Posted on 02/01/2020 11:41:03 AM PST by Libloather
The nation’s most prominent elected Democrat said Friday her party must resist the temptation to chase progressive dreams, such as Medicare for All, if it wants to win the 2020 elections. The key to victory, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, is policies that appeal to the political mainstream.
“I just say to all of our friends, you know, you want to go to the left? You want to win the election, let’s make a decision to win the election. And when you make a decision to win the election, you have to make every decision in favor of winning,” Pelosi said in an interview Friday with the South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Board.
“There's plenty of progressive work that we can do in the mainstream without, um, shall we say, having the luxury of our exuberances in carving up a pie we don't even have,” she said.
“We all understand what is at stake,” Pelosi said. For Democrats it’s defeating President Donald Trump and maintaining the House and winning control of the Senate.
**SNIP**
Pelosi called Medicare for All, the idea of a government-run health program for everyone that’s being espoused by some of her party’s progressive presidential candidates, is “lovely in concept. Maybe one of these days that’s where we are. Not a winning message.”
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Half Marx is still marx.
“It’s politics 101, people. First you lie your butt off to the people, then you screw them. It has to be in that order.”
Too late Pelosifer!
America knows your hidden agendas, and will have none of it.
What a fight there’s going to be at the Democrat convention in July.
Yep, that was my first thought too.
Don’t run on policies you actually believe in. Run on policies that get you into office. Nobody has to guess what you’ll do once you win.
The RINO formula actually.
A little late, Pelousy. A failed coup has cost you moderates and lefties. Thanks!
“In other words..lie.”
Wow, THAT’S a new concept for a D’rat!
Obviously, her new kids in Congress have to learn to use the old ‘bait and switch’ tactic, and that their chit just don’t sell in the real world. (Most all women already know b & s.)
I mean, she has to blatantly tell them, because they’re so real-world clueless. LOL!
After they get the idea and start baiting, we’ll need to press them into lying at every opportunity, test their meddle, see how they hold up to the added cognitive dissonance...
This is the liar who said the Dems had to pass Obamacare before they read it.
As minority leader she quits. Too old to fight a losing battle.
So Nancy wants her party members to go back to lying to America until they get elected and then reveal their true agenda.
The election year head-fake.
“I just say to all of our friends, you know, you want to go to the left? You want to win the election, let’s make a decision to win the election. And when you make a decision to win the election, you have to make every decision in favor of winning... There's plenty of progressive work that we can do in the mainstream without, um, shall we say, having the luxury of our exuberances in carving up a pie we don't even have,” ...Pelosi called Medicare for All, the idea of a government-run health program for everyone that’s being espoused by some of her party’s progressive presidential candidates, is “lovely in concept. Maybe one of these days that’s where we are. Not a winning message.”
But witch trials that go on for two years? Now *that's* a winning message. /s She's on the ropes, has known this for some time, and will continue to cling like the dingleberry she is to the ass hair of power that she has managed to retain. The Demwit civil war is one of attrition, and she knows it, and she ain't young, but feels she ain't old enough to just give in to the anti-American pro-muzzie left.
One of Trumps best lines when he said “ The Democrats are the party of crime”.
They’re internal polling must be terrible. Shifting towards the center isn’t going to bring back those #walkaway voters.
Sounds like Pisslosi is still trying to find her long lost brain.
You got that right. She’s just as left as Bernie and AOC but knows socialism doesn’t sell,
San Fran Nan is full of crap. They all want the same damn socialist policies Comrade Sanders wants. He’s at least open about it whereas they keep trying to pose as moderates. She’s admitting their party’s liberalism is a failure! They are about to implode as a party. The Berniebots vs The fake centrist/undercover socialists for the “soul” of the RATS!
In other words: LIE!
PRETEND we’re not the Stalin-lovers we all in fact ARE.
Plenty of time AFTER the election to build a Stalinist America.
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