Posted on 11/13/2016 4:07:26 PM PST by ColdOne
Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Sunday thew his support behind Rep. Keith Ellison to be the next Democratic National Committee chairman.
"My friend Keith Ellison is a terrific leader and a strong progressive who knows how to get things done," Reid said in a statement. "Now is the time for new thinking and a fresh start at the DNC. Now is the time for Keith."
Reid's show of support comes after incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's Friday endorsement.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Choosing Ellison would mean the dems have committed themselves even further to being the anti-WASP party. It would mean they’ve abandoned the idea of winning back middle America and instead will double down on being a coalition of alienated victim groups plus a white progressive vanguard. That may not be totally crazy if it lets them rally blacks, latinos, and millenials in a way that Hillary just failed to do.
I think that’s a very good thumb nail analysis.
It’s mind boggling that the Dems would even be thinking of Ellison.
If I get the sense of this article right, the Bernies are one faction, and the Hillarys are another faction. The Bernies are old style corporate hating progressives, and the Hillarys are crony corporation cash loving hacks.
To me, the Bernies are the progressives who are always going to believe that the primary was rigged, and their chance to elect Bernie was sabotaged by who? Big Wall Street Corporate loving Democrats. And the Bernies will NEVER forget it.
So now, into this maelstrom comes loveable Harry Reid. And what does he want to do? He wants a MUSLIM to run the DNC. Tell us how, old senile coot Harry, did you come to the conclusion that a MUSLIM will bridge the gap between angry progressives and Corporate Democrats? Because that is where the problem is now.
Genius. A muslim for DNC Chair. You can’t make this shite up.
It is a great pick for,us. The next time some muzzie guns down 30 people it is gonna be ruinous for them
In an Ellison vs. Trump race in 2020, we may see the first-in-a-long time all-red electoral map, perhaps excluding DC and Hawaii!!!!
“Tell us how, old senile coot Harry, did you come to the conclusion that a MUSLIM will bridge the gap between angry progressives and Corporate Democrats?”
I don’t think Reid cares anymore. He’s done. He got his ill gotten gains and wants to retire comfortably. He doesn’t want his exercise equipment beating him up anymore. He’d probably agree to Donald Trump running the DNC ... he’s flat out finished :-).
“Seething liberals vow revolution in Democratic Party”
This is all speculation, but I think this is what we’d see if that happens (and it’s in line with what you posted :-) ) ...
Liberals will be assigned to a permanent minority party if they “revolt”. The Liberals overestimate their overall value to the party. Liberals backed Clinton to keep their voices relevant. They hated her otherwise. Clinton is certainly a liberal, but she’s also corrupted, and her idealism is based on the wishes of the highest bidder.
These “true believer” Liberals probably amount to 15% of the vote at best. Only the “still American, but tilt left” Democrats make them seem larger than what they really are.
If the Libs want to split from the Democratic Party and form a “Liberal” party (or hijack the Democratic Party and throw the “moderates” out), they’ll dissolve into nothing over the course of the next decade. A party led by a “Democratic Socialist” (LOL) like Bernie Sanders would only be a minor nuisance at first, and would be nothing more than a “Green” party after their little 10 year experiment based on two failing 5 year plans :-).
Their value in a coalition with the remaining Democrats would decrease in value as other, more “centrist” Democrats (i.e. those that are somewhat grounded in reality) trickle back into politics. Despite their stupid rhetoric and the amplification it gets from the media, socialists and their product ‘socialism’, in general, doesn’t sell well here in the States unless it’s packaged as something else.
Now, as the Liberals dissolve away to nothing, I expect the so-called “blue dog Dems” and RINOs to fill that power vacuum in a “new” Democratic Party ... that *could* hurt a conservative movement, but that would indicate that the country as a whole is swinging back to the right.
The GOP is currently set up to wipe the Democratic Party, specifically the Liberal wing of that party, out as we know it. All Trump has to do is execute. Seriously, all the man has to do is do what he’s done on the campaign trail for the past year and a half.
I’ll tell you what ... we will know if Trump is doing an incredible job if PA somehow votes out Sen. Casey in 2018. He’s a second tier candidate on the “seats we can flip in 2018” chart. He’s a lazy piece of scum that lives off his father’s name (his dad was a very popular governor here). If he loses, then that all but means that Liberalism is DOA in the USA and Trump is on his way to being mentioned with the greats in US Presidential history.
I have always wonder if the rats were stupid or evil. Today stupid won.
“Does it get him out of the Senate, he asked hopefully ...”
Ellison is a House Member.
“They should reflect on what brought them down.”
Fox had Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell ( both Democrats) on tonight. They both said that the RAT party is on life support and that Ellison would effectively finish it off nationally.
Ellison is a House muzzie.
Thank you for all that info.
Yep....with all those invaders in country now....he is the perfect choice for the dems...they want the caliphate it seems.
My bad. Would it take him out of the House? No, I guess not since Washerwoman Shultz continued on.
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