(07-23-2018, 08:30 AM)FBT Wrote:

(07-22-2018, 12:22 PM)mikesez Wrote: Hey guys maybe now is a good time to point out that she only won a couple thousand votes in her District but it was enough to win the primary.
now the general election ballot will say that she represents the Democratic party even though most Democrats today are not comfortable with her.
She even "won" a neighboring district... with write in votes! Bottom of the cellar turnout rates in primary elections causes this.  
This is why we need top two primaries... Or anything else, besides what we have now.

Who cares how she won?  The fact that she won immediately catapulted her into star status among your buddies on the left.  They were tripping over themselves trying to catch lightning in a bottle, and then she opened her mouth and offered up not just blatant ignorance, but almost a sense of pride in how little she actually knows.  But, she checks off the boxes for identity politics that libs base their entire world view on, so they'll back her.  They don't have a choice now.

While I have plenty of left wing friends, I'm not a liberal myself.  Believe it or not, it is possible to be friendly with people you disagree with.  I'm proud of this.  You should try it sometime.
As for getting catapulted into star status, initially it looked like a "David beats Goliath" story.  She knocked on doors herself, and defeated a longtime incumbent.  It's the kind of feel good story that catapults folks from left and right to stardom.  Remember David Brat?  Same thing.  
As for the Democratic Party, "They don't have a choice" because by New York State law her name will appear on hundreds of thousands of ballots with the word "democrat" next to it.  any attempt to disown her because she's saying bad stuff now would be futile.
This is similar to, but smaller than, the problem Republicans had in 2016 and still have today with Trump.

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