Tulsi unleashed
I guess until now she was holding back. Having left the Democratic Party, Tulsi Gabbard has wasted no time in calling them out in no uncertain terms:
“They [the Democrats] have gone crazy — they have gone insane. There’s no other way to describe it,” Gabbard told the crowd in Chandler, Ariz. “It’s kind of like the emperor has no clothes. Everybody sees what’s going on, but nobody wants to say it out loud.”
Gabbard, a former Democratic candidate for president, later added that her former party bares no resemblance to the party as it was when John F. Kennedy was president.
Can’t argue with that. Leftism was certainly present in the party back then, but it was a small fraction that became more prominent in the 1960s with the ascendance of people such as Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern. And even then, it was a very different leftism than today’s. They would not recognize today’s party.
Gabbard made the statements while campaigning for Kari Lake, who is a MAGA type candidate rather than a “moderate” Republican. And it’s not just Lake; Gabbard also plans to speak up for other Trump-backed Republican candidates such as Joe Kent of Washington and Don Bolduc of New Hampshire.
Interesting.
A progressive condition with liberal suckers. Speaking of which, it’s time for fall pruning.
The only rational and sane (former) Democrat is absolutely correct in her assessment of what the Democrats have become (neither JFK nor Clinton as he governed in the nineties would have a chance today); rational thought is completely absent from the party which represents the coddling of violent criminals, enabling and lying about a completely open border, recklessly printing money and passing insanely reckless (and pointless) legislation, granting tens of billions to a corrupt nation, in a proxy war with a nuclear power, having nothing to do with our national interest, running a Soviet “show trial” and engaging in Soviet tactics (through the corrupt FBI/DOJ) against the ideological enemy, attempting to corrupt an entire generation of children through radical gender nonsense and toxic and grotesquely-racialized propaganda (BLM/CRT/1619), destroying the economy and our energy independence, as well as supporting elected officials and a slate of candidates who are totally unfit to serve in any capacity whatsoever, just to name some of the many sins of the delusional demented donkeys.
Unlike DeSantis and others seeking a restoration of sanity, Gabbard has seen things from the inside, so she’s not an ordinary changer.
Even David Horowitz, who went from hard-core leftie to hard-core rightie, hasn’t seen things from the inside like she has. Horowitz saw things from the inside of the hard-core left wing standpoint. While Gabbard’s Democrat party has been overrun by hard-core lefties, even given that, she’s seen certain things from the establishment-inside.
Therefore, she has the street cred to know whereof she speaks. But really, it will remain to be seen what’s going on there, and how it’s going to play out.
How much of her erstwhile liberalism was a carryover from times past, and she no longer has to pretend, but can now speak her mind? How much of what we’re presently enjoying is staking out a new persona while she aspires to higher office? Time will tell.
But for now, I happily welcome her with open arms.
Here is Tulsi Gabbard supporting 2nd Amendment rights on June 24, 2022:
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1540280653890981890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1540280653890981890%7Ctwgr%5Ec4e9cde230888266aa713d408d9f62a073e8b173%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Ftulsi-gabbard-dusting-cobwebs-firearm-drill-video
She’s right. They’ve gone insane. Here in NC, only a public uproar stopped a “family friendly” drag queen event at the state art museum. And Cheri Beasley (D), running for Senate, says she is troubled by conservative efforts to withhold “gender affirming” surgery from minors.
“emperor has no clothes … bares no resemblance”
That’s a funny picture, but PJ Media needs a new copy editor.
Positioning herself as someone’s VP. meh…
The MAGA “populist” Republicans are not “farther right” than traditional Republicans. If anything, more moderate. They just see the left for what it is, and fight back.
It isn’t a debate about ideas anymore. It is one side–establishment Democrats–attempting to assert dominance.
Don
It’s not so much that I am a Republican; it’s that Democrats turn me off. I wasn’t originally for Trump, but I increasingly liked the way he fought back against the Demos/liberals.
