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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 15, 2023 0:53:18 GMT
Oh crap I've known Sam Thompson forever!! Claims he is not running.... Just two weeks after announcing that he was switching parties and running for re-election as Democrat, State Sen. Sam Thompson (R-Old Bridge) has changed his mind and will instead retire at the end of his term and not be a candidate for re-election in 2023. “I have decided I’m not going to run for re-election,” Thompson told the New Jersey Globe. My priority should be my wife. She’s 91, and she’s had two falls in the last year and has trouble getting around. We are celebrating our 66th anniversary on Thursday. I owe her my full attention.” The 87-year-old Middlesex County lawmaker changed his party affiliation after Republicans asked him to retire and signaled that they planned to replace him on their ticket with Owen Henry, the three-term mayor of Old Bridge. Angered by the loss of party support, Thompson confirmed on Super Bowl Sunday that he would switch parties and seek a fifth term as a Democrat instead of running off the line in the GOP primary. His odds were reduced two days earlier when he missed the deadline to run at the Monmouth Republican convention. Thompson made it clear that he will remain a Democrat until his term ends on January 9, 2024. “They have welcomed me with open arms,” he said. “They had pledged to support my re-election.” But a race for any Democrat – even a 28-year legislator – in the heavily Republican 12th district would face insurmountable hurdles. newjerseyglobe.com/legislature/thompson-wont-seek-re-election-after-party-switch/amp/
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 21, 2023 19:38:04 GMT
Meanwhile
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Post by onelasttime on May 12, 2023 23:13:19 GMT
Whatever happened to honesty?
It seems the folks at No Label may have not have been up front with the people they got to sign a form.
Read the second paragraph in the letter.
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Post by onelasttime on May 13, 2023 17:43:25 GMT
Is Manchin a potential third party presidential candidate?
As a Democrat would you vote for him because you are unhappy with the Biden/Harris ticket?
IMO the chances of the two Democrats that are not that popular with other Democrats will not win their re-election bid. Manchin & Sinema
Manchin’s name has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate for No Labels. In order for him to be viable No Labels will have to get recognition as a political party in all 50 states so their candidate can be on the ballot. I think.
From the article..
“Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) may not have announced that he's running as a third-party candidate for president. But he's acting like it.
Driving the news: Manchin took time from his busy Senate schedule to tell a gathering of Iowa business and community leaders Wednesday in D.C. that he’s "fiscally responsible and socially compassionate" — another hint that he’s considering a potential third-party presidential bid.
Back in the Senate, he released a statement vowing to oppose all President Biden's EPA nominees over the administration's "radical climate agenda." Manchin's recent no-mercy campaign against Biden could be related to his potential re-election bid in deep-red West Virginia — but it's also a sign of just how far he's willing to go to blow up the president's plans.”
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Post by hop2 on May 13, 2023 20:13:25 GMT
No, Manchin is a hard no.
You have no idea what he’d do. He swings whichever way he thinks is giving him a better deal at the time. Which means he’s for sale.
No, no I’ve had enough snake oil salesmen thank you.
At least with Biden Harris you know what you’re getting. With Manchin you get whomever comes up with the biggest incentive each time. No thanks.
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Post by onelasttime on May 28, 2023 23:10:09 GMT
After the stunts he pulled these last two years and if you really are a Democrat the last person you would want for an an alternate to President Biden is this guy.
And yes he seems to be the front runner to run as the No Label candidate.
