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'17 Specials & '18 Midterms Thread

If there is one thing that Democrats are good at, it is finding ways to fuck up winnable elections. This latest idea they have come up with....screaming at families in restaurants....is a real beaut. So much for that "enthusiasm advantage" that the Democrats had a few weeks ago.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...inally_have_unified_the_gop_behind_trump.html

The Democrats have not merely overplayed their hand in opposing the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, they have provoked a reaction that has serious consequences for the power struggle ahead. Most of them do not understand yet the gravity of their error because they still operate out of a rage that has its origin in the belief that Donald Trump’s presidential victory was somehow illegitimate, despite the lack of any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia (and the growing evidence that the Clinton campaign colluded – via cutouts Perkins Coie and Fusion GPS – to recycle phony stories from Russian intelligence into FISA warrants).

That unfounded sense of illegitimacy is their security blanket, enabling them to contain their despair over losing their grasp on power to a foe unafraid to oppose them frontally, someone who fights back and wins, even when the weight of the media is fully on their side. In the past, very, very few Republicans had the guts to resist early polling that reflected 90% of media hewing to the Democrats’ party line. The Dems naturally assumed that Professor Ford’s emotional testimony, supported by MSM coverage that presented it as absolutely conclusive evidence of Kavanaugh’s depravity, would either cause him to withdraw to end the personal pain, or a handful of squishy GOP senators to abandon him. But Judge (soon to be Justice) Kavanaugh is made of sterner stuff. And so is President Trump.

Had the charges not been quite so outrageous, quite so bizarrely “outlandish” (in Susan Collins’s word), perhaps they would have reaped more Senate squishes than Lisa Murkowski). They apparently forgot that Kavanaugh was a former member in good standing of the GOP establishment, the person who was at President George W. Bush’s side as much or more than any other of his staff for years. W, who has been quietly critical of Trump, could not stand by and watch a man he liked and admired slandered so cruelly, and began making calls to senators in support of Trump’s nominee.

Senator Lindsey Graham’s denunciation of his Democrat colleagues during the hearing Thursday last week marked his turning point, a break with the niceties of “my distinguished colleague” approach to Senate comity, and an understanding that the struggle is so mortal that solidarity is more important than finding a safe space.
The bullying also began to drive NeverTrump pundits like Bret Stephens of the New York Times into an appreciation of the importance of standing up to the Dems’ bullying.

For the first time since Donald Trump entered the political fray, I find myself grateful that he’s in it. I’m reluctant to admit it and astonished to say it….
I’m grateful because Trump has not backed down in the face of the slipperiness, hypocrisy and dangerous standard-setting deployed by opponents of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. I’m grateful because ferocious and even crass obstinacy has its uses in life, and never more so than in the face of sly moral bullying. I’m grateful because he’s a big fat hammer fending off a razor-sharp dagger.

Writing the Wall Street Journal late yesterday, Gerald Seib reviewed the consequences and concluded that the struggle:
...has bound together President Trump and the Republican Party as never before.

In the most contentious battle of his presidency, Mr. Trump and a party long uneasy with his leadership marched into the fray together. It is no coincidence that they did so in pursuit of the one goal on which they have always been able to agree: putting more conservatives on the Supreme Court.

Going forward, the salient consideration is that the whole approach to slandering Kavanaugh is being revealed as a setup. There is an actual potential crime to investigate:

A friend of Christine Blasey Ford told FBI investigators that she felt pressured by Dr. Ford’s allies to revisit her initial statement that she knew nothing about an alleged sexual assault by a teenage Brett Kavanaugh, which she later updated to say that she believed but couldn’t corroborate Dr. Ford’s account, according to people familiar with the matter.
Leland Keyser, who Dr. Ford has said was present at the gathering where she was allegedly assaulted in the 1980s, told investigators that Monica McLean, a retired Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and a friend of Dr. Ford’s, had urged her to clarify her statement, the people said.
The statement to the FBI offers a glimpse into how Dr. Ford’s allies were working behind the scenes to lobby old classmates to bolster their versions of the alleged incident, as were Judge Kavanaugh’s.

This would have shown up among the FBI Form 302s that senators would have seen when they reviewed the sole copy of the FBI’s 7th investigation into Kavanaugh. They all know about it, and Chuck Grassley, the Judiciary chairman is another senator who is so outraged that he will not let this drop. If the 302 reports merit it, a criminal referral may be made to the Justice Department for suborning perjury or some other charge. If and when a grand jury is convened, a thread can be pulled, possibly unraveling the myriad of ties between Monica McLean and her former colleagues at the FBI and DOJ, and their communications. Senator Grassley is already demanding text messages and emails. A grand jury subpoena may be much harder to ignore.

Regardless of where this threat goes or does not go, President Trump has won over the doubters in the GOP camp like never before. He can thank Michael Avenatti, Chuck Schumer, Mazie Hirono, Monica McLean, Kama Harris, and the entire Trump-hating Demcoratic Party and their sidekick media for an assist in realizing this longed for goal.

Going to be an interesting day on here when we all find out what Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, Mike Flynn and Rick Gates all gave up in exchange for plea deals.
 
