Date: November 14th, 2018 1:36 PM
Author: impertinent bossy antidepressant drug sound barrier
Deadlines are being missed. We have an election supervisor who has already been found guilty of screwing around with ballots and she’s still on the job. The point about Jeb Bush, by the way. There was a lunatic before Brenda Snipes. Her name was Miriam Oliphant, and she was in there, and she was just as bad. In Broward County, she was just as bad as Snipes. Do you remember Miriam Oliphant? Guess who appointed both of them? The Jebber. Jeb Bush.
Why would you do that? Well, the theory is that Broward is a majority Democrat county, so we have to appoint a Democrat Board of Elections director down there. We have to name one. It’s an elected position but then there’s an opening, there’s an appointment involved. This is classic, to show the Democrats and to show voters that we are fair and equitable, and we realize that it’s a county where more people are gonna vote against us than for us, and so we’re gonna acknowledge this.
Somehow this is supposed to buy us goodwill from leftists and Democrat voters. It’s supposed to show us it’s a direct contrast with Trump. It’s supposed to show voters that we’re reasonable and that we’re nonthreatening and that we’re really nonpartisan and that we are nice and warm and fuzzy, and then what? That means some Democrats are gonna change their minds about us? “You know what, these guys, they keep appointing us, so they can’t be racists, bigots, sexists, homophobes.” No. They’re just laughing at us. What a bunch of doofuses.
Do you think the Democrats would ever appoint somebody in the opposite party in a position that mattered to them just to show us that they could be — they wouldn’t care a whit about it, and of course Trump is just like them in this regard. Trump is going to do what’s best for him and his party at each and every turn, rather than trying to buy the goodwill of political opponents.
And the reason this bothers me is because that is the essence of a defensive position. “Well, they think that we’re X, and so we have to show them that we’re not X. And so appointing one of them showing we can be fair.” It’s the reason why we agree with them on amnesty. It’s the reason why some Republicans agree with Democrats on other controversial issues. And it never works. It never has worked, because politics, contrary to what you say, is not about the art of compromise. It may have been at one time, but it’s not now.
Politics is about the art of defeat and dominance. And if you have leaders of a political party who don’t know about winning and defeating and dominating, then you’re always gonna be disappointed.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/11/13/the-art-of-the-steal-dems-set-stage-for-2020/
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4132899&forum_id=2#37231349)