The emptiness at the heart of Republicans’ midterm campaign

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As for the broader GOP platform, McConnell said that it “will be focused on exactly what you and I have been talking about, crime, education, beefing up the defense of our country.” Right away, there are glaring absences: nothing about the economy, abortion, taxes or inflation (which McConnell criticized Biden for, without offering any solutions).

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GOP: We believe the violent insurrection on Jan 6 was a peaceful demonstration of free speech.
 
BidenPresident said:
As for the broader GOP platform, McConnell said that it “will be focused on exactly what you and I have been talking about, crime, education, beefing up the defense of our country.” Right away, there are glaring absences: nothing about the economy, abortion, taxes or inflation (which McConnell criticized Biden for, without offering any solutions).

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GOP: We believe the violent insurrection on Jan 6 was a peaceful demonstration of free speech.
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It has been a while since I have seen a major Republican who can talk for more than a minute or two about anything real. Tweeting is about as far as they go. They lack gravitas.
 
Walt said:
It has been a while since I have seen a major Republican who can talk for more than a minute or two about anything real. Tweeting is about as far as they go. They lack gravitas.
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McConnell said if he wins the Senate, he'll tell you what he's for. Yeah, power.
 
BidenPresident said:
As for the broader GOP platform, McConnell said that it “will be focused on exactly what you and I have been talking about, crime, education, beefing up the defense of our country.” Right away, there are glaring absences: nothing about the economy, abortion, taxes or inflation (which McConnell criticized Biden for, without offering any solutions).

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GOP: We believe the violent insurrection on Jan 6 was a peaceful demonstration of free speech.
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Here in Arizona the issues I see the Republican candidates pushing are:

1. The border. This is really common.
2. The economy and gas prices.
3. Biden as a politician

The Democrats are either not running ads yet, or they're running ones that in essence say, "I'm not really a Democrat!"
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Here in Arizona the issues I see the Republican candidates pushing are:

1. The border. This is really common.
2. The economy and gas prices.
3. Biden as a politician

The Democrats are either not running ads yet, or they're running ones that in essence say, "I'm not really a Democrat!"
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1. Most Americans don't care about the border and immigration. It is pure a right wing issue.
2. Funny how capitalism does not matter when a Democrat is in office.
2. Biden is not a fascist. I can see why that bothers the GOP.
 
BidenPresident said:
As for the broader GOP platform, McConnell said that it “will be focused on exactly what you and I have been talking about, crime, education, beefing up the defense of our country.” Right away, there are glaring absences: nothing about the economy, abortion, taxes or inflation (which McConnell criticized Biden for, without offering any solutions).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/10/emptiness-heart-republicans-midterm-campaign/

GOP: We believe the violent insurrection on Jan 6 was a peaceful demonstration of free speech.
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As a result of four hellish years with tRump and his repukes on a rampage against humanity; their attempt to disgrace America at desecrating another election in the tRump devil's favor at this point seditious repukes can consider themselves void of a soul while they whore it up and live it up on the taxpayer dime.
 
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Guille said:
Gotta admit, they do lack.
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Politicians used to be able to give 2 hour policy speeches. They might throw in a pithy line that was quoted by in the history books, but it was part of a longer policy speech. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was often said to be the shortest significant speech ever, being only 271 words long. These days many politicians can not even write a full tweet of 140 characters(about 20 standard size words), or less than one tenth what was considered the shortest meaningful speech possible.

There are some Republicans who can still speak on a subject, but there are vanishingly few. Democrats are headed on the same path, but are not as far along it as Republicans. It is destroying America.
 
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1. Most Americans don't care about the border and immigration. It is pure a right wing issue.
2. Funny how capitalism does not matter when a Democrat is in office.
2. Biden is not a fascist. I can see why that bothers the GOP.
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They do in states like Arizona and Texas. And, as an issue people overwhelmingly disapprove of Biden's handling of immigration:

A majority of likely midterm voters — 66 percent — disapprove of President Joe Biden’s handling of immigration issues, according to a new survey conducted by a Democratic firm that has acted as Biden’s chief political pollster.
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It's one more nail in the coffin come November...

