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In reply to the discussion: Sen. Saxby Chambliss makes jaw-dropping accusation against Senator Ron Wyden [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)...However, if the party keeps nominating the drinking buddies of the GOP, all bets are off.
As for 2016, that's a way off. While we've seen this picture before -- it's a damn franchise -- anything can happen before then. Let's try to write the new script, sans the editing of MIC-Wall Street. That means calling up decentralized casting for some new talents.
In Michigan, we ran Lansing mayor Virg Benero against the DeVos/Prince/Koch turd Gov Gateway Rick Snyder. The Dem establishment went ape shit, seeing that their guy, Andy Dillon got beat by the grassroots. (Incumbent Gov. Jennifer the Dimple Granholm did near-zero to help the general campaign, but now has a good future in front of the camera or on Wall Street.)
The money spigot did not trickle down and so Snyder won. And now Michigan runs redneck-and-redneck with 1936 Germany, emergency managers calling the shots in all the major cities with black majority populations, including Detroit where every damn thing worth owning is being looked at for piratization.
As for Dillon, don't cry for me Reagan Democrats. Snyder selected the guy, among his first appointments, to serve in the cabinuts as State Treasurer. I kid you not, symbolic as all the hell my Great Lakes State is become.
Me? Who do I want to see in Washington? Not anyone connected with Hillary, Obama, or the DLC. Once, I had hoped Kerry would be that guy, way back in 2004. I lambasted Gov. Dean at every opportunity. I now realize my mistake as recent developments have tarnished my hopes for that old Dem line.
Bottom line: We need new blood at the top of the ticket, yet the MIC doesn't like people they can't control. Perhaps we'll get Mark Udall or Ron Wyden, both of whom stood up more than a bit to the MIC. Elizabeth Warren stood up the Wall Street bastards. I think she would get the better of Hillary in the debates -- in front of the whole world.
As for the same-old same-old. No. Won't do it.