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Tulsi Gabbard is sick and tired of the Democrat party, and she’s not going to take it anymore:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/TulsiGabbard\/status\/1579788950696185859\n<\/div>
Click on the tweet to read the entire thread over on the hellscape Musk might buyoughts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A few thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Key Log: <\/strong>As Berg’s Seventh Law foretells<\/a>, one of the reasons that Democrats like to harp on the “extremism” of the GOP is to deflect away from their own. One can hope the popular Senator from the very blue state might be the crack in the dam that brings out this century’s “Reagan Republicans”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of Reagan: <\/strong>There’s at least some conventional wisdom that Gabbard has made this move to put her name in the VP stakes for 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“She’s a LIBERAL”, some of my conservative friends say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s back up a moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Ronald Reagan’s great bits of genius was his ability to reach across the aisle to get people to pull together on the issues that mattered to his agenda<\/em>. His agenda, by the way, was two items: right the economic ship, and destroy communism. He used his bully pulpit to push others to make headway on other issues – abortion, 2nd Amendment, the border – but he kept his own political powder dry to get the deals he needed made with Dems like Tip O’Neil on the 1982 Tax Cuts, and with the AFL-CIO’s Lane Kirkland on assisting the Eastern European labor movement against the USSR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So – could a future Republican president focused on our society’s current enemies – the deep state, stagflation and China – benefit from reaching across the aisle to a center-left “libertarian” Democrat who shares those concerns (in as many words, in her statement above)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s worth a look. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tulsi Gabbard is sick and tired of the Democrat party, and she’s not going to take it anymore: A few thoughts: The Key Log: As Berg’s Seventh Law foretells, one of the reasons that Democrats like to harp on the “extremism” of the GOP is to deflect away from their own. One can hope the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,427,425,20,30,51,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bride-of-stagflation","category-campaign-22","category-campaign-24","category-democrats","category-liberty","category-liberal-tyranny","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83598,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83596\/revisions\/83598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}