Posted on 08/02/2018 7:12:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
Consider Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's travel schedule.
Over the past two weeks, the aggressive new voice of the progressive left has crisscrossed the Midwest, making a stop in Kansas to campaign alongside Bernie Sanders as well as solo trips to Missouri and Michigan to stump for insurgent candidates hoping to follow in her path.
That Ocasio-Cortez consistently finds herself hundreds of miles from the Bronx and Queens, where in June she stunned the political world by unseating the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, shows just how important the next several weeks are for the movement she has come to represent.
Beginning with contests in those three states on August 7, and continuing on for nearly five consecutive weeks after that, progressive outsiders will test their mettle against establishment Democrats in elections from Hawaii to Delaware and Massachusetts.
Success in any of these races has the potential to not only shape the 2018 field but embolden a future crop of progressives -- and signal a shift further to the left within the Democratic Party. On the flip-side, a shutout would stifle -- or at least put on hold -- any suggestion that the party's moderates are facing an existential threat from their left flank.
Campaigning for Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed, who is vying against the odds and conventional wisdom to become the country's first Muslim governor, Ocasio-Cortez explained the core electoral assumption underlying the movement.
"Our swing voter is not red-to-blue," she said at a stop in Flint. "Our swing voter is the voter to the non-voter, the non-voter to the voter."
In an interview later, she all but dismissed the existence of a persuadable center.
(Excerpt) Read more at amp.cnn.com ...
Ocasio to her black assistant:
I don’t carry my own bags, moron. I’m a star. You carry my bags!
The gay changes did not surprise me. Most every family has a gay relative; brothers, sisters, cousins, and they are the face of the gay community to each person’s mind.
But full blown socialism is a hard sell to Americans in general..................
Please give Alexandra lots and lots of media attention. Let her set out her socialist/communist theories in detail. Spread the word. Make sure everyone understands her. I believe the more attention she gets as the future of the democratic party, the stronger the conservative side will be.
Venezuela here we come....
Winning 16,000 votes in a congressional district of 250,000 registered Democrats is obviously not a groundswell but a media created bubble - that I pray keeps growing and not break until it’s big enough to take down her entire party for many years.
When I see that face all I think of is Hee Haw
Legend has it that either is equally effective.
She mastered the art of getting rich by pimping stupidity.
The Just Us brothers wink.
“Our swing voter is the voter to the non-voter, the non-voter to the voter.”
uh, yeah, right ... that brilliant statement resonate for all of eternity and no doubt convince millions of something, but I’m not sure what ...
She hasnt won anything
Thats the funny thing
She will LOSE this fall
Mark my words
She’s a real rocket surgeon, that one.................
In the immortal words of Ocrazio herself, “Let’s flip this seat red!”
Insurgent candidates? Is that what they call them now?
We used to call them idiots. Now we call them mainstream Democrats.
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