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Tuesday, October 23,2018
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This Is the Best Political Ad of the Year; If the RNC Has Any “Testicular Fortitude” at All, It Will Air 24/7 Until Nov. 6
BY BENJAMIN ARIE
Trump 2020 / YouTube screenshot A clip of an interview with HIllary Clinton appears in a pro-Republican video on YouTube. (Trump 2020 / YouTube screen shot)When it comes to messaging and image, the right can sometimes be a bit reserved and … well, conservative.
You know the stereotype: A well-to-do, soft-spoken man in a suit, going into detail about tax policy. Probably reads a newspaper and nods in agreement to Ted Cruz.
There’s nothing wrong with that per se. After all, conservatives tend to be a bit square because they’re busy doing things, like running businesses, working hard, and raising families. Those are far more important than crafting slick political messaging.
Lately, however, the messaging has been writing itself. The right seems to have found its voice, and realized that all it takes to connect with people is the truth, told passionately.
You could say that’s one of the reasons Donald Trump won in 2016. Instead of slick Obama-esque messaging, he focused on common-sense talk that got to the truth of the matter. Usually it was blunt, sometimes it was crass, but it rang true — and that, combined with Trump’s unique energy, resonated with voters.
Even the soft-spoken Republican politicians have picked up on this. Cruz has buried the hatchet and is holding joint rallies with Trump. Ex-milquetoast Sen. Lindsey Graham catapulted himself onto the national stage by getting fired up for the truth about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and defending it with passion.
A new political ad created by an amateur video editor is getting serious attention for doing essentially the same thing: Shining a light on the truth, and presenting reality in a passionate way.
“We have two choices on November 6th,” the powerful video begins. “The GOP’s America … or the left’s America.”
The video expertly cuts rapidly between two extreme contrasts. On the side of the right, the economy is booming. Unemployment is near record lows, especially for Hispanics and African Americans.
On the side of the left, it’s a very different tone. Radical groups like “antifa” literally shut down streets and bash buildings … or people’s faces.
Instead of distancing themselves from this appalling behavior, Democrats such as Hillary Clinton, Maxine Waters and Eric Holder all but endorse it with language that excuses violence.
All of this — in the video and in real life — comes down to a simple but vital choice: “Jobs Not Mobs.”
That’s exactly the message that Trump himself has been pushing.
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Rush Limbaugh Revealed A Truth About The Election That Will Leave You Speechless
The 2018 elections are just over two weeks away.
Democrats are preparing to win back one or both Houses of Congress.
But Rush Limbaugh revealed a truth about the election that will leave you speechless.
Rush Limbaugh Lets Sean Hannity In On Secret About The 2018 Election
Sean Hannity revealed that he held an exclusive interview with Rush Limbaugh on a recent broadcast of his top-rated Fox News program.
He and Limbaugh discussed the upcoming midterm elections.
Limbaugh predicted the Republicans would gain seats in the Senate AND hold onto the House of Representatives.
The top-rated talk show host based this prediction on his feeling that no party deserves to lose more than today’s Democrat Party.
Fox News reports on the exclusive interview:
RUSH LIMBAUGH, IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FOX NEWS’ SEAN HANNITY, PREDICTED REPUBLICANS WILL HOLD BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS NEXT MONTH – DEFYING THE WASHINGTON WISDOM THAT NANCY PELOSI IS IN LINE FOR SPEAKER.
“WE HOLD THE HOUSE AND INCREASE THE SENATE,” THE CONSERVATIVE TALK RADIO HOST PREDICTED IN AN INTERVIEW SET TO AIR THURSDAY NIGHT ON FOX NEWS’ “HANNITY” AT 9 P.M. ET.
HE ADDED, “I THINK THE DEMOCRAT PARTY DESERVES TO LOSE IN THE BIGGEST SINGLE ELECTORAL LANDSLIDE DEFEAT IN MY LIFETIME BECAUSE OF THE ACTIONS THEY’VE TAKEN JUST IN THE LAST MONTH.”