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 5, 2023 21:25:10 GMT
He’s not going to win re-election in WV so why not act as a spoiler to the Democratic Party and Joe Biden.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 5, 2023 22:44:37 GMT
Another one... CNN — Former Harvard professor and prominent public intellectual Cornel West will mount a third party run for president, he said on Monday in a video posted on Twitter. A supporter, surrogate and confidante of Bernie Sanders during the Vermont senator’s 2016 and 2020 presidential bids, West is one of the leading democratic socialist activists of his generation. “In these bleak times, I have decided to run for truth and justice which takes the form of running for president of the United States as a candidate for the People’s Party,” West said. “I enter in the quest for truth, I enter in the quest for justice. And the presidency is just one vehicle to pursue that truth and justice that I’ve been trying to do all of my life. West will run as a candidate for the People’s Party – a path that Sanders refused during his own campaigns, despite his clashes with a Democratic Party establishment that largely weighed in against him. Sanders endorsed Biden ahead of the 2020 general election and will support him again in 2024. www.cnn.com/2023/06/05/politics/cornel-west-third-party-2024-bid/index.html
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Post by hop2 on Jun 13, 2023 10:59:51 GMT
As I said, follow the money: www.instagram.com/reel/Csjm6dtA8KV/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==This is not a centrist, unity, party for regular working class Americans. It’s just the party to support the plutocracy with no label. Looking to secure the ‘techno feudalist’ society they want to keep building.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 14, 2023 17:31:26 GMT
Others are concerned also... Anti-Trump conservatives are considering joining forces with Democrats in an effort to torpedo former President Donald Trump’s chances of returning to the White House, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Former Republicans who oppose Trump met with top Democratic strategists including advisers to President Joe Biden and former Senators to discuss ways to weaken Trump’s efforts, the newspaper reported. Their focus involved a potential third-party bid for the presidency by a group called No Labels which they fear could undermine Biden’s campaign and strengthen Trump’s. The Post reported that about 40 people attended the meeting, among them on the Democrat side were former White House chief of staff Ron Klain, Democratic National Committee senior adviser Cedric L. Richmond and former Barack Obama adviser Stephanie Cutter. Former Weekly Standard publisher Bill Kristol and a former Republican consultant Lucy Caldwell, now an adviser to the independent Forward Party, were also present.The Post reported that about 40 people attended the meeting, among them on the Democrat side were former White House chief of staff Ron Klain, Democratic National Committee senior adviser Cedric L. Richmond and former Barack Obama adviser Stephanie Cutter. Former Weekly Standard publisher Bill Kristol and a former Republican consultant Lucy Caldwell, now an adviser to the independent Forward Party, were also present. The Post reported: “Among those present or connected by Zoom was Obama 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina, former Howard Dean 2004 campaign manager Joe Trippi, Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright, Investing in U.S. co-founder Dmitri Mehlhorn and Lincoln Project co-founder Reed Galen, who previously worked as a Republican strategist, according to people present. Hilltop Public Solutions partner Patrick Dillon, a former Obama White House deputy political director who is married to White House deputy chief of staff Jen O’Malley Dillon, also attended, the people said.” www.rawstory.com/no-labels-2661315554/
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 18, 2023 0:39:07 GMT
Well worth reading the whole thing!! Not too long The 'No Labels' agenda is more disturbing than you knowHistorians and futurists tell us that we are moving into a new era, a Fourth Turning. It certainly feels that way. But the people who have been in charge the past few decades — particularly Republicans on the Supreme Court, George W. Bush, Donald Trump, and the Republican Congresses associated with them — have so rigged the game that it’s going to be a real challenge to dislodge the corrupt systems they’ve put into place. www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/no-labels-agenda-more-disturbingw/#cxrecs_s
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 28, 2023 0:22:46 GMT
More... DeSantis connection... "The firm, Blitz Canvassing, was paid a total of $107,000 by No Labels’ affiliated nonprofit entity, Insurance Policy for America, to help it gather signatures in Colorado, the first state where No Labels, which has floated the idea of an independent presidential unity ticket in 2024, qualified as a minor political party. This would allow it to field a presidential candidate in the state," Politico's report stated. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis paid Blitz Canvassing over $8 million in 2022, according to Florida campaign finance records. Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) and Colorado GOP Senate candidate Joe O’Dea also were clients of the firm in 2022. www.rawstory.com/no-labels-gop-link/
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 30, 2023 1:17:09 GMT
Lincoln Project Rick Wilson.... Really DeSantis is ok? No way, Wilson says... Wilson said the group’s announcement that it wouldn’t run a third-party candidate if Ron DeSantis were to win the Republican nomination is a tell. “Why is that you ask? I'll tell you why,” Wilson said. “Because a lot of the same people that are giving money to Ron DeSantis, these mega billionaire donors, these Harlan Crow-types from Texas and from Wall Street and Silicon Valley, they are giving money to No Labels and to Ron DeSantis. “He's fine in their mind, he's not he's not a danger to America. He's not an insane edge-case weirdo whose governed Florida like an authoritarian lunatic. www.rawstory.com/rick-wilson-no-labels-trump/
