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Time to Put the Democratic Party on Suicide Watch?
American Thinker ^ | July 2, 2018 | Selwyn Duke

Posted on 07/02/2018 7:02:16 AM PDT by Hojczyk

A week ago this was recognized as a fringe idea even among staunch Democrats, the fringiest fringe around, but then something happened: One Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shocked the Democrat establishment by defeating the favored 20-year incumbent, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), in last Tuesday’s Democrat primary in New York’s 14th district. She ran, in part, on abolishing ICE, so now this has become the “[n]ew rallying call for 2020 Democrats,” as the AP put it.

Now, I really shouldn’t say this — I mean, I really shouldn’t. I want nothing more than for the Democrats to continue marching toward their cliff, but, alas, honest commentary is my bag. And here’s reality: If you leftists think avowed socialist Cortez’s win had mainly to do with abolishing ICE, you’re putting your electoral chances on ice. Cortez won, largely, for a simple reason.

Bigotry.

She had the right profile: a young, female, Hispanic in a district 70 percent non-white — a figure no doubt even higher among its Democrat electorate — and in which the incumbent was a wizened old white fellow (Crowley is 56 and looks 66). It helped that she’s attractive and articulate, but she shamelessly played the group-identity card, too, sending a message that no one should vote for an old white male. She even retweeted the picture of an attorney who expressed the sentiment that “all white people are racist.”

The Washington Post pointed this phenomenon out, by the way, running a Wednesday article titled “The worst thing to be in many Democratic primaries? A white male candidate.” The paper writes, “Democratic voters have been picking women, racial minorities, and gay men and lesbians in races around the country at historic rates.”

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; berniesanders; districtofcolumbia; election2018; election2020; joecrowley; newyork; ocasiocortez; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: Hojczyk

Where’s Kevorkian when you need him?


21 posted on 07/02/2018 7:21:47 AM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: Hojczyk

Offer ‘em more rope; more cyanide; loaded pistols; high places from which to jump...


22 posted on 07/02/2018 7:22:09 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Hojczyk

What’s amazing is that before last Tuesday, vast swaths of America, outside her insular little area of New York had even heard of this chick, yet now, as the result of only 12,000 or so votes, she is the toast of the town and the expected savior of democrats everywhere.

And they have the temerity to call us fickle.

We voted for a guy who has had a huge public persona for decades. We knew all about him because he had no secrets. Nearly everything he did had his name emblazoned on it in neon lights. He built some of the most over the top clubs and skyscrapers. She knew how mix alcohol.


23 posted on 07/02/2018 7:22:56 AM PDT by cyclotic ( WeÂ’re the first ones taxed, the last ones considered and the first ones punished)
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To: Bryanw92

The democrat party was digging itself into a hole already, she gives them a backhoe instead of a shovel.


24 posted on 07/02/2018 7:22:59 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: redfreedom

Yes, like Bernie, Ocasio is unmasking the LEFT.

Definitely, a good thing.


25 posted on 07/02/2018 7:23:15 AM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: redfreedom

Don’t forget the garlic and holy water.


26 posted on 07/02/2018 7:23:27 AM PDT by OLDCU
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To: Hojczyk

Might as well jump
Go ahead and jump


27 posted on 07/02/2018 7:23:31 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Rurudyne

Lemming Sunday.


28 posted on 07/02/2018 7:25:44 AM PDT by wally_bert (Just who are you? The Archduke of Guacamole?)
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To: Hojczyk

The GOPe side of the UniParty will not let them go down in defeat.
As always, it’s a “birds of a feather” thingy, they will snatch them from the jaws before they’re eaten.
It’s just one political party in DC, the UniParty. Been that way for a long time now. It looks out for their own and works hard to line the pockets of its elite with money “legally stolen” from the cash cows: “unwashed masses” (that’d be us)....that is till Trump came along.


29 posted on 07/02/2018 7:26:37 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Hojczyk

Bush League Republicans are next................


30 posted on 07/02/2018 7:27:20 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: yesthatjallen
You can only kill a vampire with sunlight or a steak through the heart.

Well, there are some that say that red meat is bad for you ...


31 posted on 07/02/2018 7:31:14 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Antifa and Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) = SturmAbteilung)
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To: Hojczyk

IMHO......It’s pure fantasy & dreams to believe the Democrat Party is morphing into a “racial color political party”, even though on the surface, that clearly appears to be the case.

The facts are simply and plainly, tens of thousands of Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Indians, etc. of all political credos are openly abandoning the Democrat Party and, will never return.

America as a free nation is doing exactly would it should do, assimilate many races, cultures, religions into a single society that intermingles and tolerates the protected rights of all it varied people, whoever they are. This my friends, if you you follow our history, is the story of the greatness of the American nation. We fought a most bloody Civil War, yet with all the hate and evil slavery and, the killing of our POTUS, Abe Lincoln, America marched on to free the slaves and join the North & South as one again.

The magnificent occurrence of such massive inter-marriage of so many different types of people, cultures, religions is clearly the proof of the pudding of a free society mixing among itself to achieve a greater society for all it’s citizen, no matter who they may be.

The Democrat Party in its forever shortsightedness has missed, the boat, the train, the plane, in attempting to play one group of people against another. Shame on all of them from Obama, Clinton on down!!!

The current Democrat Party is destroying itself with each passing day as a viable, effective, productive, free society, political organization. The end for the Democrats is near. Case closed!!!

Go Trump, Go MAGA!!!


32 posted on 07/02/2018 7:36:55 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Cortez won, largely, for a simple reason. Bigotry... she shamelessly played the group-identity card, too, sending a message that no one should vote for an old white male. She even retweeted the picture of an attorney who expressed the sentiment that “all white people are racist.” The Washington Post pointed this phenomenon out, by the way, running a Wednesday article titled “The worst thing to be in many Democratic primaries? A white male candidate.” The paper writes, “Democratic voters have been picking women, racial minorities, and gay men and lesbians in races around the country at historic rates.”
Hey, sure, but you know whose fault this is? Donald Trump! /sarc Thanks Hojczyk.

33 posted on 07/02/2018 7:40:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Hojczyk

Hey, let’s at least give the democrats credit for something here—it’s the first time I can remember the democrats wishing to shrink the government!


34 posted on 07/02/2018 7:44:31 AM PDT by Jaysin
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To: Hojczyk

I’ve been waiting for The Left to die for a very long time, and I’m, still, waiting!


35 posted on 07/02/2018 7:55:13 AM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: Hojczyk

Use a camera and use it for entertainment later.


36 posted on 07/02/2018 7:56:41 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Hojczyk

I think there is a chance that we may be heading for a split of the Democratic Party.


37 posted on 07/02/2018 8:00:56 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Hojczyk
If you leftists think avowed socialist Cortez’s win had mainly to do with abolishing ICE, you’re putting your electoral chances on ice. Cortez won, largely, for a simple reason. Bigotry. She had the right profile: a young, female, Hispanic in a district 70 percent non-white...

I'm guessing voter fraud played a part in this election too...

38 posted on 07/02/2018 8:35:02 AM PDT by GOPJ (GUMBALL IMMIGRATION BEST EXPLANATION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4)
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To: Hojczyk

no, on homicide watch. if anyones actually noticed.


39 posted on 07/02/2018 9:08:10 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Hojczyk

We plan to wear red MAGA hats to our son’s lakehouse in Maine this summer. He can’t stand Trump.


40 posted on 07/02/2018 9:14:18 AM PDT by pabianice
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