Rush Limbaugh Responds To The Polls
Election Forecaster Nate Silver gives the Democrats a nearly 80 percent chance of winning the House.
He also says the GOP has a four in five chance of holding the Senate.
In addition, the Real Clear Politics polling average gives the Democrats a 7.6 percent lead in the generic ballot question of which party Americans want to see run Congress.
But Limbaugh said he isn’t swayed by the polls.
Fox News exclusively reports:
LIMBAUGH SAID HE’S SKEPTICAL OF THE POLLS.
“I DON’T TRUST IT. IT HASN’T BEEN RIGHT CONSISTENTLY ENOUGH FOR ME,” LIMBAUGH SAID OF THE POLLING. “PEOPLE DOING THESE SURVEYS DESPERATELY WANT TRUMP GONE. I DON’T KNOW HOW THEY CAN TAKE THAT OUT OF THEIR WORK.”
Donald Trump made a similar prediction.
In an interview with the Associated Press, Trump stated, “So I think we’re going to do well. Look, it feels to me very much like ‘16.”
In that election, all the experts said Hillary Clinton was a shoe-in.
The New York Times claimed she had an over 90 percent chance of winning.
But Trump drew tens of thousands of people to rallies in key states and pollsters did not pick up on this support.
When all the votes were counted, Trump was the victor and the “experts” ended up with an egg on their face.
Rush Limbaugh agrees with the President that the same thing could happen again this year.
And it would certainly buck the trend.
Historically, the party in power loses seats.
The Republican base has now become energized like never before.
And that means anything could happen on Election Day.
We will keep you up to date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
Robert Mueller just dropped the biggest hint about his next move to impeach Trump
Robert Mueller’s rigged witch hunt is in the end game.He investigated the President for over one year.
And now he dropped the biggest hint about his next move to impeach the President.
The American people are losing patience with Robert Mueller’s investigation.
It has dragged on long enough.
And – more importantly – Rod Rosenstein is pressing Mueller to finish up.
Fox News reports:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is set to issue findings of some of the core aspects of his investigation into the alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia shortly after the November midterm elections, Bloomberg reported.
The outlet, citing two anonymous U.S. officials, reported that Mueller is finalizing the conclusions related to the questions on whether President Trump’s campaign cooperated with Russia and whether he took any actions that could constitute obstruction of justice…
…The Mueller team is currently facing increased scrutiny from both sides, with calls to either shut down the investigation or produce more indictments.
Rosenstein reportedly indicated he wants to end the probe as soon as possible, while president Trump is a frequent critic of the investigation, calling it a “witch hunt.”
Many speculate that if the probe continues any longer it may only lead to Trump shutting the investigation down himself.
Rosenstein pressing Mueller to finish up is good news for the President.
He has seen every aspect of the investigation.
If he wants Mueller to finish up, some pundits believe it is because Mueller found no evidence of collusion or obstruction of justice.
We will keep you up-to-date on any new details in this ongoing story.
Spartacus Falls? Cory Booker Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Man In Restroom
Posted by Tyler Durden
Democratic Senator Cory “Spartacus” Booker has been accused of sexually assaulting a man, after a self-professed anonymous gay liberal released a shocking account of a 2014 incident.
Democratic Senator Cory “Spartacus” Booker has been accused of sexually assaulting a man, after a self-professed anonymous gay liberal released a shocking account of a 2014 incident.
During a visit to the man’s workplace, Booker’s accuser says the Senator “pulled me into the restroom,” and “put his left hand on my groin, over my jeans and began to rub,” before pushing the man down on his knees for “what was clearly a move to have me perform oral sex on him.” The man says he “pulled away quite violently” and told Booker he had to leave.
#CoryBooker Sexually Assaulted Me
— Deep Throat (@TheeDeepThroat) October 20, 2018
Through the transitive properties of unsupported claims, we can only assume that this allegation is “serious” and “credible” – words recently used by Booker to describe similarly unfounded accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Booker’s accuser says he has consulted with two attorneys on the matter, and has been playing phone tag with journalist Ronan Farrow.
