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Winners and Sore Losers
From Michael P. Ramirez:
A huge reason why Trump prevailed is because so many simply stopped trusting Media coverage. Although it may be short-lived, I’m enjoying a political phase where ideas seem to be worth more than millions of dollars. It’s also been amazing to have my friends and family call to talk about hearing Trump’s actual speeches, rather than just discuss the coverage. Are more Americans shaking off the pretty words of the Obama years and realizing that the only hope and change that counts is a better job and a plan for the future?
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I think an equally important reason for Handel’s victory is her campaign’s effort to saddle Osoff with la Pelosi and turn the Hollywood elite into carpetbagging trash.
I was working at Lockheed-Georgia back when a vice president came in to announce to the engineers that the engineering functions were going to be relocated to Southern California. He asked the assembled how many of them were looking forward to moving to sunny California. Not a hand in front of me went up, and I was seated near the back. The Hollywood set have as much right to express their opinions as anyone else does, but they might want to consider in the future that their persuasiveness might not be all that they think it is.
I’m beginning to think that it’s actually possible that people may be shifting their perspective on the media. The over-the-top responses of newspaper, internet and TV reporting may cause people to wonder if these people are credible (or if they’re really insane). It will be interesting to watch whether the shift is apparent to the rest of us, or not.
We’re ecstatic about the wins in Georgia, and here in South Carolina. I don’t know why anyone these days would ever believe election polls . . .
The collection of the Dems excuses at The Federalist was also hilarious. “The weather!! No, wait, the Russians! No, wait, the Russians controlled the weather!”
My wife had no prior interest in politics, but now she goes on YouTube to listen to Trump’s speeches. She’s eager to discuss them, and, frankly, more up on what he’s saying than me, the supposed political junkie. Here’s a recent example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGM_dXFS59o
Who doesn’t want to tune into that? And how likely would it make the evening news, particularly on the day Comey testified?
I’m with KellyAnne … laughing my Ossoff.
I mean, it’s eventually going to happen. And who knows what’ll happen in 2018. Dems probably have even odds to take back the House. They’re going to be the ones who are motivated and a lot of those races won’t be GOP gimmies like these closer-than-they-should-have-been races were.
What needs to happen, IMO, is for all those outlets not in the tank for the Democrats to cover, repeatedly and loudly, all the various ways in which the Trump administration, despite all headwinds from the Dems, establishment media (but I repeat myself) and loony groups out there in the “Resistance” (the name itself an insult to the brave WWII French Resistance against actual violence and political terror), is putting in place policies and practices that will enhance productivity and employment, and in general MAGA; as well as improving our foreign policy stance of peace through strength, with an embrace of and support for our allies and a stand firm against our adversaries.
I say this because, despite the crapola in the news every day, I firmly believe the vast majority of people in this blessed land want exactly these kinds of policies and positions, and do not give a rip what the media, Hollyweird, activists, and all the other blossoms in the wacko Democrats’ garden may say.
Above and beyond media bias the Dem’s come off as frightening creatures. Can you believe the hecklers cheering the shooting of Steve Scalese at Trumps Iowa speech? Really, you kinda want to distance yourself from that crowd.
But the Dems scored 4 Moral Victories!
As a political junkie, I’m aware that most Americans don’t care. The screaming has turned them off, and they are mostly in a “pox on both your houses” mode.
Maybe they do see the press as one sided. Maybe they do see the left as meaner than the right. But I’m not holding my breath.
The above comment is hilarious – so are the cartoons Melissa! Interesting times….
They’re going to keep on predicting the “sea change election” until a Democrat finally wins – and all of these will be relegated to the memory hole.
Natch!