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What the Hell Was Stacey Abrams’ Plan?
Redstate ^ | Joe Cunningham

Posted on 05/08/2020 10:00:02 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

A little over a year ago, Stacey Abrams could’ve had anything she wanted. She was getting a lot of friendly media coverage; many people in the national Democratic Party and the media were disappointed that she lost to Brian Kemp in the Georgia gubernatorial race. She had liberal activists super excited about her future.

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So what happened to Stacey Abrams?

There’s a problem with blind ambition when it’s grouped with inexperience and a sense of entitlement. Abrams allies literally shouted down her primary opponent, Stacey Evans, demanding that the gubernatorial candidate be black. She got the nomination and went on to face Kemp. Throughout the race, her campaign was that she was a super progressive black woman. She felt entitled to the job, and to be fair, her time in the state’s legislature gave her a lot of experience in working with the governor as well as fighting Republicans.

But, she lost. She could not win her state. Despite record minority voter registration and election day minority turnout, she could not seal the deal. Despite that, she felt entitled to keep the spotlight. She insisted that she was the real governor, said Kemp’s name would always have an asterisk next to it, and kept herself in the Georgia and national spotlights.

The race was a massive blemish on her record, but she would not be denied. So, she decided she would put out feelers for the Senate race and the presidential race. The former kept Georgia media interested, the latter kept the national media interested. The problem is that she apparently wanted neither.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: briankemp; georgia; staceyabrams
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To: RoosterRedux

Point being, well, I didnt really have one, other than stop and laugh often. Where in GA are you? That was my birth state.


41 posted on 05/08/2020 11:53:23 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Magnum44
Coffee County. Spent my career in Atlanta and NYC though.

Where in GA were you born?

42 posted on 05/08/2020 11:58:08 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Rummyfan

She should pop a chiclet in that gap


43 posted on 05/08/2020 12:07:45 PM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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To: RoosterRedux

Marietta, but grew up in Lost Mountain/Powder Springs, which was still country rural at the time (60’s & 70’s)


44 posted on 05/08/2020 12:23:34 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: RoosterRedux

She is arrogant and repulsive and has damaged her own image and squandered her momentum.


45 posted on 05/08/2020 12:29:27 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Magnum44
That area is still nice, but it has changed a great deal. But, then, the whole state has changed.
46 posted on 05/08/2020 12:37:38 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

My folks live in the mountains outside Jasper, so when I visit that’s about as far south as I get. No desire to go to Atlanta for decades.


47 posted on 05/08/2020 12:46:43 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: RoosterRedux

That picture is from the old version of the movie “Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory”.


48 posted on 05/08/2020 1:32:02 PM PDT by just Grace
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To: RoosterRedux

Fat, ugly AND stupid is no way to go through life.


49 posted on 05/08/2020 1:34:52 PM PDT by utax
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To: RoosterRedux

you know, I was thinking she could become the official “buffet slayer” but now I hear that buffets will become a thing of the past.

I am so worried about her future.

yeah, no.


50 posted on 05/08/2020 1:40:45 PM PDT by Texas resident (Remember in November)
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To: RoosterRedux

“What the Hell Was Stacey Abrams’ Plan?”

Insanity doesn’t have a plan, but it may have a goal.


51 posted on 05/08/2020 1:48:26 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Bringing deadly viruses out of caves and into labs doesn't prevent pandemics, it causes them.)
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To: just Grace

Thx.


52 posted on 05/08/2020 2:04:15 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: V K Lee
Yes, yes. Good catch. Hattie must be the stereotype them Yankees in New York City see when they look at Abrams.

Loved Hattie in the Shirley Temple classic, Little Colonel.


53 posted on 05/08/2020 3:49:43 PM PDT by poconopundit (Joe Biden has long been the Senate's court jester. He's 24/7 malarkey and more corrupt than Hunter.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Your wish is my command... wildcard.

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3842963/posts?page=25#25


54 posted on 05/08/2020 3:53:13 PM PDT by poconopundit (Joe Biden has long been the Senate's court jester. He's 24/7 malarkey and more corrupt than Hunter.)
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To: RoosterRedux

To eat every one of the chocolate covered cream filled Krispy Kremes in the box in the break room?


55 posted on 05/08/2020 8:46:01 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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