🚨 🚨 🚨 @RonanFarrow @senatemajldr should look into these allegations ASAP to see if there’s corroborating evidence worthy of further investigation… https://t.co/LD8zVF1afj
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 21, 2018
A gay man compliments @CoryBooker. Booker allegedly follows him to the bathroom, aggressively approaching him for oral sex— in a stall. The man declines and escapes. He also claims to have more proof than accusers like Christine Blasey Ford.
I think we should listen to him.
— Richard Armande Mills (RAM) (@RAMRANTS) October 20, 2018
#WeThePeople want an immediate FBI investigation and for Corey to step down now! https://t.co/RlflZXPYw4
— Stacey Dash (@staceydash) October 20, 2018
— Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) October 21, 2018
If the claims against Booker are true, and we have no reason to assume they’re not since all survivors of sexual assault have a right to be believed, it suggests that the Democratic Senator who has never been married may be bisexual. In 1992, Booker wrote an article in which he admitted to sexually assaulting a girl when he was 15 years old, groping her at a New Year’s Eve party in 1984 against her will.
I stopped telling my gay jokes. Fags, flamers and dykes became homosexuals and people of differing sexual orientation and, of course, I had my gay friend. But I was disgusted by gays. The thought of two men kissing each other was about as appealing as a frontal lobotomy.
Is Booker projecting?
If Cory Booker is the future of the Democratic Party, they have no future! I know more about Cory than he knows about himself.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2016
Booker has also been targeted with rumors that he’s gay – and has declined to say either way if he is or not, explaining to WaPo in 2013:
People who think I’m gay, some part of me thinks it’s wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I’m gay, and I say, “So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I’m straight.” –WaPo
How will Booker respond to his #HeToo moment? If there’s no difference between men and women, and all sexual assault survivors deserve to be believed, should the FBI launch an investigation?
The meme warriors, meanwhile, are just getting started on this:
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President Trump Master-Trolls CNN: Does Facebook’s ‘Purge’ of ‘Fake News’ ‘Mean CNN Will be Finally Put Out of Business?’
Unprecedented, Trump Takes 300 Media Questions in 11 Days: Report
President Donald Trump (C) talks to journalists in the Oval Office at the White House, on Oct. 17, 2018. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump has made himself extraordinarily available to the media in the past number of days.
Between Oct. 6 and Oct. 16, Trump gave at least 13 interviews, including eight on television. In addition, he allowed the White House press corps to ask questions on at least 24 occasions, including six impromptu press conferences.
“He has no fear of talking to the media,” a senior administration official anonymously told the broadcaster, who couldn’t find another time in history when a president answered the press so prolifically.
“He relishes it and he has instructed his staff he wants to do it more,” the official said.
On Oct. 9, when Trump spoke at the occasion of former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley’s departure he answered 18 questions and only finished after no reporter ventured to ask any more.
Trump has repeatedly criticized a group of major left-leaning media outlets as “fake news.”
“I can’t tell you how dishonest and corrupt so much of the media is. I can’t even explain it. Impossible to explain. Nobody would believe it. Nobody would,” he said at his rally in Las Vegas on Sept. 20.
From June 1 to Sept. 30, Trump has received 92 percent negative evening news coverage from the main broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC, according to the Media Research Center. A mere 0.7 percent of the coverage focused on the booming economy under Trump’s tax cuts and deregulation.
“These are people that will take a great story and make it as bad as possible. They’ll take an ok story and make it horrible,” Trump characterized the “fake news” media.
Despite that, Trump has remained available to the press corps, though the recent Q&A streak is aimed at the Nov. 6 midterm elections, he acknowledged.
Trump can’t be expected to maintain such frequency after the elections, one official said.
