jimnyc
09-01-2019, 10:35 AM
Pressley doesn't bother me much. She doesn't seem to be an attention whore, in the news or social media non-stop with retarded comments. But the other 3? Seeing them go already would be a joy, and justice IMO.
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Republicans Looking to Target 'The Squad' in Campaign Ads
For more than a decade, Republicans made Speaker Nancy Pelosi the poster child for Democratic Party looniness. The San Francisco liberal was a perfect foil for GOP attack ads during campaigns.
But times change, and when opportunity presents itself, good politicians pounce.
The four House members who make up "The Squad" — Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley, (D-Mass.) — have been given as a gift by the political gods, to ease the way for Republican candidates in swing districts. They have taken extremism to the next level...and beyond. As one ripe example, AOC recently tweeted that Republicans have an inordinate fear of socialism.
The “old-fashioned red-baiting approach, familiar to those of us who lived through the Cold War, doesn’t seem to be working.”
Drumming fear around socialism is the GOP’s big play, & it’s failing, bc capitalism = GoFundMe as our national healthcare system. https://t.co/IOrDu1VYe0
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 29, 2019
I dunno. Anyone check to see how Venezuela, North Korea, and Cuba are doing lately? Nothing to fear from socialism. Nothing at all.
It's that sort of looniness that normal people in Middle America find incomprehensible. It certainly makes The Squad sitting ducks.
Associated Press:
Yet it remains to be seen whether this line of attack will work. For years, Republicans relied on attacks depicting Pelosi, the House speaker, as an out-of-touch San Francisco liberal as they tried to snap GOP voters to attention.
But singling out a new generation of female leaders is risky when Republicans are trying to prevent an exodus of suburban women and independent voters.
The attacks are especially fraught because two of the women — Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. — are the first Muslim women elected to Congress, part of the historic freshmen class with more women and minorities than ever. The other two members of the self-described squad are Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.
Rest - https://pjmedia.com/trending/republicans-looking-to-target-the-squad-in-campaign-ads/
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Republicans Looking to Target 'The Squad' in Campaign Ads
For more than a decade, Republicans made Speaker Nancy Pelosi the poster child for Democratic Party looniness. The San Francisco liberal was a perfect foil for GOP attack ads during campaigns.
But times change, and when opportunity presents itself, good politicians pounce.
The four House members who make up "The Squad" — Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley, (D-Mass.) — have been given as a gift by the political gods, to ease the way for Republican candidates in swing districts. They have taken extremism to the next level...and beyond. As one ripe example, AOC recently tweeted that Republicans have an inordinate fear of socialism.
The “old-fashioned red-baiting approach, familiar to those of us who lived through the Cold War, doesn’t seem to be working.”
Drumming fear around socialism is the GOP’s big play, & it’s failing, bc capitalism = GoFundMe as our national healthcare system. https://t.co/IOrDu1VYe0
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 29, 2019
I dunno. Anyone check to see how Venezuela, North Korea, and Cuba are doing lately? Nothing to fear from socialism. Nothing at all.
It's that sort of looniness that normal people in Middle America find incomprehensible. It certainly makes The Squad sitting ducks.
Associated Press:
Yet it remains to be seen whether this line of attack will work. For years, Republicans relied on attacks depicting Pelosi, the House speaker, as an out-of-touch San Francisco liberal as they tried to snap GOP voters to attention.
But singling out a new generation of female leaders is risky when Republicans are trying to prevent an exodus of suburban women and independent voters.
The attacks are especially fraught because two of the women — Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. — are the first Muslim women elected to Congress, part of the historic freshmen class with more women and minorities than ever. The other two members of the self-described squad are Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.
Rest - https://pjmedia.com/trending/republicans-looking-to-target-the-squad-in-campaign-ads/