Flipped

Tulsi Gabbard is sick and tired of the Democrat party, and she’s not going to take it anymore:

Click on the tweet to read the entire thread over on the hellscape Musk might buyoughts

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 popular Senator from the very blue state might be the crack in the dam that brings out this century’s “Reagan Republicans”.

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

“She’s a LIBERAL”, some of my conservative friends say.

Let’s back up a moment.

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. 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.

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)?

It’s worth a look.

30 thoughts on “Flipped

  1. Absolutely not. Being a VP she has a shot at the presidency. And even though her flip makes her case similar to Trump’s, she has no real-life credentials whatsoever to govern as a conservative.

  2. I just meant she looks good.

    Given number and influence of the cucks we have in the so-called conservative party, I’d give someone who seems principled a chance. Beats being stabbed in the back by a Bush or a Ryan or a McConnell.

  3. geez jdm, do you think my english is so bad I did not get it?

    Well, I prefer not to be stabbed neither in the back, nor the front. And yes, RINOs have to go. Especially McConnell. Without McConnell and his control of the RNC purse strings conservative lives would be a lot simpler and easier. That SOB is STILL throwing money Murkowski way for crying out loud!

  4. Exactly, jpa!

    That’s why I will never donate to the party on either the state or national levels. I’ll make my donations directly to candidates that I like and have thoroughly vetted.

  5. Gabbard basically far right — or Alt Reich. She was never actually left wing at all, was honest about coming from a conservative family, but she gladly used the Bernie/progressive hype to get famous, then quit the Democrats and got a job at Fox parroting extremist far right talking points.

  6. I’m old enough to remember a fella named Jim Webb who ran for President in 2016 and famously said there was no place for him in the Democratic party anymore. Here’s the money quote:

    “I fully accept that my views on many issues are not compatible with the power structure and the nominating base of the Democratic party. For this reason, I am withdrawing from any consideration of being the Democratic Party’s nominee for the presidency.”

    Would have led off the alphabet network evening news, had headlines across the country and been in the news cycle for months if he had an ‘R’ behind his name.

  7. Gabbard didn’t get the attention she craved from the Democrats. The weekly CPAC grievance rallies pay well.

  8. Barely made the announcement and she already is alt reich

    SHe will be Literally Hitler before Christmas

    Too bad she is not flawless conservative and therefore not pure enough for us

    would be nice to have an electable candidate to gain a sensible person in office for a change

  9. Ha! Well, bot boy Emery, I was waiting for your totally inane and worthless comments. It must suck for you to realize that she has more intelligence in her pinky fingernail than you will ever have.

  10. ^^ This is SiTD — so you have to be super careful about the words you use.

    What if Tulsi Gabbard is an attention-seeker?

    I try to ask the difficult questions that make us search our souls…

  11. JDM, Torba is one of us, without doubt. But he’s coming from from a purely Christian Nationalist position, which is not incompatible at all, but is a bit too focused for my taste.

  12. I heard Joe Rogan interview Tulsi ahead of the Big Steal. I have doubts about Rogan (usually baked AF), and Tulsi was, well a candidate for the degenerate endorsement for POTUS. Still, listening to her, I didn’t hear anything that pissed me off.

    Over the past years, I’ve gained respect for both a little more.

    I think she was a politician in Hawaii before getting a national platform. Like to hear what UMMP thinks.

  13. I lived in Gabbard’s district for her entire term in congress. Never voted for her, too liberal. She is basically a populist leftist. All the liberals I knew (and I knew a lot, there are a lot of Californians in Hawaii) voted for her in the primary and the general.
    Gabbard was raised Hare Krishna and later converted to Hindu. She is one of those “spiritual not religious” people.
    She served as an officer in the ME in the wake of 9/11, but was never in combat.
    Gabbard endorsed Joe Biden in 2020.
    Hawaii is a Democrat Machine state. She bucked the machine when she ran for US congress against a candidate the machine wanted. She has been persona non grata to the Hawaii Dem party ever since.

