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Rahm Emanuel: Too many Dems care more about being right than winning
The Chicago Tribune ^ | February 6, 2017 | Kim Janssen

Posted on 02/07/2017 3:44:41 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has warned Democrats they need to "take a chill pill" and realize that they are not going to take back national power anytime soon.

"It ain't gonna happen in 2018," Emanuel said Monday at Stanford's Graduate School of Business in California. "Take a chill pill, man. You gotta be in this for the long haul."

As he did last month at an event in Washington, D.C., the mayor expanded on what he believes is the road map back to power for his party — putting moderate candidates such as veterans, football players, sheriffs and business people up in Republican districts, picking battles with Republicans, exploiting wedges within the GOP and fighting attempts to redistrict Congress on partisan grounds....

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Illinois; Issues; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: chicago; democrats; rahm; rahmemanuel; trump
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To: Lazamataz

It’s not hard to figure out when your back is to the wall.


41 posted on 02/07/2017 6:03:10 AM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wait...what? Since when do ‘rats give a fat rat’s backside about being “right?” Total BS, they are all about staying on message and gaining power, period.


42 posted on 02/07/2017 6:12:40 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Doing my part to help make America great again!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Now, there’s one headline that is completely backward.


43 posted on 02/07/2017 6:20:09 AM PST by lrdg
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whoa, a Lefty who has some rational foundation. That’s a rare bird these days!


44 posted on 02/07/2017 6:20:11 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But Democrats have been losing big BECAUSE they are wrong. See tagline.


45 posted on 02/07/2017 6:28:18 AM PST by libertylover (In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Too many Democrats want to be left than to win.


46 posted on 02/07/2017 6:43:01 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (There will come a time when those screaming Fascists are in fact the actual Facists. W Churchill)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

no, you POS mayor, Democrats care for nothing but themselves AND winning at any cost and to give two turds for the voter.


47 posted on 02/07/2017 6:59:03 AM PST by No_More_Harkin
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To: RummyChick

Somebody has to say it: Soros is dumb.

He’s like an idiot savant. He knows how to manipulate markets. That’s all he knows. He has zero people sense or political savvy. None.

You’re watching it playing out right now. He’s a complete fool.


48 posted on 02/07/2017 7:28:03 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: csvset

I talked to a lady in Chicago not long after Rahm was reelected, it was a business call. She was gushing with praise. She said Rahm was just what Chicago needs.

Because he’s done what for Chicago?

Crickets.


49 posted on 02/07/2017 7:30:43 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: wbarmy
He's not telling them to be sane - he's telling dems to keep their 'beliefs' under wraps - to lie 'better' in the short run.. Lie - use the lie of running conservative-lite folks in Republican districts until dems get power back then go full liberal nightmare on us...

It's always the con - the lie - with democrats planning strategy.

Rahm Emanuel's smart enough to know if democrats run as who they really are - they'll lose. .

50 posted on 02/07/2017 7:34:04 AM PST by GOPJ (David Gregory's like a whoremonger whose syphilis has gone to his brain.)
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To: Liz; Steely Tom; GOPJ; sickoflibs; Tennessee Nana; TADSLOS; Jane Long; no-to-illegals

“Oh, sure....after Trump gets done, (then Pence for eight years) there’ll be lots and lots of lefty football players, sheriffs, Middle-Americans, and business people just dying to play the Democrat game of Eternal Losing. “

This made my morning : )


51 posted on 02/07/2017 8:14:24 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker; Liz

LOL - made my morning too.liz hit that one out of the park...


52 posted on 02/07/2017 11:31:09 AM PST by GOPJ ("CHRISTIAN BAN" DURING WORLD WAR II: GERMANS AND ITALIANS STOPPED FROM IMMIGRATING TO U.S.)
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