Posted on 08/16/2019 12:54:02 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Grab sound bite number 25. I want to get this one in and out. If I dont do this right now when Im thinking of it, it doesnt fit with much else. But as a stand-alone, its one of these enjoyable things. This happened on CNN. Jonathan Martin, our old buddy from way back in the days when he was at Politico and he still sends me every New York Times story he writes now. Every time I mention getting one, he sends me a little follow-up note: Great to know youre still reading my stuff. Jonathan Martin.
So theres this appearance that he did today. He was on with Kate Bolduan. Now, she spells her name B-o-l-d-u-a-n. Pronounced BALD-win. They were talking about women and sexist Democrats and sexism and racism and bigotry and homophobia and all this stuff, and Jonathan Martin shocked Kate Bolduan. She said, You write in the piece he has today there are Democrats who chastened by Hillary Clintons defeat in 2016 who believe that a woman cannot win in 2020. Really? Shes stunned by this! She cant believe it that hes actually written this.
So she said, Really? Is this really true?
MARTIN: Its striking over the course of a couple of months this summer, talking to voters not just at Warren events but events for other candidates just how often you hear the same themes, and invariably those are the three issues that come up. Its, What is she going to say when Trump calls her Pocahontas? because thats going to drown out her broader policy message. And I think having seen what Trump did in 2016, both to the Republicans and Hillary with the nicknames. They all say it bluntly, that they have PTSD from 2016 and that they are just skeptical to the point of being cynical about where the country is now on gender. They simply say 2016 proved that we are not ready for a female president and we just have to play it safe this time around.
RUSH: Hes talking about Democrat voters! He goes out and talks to Democratic voters. Hes talking to Pocahontas voters. Hes talking to Democrats. And theyre down in the dumps because hes hearing that Democrat voters think the country is still so backwards, still so patriarchal that a woman doesnt stand a chance, and that Hillary Clinton is the clear and obvious evidence of it. This is a New York Times reporter saying this, and I dont know. I just enjoy it. Whenever they hear something that goes against the grain of their own conventional wisdom, you can see theyre just not prepared for it.
This is the last thing anybody at CNN was thinking about until a New York Times writer comes along and says, By the way, you know, theres a lot of people out there, they think Trump is just going to spit her out. Just the nickname alone is going to beat her! So I play this for you because I want you to always keep in mind: The media portrays the Democrats as assured and confident in their majority, that they are the majority, that America has become this anti-founding country that they seek. And it isnt and it hasnt. And whenever they get a comeuppance or the equivalent of a slap in the face to wake them up to reality, its just fun to behold.
Because the idea that the country is not ready to elect a woman? Do you realize how long ago they put that to bed? In fact, they think its the exact opposite. They think the country is probably clamoring for a woman and has been ever since Hillary Clinton ran in 2008! What they dont see is that Hillary Clinton has lost twice. She lost in 2008 to the young, cool cigar/cigarette-smoking Barack Hussein O and then she lost to Trump. She lost. But they still havent come to grips with it because, She didnt lose! The Russians stole the election. They create these myths.
They create these lies and then they live them. So the only point here is dont assume these people are ever superior. Dont assume they are forever more confident. Dont buy any of the attitudinal stuff that youre exposed to each and every day in the Drive-By Media.
Always remember it wasn’t Trump who stood in the way of the most qualified female presidential candidate who ever took a breath. It was Obama
Very good point, CaptainK.
Knee jerk reaction by politicians in congress. Hopefully less politics will prevail in the Senate; painting the entire population with the same brush that paints twisted people for the crimes of one person has been tried before and does not work. Maybe not giving these twisted people the exposure via Fox News and the MSM 24/7 they so dearly crave might help...the public doesn't need to know every little detail, frankly that is sickening.
One crook can make the 2A null and void for all law abiding Americans?
Hopefully it will be 8 or ten years... Candace Owens needs a little more seasoning!
Oh yes, last assignment on active duty my troops were 70 percent female. Boss was a female Lt Col, so she could speak her mind. We always made it a point that each work center would have at least one guy... just to keep the gals civil.
Haven’t we seen that blue dress somewhere before?
No-one forced Warren to lie about her background to Harvard.
She chose to do it.
Now she has to live with the consequences.
I think Sarah Palin could win. She was wildly popular with conservatives in 2008. With the right running mate and good media coverage, she could win the Presidency.
‘Good media coverage’? Oops, my bad. America’s not ready for a conservative female.
The problem is that none of the people they have advanced through identity politics has needed to pass the competence test. So whoever they run will be incompetent and that’s a crippling disadvantage against a competent opponent.
Looks better than Michael.
You beat me to it.
I will not vote for Nikki Haley.
She is ineligible and she started the latest frenzy of erasure of US history.
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