Texas Dems ask noncitizens to register to vote, send applications with citizenship box pre-checked
Texas Dems ask noncitizens to register to vote, send applications with citizenship box pre-checked
The Texas Democratic Party asked non-citizens to register to vote, sending out applications to immigrants with the box citizenship already checked “Yes,” according to new complaints filed Thursday asking prosecutors to see what laws may have been broken.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation alerted district attorneys and the federal Justice Department to the pre-checked applications, and also included a signed affidavit from a man who said some of his relatives, who aren’t citizens, received the mailing.
“This is how the Texas Democratic Party is inviting foreign influence in an election in a federal election cycle,” said Logan Churchwell, spokesman for the PILF, a group that’s made its mark policing states’ voter registration practices.
The Texas secretary of state’s office said it, too, had gotten complaints both from immigrants and from relatives of dead people who said they got mailings asking them to register.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to investigate.
“If true there will be serious consequences,” he said.
The PILF publicly released complaints it sent to Hidalgo and Starr counties asking for an investigation. The organization also provided copies of pre-marked voter applications and the affidavit from the man who said his non-citizen relatives received the mailing.
The applications were pre-addressed to elections officials, which is likely what left many voters to believe they were receiving an official communication from the state.
But the return address was from the State Democratic Executive Committee, and listed an address in Austin that matches the state Democratic Party’s headquarters.
The letter is emblazoned with “Urgent! Your voter registration deadline is October 9.” It continues: “Your voter registration application is inside. Complete, sign and return it today!”
On the application, boxes affirming the applicant is both 18 and a U.S. citizen are already checked with an “X” in the Yes field.
The mailing also urges those who are unsure if they’re registered to “Mail it in.”
A person answering phones at the state party declined to connect The Washington Times with any officials there, insisting that a reporter email questions. That email went unanswered.
Sam Taylor, spokesman for Texas’s secretary of state, said they heard from people whose relatives were receiving mail despite having passed away 10 years ago or longer. One woman said her child, who’d been dead 19 years, got a mailing asking to register.
“It looks like a case of really bad information they are using to send out these mailers,” Mr. Taylor said.
He said some of the non-citizens who called wondered whether there had been some change that made them now legally able to vote despite not being citizens.
Mr. Taylor said there is a state law against encouraging someone to falsify a voter application, but it would be up to investigators to decide if pre-checking a box rose to that level.
PILF has been pushing state election officials in recent years to be wary of non-citizens who manage to register and, in many cases, to actually cast ballots. The organization has found thousands of people who later admitted they weren’t citizens, but who managed to register or vote in New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania
The organization is also embroiled in a legal battle with Harris County, Texas, which has declined to provide PILF with similar voter data.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation alerted district attorneys and the federal Justice Department to the pre-checked applications, and also included a signed affidavit from a man who said some of his relatives, who aren’t citizens, received the mailing.
“This is how the Texas Democratic Party is inviting foreign influence in an election in a federal election cycle,” said Logan Churchwell, spokesman for the PILF, a group that’s made its mark policing states’ voter registration practices.
The Texas secretary of state’s office said it, too, had gotten complaints both from immigrants and from relatives of dead people who said they got mailings asking them to register.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to investigate.
“If true there will be serious consequences,” he said.
The PILF publicly released complaints it sent to Hidalgo and Starr counties asking for an investigation. The organization also provided copies of pre-marked voter applications and the affidavit from the man who said his non-citizen relatives received the mailing.
The applications were pre-addressed to elections officials, which is likely what left many voters to believe they were receiving an official communication from the state.
But the return address was from the State Democratic Executive Committee, and listed an address in Austin that matches the state Democratic Party’s headquarters.
The letter is emblazoned with “Urgent! Your voter registration deadline is October 9.” It continues: “Your voter registration application is inside. Complete, sign and return it today!”
On the application, boxes affirming the applicant is both 18 and a U.S. citizen are already checked with an “X” in the Yes field.
The mailing also urges those who are unsure if they’re registered to “Mail it in.”
A person answering phones at the state party declined to connect The Washington Times with any officials there, insisting that a reporter email questions. That email went unanswered.
