Posted on 08/03/2014 3:39:12 AM PDT by Zakeet
In an echo of 2008 — when Ted and Caroline Kennedy backed upstart Barack Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton — members of the Kennedy clan have been quietly wooing Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and encouraging her to throw her hat in the ring, sources tell me.
The question of whom to back in the 2016 presidential race has split the Kennedys down the middle. Robert Kennedy’s widow, Ethel, and their eldest son, former US Rep. Joe Kennedy II, favor Warren — the darling of the party’s left-wing base who now sits in Ted Kennedy’s old seat — while Bobby Jr. and Max Kennedy remain loyal to Hillary Clinton.
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This is the awful truth of our times. Due to media influence and a preponderance of distracted Dumbed Downs, the Dems can pull almost any rabbit out of any hat they want to. The only way to stop it is if our candidate, whoever she or he will be, wins by 15 to 20 points. It has to be a victory knocked clear out of the park, over the heads of all the cheaters and corpse counters. If this happens, expect on air behavior by the media that defies belief in it’s vile, childish viciousness. Expect ‘debates’ composed of 97% emotion and 3% skewed logic. Heads and careers will explode.
Actually, it wasn’t “Harvard”, it was a small group of students who intended to host the group at a chapel at Harvard. (Harvard was originally opened as a “separatist”, i.e. Puritan, seminary, still some vestiges, such as chapels, remain.) To their credit, the local media and Harvard community shamed them out of it. Included in the critics was the president of Harvard, Dr. Faust. (I interviewed her son as a candidate at our company. He was truly an outstanding young man. Unfortunately, he didn’t accept our offer.)
One crime family vs. another...
Thanks for telling us of your experience. The phrase “Six Degrees of Separation” has never been as true as nowadays. Who would have guessed that I’d be communicating directly with someone who knows Dr. Faust and her son? I never knew she had a son.
I don’t “know” Dr. Faust, I just met her son once, but he impressed me. The apple does not fall far from the tree. (He did not go to college in Massachusetts, or the Ivy League, btw.)
I like to call them a terrorist organization. If they aren’t destroying the country through politics, then they are destroying the lives of individual citizens.
BINGO!
Hillary seems to have made lots of enemies among natural allies. Pretty hard to believe, isn’t it?
I agree with your assessment. Hillary is a total fabrication of the media. Marrying Bill was her only success, if you want to call that a success, in life. She has failed at every task she has been given by the powers that be. Her only qualifications are lying and deceit.
Do the Kennnedy’s still matter?
Are they still alive, thought they would have offed each other by now.
Excellent post.
I said the same thing about a guy from Kenya named Baraq Hussein.
Remember in primaries and caucuses it's the "activists" that comprise much of the vote. And the hard left Dems love Lizzie.
All the Freepers who joke about ‘’Fauxcahontas’’ are probably the same ones who said America would never elect a Muslim named Barack Hussein Obama as president in a post 9-11 world.
I have a $5 and a pitcher of Margarita bet with my best friend that Hillary does not even run. She just can’t believe that Hillary won’t run. I told her the party will back somebody else. At first I thought Cuomo but I guess he’s toast now so Warren or Julian Castro.
“Sixth, Warren will get the women’s vote without losing so much of the men’s vote that Hillary forfeits.”
During this demographic transition period, before the Democrat core minority constituencies become the majority of voters, white females provide the swing vote in most constituencies. In 2008 enough wanted to participate in a historic moment to put Obama in office. In 2012, the Democrats successfully ran the “war on women” campaign to pull enough wavering white females to their side.
Whether it is Elizabeth Warren or Hillary, the Democrats will once again be beating the “historic moment” (first female president) and “war on women” drums. They will be appealing to emotions and not logic. Obviously they will not be able to run on the successes of 8 years of progressive policies. They also cannot run against Obama because African Americans are a core constituencies and they count on a 90%+ Democrat vote from African American voters.
To date we see no evidence the Republican Party can come up with an effective response to either the “war on women” or “historical moment” themes. The call to “break the glass ceiling” and the “its our turn now” chorus will be very appealing to white female voters who are not strong conservatives.
The GOP seems intent on nominating another older white male politician - Romney, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie all of whom will look like more of the same. None of them are capable of countering the emotional campaign that will be directed at the the independent white female voter. Any of these nominees will be slammed daily in the media for being out of touch and anti female. They will be constantly on the defensive, attempting to project “middle ground” positions on issues such as government financed abortions and birth control, gay marriage, government mandated gender pay equity, amnesty for illegals, and most likely the new issue of government subsidized day care. If the GOP nominee doesn’t endorse the progressive position on these issues he will be pilloried for being anti female and anti children. If he adopts the progressive point of view in order to sway female votes, he will risk too many conservatives staying home to win the election.
While I detest racial and gender politics, the only effective antidote to a Democrat ticket led by Warren or Hillary in 2016 may be the Republicans running a female, preferably a Hispanic or other minority female. With a minority female at the head of the ticket, the anti-female and white privilege themes are neutralized in the presidential race, unless a white male GOP VP candidate were to make a stupid remark. At this point in time the Republicans are doing nothing to put a credible female candidate for the top of the ticket in front of the voters so it appears the establishment is intent on running either Romney or Jeb.
We must not forget the Senate will also be in play in 2016 and the Republicans will be defending more seats in states where the vote could go either way. With a female at the top of the Democrat ticket, expect many vulnerable male GOP senators to be facing female Democrat opponents in 2016. We will likely see the same thing in House races the Democrats perceive as potentially in play. If the GOP wins the House again in 2014, and reelects the colorless and ineffective Boehner as Speaker, expect the electorate to be tired of what the press will continue to portray as GOP obstructionism by 2016. It is conceivable the Dems could win the White House, Senate, and House in 2016 by playing the gender hand effectively.
Expect the 2016 election to be all about the “year of the woman”. It is the only winning strategy for the Democrats and the GOP strategists seem unable to conceive they could be heading for an electoral disaster on the scale of 2008.
Or, as she's better known on FR, "Fauxcahontas" and "Lieawatha."
Deval is busily upping his name recognition,
hoping to score political points with Gov Andy.
Here, vice-president hopeful Deval applauds at the installation
of the state's new police chief--- wearing her spiffy Commandant
Herman Goerring uniform (not photoshopped).
This is Gov Deval's personal bodyguard, ready
to enforce Cuomo's late-term abortion mandate.
She looks as if she about to burst out "Die fahne hoch..." In Wagnerian volume. Noticed she's lacking any medal or ribbons but that gold whistle and silver chain adds a nice touch.
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