Posted on 02/04/2019 5:57:47 PM PST by rintintin
Within days of Tulsi Gabbard announcing her plan to run for president last week, a smear campaign moved into high gear. It’s almost as if there’s a coordinated, orchestrated campaign to derail her as so called progressive medial outlets have unleashed a torrent of attacks.
Clinton booster and DNC chairman emeritus unleashed the latest verbal assault on January 17 on CNN’s New Day show. The Hill headlined its coverage: “Howard Dean to CNN: All Dem candidates qualified to be president except Tulsi Gabbard.” After telling CNN that he thought centrist Democrat Joe Biden was “a good guy,” he bad-mouthed Gabbard, saying, “I don’t think she knows what she’s doing and she’s not qualified.”
Liberal sites like The Intercept and Honolulu’s Civil Beat have all joined in the assault, while Rolling Stone quickly published a critique by a pro-Hillary, former Newsweek journalist proclaiming – “Tulsi Gabbard’s Campaign May Be Over Before It started.” A sub head claimed, “The congresswoman from Hawaii’s past is filled with anti-LGBTQ activism, calls for bombing Syria and endorsing torture.”
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Name a prominent Dem who has gone after Warren or Beto. I missed that. Plenty of Republicans have, but I haven’t seen any Dems attacking anybody other than Tulsi. If you have examples, I’d like to see them
It’s been more of a Twitter and grass-roots sort of dismissal for them, but it’s happened.
Here’s a very lukewarm article in the Hill that is typical of the genre. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/428083-beto-orourke-sees-stock-fall
This isn’t comparable to the full-on media and politician assault on Tulsi. As the article says, it’s a coordinated attack, involving the highest levels of the party. And the reason is that Tulsi’s the only Democrat who opposes our never-ending Middle East wars. That sets her apart from most Republicans as well — pretty much only Trump agrees with her.
Had this argument recently with a thirty-something fan of Gabbard. Told him she had little specks of Conservatism in her background that would prompt the Left to utterly destroy her.
Proven right once again.
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