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 30, 2023 15:27:10 GMT
There are claims that No Labels is using deceptive and possibly illegal practices ... Actually changing voters' party registrations.. The grassroots progressive group MoveOn on Wednesday called on secretaries of state across the U.S. to open investigations into No Labels, the political organization that has reportedly managed to gather the support it needs to be included on 2024 election ballots in four states so far. The group has done that, said MoveOn, by having canvassers mislead voters into signing party enrollment forms and making it look like it has more affiliated members in the states than it really does—all while disenfranchising those voters. As Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) warned residents of her state last month, the voters are actually signing an enrollment document and changing their party affiliation to No Labels. "Voters were not informed that they were changing their political party to No Labels and, therefore, would be barred from participating in Democratic or Republican primaries, which are open only to registered members of those parties or to Independents," wrote Epting on Wednesday in a letter to Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias (D). www.rawstory.com/activists-urge-states-to-investigate-no-labels-for-misleading-and-disenfranchising-voters/
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Post by hop2 on Jun 30, 2023 19:29:51 GMT
It’s just right wing billionaires trying to fix the game in their favor any way they can to hold onto their shrinking power.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 12, 2023 18:03:05 GMT
Here you have it!!! Speculation is Manchin.. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is sparking speculation about a potential third-party 2024 run due to his planned headlining of an event in New Hampshire sponsored by the bipartisan group No Labels, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Manchin will appear at a town hall alongside Utah's former GOP governor, Jon Huntsman, as No Labels eyes a potential “unity” ticket in 2024. As The Post points out, Manchin hasn't announced if he is seeking reelection next year for his Senate seat and has not ruled out an independent 2024 White House run. Democrats fear that an Independent run from Manchin could help Donald Trump in the 2024 election. "No Labels, fearing the possibility of a 2024 rematch between Biden and Trump, launched what they dubbed an 'insurance policy project' for 2024, which would offer a third-party candidate 'under the proper environmental conditions.' The ticket would likely feature a Democrat and a Republican in presidential and vice-presidential slots, the group has signaled," The Post's report stated. www.rawstory.com/no-labels-2662268614/
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Post by onelasttime on Jul 13, 2023 14:57:56 GMT
No self respecting Democrat would vote for Manchin after the shit he pulled.
But that’s the problem with some who identify as a Democrat, if the Democratic candidate isn’t perfect in their eyes, they like to vote for third party candidates to “send a message”. Even though they know that third party candidate can’t win.
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Post by onelasttime on Jul 16, 2023 20:09:40 GMT
If you believe No Label, I know this bridge…
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Post by onelasttime on Jul 17, 2023 13:39:47 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Jul 17, 2023 13:55:07 GMT
Paul Waldman latest column in the Washington Post… Gift Article. link“ Opinion ‘Common sense’ in politics? No thanks.”By Paul Waldman Columnist My fellow Americans, I rise in opposition to common sense. This might not be a popular position. After all, who could oppose common sense, that eternal guide to wisdom and birthright of every one of us, no matter how high or low our station? Were not Americans’ hearts stirred to revolution by Thomas Paine in a pamphlet titled with those noble words? The trouble today is that when you hear someone make an appeal to common sense, as countless politicians in both parties do, there is a good chance they’re leading you down a path in which reality is denied and solutions have little or nothing behind them. So it is with the centrist group No Labels, which has been threatening to mount a presidential bid that many fear would make a Donald Trump victory more likely. Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), scourge of his party, is joining No Labels for a “Common Sense” town hall this week, planned in timing and location — New Hampshire, site of the first presidential primary — to garner maximum news coverage. If the title wasn’t enough to convince you of all the common sense to come, everyone involved is saying the phrase again and again. During a brief interview with CNN, Manchin managed to repeat it five times. Guest Opinion: This plan for a third-party presidential bid in 2024 is dangerous Yet it’s almost impossible to discern what this “common sense” consists of. The “Our Ideas” section of the No Labels website contains no actual ideas. This is characteristic of almost all such centrist, nonpartisan efforts: They talk a lot about getting past the partisan squabbling in Washington to find real solutions, but it’s hard to pin them down on what they want to That’s clearly intentional: Once you start taking positions, people might disagree with you, which these groups are keen to avoid. The conceit of “common sense” is that there are simple policy solutions to complex problems just waiting to be implemented if partisans in Washington can just get past the things that preoccupy them. But that ignores a