as a “moderate” against the disastrous John McCain, making no promises to nationalize healthcare or implement a disastrous cap and trade program. The real nature of his far-left agenda only became apparent after he was safely in the Oval Office.

This brings us to the danger in which this current crop of mediocre presidential candidates are placing their party: They are being far, far too honest with the American people about what their agenda really is. This, ironically, is due mostly to the influence that Bernie The Commie Sanders and the childish antics of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

These candidates see all the media spotlight focused on AOC and all the nitwits who follow them on social media squealing for all sorts of radical, outright Marxist and anti-American policy positions, and they become desperate to fall in line like the good little socialists they really are at heart. You must also keep in mind that the vast majority of professional campaign advisors are young people (because as people mature, we tend to want to go do something actually productive with our lives), which today means Millennials. So, regardless of the age of the politician, the advice they are getting tends to skew them to the radical left.

As a result, we saw the spectacle of the two debates this week. Where Democrats in 2009/2010 said “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan,” this week they all said “If you like your plan, we will take it away from you and make you pay the healthcare costs of millions of new illegal aliens.”

And hey, those aliens won’t even be illegal anymore, because each and every one of the 20 people on stage this week also endorsed the nation-destroying idea of decriminalizing border crossings, i.e., open borders. Even more, they’re going to eliminate ICE and de-fund the Border Patrol so that everyone on earth can just swim across the Rio Grande to get their free healthcare.

Oh, and they’re going to raise all of your taxes to pay for multi-trillion dollar schemes like forgiving student loans, the Green New Deal and various other “Climate Change” socialist “plans”, Medicare for all, and on and on and on. The Commie came right out and went full Walter Mondale Thursday night, admitting that he plans to raise taxes on the middle class to pay for all of his Marxist programs. Heads nodded in agreement all over the stage. It’s never a good idea to go full Walter Mondale, people.

These Democrats are so desperate to appeal to their demented, radicalized base voters in order to win the nomination that they are forgetting the single biggest key to ultimately getting elected: Deceiving everyone else about their real intentions.

That particular Genie jumped right up out the bottle this week on national television for all to see. You can bet the Trump campaign is already rolling the video into general election ads as you read this.

For most people, the truth shall set you free. But for Democrats, the light of truth is a death ray.

That is all.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Humor; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: fakenews; mediabias; trump; trumpwinsagain
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1 posted on 06/29/2019 5:35:23 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX

They all have the same platform....kill the babies, open borders, raise taxes...free everything...just plain dumb.


2 posted on 06/29/2019 5:41:46 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: EyesOfTX
she lied. She’s a Democrat, after all, and Democrats lie to get elected. It’s what they do. It’s what they have to do in order to win elections. That is as it has always been, and it is as it always will be. The moment Democrats start telling voters the truth about what they really plan to do, and the impact their plans would really have on our society is the moment their party becomes completely non-viable as a national entity.

I could change that to Republican and it would accurately describe our favorite herd of RINOs as well. Unfortunately "our" side has also been lying about what they are up to instead of being the "true" conservatives they advertise themselves to be.

3 posted on 06/29/2019 5:42:17 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: EyesOfTX

People here from that area said elementary schools had a different time table than high school.


4 posted on 06/29/2019 5:47:11 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: EyesOfTX
For most people, the truth shall set you free. But for Democrats, the light of truth is a death ray.

The money quote.

5 posted on 06/29/2019 5:48:33 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Sacajaweau
And too ...

Kamala Harris claimed after Thursday's debate that she had misinterpreted a question about eliminating private health insurance in favor of a government-run health insurance plan. Instead of indicating her support for eliminating private insurance in general, Harris told a reporter she favored enrolling in a government-run health care plan herself.
So, in a debate she is asked about "abolish their private health insurance in favorite of a government-run plan?," and rather than interpret that as a policy question, she takes it as a personal question.

LOL. Incompetent hussy.

6 posted on 06/29/2019 5:53:17 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: EyesOfTX

This is a great column. Excellent and succinct.


7 posted on 06/29/2019 5:55:40 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Isn't it funny that the very people who scream "My body, my choice" wants a say in your healthcare?)
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To: EyesOfTX

I heard that the next day - why don’t they FACT CHECK each other?

Oh - and she should prove she is a legal US citizen. Did mom & dad do all the paperwork?


