Posted on 11/05/2015 1:06:24 PM PST by Kaslin
In the first Democratic primary debate, each candidate was asked to name an enemy they were proud to have made during their political careers. Hillary Clinton, the current frontrunner, named roughly half the country as her "enemy" when she replied "[...] probably the Republicans."
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who is currently polling within the margin of error in nearly every national poll, thinks that Clinton's answer to that question is a sign that she is far too partisan and is unwilling to work with others on Capitol Hill. In a new piece published today on Yahoo! News, O'Malley tries to parlay himself as a middle-of-the-road Democrat, not an overly partisan or "ideologically extreme" candidate.
"How can you pull people together when you declare up front that all Republicans are your enemies?" he asked me, referring to Clinton's striking comment in the first debate. "Or when you hem and haw about whether or not you believe in capitalism?
"I don't believe that all Republicans are my enemy. They're my neighbors. And I actually do believe in capitalism when it's practiced in ways that encourage and defend fair competition and push back against the concentration of monopoly power as the big banks now enjoy it."
While it's all good and dandy that O'Malley doesn't see himself as being as "extreme" as his opponents, and that he's at least on paper open to working across the aisle, this rhetoric isn't resonating well with voters at all. It's rather telling that Clinton's comments regarding Republicans as her enemies barely made a blip on the national media compared to (the now dropped out) Jim Webb's remarks that he killed the Vietnamese soldier who threw a grenade at him.
As the second Democratic primary debate is on November 14, O'Malley had better hope that he is able to convey some kind of message to the voters--or else he'll become even more irrelevant than he already is.
Unless they are Maryland voters, that is!
Whopper alert!
Let's not forget "sanctuary state", with all Maryland taxpayers and the families of natural citizens subsidizing illegals attending Maryland's state universities.
If only it were true. It is a bottom-to-top, bald-faced, lying lie of massive proportions.
I speak the truth!
Thereby proving that he can lie as well as any democrat on the market today...
O’Malley, by his association with a party that promotes baby murder, gun grabbing, overspending ,etc., is conservatives enemy.
Since I am no longer willing to call myself a Republican, due to anti-
(con’t) American positions of the Party, it would seem any self-respecting Democrat would disassociate.
So what are you calling yourself now?
They all look alike, act the same. How could he tell who is whom?
I consider you an enemy of the country, Marty.
They pulled that same BS in Houston.
They call it a drainage fee, but opponents often call it a rain tax.
http://www.click2houston.com/news/watch-live-judge-overturns-houstons-drainage-fee/36125424
RE: A smarmy, loathsome little turd. I don’t trust him.
The MOST partisan you can find. So partisan he’d pimp his wife if it furthered his ambitions.
How so?
Every day, over and over again, people on the internet say (in essence) that the politicians of the two parties are in bed with each other, that they share the same interests as opposed to those of the people.
Now, all of a sudden, when a politician says that he doesn't hate the other side, he's a liar?
The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. So ask anyone else in the state of Maryland how good O’Moneybags’ word is.
That feeling I get when I realize that my rat-sh*t former governor is the sanest candidate in the Democratic field . . .
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
She’s doing a good job of that herself.
Well, of course, he does not consider them his enemies; he considers them his vassals.
LOL!
Oh, I don’t know. He may be positioning himself as the “moderate” choice for the general after Hitlery’s campaign implodes. He’s like Bill Clinton in that he can charm a lot of people — a snake who can look you in the eye and tell lie upon lie.
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