Sam Taylor, spokesman for Texas’s secretary of state, said they heard from people whose relatives were receiving mail despite having passed away 10 years ago or longer. One woman said her child, who’d been dead 19 years, got a mailing asking to register.
“It looks like a case of really bad information they are using to send out these mailers,” Mr. Taylor said.
He said some of the non-citizens who called wondered whether there had been some change that made them now legally able to vote despite not being citizens.
Mr. Taylor said there is a state law against encouraging someone to falsify a voter application, but it would be up to investigators to decide if pre-checking a box rose to that level.
PILF has been pushing state election officials in recent years to be wary of non-citizens who manage to register and, in many cases, to actually cast ballots. The organization has found thousands of people who later admitted they weren’t citizens, but who managed to register or vote in New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania
The organization is also embroiled in a legal battle with Harris County, Texas, which has declined to provide PILF with similar voter data.
PILF says usually the origin of non-citizens voting is motor vehicle bureaus, where people are pressed to register — and often ignore or miss the admonition that they must be citizens.
In this case, though, the invitations were sent directly by a political party.
The data from North Carolina suggests that non-citizens who vote skew decidedly Democratic, based on their pattern of voting in Democratic primaries.
The affidavit PILF provided to prosecutors Thursday is from David C. Kifuri Jr.
He said “several relatives” of his who are legal permanent residents but not citizens got the mailing, and were confused. He said in his affidavit he told them to report the mailing to local authorities and not to fill it out any further.
The Hidalgo County election office said it forwards all applications that arrive to the state for processing. Officials can’t tell whether something was pre-checked or not when it got to the applicant.
A county elections spokeswoman couldn’t say whether pre-checking the citizenship box was legal.
Mr. Churchwell, though, said it crosses lines because prosecutors looking into whether someone illegally registered to vote need to be able to see the intent of the applicant, and a pre-checked box defeats that.
Mr. Churchwell said the party was putting immigrants in a tough position, as evidenced by the number of them who were calling state officials wondering if there’s been some change allowing them to vote.
“The victims will actually be the non-citizens,” he said.
Hondurans Paint Swastika On American Flag, Set It On Fire; Wave Honduran Flags, Give Us The Finger
Written by Infowars
Written by Infowars
These are the people demanding we open our borders. You can see this photo as the very final image in this Associated Press slideshow covering the migrant caravan headed to the US.
Damn these Honduran migrants seem like they really want to come here… — Vincent James (@RealVinceJames) October 21, 2018 - The caption reads:
Two people burn a United States flag during a protest in favor of the caravan of migrants that is currently stuck on the Guatemala-Mexico border, in front of the American embassy, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Friday, Oct. 19, 2018.The U.S.-bound caravan that once totaled more than 3,000 Central American migrants looked to be about a third that size Saturday morning, when its remaining members woke up on a bridge that divides the borders of Guatemala and Mexico and waited to get past a crossing guarded by hundreds of Mexican federal police. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)
It appears they set multiple flags on fire as this picture from the BBC shows a second flag set ablaze and treated like garbage:
From BBC news photos… https://t.co/uyVHocgoTB
caption “In Honduras, protests have been held in support of the migrants in the capital city, Tegucigalpa”
They also gave us the middle finger:
On TV it shows ppl in this #migrant #caravan not only carrying their countries flag but putting up their middle fingers‼️ When foreigners come in your country waving their flag thats called an invasion‼️ — Bethann (@sewwutnow) October 20, 201
Monica Showalter at the American Thinker reports:
Buried in a News 8 broadcast from San Diego was footage of illegal migrants and their supporters on the U.S. side breaching the U.S. fence on the border, waving a big Honduran flag, victory-style, and whipping out a big middle finger at America.
In times past, arriving immigrants used to kiss the earth. Today, they wave the middle finger at us. Look at these photos, both from News 8 and the CBS national report, rough and blurry, admittedly, showing just what that caravan was about in all its anti-American tenor, which frankly, should have been the lede to the story…For a publicity stunt as staged as the migrant caravan from Central America, one that one might have expected to have been carefully choreographed to advance their narrative of needy people with sob stories needing asylum, what does it say that all we see are military-aged young men, some with tattoos, illegally entering the U.S. under the Honduran banner and angrily flashing the middle finger in what might be their first moments in America?
