Going on my refrigerator door: "As a writer of horror movies, it is traditional that it takes three tries to Really Kill The Monster. We tried and lost in 2016. We seriously injured the monster in 2020. Now we have to drive the stake through the monster’s heart and leave the body outside in the sunlight."
An important part of the outcome in Kansas is that the get-out-the-vote literature against the amendment didn't mention abortion at all. The emphasis was, as it should be, on keeping "personal health decisions private" and that's what won the day. Careful messaging hasn't been a recent strong point for the Democrats but will be critical in the next two elections.
A piece of potentially positive news is that John Wood, a noted conservative attorney, is on the November ballot as an Independent candidate for the Senate. Supported by John Danforth as a more rational alternative to Eric Schmitt, there is scant chance that he'll win but a fair shot that he could split the Republican vote enough to carry the day for Trudy Valentine. It's a seat the GOP is counting on holding and would be a great pickup.
Danforth said the biggest mistake he ever made was supporting Josh Hawley for the Senate in 2018. If he's coming in as a wrecking crew for the D's, so much the better, but any decent person serving in the Senate would be an upgrade.
THE PAMPHLETEERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THE OPPOSITION PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!!!!!!
'The Democratic Party is the oldest voter-based political party in the world and the oldest existing political party in the United States', and we deliver.
Along with messaging how THE INFLATION REDUCTIION ACT, clinching long-delayed health and climate needs, WILL LIFT THE LIVES OF ALL AMERCANS …
TC, let's nail aspects of your proclamation on the doors and put in the windows on the streets and along the roadways across the USA, BROADCASTING THE NEWS FAR AND WIDE!
- 43 Republicans VOTED AGAINST capping the cost of insulin in private health care plans. How many of their voters do you think need insulin and get their health insurance through private plans?
- The example of Kansas this past Tuesday is proof that when the argument is made in broad general terms against “government overreach” that a state that went for Trump by 27% in 2020 can go 59-41 in favor of keeping the right of (regulated) abortion in their state constitution.
- Polling from YouGov and Indivisible in Arizona found voters overwhelmingly reject both Blake Masters for Senate and Kari Lake for Governor, as candidates who supported Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” and in favor of restricting abortion in the state. 51% said they would view a candidate who believed the 2020 election results were fraudulent “less favorably,” while only 23% said they would view them “more favorably.
- Democrats can go out and say “If the Republicans win, these rights are going to be overturned.” They can point to their votes in the House and say “Give us two more Senators, and we can pass these bills in the Senate and protect your rights from the Republicans who want to take them away.”
- 70% of Republican voters believe the Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 election.
- Trump and his followers are openly trying to stock Congress and state governments with election deniers.
- Thus, a vote for Democrats is a vote against a powerful foe: a government-in-waiting and its accomplices.
- In a just-released CBS poll, 45% of likely voters said that their vote for Congress will be about Donald Trump, statistically tied with the 47% who it is about Joe Biden.
- Democrats have been handed the opportunity to portray themselves as the opposition party. For the last five election cycles, that has been the good place to be.
AND LET'S DANCE IN THE STREETS, TOO, BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT TO CELEBRATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, elected officials actually did what the people want.
Whatever happened to that? Did it get thrown out along with the separation of church and state, and the middle class? America where did you go? As crazy as it has gotten, there are still glimmers of hope and I feel that when I read your posts.
Great post, TCinLA. The "third try" in horror movies is one of the great paragraphs!--drive in that stake.... Plus, the quote from Adlai Stevenson is "made for these times"--True Conservatives. The Repubs have one thing they want badly to "conserve": white privilege for "Good Old Boys"........
“This mid-term campaign, Democrats can go out and say ‘If the Republicans win, these rights are going to be overturned.’ They can point to their votes in the House and say ‘Give us two more Senators, and we can pass these bills in the Senate and protect your rights from the Republicans who want to take them away.’
They can run as the Opposition Party. The opposition to Republican Overreach.”
TC, In case you do not subscribe to The New Yorker, I thought that you might be interested in Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals by Susan B. Glasser and Peter Baker. A link to the article is below. (Realize that you may have already read it)
I posted this on my FB page (in hope the free read will continue awhile) and printed it to a pdf for future reference once the article is no long available to non-subscribers.