8 posted on 06/29/2019 6:01:20 AM PDT by RebelTXRose (Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us! PRAY THE ROSARY!)
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To: Cboldt

Harris’s favorite tactic has always been to claim to be on both sides of every issue. You cite a classic example of her use of that tactic.


9 posted on 06/29/2019 6:22:08 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX
So, she lied. She’s a Democrat, after all, and Democrats lie to get elected. It’s what they do. It’s what they have to do in order to win elections. That is as it has always been, and it is as it always will be.

Leftardism is nothing but a bunch of con jobs to steal America. Con men have to lie to fool and rip off their targets.

Leftard lies about obamacare:

• If you like your plan you can keep your plan
• If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor
• the average family will save more than $2400 per year
• health care costs will decline
• health care premiums will go down
• everyone in this country will now have health insurance

10 posted on 06/29/2019 6:31:00 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Thanks, EEE!


11 posted on 06/29/2019 6:36:10 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX
This first set of debates will accelerate the #WalkAway movement. Even many normally-supporting Democrats are now openly admitting as such.
12 posted on 06/29/2019 6:39:10 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: EyesOfTX

These political blusterings are not lies, they are “trash talk” - the same as NFL football players across the line from each other. I am wanting to wait for the “yo mama” tag line. Trump is a master at it, trolling without mercy. The problem is that fake news and stupid voters take this stuff seriously.


13 posted on 06/29/2019 6:40:13 AM PDT by HChampagne (Cruz supporter but I will support and vote for Trump.)
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To: EyesOfTX

If they start moving to the center you’ll know they’re lying


14 posted on 06/29/2019 6:47:09 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: EyesOfTX

“Democrat Presidential Candidates are Killing Their Party With Honesty”

I’m stunned that they don’t realize that they can no longer afford to be honest.


15 posted on 06/29/2019 6:49:27 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Sacajaweau

“They all have the same platform....kill the babies, open borders, raise taxes...free everything...just plain dumb.”

And, let the Democrats run your lives because as a victim, you are too dumb to do it yourself.


16 posted on 06/29/2019 6:57:45 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump is President and CEO of America, Inc.)
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To: EyesOfTX

Good stuff. I think the racism charge has lost its sting because (like many things) it is thoroughly overused to describe political and philosophical differences instead of real racism.

The accusation has been cheapened to the point that few pay any attention to it anymore. They have done the same thing with global warming and America has tuned it out.

On top of that, Harris (and most of the democrat stage) are not authentic. Harris grew up with a silver spoon and was far more privileged than most Americans. Her meteoric rise in California politics is not a story she can honestly tell (Willie Brown).

They are actors like Jussie Smollett using their screenplay to try and advance their careers. Normal people see this and observe a wealthy affluent media using the same narrative for the same reasons. We shrug even as the leftist media breathlessly cringe at labels that have been made meaningless.


17 posted on 06/29/2019 7:09:00 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: EyesOfTX

Was a great sight to behold....Can you imagine what it would be like if we could see that again? SUPER! Nothing like promising to raise taxes if you’re elected president!

“”Reagan won 58.8% of the popular vote and carried 49 of the 50 states, becoming the oldest person, at the time, to win a presidential election. Reagan’s showing ranks fifth in the share of electoral votes received and fifth in the share of the popular vote won. No candidate since 1984 has equaled Reagan’s share of the electoral or popular vote. Mondale received 40.6% of the popular vote, but carried only the District of Columbia and his home state of Minnesota. Reagan also won the highest number of electoral votes of any president thus far.[3]””


18 posted on 06/29/2019 7:10:42 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: RummyChick

“”People here from that area said elementary schools had a different time table than high school.””

Moving from link to link in other threads this morning, I saw a headline that her statement was true/factual but I left and went on to something else without reading it. I didn’t mean to, I just exited...Maybe I’ll run across it again or maybe someone else will see it.

I still haven’t figured out why she said, “I was that little girl” without saying whether or not she thought busing was a good or a bad thing. Left a lot of us saying “so?”


19 posted on 06/29/2019 7:17:18 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: EyesOfTX

Lunacy on full display . Vote for us if you enjoy being mentally ill . What a great campaign ahead.


20 posted on 06/29/2019 7:31:33 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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