(03-27-2019, 09:33 AM)TJBender Wrote:

(03-27-2019, 07:09 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Yes, yes yes.  

From my perspective, I don't mind McConnell putting the thing up for a vote.   It exposed the whole proposal as a big political stunt and total bull [BLEEP].  

But, from the Republican party's political perspective it might have been smarter not to put it up for a vote.  He could have just left it out there like a stinking turd.

Nah. Republicans fear AOC. I still don't understand why. She's a one-termer who's going to be kicked to the curb in 2020 for having views that are too damn radical for mainstream Americans to stomach, but anything that helps get her out of the way of sanity and centrist reemergence is something I can get behind. Exposing her Green New Deal as something that even the "progressive" wing of the Democratic Party won't vote for is definitely a black eye.

Her ideas would be eaten up by 16 year olds who have never earned a paycheck. The same 16 year olds they want to be able to vote.

There is plenty to fear. You just don't know it yet.

Tucker interviewed the 1 republican who voted to allow 16 year olds to vote last night and his main selling point was that they don't automatically have to be democrats. Republicans need to do their jobs to recruit them. That is simply impossible at that age, unless they were raised by good parents.

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