In Florida, we have a chance to finally send Brave, Brave Sir Marco home; I'm a little less sanguine about the governor's race, but DEESantis (he always pronounces his last name that way, as if he is trying to avoid the Hispanic pronunciation) barely won against a capital-D, progressive Democrat of color in 2018. I would like it better if DEESantis wasn't a favorite of Fox News and others, and getting the campaign money that brings.
Why is Marco Rubio "Brave, Brave Sir Marco?" There is video out there of him literally running away from constituents at Miami Int'l Airport rather than answer questions. He has since ducked townhalls where he would actually face voters. He had "bravely running away" down pat before we knew Hawley did it too!
"This mid-term campaign, Democrats can go out and say “If the Republicans win, these rights are going to be overturned.” I've already been seeing political ads on this theme on CNN, MSNBC and the traditional broadcast channels.
I've also been seeing, for several months, ads arguing that the Biden administration is promoting legislation that will handicap tech companies, referring I presume to antitrust legislation that's being considered.
Meta (Facebook et al) has put together a Trojan Horse coalition. Free article if you're not a subscriber: https://wapo.st/3JX9Gal Headline & sub-head: "Facebook is quietly helping to set up a new pro-tech advocacy group to battle Washington. The organization, called American Edge, arrives at a time when the industry is facing withering antitrust scrutiny in Washington"
Going on my refrigerator door: "As a writer of horror movies, it is traditional that it takes three tries to Really Kill The Monster. We tried and lost in 2016. We seriously injured the monster in 2020. Now we have to drive the stake through the monster’s heart and leave the body outside in the sunlight."
Important to remember the sunlight part. Want no comeback.
🗽
An important part of the outcome in Kansas is that the get-out-the-vote literature against the amendment didn't mention abortion at all. The emphasis was, as it should be, on keeping "personal health decisions private" and that's what won the day. Careful messaging hasn't been a recent strong point for the Democrats but will be critical in the next two elections.
A piece of potentially positive news is that John Wood, a noted conservative attorney, is on the November ballot as an Independent candidate for the Senate. Supported by John Danforth as a more rational alternative to Eric Schmitt, there is scant chance that he'll win but a fair shot that he could split the Republican vote enough to carry the day for Trudy Valentine. It's a seat the GOP is counting on holding and would be a great pickup.
Keep us posted on this, Dave. That's important news I hadn't heard.
I definitely will, it's too soon after the primary for effective polling but I'll post anything I hear.
Danforth said the biggest mistake he ever made was supporting Josh Hawley for the Senate in 2018. If he's coming in as a wrecking crew for the D's, so much the better, but any decent person serving in the Senate would be an upgrade.
Thanks, Dave, for the news about Danforth and his support for Wood. That is very good news! as TC says, keep us posted.
THE PAMPHLETEERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THE OPPOSITION PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!!!!!!
'The Democratic Party is the oldest voter-based political party in the world and the oldest existing political party in the United States', and we deliver.
Along with messaging how THE INFLATION REDUCTIION ACT, clinching long-delayed health and climate needs, WILL LIFT THE LIVES OF ALL AMERCANS …
TC, let's nail aspects of your proclamation on the doors and put in the windows on the streets and along the roadways across the USA, BROADCASTING THE NEWS FAR AND WIDE!
- 43 Republicans VOTED AGAINST capping the cost of insulin in private health care plans. How many of their voters do you think need insulin and get their health insurance through private plans?
- The example of Kansas this past Tuesday is proof that when the argument is made in broad general terms against “government overreach” that a state that went for Trump by 27% in 2020 can go 59-41 in favor of keeping the right of (regulated) abortion in their state constitution.
- Polling from YouGov and Indivisible in Arizona found voters overwhelmingly reject both Blake Masters for Senate and Kari Lake for Governor, as candidates who supported Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” and in favor of restricting abortion in the state. 51% said they would view a candidate who believed the 2020 election results were fraudulent “less favorably,” while only 23% said they would view them “more favorably.