fundamental truth of policy battles: They’re usually built on deeply held values that are in conflict. Republicans want to restrict abortion access, for example, and Democrats want to expand it. There is no “common sense” solution to that question that everyone will agree on. The narrative of common sense,” Johns Hopkins political scientist Steven Teles told me, “imagines a politics that can somehow get away from conflicts,” despite the fact that politics “is organized conflict.” To those who don’t have firm partisan loyalties, it makes sense that politics looks like a bunch of bickering. “Partisanship is, for a lot of people, mostly symbolic and not always practical. So it feels right to say we should cut through that and get to the solutions,” said Georgetown political scientist Hans Noel. But if you actually try to do that "in a good faith way,” Noel argued, you quickly come to places where people have very different goals and values. Claiming those differences can be easily transcended misleads voters about why things aren’t getting done. The reason isn’t an absence of “common sense”; it’s that the more consequential a policy is, the more likely it will affect powerful interests who want to maintain the status quo and run up against competing segments of the parties. Navigating that political thicket to design policy that can pass Congress and be implemented is spectacularly difficult — much more so than just holding some town halls and cutting gauzy 30-second ads that promise “common-sense solutions.” So if centrists such as No Labels get specific, they usually wind up offering small-scale policy ideas that might not offend too many people but won’t likely accomplish much either. “What is the big-scale policy intervention that they’re actually trying to advance?” Teles asks. Yet such rhetoric is a mainstay in both parties. Democrats talk about “common-sense gun safety measures,” and Republicans claim common sense will solve the challenge of immigration, crime or just about everything. Some issues do have solutions rooted in uncomplicated impulses, yet in those cases, politicians often don’t embrace them. It’s common sense to provide free lunch to every child in public school, yet rather than do that, we’ve set up a cumbersome system to evaluate parents’ incomes, collect payments and deal with “lunch debt” (an obscene phrase if ever there was one). But issues like that are the exception rather than the rule. Designing policies to deal with the most important issues is complicated. There is no “common sense” plug-and-play solution to health-care reform or inequality or climate change that everyone can all agree on. So if you watch the “Common Sense” town hall, don’t fall for vague rhetoric suggesting that political conflicts are easy to solve, if only we stop fighting and just agree already. That’s not real politics at all. It’s a fantasy.”
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Post by onelasttime on Jul 17, 2023 14:41:38 GMT
From NBC News… mm. link“Joe Manchin and Jon Huntsman to headline No Labels town hall”The group is unveiling a policy agenda next week as it works to get ballot access for a third-party presidential candidate next year. July 12, 2023, 9:23 AM PDT By Bridget Bowman “Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, a Republican, will headline a No Labels event next week as the group weighs backing a third-party presidential bid in 2024. Manchin, who is up for re-election to the Senate next year, has not ruled out running for president as part of the No Labels ticket. Manchin and Huntsman, who are both No Labels co-chairs, will be participating in a Monday town hall event in New Hampshire to unveil the group's "Common Sense" policy agenda. The group is spending tens of millions of dollars to get on the ballot as a new political party in all 50 states next year, though it has not committed to following through with the plan. “ It is clear that most Americans are exceedingly frustrated by the growing divide in our political parties and toxic political rhetoric from our elected leaders,” Manchin said in a statement. “Our political discourse is lacking engaged debates around common sense solutions to solve the pressing issues facing our nation. I am looking forward to modeling this type of conversation with my good friend, Gov. Huntsman, and the No Labels community."No Labels has said it will back a third-party presidential campaign if it's clear Americans are not satisfied with the major parties' presidential candidates. But Dr. Ben Chavis, one of the Democratic co-chairs, recently told NBC News that the group "is not and will not be a spoiler in favor of Donald Trump in 2024." But recent polling has showed that a third-party bid could pull more votes from President Joe Biden. A recent NBC News national survey found more Democrats than Republicans saying they are open to a third-party bid, including multiple groups that make up the Democratic base. Democrats have been raising concerns about a No Labels presidential bid and believe a third-party campaign would hurt Biden's re-election. Biden defeated Trump in 2020 in part because a smaller share of voters supported third-party candidates than in 2016, when Trump won his first term — and more of those third-party 2016 voters backed Biden than Trump in 2020, according to exit polls.”
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Post by imkat on Jul 18, 2023 12:00:51 GMT
This is very worrisome.
No labels say their goal is to defeat Trump, but a third party candidate will ensure his victory. Reasonable Republicans will vote for the third party candidate like Manchin or Huntsman, not Biden.
Without third party candidates, Clinton would have won. Without third party candidates, George W Bush would have lost.
If No Label's goal is to ensure a Trump defeat, they should focus on the Republican primary to elevate a different candidate.
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Post by onelasttime on Jul 18, 2023 13:24:32 GMT
Both of this guys are delusional.
