Posted on 06/13/2023 9:03:23 AM PDT by dangus
I've gotten three e-mails from ActBlue, which handles ALL of the Democrats' campaigns, about the 2024 presidential race. (I'm on their mailing list so I can keep tabs on them professionally.) It's pretty clear which candidate THEY think THEIR people are most afraid of. It doesn't make sense that this is reverse logic, since this is them trying to tease the worst fears of their own donors. And keep in mind, these aren't get-out-the-vote efforts which often are designed to appeal to moderates; these are fundraising ads designed to appeal to the most red-meat, party-loyal types.
(These are all from BEFORE Trump was indicted; I don't check mail from the Democrats very often, so I just found these.)
From the DEMOCRATS, letter 1
Friend, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, one of the most extreme Republicans in the country, just announced his presidential campaign.
Make no mistake: This man and his extreme agenda should terrify anyone who cares about our democracy, our civil rights and basic decency. We cannot let his far-right policies get to Washington.
That's why I've set a $25,000 rapid-response goal – please, will you rush a $5 donation right now to defend our Senate majority and stop Ron DeSantis' dangerous ideology?
If you don't know about Ron DeSantis and his terrifying record, here is just a snapshot:
He signed an extreme 6-week abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest.
He's pushing a dangerous agenda that threatens the safety and health of LGBTQ+ youth.
He's attacking and undermining educators.
He's made it more difficult for Floridians to cast their ballots and even established an elections police unit to intimidate voters. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign means that he's one step closer to bringing this dangerous, draconian agenda to Washington. And it also means that this once fringe-like ideology just became the mainstream GOP agenda.
Because of Ron DeSantis' announcement, extremists are going to be even more emboldened in 2024. It's up to us to firmly, completely reject this agenda before it's too late. And that starts with defeating the right-wing extremists who are trying to retake control of the Senate. Please, will you rush $5 before midnight tonight so we can hit our $25,000 rapid response goal, defeat GOP extremism and save our Senate majority?
If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately:
Donate $5 Donate $25 Donate $50 Rush another amount This is a scary day for the future of our country. But if passionate, dedicated people like you continue to fight for what's right, I know that we will win.
Thank you,
Gary
From the Democrats, Letter 2: BREAKING NEWS: Ron DeSantis announces presidential campaign!
Please, rush $5 right now to defeat DeSantis' dangerous right-wing agenda!
DONATE $5
Friend, it's official: Ron DeSantis is running for president. And the latest data shows that he's polling NECK AND NECK with President Biden!
Our Democratic Senate majority has spent the last two years leading our country forward and making critical progress for ALL Americans. But we already know that if Ron DeSantis makes it to the White House, he'll do everything he can to UNDO that progress!
DeSantis' record speaks for itself: As governor of Florida, he signed an extreme abortion ban and pushed a dangerous right-wing agenda. He's attacked everyone from the LGBTQ+ community to educators to patients. We cannot let him bring these radical policies to the White House.
That's why we've set an emergency goal to make sure we have the resources to fight back against Ron DeSantis – and we're counting on you, friend, to help raise $25,000 before midnight tonight!
Will you rush $5 now to fight back against DeSantis' presidential bid and defend our democracy?
If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately:
Donate $5 Donate $25 Donate $50 Rush another amount
PAID FOR BY PETERS FOR MICHIGAN
Peters for Michigan
From the Democrats, letter 3: Kaine 2024 Team, this is a big deal:
New polling shows Republican Ron DeSantis is tied with President Biden in Virginia in a 2024 matchup.
Virginians know that the road to the White House runs directly through our Commonwealth -- Democrats can’t afford to lose here.
With polls showing that Virginia could be one of 2024’s most competitive battlegrounds, NOW is the time to prepare for a fight.
Tim Kaine’s re-election campaign is building a huge grassroots program designed to persuade, educate, and turn out voters all across the Commonwealth. We’re mapping out plans to open field offices, hire staff, run digital advertising, send out mailers, and communicate the stakes of this election to every voter.
But we can’t do any of that without your help.
Will you chip in any amount right now to help build this voter turnout machine? Together, we can re-elect President Biden and Tim Kaine, and support Democrats all the way down the ticket in 2024?
If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately:
DONATE $20 DONATE $50 DONATE $100 OTHER Thank you for anything you can give. The polls are clear -- we cannot afford not to invest every penny we can into Virginia.
-Team Kaine
As Rush said numerous times: the left always show you whom they fear most.
The Democrats don’t like either Trump or Desantis. The rest of the rest are either pantywaists or aren’t going anywhere.
But they’ve already thrown 87 kitchen sinks and then some at Trump and he’s still standing.
No doubt they have plenty on Desantis as well, but they haven’t thrown anything at him yet so his strength is an unknown factor.
They’re not terrified of him. He just makes an easy fundraising tool for them to use.
The Democrats and Republicans play good cop/bad cop. They will raise money off DeSantis that’s for sure. But you can tell that there is no real vitriol from the press or politicians about DeSantis. He’s one of them. Trump is not.
