Methinks Mindless Mitt Romney an evil old political foe of mine is gonna have a very bad day

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-house-democrat-joe-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-1.4724027

Trump crows as liberal activist ousts top House Democrat in primary

For the Republicans, 2-time presidential candidate Romney takes 1st step towards expected Senate win

The Associated Press · Posted: Jun 27, 2018 2:18 AM ET


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Dave Smith

The democrats made a huge error throwing Bernie under the bus last election.

David Amos

@Dave Smith "The democrats made a huge error throwing Bernie under the bus last election"

Methinks you don't know the Bernie I know N'esy Pas?

Matt Thuaii

@George Foreman

Again, incorrect analysis. Neither party had any choice regarding the candidate that eventually carried the nomination. The Republicans were powerless to stop a populist monster of their own creation, deciding instead to try and tame him (in hindsight, a terrible choice). While the Democrats were powerless to stop a political (and decidedly not populist) monster who used all of her energy and accumulated political capital to engineer a run that was doomed from the start, and instead of fighting it, the base and establishment drank the koolaid (another terrible choice)...

...and here we are.

David Amos

@Matt Thuaii I concur

Nigel Marshall

Romney promised to "continue to speak out when the president says or does something which is divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or destructive to democratic institutions."

He's going to be a very, very busy man.

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David Amos

@Nigel Marshall Methinks Mindless Mitt Romney an evil old political foe of mine is gonna have a very bad day once he reads this comment about this article within Twitter N'esy Pas?

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David Amos

@Nigel Marshall Methinks you would be amazed at what you are not permitted to read N'esy Pas?

David Amos 

@Jim Palmer "You selling your soul to the Devil just to 'get elected' as well, Mitt ? "

Methinks Mean Old Mitt sold his soul to the Devil long before he and I crossed paths in Massachusetts in 2002. That was when he was telling lies about taxes so he could run for Governor where my Clan lives and litigated against the Taxman. Everybody trusts The New York Times N'esy Pas?

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/07/us/massachusetts-candidate-confirms-utah-as-residence.html

"Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for governor, acknowledged today that he filed tax returns in 1999 and 2000 saying he was a part-time resident or nonresident of Massachusetts, while he lived full time in Utah running the Winter Olympics.

The Massachusetts Constitution requires a candidate for governor to have lived in the state for seven consecutive years before running, and Mr. Romney's admission raised new questions about his candidacy. On Wednesday, he acknowledged saving $54,000 in taxes by claiming his multimillion dollar Utah house as his primary residence.

James Roosevelt, the state Democratic Party's lawyer, said at a news conference today that the party was likely to challenge Mr. Romney's residency with the state Ballot Law Commission by the deadline, 5 p.m. on Friday.

At the same time, the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, Shannon O'Brien, the state treasurer, raised a further question about Mr. Romney's residency by pointing out that in April 2000 a leading newspaper in Utah, The Deseret News in Salt Lake City, reported that Mr. Romney had declared his house in the Deer Valley section of Park City to be his primary residence"

 

Wayne Chapman

The Democrats need a complete overhaul if they hope to defeat Trump , Nancy Pelosi is way past her best before date and the rest are too mired in their hatred for Trump .

David Amos

@Wayne Chapman I agree

 
Nick Mcbain

Democrats are surging everywhere in the polls. On track to take back Congress....and fair odds of taking the Senate. A record number of women are also running on Democratic ticket, history will be made.

Gregory James (Political Junkie)

@Nick Mcbain

They will not take the Senate.

The numbers this time around just aren't favorable to them.
9 GOP seats up for election
24 Dems
2 independents ( Dems )

Of the 26 seats not held by GOP 10 of those States voted for Trump in the last election.
Not all of those 10 will go GOP but probably at least 5 will.

Going to have to wait till 2020 to get the Senate. That is when the map swings to the benefit of the Dems.

David Amos

@Gregory James (Political Junkie) I concur

 
Jim Joe Jackson

Anyone else sense that Bernie will still get the nomination taken away a second time around? This is a party beholden to corporate money as much as the other. Anyone challenging that will get marginalized.

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David Amos

@Jim Joe Jackson Methinks Bernie is in like Flynn because he supports the Dems Bigtime N'esy Pas?

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David Amos

@George Foreman Methinks the real George Foreman should stand up because the one I know and admire has done very well in the corporate arena N'esy Pas?

George Foreman

@Jim Joe Jackson MORE beholden to corporate money than the other. Big corporations support globalization. BIG corporations support lowering minimum wages by increasing immigration. Corporations fear a powerful independent middle class or bourgeoisie and would far prefer a dependent welfare state.

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David Amos

@George Foreman Oh My My Methinks CBC likes you N'esy Pas?

 
Maya Tikal

Trump "crowing"? That's what he'll be eating in 2018 and 2020. If he lasts that long. Worst. President. Ever.

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David Amos

@Maya Tikal "Trump "crowing"?"

Methinks you misunderstand the circus the Yankees call Congress. The media and many folks would agree that ringmaster's constant crowing and Tweets make it the greatest show on earth That is what this article is about and why its published in Canada N'esy Pas?