  14. BTW, the Clinton’s really have it in for Gabbard. They just hate her, and the feeling is mutual between them. I was surprised to learn that Gabbard had endorsed Biden instead of Sanders. She shares more of Sander’s politics than Biden’s politics. Gabbard is not afraid to say what she thinks, that’s worth something, I suppose.

  15. “Gabbard endorsed Joe Biden in 2020.”

    All I needed. Unless she announces she was high AF o. Paco lolo when she did that, and renounces that shit, she’s a no go

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  17. All I remember of Gabbard from 2016 was that she was the only Dem I could watch on TV that didn’t make me want to puke immediately. That’s not much of an endorsement but it’s a start. Will we ever see in our lifetimes a President who doesn’t try to do the job of all three branches of the government? I believe Trump, whatever his motivation, in a lot of ways served the conservative cause. I voted Libertarian in 2016, then Republican in 2020 as I held my nose. Trump became too much of a burden in terms of not acting as President of the whole country. He didn’t even pretend to like the other team. That kind of take-no-prisoners approach is fun for college sophomore bull sessions, but it doesn’t help heal the country and move the dial away from tribalism. In my newly adopted state of North Carolina the political campaigns are deep into slinging more mud than you’d find in a corral full of swine. The Dems choice for Senate stands accused of performing his duty as an attorney and actually defending criminals. Better Call Saul he ain’t, however. On the other side, the Republicans all want women to die in childbirth rather than have control of euthanizing their unwanted fetuses. The jails will swell with defrocked abortion doctors. If I get around to registering to vote, I may have to read well between the lines. For those of you keeping score at home, the State of Minnesota has figured out that I moved and yanked my voting privileges. Sorry, can’t vote against Walz.

  18. Lest we forget, both JFK and RFK knew that there is a shadow government operation, run by elite money, in the U.S. and vowed to destroy it, starting with the CIA. I’m still convinced that Bush Sr. was behind both assassinations. Allegedly, Ted knew it, too, but after the Chappaquiddick scandal, he laid low, going along with the DemoCommie hard liners after he saw what happened to his brothers. John Kennedy, Jr. also knew and allegedly, vowed to bring those behind the assassinations of his father and uncle to justice. In his case, I think Hillary Clinton’s goons took him out, because she wanted that senate seat.

  19. When a person tells me something like “The CIA killed Jack Kennedy.” I want to say “You’re wrong, it was the KGB!” just so I can hear them say “You’re crazy! Where’s your proof?”
    Another variation would be to cock an eyebrow and say “Oh? So you think the real Jack Kennedy was in the presidential limo that day?”

  20. UMMP;
    You’re right, there are at least one hundred different theories out there. I recently re-watched a documentary on the incident, produced in 2016 or 2017. One of the investigators, indicated that a very wealthy person, with lots of government connections, told him that he was killed because he was going to tell the public the truth about UFOs and Roswell. On another documentary, there were people who swore that he was killed because he was going to abolish the Fed. Too much money was changing hands among the central banks to let that happen. Allegedly, one of JFK’s most trusted aides, allegedly told the investigators that he knew the paperwork was on his desk and he planned to sign it when he returned from Texas. He went to retrieve that paperwork after JFK died and it wasn’t there. So, the CIA being behind it, is just as plausible as any other theory.

  21. I’m glad to see Gabbard reject the crazy party, but in doing so, guys like John McCain come to mind. All too often the gadfly is just wanting to tear things down, and she may already be looking for other targets. And I will be super happy if she proves me wrong.

  22. JFK was shot and killed on November 22nd, 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald, an American communist, acting alone, who was angry with Kennedy for his anti-Castro policies.
    Nobody wants to believe that the simplest explanation is the truth.
    Umberto Eco wrote “Foucault’s Pendulum” about the phenomenon.

  23. You’re right, Emery. Just like all of the DemoCommies that get that sweet dark money from the likes of Alliance For A Better Minnesota.

  24. Gabbard has announced that she will campaign for Republican Don Bolduc, who is currently an underdog in the race for senator from New Hampshire.

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