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In reply to the discussion: Let's give it up for Rep. Ilhan Omar for her wonderful actions yesterday [View all]customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Our slate of Democratic presidential candidates will be running against someone already well-skilled at sucking the oxygen out of the room, who did it to his seventeen GOP opponents three years ago. If a first-ballot leader is to emerge from a very large group, their views will need all the exposure they can get to prevail both in the nominating battle and the general election contest.
Time that the non-Faux media spends on the newbies takes away time from someone who is actually going to be the nominee. And no nominee worth more than 1% of the vote is going to say "bold, brash things" about AIPAC or Israel in general.
Perhaps you remember recent history when Dave Brat unseated Eric Cantor in a primary? That's pretty much what AOC did, yet you didn't have even Faux spending a lot of time on Brat's new seat in the House. That's because the GOP is not focused on every "bright and shiny new object who came out of nowhere and surprised people" as Sen. McAskill put it not so long ago. By pretty much ignoring Brat, they paved the way for a massive Republicon victory in 2016.
Like I said to my son, "Boy, you learn from mistakes, but it's always cheaper to learn from the other guy's mistake."