[libstripper]

Surprising article from the NYT, even though it's only an op ed. Shows things may be about to go like 2016. Remember when the Witch's people cancelled the the planned great election night fireworks display.

[upchuck]

Last paragraph:

There’s a lesson here worth heeding. Our economic GDP may be booming, but our moral GDP is in recession. The tragedy of Pittsburgh illustrates, among other things, that the president cannot unite us, even in our grief. Whatever happens on Tuesday, Democrats will only win in 2020 if they find a candidate who can.

Who can?

Kamala Harris?
Corey Booker?
Joe Biden?
Elizabrth Warren?
Eric Holder?
Bernie Sanders?

These folks belong in a joke book.

Had to leave AOC off the list as she will still be a child and not old enough.

[Sacajaweau]

Cuz they pulled the kavanaugh cr** and have absolutely no agenda....except “kill the babies”, open borders, and free everything.

[Mariner]

This weekend is when ALL the media outlets will be taking the hard edges off all their predictions.

And allowing for alternate outcomes.

Remember, they sponsor ALL the public polls too.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

[SMGFan]

—If there’s a systematic polling error in the GOP’s favor, those Likely R districts won’t be a big problem

—If polls are about right overall, they’ll produce headaches that could offset GOP wins in tossups

—If there’s polling error AGAINST the GOP, they’d yield major D seat gains

But to bring this back: When people look at 538 and ask “what if the polls are wrong?”, that’s *the question our model is trying to answer*. The polls say Ds will win the House.Our model says, based on how accurate polls have been in the past, there’s a 15-20% chance they won’t.

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1058735748415979521

[gaijin]

GOSH I WONDER WHERE..!

[Jimmy Valentine]

I think it is wonderful that these training programs are coming back .
Bless Ivanka Trump for pushing these forward.

[AndyJackson]

the president’s critics tend to be educated and educated people tend to think that the only kind of smarts worth having is the kind they possess — superior powers of articulation combined with deep stores of knowledge — those critics generally assume the latter. He’s a bigot. He’s a con artist. His followers are dumb. They got lucky last time. They won’t be so lucky again.

Maybe this is even right.

This is dead wrong, and that is where they all go wrong. In their arrogance they rest their case on unexamined assumptions. For instance, their "superior powers of articulation" are measured against whom? The Bushes, all of them the most inarticulate politicians imaginable, not one of whom can cogently state his case, like, oh say "#fakenews," which in one word undoes hours of screaching and wailing and tedious recitations about "nuances."

Or, "deep stores of knowledge," which myth Ronaldus Magnus dispatched with his fame statement that "liberals [progs, let's be clear here, lets not cede them the Liberal label any longer] "know so many things that aren't so."

His "dumb followers" can fix toilets, build buildings, wire up light switches and all sorts of things that send my progressive neighbors in DC to the liquor cabinet any time they have to think about. Becasue they have no clue how to do these things themselves nor what kind of trade, skill or craft to hire to do it for them [at an outrageous hourly rate because the progs have constructed thins around DC so that normal folks with marketable skills can't afford to live here]

[SaxxonWoods]

Writer sounds depressed. I like it.

[Amendment10]

Democrats aren’t walking away with the midterm elections because patriots are not about to forget 8 long, frustrating years of the lawless Obama Administration.

[Pollster1]

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/09/22/hillary_clinton_why_arent_i_50_points_ahead.html

It’s deja vu all over again.

[Unam Sanctam]

“Why aren’t I 50 points ahead, one might ask?”

[Leep]

The Grinch couldn’t figure out Why the citizens of Whoville were gathered in a circle singing Da Who Doris either.

[Jmouse007]

Because former Democrats are walking away from the communist, socialist hate-filled DEMONcRAT party in droves.

[eyedigress]

What “vein” is “It” sinking its teeth into?

The “Moonbat Socialist Jugular”?

[bkopto]

From the article"

Also, the idea of deploying thousands of U.S. troops to repel and even fire on the caravan is repellent, fascistic and probably unlawful. Still, several thousand people are pushing their way to the U.S. border with the idea that they will find a way to push their way through it. If they do, tens or even hundreds of thousands more will surely follow. It’s perfectly reasonable for fair-minded voters to wonder how the U.S. will vet and then absorb even a fraction of them (though I think we easily can)

What's with Jews, like Stephens, and open borders? Why?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The tragedy of Pittsburgh illustrates, among other things, that the president cannot unite us, even in our grief.

. . . and mostly, that the Democrats refuse to be united with other Americans.

[Rummyfan]

Because more and more people
Are on to the Dems’ nonsense.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Surprising article from the NYT, even though it's only an op ed.

The salient point is that it is written by Bret Stephens, an op-ed writer formerly for the Wall Street Journal. This does not mean, however, that I consider him a fellow conservative. He once wrote (my words, not his, but) that conservatives think the Constitution is so perfect that it doesn’t even need conserving.

. . . which is obviously the last thing that an actual conservative would think.

[nobamanomore]

Another question. Why doesn’t everyone subscribe to the NYT? After all, everyone they talk to loves the paper.