Here’s some more shots of the poor “refugees.”
The migrants in the caravan proudly waved the flags of their own countries as they organized to invade our own: The caravan waves Honduran flags as they trespass borders. If they're so proud of Honduras, why not stay there and improve their country! — Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) October 20, 201The Honduran caravan is Hostile.
They are not coming in Peace.
They are not oppressed people seeking Asylum.
They are Honduran flag carrying, law breaking ANIMALS.
They should be stopped by ANY & ALL means possible.
Blast them back to Honduras!pic.twitter.com/kU95OyV430
— CC (@ChatByCC) October 20, 2018
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 20, 2018
As a reminder, the most high-profile Honduran migrant in years was the mother of the Honduran girl on TIME Magazine’s June cover who it turned out separated herself from her husband with a good job and her three other kids and paid a coyote $6,000 to sneak her into the US.
It's all a scam: Migrant Mother and ‘Crying Girl’ on TIME Cover Separated Herself from Husband With Good Job, 3 Other Kids, Paid Coyote $6K to Sneak Back in US https://t.co/Cyv27MXjgd
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) June 22, 2018
Warren: I Took The DNA Test To Restore Faith In Government, Or Something...Pocahontas peace pipe using funny tobacco
Warren: I Took The DNA Test To Restore Faith In Government, Or Something...Pocahontas peace pipe using funny tobacco
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Of all the possible takes Elizabeth Warren could have given about her catastrophic DNA test, this … is certainly one of them. In a debate with challenger Geoff Diehl last night, the incumbent senator claimed that she took her now infamous genetic study because American faith in government is “at an all-time low.” What did she want to do — break the record by digging it deeper?
She was asked by a moderator why she had said, in March, that no DNA test was needed to prove she had some Native American heritage. She said she ultimately took the test, reporting the result last week that showed a relative six to 10 generations ago was Native American.
She was asked by a moderator why she had said, in March, that no DNA test was needed to prove she had some Native American heritage. She said she ultimately took the test, reporting the result last week that showed a relative six to 10 generations ago was Native American.
Ultimately, she said, she took a DNA test because she believes one way to rebuild trust in government is by posting her full family history online “so anybody can take a look. … I believe one way that we try to rebuild confidence is through transparency.”
L’etat, c’est Warren? “Government transparency” doesn’t mean genealogical charts of politicians. Warren got into this mess by refusing to admit what her DNA test made painfully clear — that she falsely claimed Native American identity in order to benefit from affirmative-action programs. When the issue first arose, Warren could have admitted that she thought her family lore was enough to qualify back in the day, while expressing regret for some delayed enlightenment. Had she done that, the issue would have died in 2012.
L’etat, c’est Warren? “Government transparency” doesn’t mean genealogical charts of politicians. Warren got into this mess by refusing to admit what her DNA test made painfully clear — that she falsely claimed Native American identity in order to benefit from affirmative-action programs. When the issue first arose, Warren could have admitted that she thought her family lore was enough to qualify back in the day, while expressing regret for some delayed enlightenment. Had she done that, the issue would have died in 2012.
Instead, Warren kept digging the hole with talk of “high cheekbones” and a ludicrous story about her parents having to elope because her mother’s 1/32nd-at-most native ancestry made her unacceptable to her father’s family. The DNA test was a last, desperate shot at trying to cover for her affirmative-action claims, which blew up in her face when it became apparent that all of her previous claims were nonsense. The only transparent part of it was the desperation attendant to it.
Only a fool or a practiced prevaricator could claim that this has restored faith in government or in public officials. Diehl drove the point home in his response:
Diehl shot back that the issue “is not about Sen. Warren’s ancestry, it’s about integrity in my mind, and I don’t care whether you think you benefited or not from that claim, it’s the fact that you tried to benefit from that claim that I think bothers a lot of people and it’s something you haven’t been able to put to rest since the 2012 campaign,” when she first mentioned having Native American heritage that led President Donald Trump to start mocking her by calling her “Pocahontas.”
