Day: September 8, 2023

Nikki Haley Is The Best

Before I go any further let me say that I do not support Haley in any way….I had sooner vote for my dog for president.

With that said we have an election coming soon to a polling station near you and it will be some GOPer against Biden and that should be the biggest boring election we have ever had even though it is important.

A recent poll by CNN has shown some interesting turns….

A new CNN poll has some bad but familiar news for President Biden: Most Democrats would prefer a different nominee because of his age. The poll found that 67% of Democrats or Democratic-leaning voters say they wish the party would nominate someone else. Among these voters, the concern most often mentioned directly was age (49%), along with mental acuity (7%) and health (7%). Another interesting nugget came when Biden was matched up against the top GOP nominees in hypothetical one-on-one races. In this scenario—in which voters of both parties were questioned—only one Republican defeated him by an amount beyond the margin of error of 3.5 percentage points: Nikki Haley, not Donald Trump.

  • Haley 49%, Biden 43%
  • Trump 47%, Biden 46%
  • Mike Pence 46%, Biden 44%
  • Ron DeSantis 47%, Biden 47%
  • Tim Scott 46%, Biden 44%
  • Chris Christie 44%, Biden 42%
  • Vivek Ramaswamy was the only top candidate to lose to Biden, by a margin of 46% to 45%

Then there is the way voters feel about Biden….according to the CNN poll….

President Joe Biden faces continued headwinds from broadly negative job ratings overall, widespread concerns about his age and decreased confidence among Democratic-aligned voters, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/cnn-poll-joe-biden-headwinds/index.html

I know it is early and many things can change between now and election day…….I just wanted to show that Trump may not have a death grip after all….but like I say it is too early in the process to crown a winner.

She could be a viable choice has she not snuggled up to trump and his administration.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

I Hate The Word ‘Progressive’

Let me explain.

I hate it when a politician or for that matter the media use the word to describe a democrat.

There is nothing progressive about the Dems….the closest there is is Bernie and the ‘Squad’ but they are a mere reflection of true progressivism.

Of course these days we change the definition of words to put ourselves in a more favorable light.

For those no sure what I am going on about….I wrote about it earlier….

What Is A Progressive (Redux)

Like I said there are some that are holding some progressive ideas…but bow to political pressure to tow the line….

Maybe the so-called progressives should read some and learn some progressive history so they can finally get it right.

“Medicare for All.” “The Green New Deal.” Calls to overhaul the Supreme Court and replace the Electoral College. Many activists today are heralding a new progressive movement—a successor to the vibrant reform coalition that swept both major political parties in the early years of the 20th century.

There’s more than a little truth to this comparison. America’s current reality—marked by rising income inequality, the concentration of political and economic power and changing patterns of work and leisure—bears uncanny similarity to conditions that produced a burst of reform activity more than 120 years ago, including measures to improve urban health and safety standards, ameliorate labor conditions and introduce more efficiency and transparency in state and local government.

But if contemporary progressives aspire to drive the same degree of change as the progressive movement of the early 20th century, they might take a cue from their ideological forebears.

Many of today’s progressives define their movement by commitment to a specific menu of policies, and those who don’t share this very specific set of goals are easily read out of the progressive movement, typecast as “neoliberals” or “corporate liberals.” This kind of rigidity is something that their progressive forerunners never exhibited. The progressive movement of the early 1900s was successful precisely because it was flexible and incorporated a wide range of views—so much so that the movement defies easy definition.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/01/progressives-history-227037/

This is just a suggestion that will go unrealized….money kills all great ideas….and our government is all about the cash and not so much the people.

As a Progressive I would like to see Progressives that do not bow to pressure or the almighty dollar….but that too will go unrealized.

True Progressives need their own party.   Period!

And then others will have more people to blame their loss on….it has nothing to do with crappy candidates and this myth of a ‘spoiler’ vote.

Keep reading for I will be posting on this ‘spoiler’ myth in the coming weeks.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”