George Foreman

@Maya Tikal Y'all been saying that since 2015! And I am glad you do, it is what makes it all so satisfying when you all dine on crow at his every victory. Big supreme court wins this week! Never getting tired of all this winning!

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David Amos

@George Foreman Methinks you must have read some of my comments before they went went "Poof" It certainly appears that you have been busy burying the rest N'esy Pas?

 
Mike Martin

I think Americans are beginning to realize that whatever the apparent advantages of a two-party system, it doesn't address the broader political differences, especially if those two parties drift towards the extremes of their ideologies.

David Amos

@Mike Martin Methinks the light began to dawn on Marblehead long ago when Jesse Ventura was elected Governor N'esy Pas?

Imagine if Ventura were to run for the Presidential office next time around as an Independent. Now that would be a wonderful circus to watch. In my humble opinion Ventura can debate nearly anyone under the table and especially Trump.

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David Amos

@Mike Martin What you say of the Yankee Electoral College is true but methinks I must be chopped liver in Canada because I always run as an Independent in Canada. Much to my chagrin many Murphys and their cohorts in the media deny that I even exist on the ballots N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276

 

Rob Douglas

LOL. If 45 thinks Crowley lost his primary for "disrespecting the President", just wait until he finds out what Ocasio-Cortez has to say about him when she takes over Crowley's seat in November.

David Amos

@Rob Douglas Methinks she is saying enough already thats why she won the primary N'esy Pas?

George Foreman

@Rob Douglas Bernie Sauders and Trump had more in common than Hillary and Trump. Both wanted to make sure the government was back in control of calling the shots, not the corporate overlords. That's why many Bernie supporters went with Trump when it came down to it or did not vote for Hilary at all. Clinton and Crowley represent coporate control of America and Americans are beginning to reject that.

That is why we now have the likes of Trump and Oscar-Cortez, and I am glad to see both of them.

 

Dwight Williams

I'm no certain why Trump should be celebrating this. To me it indicates that he has succeeded in energizing the people most opposed to his policies. Most democrats are not much different than moderate republicans.

Back when there used to be moderate republicans.

David Amos

@Dwight Williams "I'm no certain why Trump should be celebrating this"

Methinks you are not alone Even Trump is not certain about anything he does Hell he could change his mind about this or any other topic tomorrow History has proven that he has done so many times in the past N'esy Pas?

George Foreman 

@Dwight Williams I could not be happier that we are finally giving the BOOT to these corporate schills you refer to as "moderate democrats and republicans."

I support both Trump and Cortez! Finally the US is putting people in office who will actually speak for the people. They speak from the heart and do not have their speeches prepared and filtered with corporate dollars.

These are politicians who represent Americans and are hated by the DNC and RNC because they can not be controlled. They are showing those parties that the American people are ANGRY and will not continue to have their voices ignored in favor of corporate donations.

Trump and Cortez have far more in common than these "moderate" old guard republicans and democrats. They put the American people first.

David Amos

@George Foreman "I could not be happier that we are finally giving the BOOT to these corporate schills you refer to as "moderate democrats and republicans."

Methinks the CBC should uphold its own rules If you cannot prove that is your true name then you should get the boot too N'esy Pas?

 
Brian Robertson

The Democrats are now suffering from the radicalism they have promoted over the last two years.

They have a tiger by the tail and they dare not let go.

All this is boding very well for Republicans this fall.

David Amos

@Brian Robertson "All this is boding very well for Republicans this fall."

True

Trump crows as liberal activist ousts top House Democrat in primary

For the Republicans, 2-time presidential candidate Romney takes 1st step towards expected Senate win

The Associated Press · Posted: Jun 27, 2018 2:18 AM ET

U.S. congressional primaries cause changes in both parties

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Longtime NY Democrat trounced by newcomer, and a familiar face chosen in Utah 0:43

As Donald Trump's party came together, a 28-year-old liberal activist ousted top House Democrat Joe Crowley in the president's hometown Tuesday night, a stunning defeat that suddenly forced Democrats to confront their own internal divisions.

Crowley, the No. 4 House Democrat and until Tuesday considered a possible candidate to replace Nancy Pelosi as leader, becomes the first Democratic incumbent to fall this primary season. He was beaten by underfunded challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a former Bernie Sanders organizer who caught fire with the party's left wing.

Crowley's loss echoed across the political world, sending the unmistakable message that divisions between the Democratic Party's pragmatic and more liberal wings may be widening heading into the high-stakes November midterm elections. It also exposed a generational divide among Democrats still struggling with their identity in the Trump era.

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"The community is ready for a movement of economic and social justice. That is what we tried to deliver," Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with The Associated Press. Born in the Bronx to a mother from Puerto Rico and a father who died in 2008, she said she knew she could connect with the district, which includes Queens and part of the Bronx.

"I live in this community. I organized in this community. I felt the absence of the incumbent. I knew he didn't have a strong presence."

Trump, on social media at least, seemed equally excited about Crowley's defeat.

"Perhaps he should have been nicer, and more respectful, to his President!" Trump tweeted, oddly taking credit for a victory by a candidate more liberal than Crowley. He added: "The Democrats are in Turmoil!"