And as Diehl points out, there’s another transparency issue here. Warren didn’t need to address her claims to native ancestry in order to compete for her Senate seat in deep-blue Massachusetts. She needed it to clear the ground for a run at the presidency in 2020:
“I don’t care what percentage she claims to be Native American; I just care that I’m 100 percent for Massachusetts and will be working for the people of this state.”
Trump’s silent presence dominated the debate, with Diehl saying it’s “obvious” she doesn’t want to be senator, but rather, president. “She’s been campaigning in states that are more important to her than Massachusetts,” he said.
One would hope that such obvious and incompetent machinations would cost Warren at the ballot box. Alas, as one might expect in Massachusetts, Warren has a massive polling lead over Diehl, with leads between +22 and +36 so far this cycle. Of course, the last poll was taken in the first week of October, so it’s possible that the DNA debacle could still cost her some support. Diehl would need a miracle, though, to get within 15 points of Warren, so perhaps the only karmic retribution possible would be getting laughed out of the 2020 sweepstakes.
Trump’s silent presence dominated the debate, with Diehl saying it’s “obvious” she doesn’t want to be senator, but rather, president. “She’s been campaigning in states that are more important to her than Massachusetts,” he said.
One would hope that such obvious and incompetent machinations would cost Warren at the ballot box. Alas, as one might expect in Massachusetts, Warren has a massive polling lead over Diehl, with leads between +22 and +36 so far this cycle. Of course, the last poll was taken in the first week of October, so it’s possible that the DNA debacle could still cost her some support. Diehl would need a miracle, though, to get within 15 points of Warren, so perhaps the only karmic retribution possible would be getting laughed out of the 2020 sweepstakes.
2018 Is The Most Important Election In The History Of Mankind (This Time We Really Mean It!)
No, these midterms aren't the most important election in your lifetime. Unless, that is, you’re two years old.
By David Harsanyi
iIf you believe a midterm election in a time of relative peace and economic prosperity is the most important in history, or even the most important in your incredibly fortunate lifetime, you’re either oblivious to basic history or you don’t have a single non-partisan synapse firing in your skull. We might ask people to please stop being so melodramatic and conceited, but then, it’s 2018.
By David Harsanyi
iIf you believe a midterm election in a time of relative peace and economic prosperity is the most important in history, or even the most important in your incredibly fortunate lifetime, you’re either oblivious to basic history or you don’t have a single non-partisan synapse firing in your skull. We might ask people to please stop being so melodramatic and conceited, but then, it’s 2018.
“We have had many important elections, but never one so important as that now approaching,” a New York Times editorial claimed during the 1864 presidential race between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan, which took place during the Civil War. As others have noted, this probably the last time that the words “most,” “important,” “election,” and “lifetime” should have been stuck together.
Yet it’s now become standard for partisans to claim every presidential election is the most important. Since many people view the president as an emperor, with all the false expectations that go along with that perception, perhaps they believe it. That’s one thing. But now we have people whose religious denomination is partisanship, foisting this insufferable cliché on us for House elections that happen every two years in every single district.
The 2018 election is “the most important election of our lives,” writes a hysterical David Corn at Mother Jones. “This is the most important election since Moby Dick was a guppy,” the prognosticator Charlie Cook explains. “[T]he most important election of your life,” tweets Donald Trump’s spurned bestie Joe Scarborough. “[T]he most important election any of us have voted in so far,” declares Joe Biden, who notes that “everything” is at stake in 2018.
“The most important election of our lifetime,” says Sen. Cory Booker. “[T]he most important election of our lifetime,” says Tom Perez. “It’s the most important election of my lifetime” says Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “[T]his November’s elections are more important than any I can remember in my lifetime,” claims former president Barack Obama.
