Willie Brown: Closet Republican?
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Willie Brown of course is a famous Democrat, but for years he has had a thing about powerful Republicans. Sarah Palin is "brilliant" and Michele Bachman got a shout-out.
In yesterday's Chronicle, he praised Donald Trump:
No matter what you think of Trump’s message, his delivery was impressive. He stayed on script and kept referring to everyday heroes in the gallery, thus forcing the Democrats to stand and cheer. It was populist theater, where presence and impression trump content. And the overnight polling after the speech showed that once again, he connected with voters, at least enough voters to make him a 2020 favorite (Democrats have a 2020 problem: Trump is good at elections).
Trump actually lost the popular vote, since Hillary got 2,864,974 more votes than he did. Only our Founding Fathers' 18th Century construct---the electoral college---allowed that jerk to become president.
Has Willie become a closet Republican in his old age?
In yesterday's Chronicle, he praised Donald Trump:
No matter what you think of Trump’s message, his delivery was impressive. He stayed on script and kept referring to everyday heroes in the gallery, thus forcing the Democrats to stand and cheer. It was populist theater, where presence and impression trump content. And the overnight polling after the speech showed that once again, he connected with voters, at least enough voters to make him a 2020 favorite (Democrats have a 2020 problem: Trump is good at elections).
Trump actually lost the popular vote, since Hillary got 2,864,974 more votes than he did. Only our Founding Fathers' 18th Century construct---the electoral college---allowed that jerk to become president.
Has Willie become a closet Republican in his old age?
More:
Make no mistake, President Trump’s State of the Union address was the kickoff for his 2020 re-election campaign, and so far I’ve yet to see a Democrat who can beat him.
In reality Trump's approval rating has been permanently mired at 40% with his disapproval rate at 55%! It's pointless to speculate about 2020 this early, but any one of the Democrats announced so far can beat Trump.
The bad news for Trump will continue this year, since the Mueller report will surely verify all the worst fears Republicans themselves have about their unhinged leader. Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
Two prominent conservatives in yesterday's NY Times:
Republicans lost significant ground[in the midterm elections] among everyone except Mr. Trump’s core base of rural, evangelical and “non-college” supporters (and even among them, the Republican margin shrank a bit). This happened with unemployment lower than at any time since 1969 and with Republican turnout at its highest level in a century. Mr. Trump’s hard-core base is large enough to dominate the Republican Party, at least for now, but it is not large enough to dominate the country. In the long run, a third or so of the country cannot effectively govern the other two-thirds with an unpopular agenda and a Twitter account.
The base for Trump and the Republican Party: racists, religious crackpots, and the uneducated.
See also Trump allies fret as legal troubles multiply.
Labels: Democratic Party, Racism, SF Chronicle, The Repugnant Party, Trump, Willie Brown
posted by Rob Anderson @ 12:18 PM
4 comments
4 Comments:
"Trump actually lost the popular vote"
Yeah so did Bill Clinton. Any loss for a democrat they yell cheating lying and stealing. The cry about it and then want to sue everybody. It happens every election presidential and non-presidential.
The whole "racist" shit is getting old. What now the democrat gov of Virginia is actually an undercover republican? The James Bond of politics?
Electorial college is fine. Typical complaining democrat after a loss. The problem is that the cornballs California and New York truly believe their way is what the majority of the country wants. Stuck in their own childish bubble. A bunch of cry baby pussies.
The only democrat that actually had some balls was Bill Clinton hands down. On the republican side I'd have to say Reagan. But Bill was a champ. During his years democrat party was solid. Today democrats keep tripping over which fairytale to tell.
Not sure why Willie Brown would be a closet republican. He will never move to that side. He's blue to the bone. The guy was being honest and objective. Is honesty and objective anti-democratic party these days?
Wrong! Bill Clinton won the popular vote in both 1992 and 1996, as did Al Gore in 2000. The point is whoever gets the most votes should be elected. The Electoral College is"fine" when it makes the loser the winner?
"Wrong!" ?? Yes you are.
1992 Bill Clinton got 44,909,889 votes.
58,848,366 did not vote for him. That's not the popular vote which essentially means the majority of votes.
But in 1996 yes he did get the popular vote by 130-140k votes. Not in 1992. In 1992 democrats including yourself loved the electorial college.
Al gore in 2000 is when thesolid democrats began to decline and cry. It's when the first realized they could just cry and sue when losing an election.
That said you and I are in the same page on George W Bush being a jackass president.
You're indulging in semantic bullshit. Clinton got more votes than Bush in 1992, which is the point. The candidate that gets the most votes should be the winner. Agreed?
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