Capitalism does matter regardless of who's in office. The difference right now is that Biden is pushing Statist Capitalism, a variant of Socialism where the government dictates to private business what they can and can't do in detail.

Biden is something of a fascist. That bothers most people a lot. Mask and vaccine mandates, gun control mandates, pushing for increased government control of everything, skewing markets with Statist Capitalism... Yep, fascist.
 
Walt said:
Politicians used to be able to give 2 hour policy speeches. They might throw in a pithy line that was quoted by in the history books, but it was part of a longer policy speech. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was often said to be the shortest significant speech ever, being only 271 words long. These days many politicians can not even write a full tweet of 140 characters(about 20 standard size words), or less than one tenth what was considered the shortest meaningful speech possible.

There are some Republicans who can still speak on a subject, but there are vanishingly few. Democrats are headed on the same path, but are not as far along it as Republicans. It is destroying America.
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Disagree. Democrats were the trailblazers on the tweet trail. I don't care anyway because I think they're both on the same team.
 
Walt said:
Politicians used to be able to give 2 hour policy speeches. They might throw in a pithy line that was quoted by in the history books, but it was part of a longer policy speech. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was often said to be the shortest significant speech ever, being only 271 words long. These days many politicians can not even write a full tweet of 140 characters(about 20 standard size words), or less than one tenth what was considered the shortest meaningful speech possible.

There are some Republicans who can still speak on a subject, but there are vanishingly few. Democrats are headed on the same path, but are not as far along it as Republicans. It is destroying America.
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trump spent 2 minutes chanting "I like Ike" back in the 2016 election, because he could not think of anything else to say. It was bizarre.
 
Guille said:
Disagree. Democrats were the trailblazers on the tweet trail. I don't care anyway because I think they're both on the same team.
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Reagan started us on shorter speeches. Bush senior had to be told repeatedly in debates he had more time. It really did start with Republicans. Meanwhile Mondale and Dukakis could both have done far better if they had been just a little more brief. No one wants to hear a four hour policy speech.
 
Walt said:
Reagan started us on shorter speeches. Bush senior had to be told repeatedly in debates he had more time. It really did start with Republicans. Meanwhile Mondale and Dukakis could both have done far better if they had been just a little more brief. No one wants to hear a four hour policy speech.
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Stop. When Reagan was President we were 25 years away from twitter.
 
Walt said:
Reagan started us on shorter speeches. Bush senior had to be told repeatedly in debates he had more time. It really did start with Republicans. Meanwhile Mondale and Dukakis could both have done far better if they had been just a little more brief. No one wants to hear a four hour policy speech.
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Trump: "I have the best words...." What a fucking moron.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
I see the Republican candidates pushing are: 1. The border. This is really common.
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How does one push the border? Isn't that what Putin is doing? Pushing a border back from where it was? Just kidding.

Seriously, Republicans are demanding we completely closing the southern border, and completely opening the northern border. There is no moderation, or even consistency.

T. A. Gardner said:
2. The economy and gas prices.
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The economy is recovering from the trump years. What still strikes me is the cash collapses of 2019. We have never seen anything like that. Gasoline prices are a product of falling investment, and Putin's war. Investment fell because trump had the biggest market failure in centuries, and Republicans are dangerously close to treason in their support of Putin.

T. A. Gardner said:
3. Biden as a politician
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A politician is a person who tries to gain office through political means... What tactics will Republicans use?
 
Guille said:
Stop. When Reagan was President we were 25 years away from twitter.
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What part of "started us on" don't you understand? Reagan started us on the course of politicians making shorter statements, and now we have politicians who cannot even fill a tweet with ideas.
 
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Trump: "I have the best words...." What a fucking moron.
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"trump is a poor man's image of a rich man, a weak man's image of a strong man, and a dumb man's image of a smart man." Or something like that. I should look up the quote to get it right, but it is so true.

I have known real rich people, and they do not gold plate everything. They may get nicer things, but not gaudy things for the sake of being gaudy. They often like underplaying their wealth, not exaggerating it.
 
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