Posted on 05/04/2025 12:32:46 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
During Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s “State of the Union,” potential 2028 presidential candidate and ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith said the modern Democratic Party would need to be purged for him to seek that party’s nod.
According to Smith, Democrats had taken their progressive politics too far.
Partial transcript as follows:
TAPPER: If you were to run for president, though, it would be as a Democrat, or no?
SMITH: You know what? I’m an independent. I’m a registered independent. I would lean — who leans left. I’m fiscally conservative when it comes to my money. I’m socially liberal. I’m liberal when it comes to social issues pretty much across the board. I believe in living and let living. So I’m a moderate. And I would say, if I had to run, it would be as a
Democrat, but I’m not happy with the Democratic Party. So the Democratic Party, as presently constructed, it would pretty much need to be purged in order for me to assume that I would want to be associated with them and I would garner their support, because I don’t like the way they have gone about doing a lot of things for a very, very long period of time.
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He’s not running. No one cares about sports. He’s just trying to keep himself relevant = $$$.
Sports-talker crossing into politics? Must be a holdover from when ESPN was still getting USAID money forced from taxpayers.
Sports are becoming irrelevant. Stephen A. Smith's specialty is the NBA. But no one cares about the NBA anymore. Naturally, he's branching over into politics.
So is this an upgrade from his boss @ Disney, Bob Iger? Recall he wanted to be President, too.
Miralax?
Hs misspelled *eradicate*.
The problem is not that he is a sport talker (or a comedian or a realter).
The problem is he is as dumb as a pile of rock. Problem for dems, I mean.
he’s not wrong though. radical leftists purged from the...oh wait! that would only leave the 3 or so % that are halfway NOT insane. never mind.
A few arrests would be a good start…
Hint…
Is “purged” a euphemism for a “short drop and quick stop”?
No idea who Stephen A, Smith is or why there are so many posts about him.
He’s right, but the longer the Rats are a dysfunctional bunch of lesbians with PMS, the better for MAGA.
They need to be purged from the US.
This ‘Steven A. Smith’ person sure gets a lot of column inches for a complete nobody.
If he feels this way, then he needs to run as a Republican. He seems completely unaware that this party is a party of complete and unabashed, anti-American Marxist.
That would be a Hail Mary wouldn’t you say?
Precisely. His “fiscally conservative, socially liberal” shtick is old and lame and represents an inability to think.
Idiocy needs a destination. The Democrat party is just such a place.
The other side of the aisle can stand a good cleansing too.
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