Sunday, July 7, 2019

Democratic Candidates Aren’t on a Winning Track

Victor Davis Hanson
"Nearly all of them are running so hard to the left that the successful nominee will never be able to appear moderate."



"Presidential candidates from both parties usually sound hard-core in the primaries to appeal to their progressive or conservative bases. But for the general election, the nominees move to the center to pick off swing voters and centrist independents.
"Voters put up with the scripted tactic as long as a candidate had not gone too extreme in the primaries and endorsed positions too far out of the mainstream.
"A good example of this successful ploy was Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. In the primary against Hillary Clinton, Obama ran to her left. But he was still careful not to get caught on the record going too far left. That way, he was still able to tack to the center against John McCain in the general election.
"As a general election candidate, Obama rejected the idea of gay marriage. He blasted illegal immigration. He railed against deficit spending. And he went so far as to label then-President George W. Bush as “unpatriotic” for taking out “a credit card from the bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt.”
"The result was that Obama was elected. After taking office, in cynical fashion he endorsed gay marriage, ran up far more red ink than did Bush, offered blanket amnesties, and relaxed immigration enforcement." . . .

NRO contributor VICTOR DAVIS HANSON is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author, most recently, of The Case for Trump.

Hey CNN: The Latest Economic Numbers Are Pure Fire … Is That News?

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/


Clash Daily  . . . "And what other economic news can we report?
"Here’s how ‘Investopedia’ is describing it:
Perhaps the most exciting aspect of this chart is how bullish every sector has been during June and early July. The stock market is gaining bullish momentum. This tells me that – unless we see some surprisingly negative news during the upcoming earnings season – the uptrend on Wall Street is going to continue during Q3.
Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average came into the Independence Day holiday at their highest levels ever. The S&P 500 is currently sitting at 2,995.82, and the Dow is sitting at 26,966.
"But of course — the Democrats are fighting over who can hit the brakes on the very policies that unleashed the roaring engine of the US Economy in the first place — cutting taxes and red tape and getting big government the hell out of the way of those who actually produce the wealth in this great nation.
"So… are we to believe then, that this robust economy we are all looking at is a PROBLEM that needs to be solved?
"The party that swung so far left they’re leaving Obama behind may not have a ‘magic wand’ to breathe LIFE into an economy…
"… but they’ve more than proven they know where the brake pedal is." . . .

Trump Congratulates U.S. Women’s Soccer Team on Winning the World Cup

Conservative Media  "President Trump congratulated the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team for winning the 2019 World Cup against the Netherlands in a tweet on Sunday, despite a dispute with one of its co-captains, Megan Rapinoe.
“ 'Congratulations to the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team on winning the World Cup! Great and exciting play. America is proud of you all!” he tweeted:

How far would your friends go to remain a Democrat?

Barbara Leber and Carol Greenwald  "Many of our friends emphatically state their loyalty to the Democratic Party. They have always been a Democrat. It is their political home. They feel good and right-minded with Democrats. They agree with most of their positions, especially on domestic issues important to them.
"They will go very far to stay with the Democrats, but are they willing to go this far? Ask yourself: would you willing to go this far?" .  .  .
. . . "Bear False Witness. Democrats do that when they label President Trump as an anti-Semite and enabler of anti-Semitism, even though he has expressed his determination not to tolerate anti-Semitism: “We will fight with all of our strength and everything that we have in our bodies to defeat anti-Semitism, to end the attacks on the Jewish people, and to conquer all forms of persecution, intolerance, and hate.” (Trump: National Day of Prayer Service, 5/2/19)?
"Distort what Trump said at Charlottesville as the proof that he is an anti-Semite, even though the full quote makes clear that Trump excepted neo-Nazis “who are very bad guys,” and he was speaking about good people on both sides of the debate over removal of the statue of Robert E. Lee.
"Go Along with the outlandish view that Trump is somehow responsible for the rise in anti-Semitism world-wide, even though it is denial to believe that anti-Semitism ever disappeared and delusional to hold one man, who just happens to be the leader of the opposing party, responsible for its resurgence in France and Syria and Sweden, Germany, Malaysia…"
. . . 
Barbara Leber and Carol Greenwald are on the board of JewsChooseTrump.org


The Republican platform language—touted by presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and others as the most pro-Israel “of all time”—clearly diverges from its Democratic counterpart.

Kamala Harris may live to regret exposing her ruthlessness with bogus busing attack on Biden

Thomas Lifson  "Kamala Harris is scary in her pathological ambition, moral flexibility, comfort with deception, and sheer ruthlessness.  She may have erred in prematurely exposing those traits in the very first round of Democrat presidential debates, allowing her competitors to recognize the threat she poses to all of them and to formulate appropriate countermeasures."  . . .

"The Democrats' presidential field can be likened to 20-some scorpions in a bottle.  Kamala was the first among them to sting, attacking Joe Biden for a purported flaw that even his worst enemies concede is bogus: racism. By starting her attack with the classic "I do not believe you are a racist..." trick, she placed "racism" squarely in focus as the topic of her words that followed.  She then began offering the obviously well planned rhetoric about school busing — obvious because her campaign had already prepared merchandise with the little girl picture of her — that placed Biden in league with arch-segregationist senators, whose membership in the Democratic Party went unnoted." . . .

As the group she declared support for would chant, "What do we want? DEAD COPS! When do we want 'em? NOW!"

Fake News: Kamala Harris Is An American Black & She Was In 2nd Integrated Class Of Her School

Lead Stories  via Hollywood Conservatives for Trump
" 'Kamala Harris's family didn't suffer American segregation," Alexander said, saying she "spent most of her formative years in Canada in an Indian household."
" 'I'm calling her out because she stole debate time claiming that her family suffered Jim Crow and civil rights discrimination in America, when that's not the case," Alexander said in his video.
"Harris did not specifically claim "Jim Crow" suffering by her ancestors, but she did make a personal claim of discrimination as a child.
" 'As the only black person on this stage, I would like to speak on the issue of race," Harris said in what many saw as her break-out moment in the debate. She then recalled a story about neighbors who wouldn't let their children play with Harris and her sister "because we were black." She then questioned Biden's record on race, specifically his cooperation with southern senators to "oppose busing" in the 1970s. "There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public school, and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me."
"Watch this debate moment below:" . . .