I Don’t Love Kirsten Gillibrand, and Here’s Why
Take a look at this New York Times puff piece on their state’s shape-shifting, Wall Street-friendly, Jesus-humping junior senator taking her presidential campaign to Iowa.
Ms. Gillibrand put emphasis on her upstate New York roots, bipartisanship and small-town political ancestry.
So her angle is that she’s not really a Democrat.
Unlike Senator Elizabeth Warren, another Democratic contender, who has mostly avoided mentioning Mr. Trump on the campaign trail, Ms. Gillibrand offered plenty of direct attacks on the president, saying he had brought a “darkness” on the nation, using words like “heartless,” “immoral,” “inhumane” and “beyond disgraceful,” and citing his “racist message.”
Analysis has shown that Democrats who won in the midterms did so by avoiding talking about Trump.
But almost as often as she mentioned her voting record against Mr. Trump’s agenda or appointments, Ms. Gillibrand cited her across-the-aisle work with Republicans, including how she bonded with Senator Joni Ernst, an Iowa Republican, at Bible study, and name-dropping her alliance with Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican reviled by many Democrats, in her legislative battles on sexual assault in the military. “I really believe that I can bring this country together,” she said.
Is that the future you want for our country? One in which a supposed Democrat goes to Bible study and is eager to work with Republians? Yeah, me neither.
I’ve driven through the area she’s from dozens of times – east of Troy near the Vermont border. I think of it as the Rustic Belt. Its not that industry came and left, it never came to begin with. Old farms with barns about to collapse, abandoned old houses with abandoned old cars sitting in the driveway. If it had been closer to a metropolitan area there would be housing developments and strip malls. “A good place to be from” as the saying goes.
She will appeal to many in Trump’s base (monied elites and rural poor). If Trump was much more popular than he is, she might be the best bet to beat him. As it stands I think we can do better.
Nope, no love here either, and not a whole lot of respect either. As noted she’s not a real Dem having sounded all the DINO horns available. Hope she drops out quickly, perhaps after a humiliating defeat or two.
I have no problem with Democrats studying the Bible – as long as their Bible study class doesn’t serve as a madrassah for racist politics, crackpot social theories, and misreading of the Constitution.
“Ms. Gillibrand cited her across-the-aisle work with Republicans, including how she bonded with Senator Joni Ernst, an Iowa Republican, at Bible study, and name-dropping her alliance with Senator Ted Cruz,”
Like Chris Coons but with a penis where he has a vagina.
Keep pushing the Overton window until “working across the aisle” becomes a liability for Democrats.