- Democrats can go out and say “If the Republicans win, these rights are going to be overturned.” They can point to their votes in the House and say “Give us two more Senators, and we can pass these bills in the Senate and protect your rights from the Republicans who want to take them away.”
- 70% of Republican voters believe the Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 election.
- Trump and his followers are openly trying to stock Congress and state governments with election deniers.
- Thus, a vote for Democrats is a vote against a powerful foe: a government-in-waiting and its accomplices.
- In a just-released CBS poll, 45% of likely voters said that their vote for Congress will be about Donald Trump, statistically tied with the 47% who it is about Joe Biden.
- Democrats have been handed the opportunity to portray themselves as the opposition party. For the last five election cycles, that has been the good place to be.
AND LET'S DANCE IN THE STREETS, TOO, BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT TO CELEBRATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll dance in the streets the first Wednesday after the first Sunday in November.
Dancing spurs my spirit and makes me happy! See you on the dance floor or on some street, November 9, 2022!
Perhaps I'll be visiting my son in Encino, TC, and I'll join you in that dance (at 86 I may move more slowly :-) )
Let's Dance! And Get Out The Democrat Vote!!
"Now we have to drive the stake through the monster’s heart and leave the body outside in the sunlight. "
MaryB you posted it before me. Credit!
But it needs repeating...it is so perfect.
Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, elected officials actually did what the people want.
Whatever happened to that? Did it get thrown out along with the separation of church and state, and the middle class? America where did you go? As crazy as it has gotten, there are still glimmers of hope and I feel that when I read your posts.
Great post, TCinLA. The "third try" in horror movies is one of the great paragraphs!--drive in that stake.... Plus, the quote from Adlai Stevenson is "made for these times"--True Conservatives. The Repubs have one thing they want badly to "conserve": white privilege for "Good Old Boys"........
Turning point in the battle!!!!Time to sharpen the stake for all that is at stake!!!
I like this!
🧛🏼♀️🧛🏼♂️ Sharpen the stake
🗽🇺🇸 for all that’s at stake.
Yes, Carol!!
Oh, that was good. Very good. :)
Like that play on "stake"!
Right on, TC!
“This mid-term campaign, Democrats can go out and say ‘If the Republicans win, these rights are going to be overturned.’ They can point to their votes in the House and say ‘Give us two more Senators, and we can pass these bills in the Senate and protect your rights from the Republicans who want to take them away.’
They can run as the Opposition Party. The opposition to Republican Overreach.”
TC, In case you do not subscribe to The New Yorker, I thought that you might be interested in Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals by Susan B. Glasser and Peter Baker. A link to the article is below. (Realize that you may have already read it)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generals
Reading it now and it will be part of commentary here.
Fern is right everyone - this is incredibly important reading. You should all click on this link and go read it.
I posted this on my FB page (in hope the free read will continue awhile) and printed it to a pdf for future reference once the article is no long available to non-subscribers.
In Florida, we have a chance to finally send Brave, Brave Sir Marco home; I'm a little less sanguine about the governor's race, but DEESantis (he always pronounces his last name that way, as if he is trying to avoid the Hispanic pronunciation) barely won against a capital-D, progressive Democrat of color in 2018. I would like it better if DEESantis wasn't a favorite of Fox News and others, and getting the campaign money that brings.
Why is Marco Rubio "Brave, Brave Sir Marco?" There is video out there of him literally running away from constituents at Miami Int'l Airport rather than answer questions. He has since ducked townhalls where he would actually face voters. He had "bravely running away" down pat before we knew Hawley did it too!
"This mid-term campaign, Democrats can go out and say “If the Republicans win, these rights are going to be overturned.” I've already been seeing political ads on this theme on CNN, MSNBC and the traditional broadcast channels.
I've also been seeing, for several months, ads arguing that the Biden administration is promoting legislation that will handicap tech companies, referring I presume to antitrust legislation that's being considered.
Meta (Facebook et al) has put together a Trojan Horse coalition. Free article if you're not a subscriber: https://wapo.st/3JX9Gal Headline & sub-head: "Facebook is quietly helping to set up a new pro-tech advocacy group to battle Washington. The organization, called American Edge, arrives at a time when the industry is facing withering antitrust scrutiny in Washington"
See also: https://americanedgeproject.org/