I sai 5 years ago that it was

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 20:30:00 +0000

In reply to As you might have expected, I

I sai 5 years ago that it was extremely unlikely Hillary'd be the candidate, because of medical issues that may or may not get worse, because she was simply getting old, because there almost certainly new blood that would pop up. That this didn't happen, that they had to prop up a 75-year-old rather than the next proxy, a less-known 68-year-old 1 term wall street crusader who refused to toss her hat in, simply surprised me. I thought Al Franken might, I thought Ross Feingold might make a comeback, etc. Instead, the farm club was super weak. Granted, the Republican side was awful too, just a political landscape largely frozen in the past, when not the loonies of the future. I got a kick out of people offering up Michelle - like, really? Some car karaoke and dancing in the White House and you're presidential material? Or the hurry to embrace Tulsi as a rising star, ignoring her policies and lack of allegiance to anything... or OMG Biden, then or in 2020???? I dunno, still waiting.

As you might have expected, I

artappraiser — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 20:24:02 +0000

In reply to Tom's Tomorrow: enough rear guard, need new guard

As you might have expected, I am going to say Megadittoes! here.

I'll move on to a new question: when did the conservative politicos in this country become the avant garde as far as political ops? I am thinking now that it might coincide with the liberal "blogosphere" getting into a tradition of endlessly debating and analyzing the political ops of the last lost election in very long threads with excessive research and links! And some bitterness and anger at what "the other" supposedly did wrong to boot. While a politically savvy contingent of GenX conservatives come up with new bells and dog whistles and software and move on to all the new "social media" are continually quick on their feet with those. Obama 2008 campaign seems to be the only exception.

To just get a start: repeat after me: Bernie Sanders is 76 years old, Hillary Clinton is 69 years old. What they did is history. Even Obama 2008 is "been there, done that", rapidly fading to "once upon a time."

Next up: the term white working class. Where is this going for anyone below retirement age? What is the new census gonna say? What are even half of those gonna say after Trump gets done with them? I'd really be willing to bet they are not an important factor in 2020 at all, that if you talk about it, you will almost sound more behind the times than Carl Bernstein does now.

The saying is Forward the course of empire, not backward.

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I sai 5 years ago that it was

As you might have expected, I