As anyone who’s been paying attention already knows, this is utter nonsense, since 2016 was the most important election ever.
“I believe this may be the most important election of our lifetimes,” Hillary Clinton told us. “The most important election of our lifetime,” Mike Pence assured America. “Why 2016 may actually be the most important election of our lifetime,” The Hill posited. “Why 2016 May Be the Most Important Election of Our Lifetime,” wrote Bloomberg Businessweek. “This may be the most important election of our lives,” The Nationclaimed. “2016: The most important election since 1932,” declared the esteemed Brookings Institution. “The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime,” reads a Franklin Graham headline. “This Really Might Be the Most Important Election Ever,” The New Republic noted.
It really might be. That is to say, not as important as the 2012 election, which was “the most important election of our lifetime,” according to Mitt Romney. His running mate, Paul Ryan, agreed, telling a crowd that the 2012 vote was “the most important election of your lifetime.” “The Most Important Election of Our Lifetimes,” Jon Huntsman noted. “The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime,” then-highest-rated cable news personality in America Bill O’Reilly explained. This is “the most important election since 1860,” Newt Gingrich added.
It seems that “the most important election in the history of the galaxy” is a notion that is mostly, although not exclusively, embraced by those out of power. Take 2008.
“This is certainly the most important election in my lifetime — not just because I’m running,” said an unconvincing Barack Obama (again). “So when people say ‘this is the single most important election in my lifetime,’ they’re exactly right,” explained Biden, who’s in the running for all-time cliché hits leader. This was the “most important election in our lifetimes,” agreed Chris Dodd and Bill Richardson. “I do believe this is the most important election since I was a child,” Caroline Kennedy told us. Then again, Republican Rudy Giuliani also warned that “2008 is the most important election in our lifetime. And we’d better get it right.”
“My fellow Americans, this is the most important election of our lifetime,” John Kerry intoned in 2004. “This is the most important election of our lifetime,” his running mate John Edwards agreed. “This! Is! The most important election of our lives!” exclaimed Rep. John Lewis. “The most important election in their lives,” 74 percent of Americans said in an ABC News poll. Bruce Springsteen agreed.
Then the National Rifle Association’s then-president Charlton Heston described the 2000 George W. Bush vs. Al Gore contest as “the most important election since the Civil War.” House Majority Whip Tom DeLay also thought it was the most important “since the Civil War.” Rush Limbaugh did them one better: “No question about it. This is the most important election in our history.”
Ralph Reed, a powerhouse in conservative politics through the 1990s, believed stopping Bill Clinton in 1996 meant that America was “on the brink of the most important election of our lifetime.” Clinton, on the other hand, explained four years earlier that 1992 was “the most important election in a generation.” Robert C. Byrd, at the time still cheering for Democrats in 1988, said it “may be the most important election of this century.”
Walter Mondale told a crowd in 1984 that his contest was “the most important election of our lives.” Ronald Reagan agreed, saying that Americans were facing the “most important election in this nation in 50 years.” Nancy Reagan, though, who lived through two world wars and a couple of other major conflicts, thought the 1980 election was “the most important election of my life.”
As elections go, 1976 was “one of the most vital in the history of America,” explained Gerald Ford. Both Richard Nixon and John Kennedy believed the 1960 contest was the most important. “I believe, my friends, that we are faced with the most important election in the history of the country,” saidHarry Truman in 1952. New York Republicans thought the race between Calvin Coolidge and John Davis was “most important in the history of this country since the Civil War.”
In the 1888 election between Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland, The New York Times (again) claimed, “The Republic is approaching what is to be one of the most important elections in its history.” In 1856, Illinois Sen. Stephen Douglas declared the nation was facing the most important election since 1800. And maybe he was right.
But this midterm is certainly not the most important election in history, or your lifetime. Unless, that is, you’re two years old.
David Harsanyi is a Senior Editor at The Federalist. He is the author of the new book, First Freedom: A Ride Through America's Enduring History with the Gun, From the Revolution to Today. Follow him on Twitter.
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