Posted on 06/29/2018 6:02:25 AM PDT by C19fan
For Nancy Pelosi, 78, Steny Hoyer, 79, and Joe Biden, 75, the primary results from New Yorks 14th congressional district are a fire bell in the night.
All may be swept away in the coming revolution. That is the message of the crushing defeat of 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley, who had aspired to succeed Pelosi and become speaker of the House.
The No. 4 House Democrat, Crowley, 56, had not faced primary opposition since 2004. He outspent his opponent, 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was tending bar a year ago, by 10 to one.
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Venezuelans in Miami have $$$$$.
No! No! It’s a wave, a mighty wave sweeping the democratic party, sweeping America. Run to high ground or be swept out to sea. Socialism is crashing on our shores. It has infected New York and California. Time for Republicans to embrace the bartender as the face of the democratic-socialist party. The new day has dawned.
Doesnt a crushing defeat require substantial voter participation? It is my understanding that while the percentages were high the turnout was very low and this woman won by only about a 5000 vote margin...hardly indicative of a wave, but perhaps of voter apathy.
I just read that her district has 700,000 residents...only 16,800 voted....ripple perhaps, but hardly a wave.
Lets all relax.
Do you see the self-contradiction in your analysis? You said Crowley lost because he was over-confidant and relaxed. Then your prescription for Republican success is to relax, don't get worked over this supposed out-lier election result.
No, the correct course is not "relax," but redouble efforts to make sure this cancer does not spread.
My personal experiences are mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area in California which is probably close to The Bronx in politics. I was shocked in the past few years when I discovered the attorney for a small firm I worked at is a rabid Democratic Socialist and the architect for our kitchen remodel is an outright communist. Then we have one of my wife's close friends who is active in "the Resistance." Admittedly a small sample, but rather disconcerting to find people I admire professionally having such radical leftist beliefs.
The cancer IS spreading. Do not be complacent.
Yep. Any CoC (communist of color) who doesn’t currently have a job need only move to a district with a white male democrat in office and run against him as a brand spanking new Social Democrat. Heck, in most cases, he probably won’t even have to primary the incumbent and should be able to white shame him into conceding the seat unopposed.
“When we ran on a Socialist Revolution platform we didn’t think they’d really take us seriously!”
The voter turnout was indicative of racism.
You didn’t pay attention very well. I said relax about being scared of this overhyped princess. Not about fighting the fight in general.
Looking forward to your new book about how to quote things out of context and look like a jerk.
Only 10% turnout, in the Bronx, which is usually the most heavily Democratic County in the entire country. NYC is a hotbed of hard core communists, and it would be easy for them across the city to hop the subway and vote for a comrade in the Bronx, if the Party asked. It might indicate a trend, but it is more likely to be an outlier.
And how dare you call me complacent. I am more of an activist than you have encountered in your whole life.
“hardly indicative of a wave, but perhaps of voter apathy”
Turnout was very light.
The electorate had only a radical socialist and an old-school machine politician to choose from.
Ominous harbinger for Democrats. All the energy rests with the Social Justice Warriors, along with most of the votes.
White people continue to flee them.
I doubt it had anything to do with the debate or the regulars. This was an election about race. And a pasty white guy showing up to patronize a firebrand woman of color would have just made it worse.
Certainly can’t call anyone who thinks like she does “enlightened.” I’ll stick with ignorant - she doesn’t KNOW that socialist countries enslave its citizens - and stupid - she doesn’t care! YEP - that also goes for the millions of votes for the candidates for the office of president in 2008 and 2012! OUR COUNTRY means nothing to them - zero!
She should demand a leadership role in the RAT party...he he
The Spanish speaking people colonizing our country want their own representatives.
The Democrats will be surprised when the people they counted on for a permanent majority supplant the Democrat party with the La Raza Party.
Sheesh, go have another cup of coffee, FRiend. Snottiness does not become you.
History is strewn with the wreckage of experiments in Socialism from New Harmony to Walden, but either they don’t know about them or they are too stupid to heed its warning.
I can’t believe she won with such low voter turn out. They’re already making her out to be their hero.
She is young, brash, and uneducated. Does she even have a college degree? She works as a bartender. She's already bought into the fiery commie Kool-aid, lock, stock & barrel, so she's obviously not a deep thinker. All one would have to do is look around a bit, read a few newspapers, see a few news reports to see that communism just doesn't work. There is no communist country with a high standard of living. Her desire to make over the greatest democracy that ever was into a Cuba clone will be as futile as a moth beating its wings against a glass window.
This, and her blatant anti-semitism completes her resume as one of the "new" dummocraps, AKA out-and-out commies. This is not the dummocrap party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is CPUSA. I hope her unsophisticated blatant message serves to make the dummocrap party repugnant to any thinking person.
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