I began as a Democrat. I had a JFK poster in my childhood bedroom. My votes gradually shifted from Democrat to Third Party to occasional Republican to yellow dog Republican. After the Democrats’ ballot brouhaha in Florida in 2000, I decided to vote Democrat over my dead body. I have seen nothing in the last 5 years to change my decision.
It appears that my yellow dog Democrat relatives have likewise seen nothing to cause them to change their party affiliation. Though my brother does admit his prediction that Biden would be a uniter is not a prediction that has come true.
I came here to laugh at PJmedia, but I see Cornflour already handled it.
“Gabbard, a former Democratic candidate for president, later added that her former party bares no resemblance to the party as it was when John F. Kennedy was president.”
“Bares” no resemblance? I guess she’s letting it all hang out then …
John Hinderaker is a principled conservative, He’s not a frothing Deplorable like me, but he’s no RINO. Mr H spent time with Tulsi recently.
1) He was VERY impressed
2) He said she’s surprisingly tall (there are a couple photos to prove it).
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/four-cheers-for-tulsi.php
I would have nodded along to John G’s comment above until I read the PLblog article. Now, I find I have to reassess.
It is notable that contradictions have heightened to the point where lots of lefties are beginning to sweep their oars in the opposite direction.
“Surprisingly tall” is, according to Wikipedia, 5’8″. This may mean Hinderaker isn’t very tall. 🙂 But I respect his opinions in general and this description of Tulsi’s performance at this think tank appearance — friendly, prepared, articulate.
“The MAGA “populist” Republicans are not “farther right” than traditional Republicans. If anything, more moderate. They just see the left for what it is, and fight back.”
Well stated.
The re-branding of Tulsi Gabbard. She’s very put-together and her persona is well-crafted, articulate and comprehensive, as one might expect from a Professional Politician. I wouldn’t be surprised to see her as Trump’s running mate after she spends the next few months trying on different parties. She’s getting far too much air time on different big-budget news venues for this to be accidental or simple grass-roots interest. She’s playing in the Pro leagues.
Cornflour said, “That’s a funny picture, but PJ Media needs a new copy editor.”
It isn’t just PJ Media: I see homophone errors all the time in blog posts and comments alike. People refer to “towing the party line,” “pouring over documents,” and “reigning in the opposition.” Then there are the writers who can’t tell the difference between “it’s” (contraction of “it is”) and “its” (possessive form of the singular neuter pronoun “it”), or the difference between the chemical element whose symbol is Pb (“lead”) and the past tense of the verb “to lead” (“led”).
If PJ Media offered me decent pay for copy editing, I’d take them up on it. I blame the current generation of junior high and high school English teachers for being soft on correcting student writing. From the time I was in sixth grade on up, my teachers (including those who taught subjects other than English) were ruthless in marking up spelling and grammatical errors. I didn’t like being corrected at the time (typical teenager, right?), but I was really grateful when I got to college– and later on. I don’t deny that English spelling and pronunciation are quirky compared to French and German, but it would be nice to see online writers check their spelling or phrasing a bit more carefully before they post.
I see homophone errors all the time in blog posts and comments alike. People refer to “towing the party line,” “pouring over documents,” and “reigning in the opposition.” Then there are the writers who can’t tell the difference between “it’s” (contraction of “it is”) and “its”….
PA+Cat:
Aieee!
Drives me crazy. Especially those cases and I see them everywhere.
“a small fraction”? Sounds like the New Deal was a Constitutionalist, small-government, “laissez-faire” undertaking. (And I am not even invoking Woodrow Wilson’s views on the Constitution and the role of the government in particular.)
My conservative ex-hippie cousin and I talk on the phone most weekends. At one point he argued that Democrats would turn to Tulsi as their obvious best choice.
I agreed she was their best choice but there is No Way the Dems as currently constituted would turn to her.
Apparently Tulsi agrees.
I imagine she was a plan and look forward to its unfolding. Burning the Dems down a month before the midterms must have been part of it.