You’ve got that backwards. The press is for public consumption; they WANT you, the Republican, to think they’re scared of Trump. The fundraising is for their own people. They want their people to believe that DeSantis could really win the nomination because they’re more scared of him.
They KNOW that trump will be found GUILTY and go to PRISON....the FIX IS IN....so they are out for the next one up!
We are now down to ONLY TWO political parties.
1, The Patriot America-First small-limited-government-organic-constitutional party. And...
2, The Uniparty.
...or they are assuming Trump will be forced out of the race somehow.
Kennedy also said that although there is oil throughout the country, the dipsticks are in Washington.
I disagree.
What raises more money?
Trump putting in judges that ended Roe vs Wade?
Trump is a criminal?
Trump is hitler?
or
DeSantis passed a law for 6 week abortion?
DeSantis passed a law banning books?
DeSantis passed a law banning gay?
Hint: They have been saying this stuff about Trump for 8 years. The magnitude of hate or reaction reached its peak yrs ago. DeSantis is new meat and very conservative, more conservative than Trump.
In a general election, fence sitters want populists or middle of the road politicians. DeSantis is neither. Trump is both which is why they started branding him as King evil 2015. Both parties (politicians) detest populists but are fine with milquetoast. Trump is a populist that calls out the milquetoast. Both parties fear Trump more than any candidate on either side.
Sure, they’re so terrified about DeSantis they’re about to indict him in federal court....
>> Hint: They have been saying this stuff about Trump for 8 years. The magnitude of hate or reaction reached its peak yrs ago. DeSantis is new meat and very conservative, more conservative than Trump. <<
You just said it! “DeSantis is ... very conservative, more conservative than Trump.”
>> Sure, they’re so terrified about DeSantis they’re about to indict him in federal court.... <<
Think about this for a moment. If the Democrats indict Trump and he beats the wrap, they’ve made him stronger in the primaries. Either the Democrats think that Trump won’t beat the wrap, or they want him to win the nomination or both.
They thought his campaign would be doomed by an indictment. I really don’t think they planned much further ahead than that.
If they were really that skilled at this, it would have been over for Trump one of the first six or seven times they tried to kneecap him, and they wouldn’t still be trying 8 years later.
>> If they were really that skilled at this, it would have been over for Trump one of the first six or seven times they tried to kneecap him, and they wouldn’t still be trying 8 years later. <<
This delusion that Trump’s most hardcore supporters have that they haven’t not only kneecapped him, but utterly conquered him, and are now tea-bagging the entirety of America in their completely unrestrained vanquishing amazes me. Yeah, they cheated. But they got away with it, didn’t they?
Yeah, they cheated. But they got away with it, didn’t they?
If that fails, we may see the fourth assassination attempt on a presidential candidate.
Teddy Roosevelt, was the first attempt, and like Trump he was a former President. The next attempt was on Robert Kennedy, which was successful. The third attempt was on George Wallace. Let's pray that the bogus legal BS is unsuccessful, and that he will not become the fourth added to the list above.
Theodore Roosevelt’s opening line was hardly remarkable for a presidential campaign speech: “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible.” His second line, however, was a bombshell.
“I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot.”
Clearly, Roosevelt had buried the lede. The horrified audience in the Milwaukee Auditorium on October 14, 1912, gasped as the former president unbuttoned his vest to reveal his bloodstained shirt. “It takes more than that to kill a bull moose,” the wounded candidate assured them. He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a bullet-riddled, 50-page speech. Holding up his prepared remarks, which had two big holes blown through each page, Roosevelt continued. “Fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet—there is where the bullet went through—and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.”
Only two days before, the editor-in-chief of The Outlook characterized Roosevelt as “an electric battery of inexhaustible energy,” and for the next 90 minutes, the 53-year-old former president proved it. “I give you my word, I do not care a rap about being shot; not a rap,” he claimed. Few could doubt him. Although his voice weakened and his breath shortened, Roosevelt glared at his nervous aides whenever they begged him to stop speaking or positioned themselves around the podium to catch him if he collapsed. Only with the speech completed did he agree to visit the hospital.
On June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel, and he was pronounced dead the following day. Kennedy, a United States senator and candidate in the 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries, won the California and South Dakota primaries on June 4. He addressed his campaign supporters in the Ambassador Hotel's Embassy Ballroom. After leaving the podium, and exiting through a kitchen hallway, he was mortally wounded by multiple shots fired by Sirhan. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital nearly 25 hours later. His body was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Sirhan, a Palestinian who held strong anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian beliefs, testified in 1969 that he killed Kennedy "with 20 years of malice aforethought"; he was convicted and sentenced to death. Due to People v. Anderson, his sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1972 with a possibility of parole. As of April 2023, his parole request has been denied 17 times.
After a speech delivered on May 15, 1972 in Laurel Md., George Wallace was walking around shaking peoples hands who were in attendance of his campaign speech, when a fame-seeking loner from Milwaukee named Arthur Bremmer shot him in his stomach. The attack left George Wallace paralyzed from the waist down.
If they succeeded, then why are they still trying so hard?
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