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Post by onelasttime on Jul 18, 2023 23:07:25 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Jul 19, 2023 1:27:51 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Jul 19, 2023 4:30:37 GMT
After what Manchin did to the Democrats this past couple of years it boggles the mind this guy thinks he can win an election where the majority of voters are Democrats…
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Post by onelasttime on Jul 20, 2023 20:23:13 GMT
16% would consider backing Manchin as independent candidate? They can’t be Democrats. No self respecting Democrat would EVER consider backing this guy after his stunts these past couple of years.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 20, 2023 20:44:28 GMT
16% would consider backing Manchin as independent candidate? They can’t be Democrats. No self respecting Democrat would EVER consider backing this guy after his stunts these past couple of years. That's 16% the Democrats cannot afford to lose!!
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Post by onelasttime on Jul 20, 2023 22:19:50 GMT
Interesting….
This just shows you how backwards this country is.
There are those on this board who’s are not fans of Harris and when asked why they get very vague.
One pea who lives in SF said Harris has baggage. I heard the baggage bit when she announced she was running for President. I was curious about what this baggage that I never heard about. I have been aware of her since she was the DA of SF and hadn’t heard anything so I was curious and looked it up. IMO it was much ado about nothing.
IMO her problem was how she ran her presidential campaign. Rumor had it she listen more to her sister then her campaign manager. But I think it had more to do with how far left she felt comfortable going on the issues. When you run a campaign for DA or AG you don’t have to tell how you feel about kitchen table issues. When you run for president you kinda do.
My guess she won’t make that mistake again. Plus she is getting on the job training to be president.
I long for the day when one is judged by their ability to do the job and not by their sex, their sexual orientation, or the color of their skin. Or if one had been on a reality television show yelling “you’re fired!”
“The Dangerous Unintended Consequences Of No Labels’ Folly”
"The great populist independent candidate of 1992, Ross Perot, does indeed have something in common with the great masses of America. Like you and I, Ross Perot never won a single electoral college vote," writes Stuart Stevens.
“By Stuart Stevens
“A group of Americans is so worried about the prospects of a woman of color moving from Vice President to POTUS that it necessitates a national emergency such that only a third-party candidate can save the country.
Who are we talking about? The Proud Boys? Or No Labels?
Beneath the urgent call for a third-party candidate is a racist assumption that is deeply troubling. Much of the rationale for a third-party candidate hangs on the argument that Joe Biden is unelectable - despite winning in polls, but you can’t get hung up on the details – and Kamala Harris as his VP is a key element in that unelectabilty argument. It goes like this: Joe Biden is old – true – and voters will reject him largely because he could die in office and VP Harris would become president.
As I type this, I hear the No Labels crowd screaming, “We’re not racists.” And I agree. I don’t know anyone associated with No Labels whom I would remotely consider racist. Which is probably a large contributing factor to their inability to perceive the toxic impact of their embracing the premise that Kamala Harris is a threat to President Biden’s re-election.
Like much of the No Label’s tortured logic of the necessity of a third party, there is zero evidence to support its claims. There is no reason to believe that Harris or any VP candidate is going to impact an incumbent president’s re-election. It’s never happened, and some Vice Presidents were considered huge political liabilities to winning presidential tickets. There’s obviously Dan Quayle, but let’s talk about Harry Truman.
When FDR was running for his fourth term, unlike Joe Biden, he had clear and obvious health issues which the White House and the Roosevelt family went to great lengths to downplay. As David Welky, who is writing a book on the Roosevelt family, described in the Washington Post, “According to his son Jimmy, on July 20, the same day he accepted the Democratic nomination via radio hookup from San Diego, America’s longest-serving president turned white, complained of agonizing pains and lay on the floor for 10 minutes before composing himself. He dismissed the incident as ‘collywobbles.’” The Republicans had nominated Thomas Dewey, who at 42 was younger than any Republican currently running for the 2024 nomination.
Welky details how Roosevelt suffered an angina attack six weeks later while addressing “10,000 sailors and shipyard workers at the Puget Sound Navy Yard. Early in his speech, he felt a burning sensation radiating throughout his chest. His forehead beaded with sweat. Waves of nausea flowed through him. He suffered for 15 excruciating minutes, still speaking, before his chest relaxed.”
Joe Biden tripped on a sandbag some idiot left on the stage at the US Airforce graduation ceremony.