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It’s amazing the guy that says he doesn’t care what anyone on this board says and thinks can’t help himself from trying to get around his ban and post here.
 
It�s amazing the guy that says he doesn�t care what anyone on this board says and thinks can�t help himself from trying to get around his ban and post here.

I've never had any doubts that he still reads these boards on a daily basis, and that it's killing him that he can't post here under his old username because he lost a bet. I did think he would wait until after the midterms to reappear, especially if the GOP did better than expected, but I guess with Kavanaugh's appointment he just couldn't control himself. Nobody really listens to him anymore, because he just repeats the same arguments over and over and over, usually in the most offensive and obnoxious way possible. He is obsessed with blaming the Democrats, and especially the Clintons, for everything happening in the country now, mainly because of his bitterness at having spent so much of his life working for liberal or socialist causes and not getting the respect and gratitude that he seems to think he deserves, especially from "worthless" younger generations, who don't treat him as the wise old sage he clearly craves to be seen as.

So instead he just rants and yells and cusses at dumb fucking Millennials who won't listen to him or treat him as kind of a board Dumbledore or Gandalf giving sage advice to the youngsters, and he vents about all those Democrats (especially blacks) that he spent all those decades supporting, and now won't pay him obeisance. This is all about his wounded ego, and not his debating points about the Clintons or election predictions or whatever else he's ranting about at the moment. He'll never fully leave here.
 
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What bet did he lose?

I don't remember the exact details, and I'm sure that someone else can fill them in or correct anything I've gotten wrong, but I believe he made a bet with another poster over on the sports board about Wake football (him arguing that Wake would suck, of course) and not having a winning season or some such. The bet was that the loser would accept a permaban from the boards. He lost, and the ban took effect. He's come back at least once under a new username, SwissChalet, and now he's back again as wfu1968.
 
The question becomes now that the right got what they wanted will their enthusiasm wane for the mid-terms?
 
I don't remember the exact details, and I'm sure that someone else can fill them in or correct anything I've gotten wrong, but I believe he made a bet with another poster over on the sports board about Wake football (him arguing that Wake would suck, of course) and not having a winning season or some such. The bet was that the loser would accept a permaban from the boards. He lost, and the ban took effect. He's come back at least once under a new username, SwissChalet, and now he's back again as wfu1968.

Lol the board’s resident Nostradamus with another great prediction.
 
I think if he stays his screen name should be either - Nepotismmademe or Bathroomdickpatrol
 
The question becomes now that the right got what they wanted will their enthusiasm wane for the mid-terms?

Probably. The election is still over a month away, and in the Age of Trump that might as well be six months. Now that the GOP has gotten what they wanted, they're already in celebration mode, so I don't see that angry enthusiasm lasting for very long. I don't think Democrats or women will forget, though. Taking the Senate was always a long shot, but we'll see what happens in the House of Representatives and governor's races.
 
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NV should use Heller's vote to get women out. They should also use his votes to kill ACA in ads.
 
I will say that one thing I've learned over the past quarter-century is to never underestimate the Democratic Party's ability to blow a sure thing. They have developed an almost uncanny ability to lose elections and other contests they should win. I thought the overall performance of Senate Democrats in the Kavanaugh hearings was weak. Their questioning of Kavanaugh, with a handful of exceptions, was poor and they often seemed emotionally flat and bland. When Kavanaugh and then Graham went on their partisan rants they never fought back, but mainly just sat and shook their heads silently and thus allowed the GOP to dominate the hearings. I will say that many of these younger Democrats running this year are more impressive, and seem to actually have some fire in their belly and some fighting spirit. It's what the party has desperately needed for awhile, I think.
 
As egregious and offensive as this Kavenaugh confirmation is, I fear that it's not the type of event to really encourage new voters, but enrage the base.
 
The Democratic Party has to stand for something, they have to have imagination and ideas, they cant just skate by on being the alternative to Republicans. That is never going to be enough.
 
As egregious and offensive as this Kavenaugh confirmation is, I fear that it's not the type of event to really encourage new voters, but enrage the base.

Maybe, but given that GOP olds vote in every election anyway, I'm not sure it was really going to drive up GOP turnout all that much. I don't see them being enraged now that they've gotten what they wanted, they're already celebrating and trash-talking on social media. If the Democrats can't take at least the House next month after this travesty and two years of Trump, I don't know when they ever will.
 
I will say that one thing I've learned over the past quarter-century is to never underestimate the Democratic Party's ability to blow a sure thing. They have developed an almost uncanny ability to lose elections and other contests they should win. I thought the overall performance of Senate Democrats in the Kavanaugh hearings was weak. Their questioning of Kavanaugh, with a handful of exceptions, was poor and they often seemed emotionally flat and bland. When Kavanaugh and then Graham went on their partisan rants they never fought back, but mainly just sat and shook their heads silently and thus allowed the GOP to dominate the hearings. I will say that many of these younger Democrats running this year are more impressive, and seem to actually have some fire in their belly and some fighting spirit. It's what the party has desperately needed for awhile, I think.

They want to play nice and have orange wedges. They need to dig up Daley.
 
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