All in all, Trump had reason to celebrate Tuesday night as all three of his endorsed candidates survived primary challenges that could have embarrassed him and the party.

Those included New York Rep. Dan Donovan, who defeated convicted felon Michael Grimm in New York City's only Republican stronghold, and former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who once branded Trump "a fraud" but has warmed to the president in the past two years.
Yet none of the day's contests mattered more to Trump than the one in South Carolina.

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Gov. Henry McMaster, one of the president's earliest and strongest supporters, survived an unusually tough challenge from a political newcomer, self-made Republican millionaire John Warren.

The White House went all-in for the governor in recent days, dispatching the president and the vice president to the state in an effort to prevent a political debacle.

President Donald Trump made a late push for Gov. Henry McMaster in South Carolina, speaking at a rally on Monday night in West Columbia. McMaster won his primary, and is a favourite in his red state to win in November. (Richard Shiro/Associated Press)

Trump's party did just that on Tuesday, though the president has a mixed track record when weighing in on party primaries: His preferred candidates have suffered stinging losses in Alabama and western Pennsylvania in recent months.

With the November general election a little more than four months away, more than half the states had selected their candidates after the day's final votes were counted across South Carolina, New York, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Maryland, Colorado and Utah.

History suggests that Trump's Republican Party, like the parties of virtually every first-term president dating back to Ronald Reagan in 1982, will suffer losses this fall.

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Yet Crowley's loss suggests that Democrats must overcome intraparty divisions if they hope to take control of Congress and key governors' offices nationwide.

In New York, Ocasio-Cortez cast Crowley as an elitist out of touch with the community.

"This race is about people versus money. We've got people, they've got money," Ocasio-Cortez said in biographical web ad that followed her through mundane New York life, dressing for work, walking, changing into high heels on the subway platform. "Women like me aren't supposed to run for office."

Trump buoyed by Romney candidacy

Trump got more good news elsewhere in New York City as Grimm failed in his political comeback attempt at the hands of the Trump-backed incumbent Donovan.

Grimm had held the Staten Island seat until 2015, when he pleaded guilty to knowingly hiring immigrants who were in the country illegally to work at his Manhattan restaurant and cooking the books to hide income and evade taxes.

Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney holds his grandson Dane Romney, 2, while he waves after addressing supporters at his campaign headquarters during a primary election night party on Tuesday in Orem, Utah. (Rick Bowmer/Associated Press)

More than 3,200 kilometres away in deep-red Utah, former Massachusetts Gov. Romney defeated little-known state Rep. Mike Kennedy, who questioned Romney's conservative credentials and ability to work well with the president. Romney, too, was endorsed by Trump after the pending retirement of Orrin Hatch despite his aggressive criticism of the president before his election.

In a weekend op-ed published in The Salt Lake Tribune, Romney wrote that the Trump administration's policies have exceeded his expectations, but he pledged to "continue to speak out when the president says or does something which is divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or destructive to democratic institutions."

Trump cheered Romney's win on social media: "I look forward to working together - there is so much good to do. A great and loving family will be coming to D.C."

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Romney is contending for one of two handfuls of Senate seats that the Republicans hold and that are up for grabs in November. Some 26 seats that will be contested are held by Democrats or independents who caucus with the Democrats, including several in which Trump carried the presidential vote.

That will make a majority difficult to achieve for the Democrats, who currently hold 49 of 100 seats in the legislative body.

Polis, Jealous could make history

There were also races Tuesday to determine gubernatorial candidates in Maryland, Colorado and Oklahoma.

In Maryland, former NAACP President Ben Jealous seized the Democratic governor's nomination. He would become the state's first African-American governor if he beats Republican incumbent Gov. Larry Hogan this fall.

In Colorado, five-term Democratic congressman Jared Polis won the Democratic nomination in the race to replace outgoing Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper. Polis could become the first openly gay gubernatorial candidate to be voted into office.

And in Oklahoma, former state Attorney General Drew Edmondson beat former state Sen. Connie Johnson to win the Democratic nomination in the race to be the state's next governor.

Jared Polis waves to the crowd before accepting the Democratic nomination for the governor's race at an election night rally on Tuesday in Broomfield, Colo. Polis could become the first openly gay candidate to win a gubernatorial election. (Jack Dempsey/Associated Press)

Oklahoma voters also backed the medicinal use of marijuana despite opposition from law enforcement and business, faith and political leaders.

But Crowley's defeat overshadowed much of the day's developments.

He becomes the first congressional leader to fall in a party primary since former Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was stunned by unknown conservative Dave Brat in 2014's midterm election.

That loss, and perhaps this one, cemented the GOP's sharp shift away from the political center and foreshadowed the anti-establishment fervour that fuelled Trump's election in 2016.

And while Trump cheered Crowley's downfall, so did liberal leaders who backed Ocasio-Cortez.

"These results are also a shot across the bow of the Democratic establishment in Washington: a young, diverse, and boldly progressive Resistance Movement isn't waiting to be anointed by the powers that be," said Matt Blizek, of MoveOn.

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