Like Joe Biden, FDR was under pressure to replace his VP Henry Wallace who was seen as too liberal. Walter Lippman, the nation’s most influential political columnist to a degree unimaginable in today’s crowded mediascape, wrote that the next VP was “not unlikely to be president.” Wallace was dumped, and FDR picked a candidate with a whopping 2% national support in Gallup polling: Harry Truman. Did Truman help FDR win the 1944 election? It was Roosevelt’s closest election, and it’s impossible to point to a single state FDR would not have carried with Henry Wallace.
When FDR died after 82 days in office, the 2% Truman became president and went on to win an election few believed was possible. We’ve been living with the “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline since what was, at the time, the greatest upset in presidential elections. He left office four years later wildly unpopular and paved the way for eight years of Eisenhower. But he won.
Compared to Harry Truman, who was elected to a county judgeship before the Senate, Kamala Harris is an electoral juggernaut. She defeated an incumbent San Francisco DA in a very tough campaign. She was seen as such a strong incumbent no one ran against her four years later. In 2010, she ran for Attorney General against Steve Cooley, the LA District Attorney who was the strongest Republican candidate not named Schwarzenegger since Pete Wilson was elected to the Senate. The race was so close it took three weeks to declare a winner, but Harris then became the first woman, the first African American, and the first person of South Asian descent elected California Attorney General.
In 2016, she was elected US Senator from California. Then Vice President of the United States. Add it all up, and more Americans have voted for Harris than any woman in US history.
Remember when the last incumbent Vice President ran for president? That was George H.W. Bush, who was such a dominating candidate he came in third in the 1988 Iowa caucus to Senator Bob Dole and televangelist Pat Robertson. Yes, third to Pat Robertson. That must have been a fun plane ride from Iowa to New Hampshire on Air Force 2.
So why does No Labels think Harris is so unelectable that she will doom Joe Biden? There are three big moments in a VP candidate’s campaign: the introduction once picked, the convention speech, and the VP debate. Harris passed each of those three tests without the customary stumbles of VP candidates. As VP, she has served without scandal, and for all the efforts to blow up a news cycle’s worth of awkwardness into some cosmic flop, she’s had a relatively smooth if uneventful VP tenure. Which is about all any VP can hope for.
So, let’s ask again, why is it that No Labels thinks Harris is so unelectable she will doom Joe Biden? Can we just be honest? It’s because she is a woman and a woman of color. That’s not to say that every member of No Labels wouldn’t welcome a woman of color as president. (This probably isn’t the case, but let’s give them that.) But do they not realize how extraordinarily damaging it is to take the position that a woman of color can’t be elected president?
The mantra of “No Labels” is that 2024 is “unique,” and all past political equations do not apply. This is how they counter the political reality that no independent presidential candidate has won a single electoral college vote since George Wallace. The great populist independent candidate of 1992, Ross Perot, does indeed have something in common with the great masses of America. Like you and I, Ross Perot never won a single electoral college vote. Electing an independent candidate is a wishful fantasy akin to my asserting that the next NFL draft will be unique and I’ll go in the first round. But if they believe 2024 is the ultimate rule-breaker election, they can’t allow for the possibility that a woman of color might be a plus for Joe Biden’s re-election? What kind of message is No Labels sending to every young woman in America who isn’t as white as the leadership of No Labels that the first non-white female VP is so damaging to President Biden that America can only be saved by…Joe Manchin?
Many smart, well-meaning people are involved in No Labels and should wake up to the damage they are doing to the American social fabric. Let the hateful alt-right carry the message that women of color can’t win in America. Stop what you are doing and focus on helping make history by contributing to the re-election of Kamala Harris.
At the end of the day, this is a legacy question for every person who is part of No Labels. If No Labels runs an independent candidate, the odds are overwhelming that it will help defeat Joe Biden. That will be the end of any chance No Labels has of playing a positive role in American politics and will be the organization's legacy. Is that what No Labels supporters want? To end up on the same side as The Proud Boys?
No Labels is right about one thing: 2024 is a unique election. For the first time since 1860, a major American party is running against an incumbent president they believe is illegitimate. Democracy itself is on the ballot. This is not the time to indulge in Fantasy Football politics. No Labels should be part of saving democracy, not destroying the American Experiment. That means working for Biden-Harris not because they are perfect but because they are decent Americans who believe in democracy and are in the American tradition. Don’t blame Kamala Harris. Embrace her for the positive change she represents for this country we love. No Labels can help her make history, rather than going down in history as the group that re-elected Donald Trump.”
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Post by onelasttime on Jul 21, 2023 0:07:36 GMT
A third party candidate will ALWAYS take votes from either the Democrat or Republican candidate. It just will.
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