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XPost: alt.politics.usa.republican, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc From: leroysoetoro@bho-rejected.com

http://nation.foxnews.com/2017/08/18/democrats-search-another-lost-cause

To arms! The Confederates are coming! The Confederates are coming!

Union scouts have already discovered Robert E. Lee at the gates of the
city, lining up the gallant Pelham’s artillery to fire the opening round,
and Stonewall Jackson and Jeb Stuart are expected to arrive on a night
train from the Shenandoah Valley.

Not since First Manassas, when the Yankees fled the battlefield in blind
panic, after taking a licking in the first battle of the Cruel War of
Northern Aggression, has the Capital quailed in such fear and trembling.

This time it’s only an army of marble, but marble men are apparently
enough against a foe of the weak and the weary of combat. Cities, counties
and states across the nation have been taking down Southern statuary for
days — brave Baltimore waited for the cover of night to do the deed — all
in hopes of being spared the wrath of the regiments of bronze and marble regiments. Californians scoured graveyards for evidence of insurrection
and finally found something in Hollywood, of all places.

These were the graves of dead Confederates exiled from formerly
Confederate states from Virginia to Texas who repaired to the balm of mild
and gentle California to live out their final days, only to die forgotten
in an alien land. The searchers found a plaque, overgrown with moss and
soil, identifying those who sleep there. The plaque, though not a trophy
as valuable as statuary of Lee or Jackson, was nevertheless removed as a
prize of combat with the dead. The Los Angeles Times reports that “the
bodies will not be disinterred.” Well, not now, anyway. Maybe next week,
when the remains can be properly flogged and assigned to the city dump.

Back among the living, you might think the Democrats would be in Hog
Heaven, intoxicated with the prospect of slaying Donald Trump at last. Metaphorically speaking, of course. (We think.) But months of malaise —
the French call it “ennui,” or lassitude for lack of excitement — have
made havoc of Democratic fundraising.

Even with the prospect of a riveting candidate for 2020, someone like
Elizabeth Warren, Maxine Waters, Bernie Sanders or even Hillary retrieved
from the mothballs for a third try, Democratic fundraisers report that Democratic donors are exhausted. Throwing good money after bad, even in
pursuit of Donald Trump, is not ringing bells and blowing whistles where
big money dwells. The targets for next year’s congressional races look
more inviting, but apparently only in Washington and other haunts of
campaign consultants.

The raw numbers are enough to alarm Pollyanna and her friends. The
Democratic National Committee raised $38 million in the first half of this year, and while that sounds like a lot, the Republicans raised almost
twice that, with $75 million. At the end of June, the debt-free
Republicans had $45 million in the bank; the Democrats have only $7
million in the bank and $3 million in debt. “We really should be kicking
them in the [hindquarters],” a glum Democratic donor tells the Capitol
Hill political daily The Hill.

If the Republicans are embarrassed by the stumbling Republicans in
Congress and Donald Trump’s continuing struggle with foot-in-mouth
disease, the Democrats can only mimic the misery of Casey Stengel as he
managed the New York Mets through their inaugural year when they couldn’t
win for losing, often by boxcar numbers: “Can’t anybody play this game?”

By the numbers on the money, apparently not, though the fundraising
numbers don’t tell the whole story. Mitch McConnell can’t seem to find a
way to keep his senators marching in cadence to the music, enabling John McCain, who dreams of becoming the pet Republican of the mainstream media again, and a couple of others from co-operating with the Democrats in
recycling Harry Truman’s famous campaign label, “the do-nothing Congress,”
and affixing it firmly to the party that once nominated Mr. McCain for president.

President Trump has become a Republican pinata, inviting everyone to take
a whack. But he continues to draw crowds and money, both big money and
small money. His approval ratings hover just below 40 percent, but it’s
the most faithful 40 percent anywhere.

He collected $10 million for his re-election at a fund-raiser at his hotel
in Washington this summer, and the Republican National Committee continues
to outraise the Democrats among small-dollar donors — under $200 — and by
a big margin.

The Democrats, with big help from not only the media but establishment Republicans who just can’t get over November, are counting now on backlash
over Charlottesville to do what Robert Mueller was only yesterday counted
on to do.

But killing dead Confederates won’t do it, either. Democrats tempted to
fight a Lost Cause of their own should find romance somewhere else. Bernie Sanders or Pocahontas on a bronze horse won’t thrill anyone.


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Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party has run out of gas.

Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for ending the disaster of the Obama presidency.

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.

ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its supporters can dispute that.

Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.

Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.

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