LXE:
Of course the New Deal Democrats weren’t “small-government, laissez-faire” advocates. They were big government advocates. But I wrote, “Leftism was certainly present in the party back then, but it was a small fraction that became more prominent in the 1960s with the ascendance of people such as Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.” The “back then” was an obvious reference to the previous quote from Gabbard, which was about the Democratic Party during the JFK years. There was no discussion here about the New Deal, which featured a more leftward group – although even then, those leftist did not resemble the leftists of today in terms of identity politics, control of the FBI, and the entire “woke” menu.
She has appearance going for her. She is quite attractive without being glamorous or cute.
No matter how rational Goldie Hawn in her prime was, nobody would take her seriously.
I suppose one might be required to wonder how many of her position(s) are sincere and how many are for sales purposes. I have no idea. But she clearly was going noplace with the dems except for representing the Islands. What would she do to move on up?
She might be as honest as Abe Lincoln, but the quesition remains.
Just as there are RINOs who run in places where no declared Democrat could win, I always assumed that Tulsi was a Dem because one can’t be elected in Hawaii otherwise. I’m not surprised she and Kari Lake get along. I should have gone to the rally, it was ten miles away.
Kari Lake is a freaking force of nature. She’s charming, articulate, has a razor sharp memory for people and issues, and when she turns that focus on you, she is utterly intimidating for all her tiny stature. Reporters keep trying to “gotcha” her, and every one has slinked away.
The Arizona Dems promoted her thinking she would be easier to beat than her establishment R primary opponent. Man did they make a mistake. If I had to bet now I’d say she wins by 5 points at least, and drags Blake Masters across the finish line for Senate, even though you never seen them together.
Re Blake Masters, I made two big contributions to his campaign this week, and may make another one later. I think straight-thinking Americans need to use this election to build momentum to expunge the knaves and fools from positions of influence.
[I earlier sent a very large check to Senator Ron Johnson’s (WI) campaign, but after more than three weeks it hadn’t been cashed, so I emailed the campaign, but got no reply. I then stopped payment on the check, which came through my account a day or two later. I sent a check because I wanted to save him the processing fee, and not provide my phone or email. The episode left a bad taste in my mouth.]
She is highly intelligent in many ways but I cannot get past the fact that she is a Putin/Assad/Meduro/Iran apologist and was a Bernie Sanders supporter in 2016 and Joe Biden supporter in 2020. We owe her a debt of gratitude for destroying Kamala Harris in a debate and standing up to Hillary Clinton.
Jordan Rivers,
One of the most horrible aspects of American politics is the money. One wishes to support candidates, but doing so inevitably results in one’s name and phone being sold to whichever fundraising machine has the money to buy it. I worked for a Republican fundraisng phone bank for a time. I hated it. The ideal target was a slightly confused older woman, preferably a widow.
After commissions paid to the callers, fees taken by the fundraising company, and the consultant’s fees, a campaign or PAC might get a dollar from a $25 donation.
How many people know that both of Pat Buchanon’s presidential campaigns were done to set up his sister in retirement? Before Pat ran, Bay owned some donor lists that dated back to the 1970s, and whose rosters were dying off.
Pat hit the road with Bay as his campaign and advertising manager. Those lists were quickly enhanced with new donors, and of course Pat took matching funds. Bay took 7 percent of campaign expenses and 7 percent of ad spends, and soon had feathered her nest rather nicely.
How many people know that both of Pat Buchanon’s presidential campaigns were done to set up his sister in retirement?
His sister was ~48 years old at the time and had multiple irons in the fire. She’s still working at age 74. The whole idea sounds outlandish.
Gordon Scott,
Thanks for your reply. I have donated to numerous candidates and haven’t noticed much increase in my spam, except for the same candidates asking for more money, which I expect. A couple clicks on my spam folder deletes it all.
Haven’t had any phone spam. I don’t answer unknown numbers, and then block them if they don’t leave a voicemail.
I think of you donate directly on a candidates website, he will get most of the money. I believe that Ron Johnson’s site said that the credit card fee was 3%.
Donations provide practical support, and moral support, IMO.