Maxine Walers as President?

[The Sound Guy]

From the Daily News:

California Congresswoman Maxine Waters could become the Democratic nominee for president in 2020.

Let me repeat that, so it can sink in: Maxine Waters could be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020.

Ok, let me blow into a breathalyzer, take a drug test and get psychologically evaluated before I say it a third time: Maxine Waters could be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020.

How is it possible that a radical congresswoman, who was just called “un-American” by the leadership of her own party for encouraging viral confrontations with Trump administration officials, could win the presidential nomination of a major American political party?

It’s easy. Mad Max is the only one dancing to the beat of the “Resistance,” and her album is about to go platinum.

Consider this, after musical icon Prince died in 2016, we learned a bunch of fascinating tidbits about the reclusive singer, including the fact that he had a wildly competitive rivalry with the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Apparently, Prince’s low opinion of M.J. stemmed from the fact that he thought that Jacko’s lyrics were low-brow.

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Michael Jackson, on the other hand, was less concerned with the lyrics, and more concerned with the beat. He felt that if people got into the beat of a song, the lyrics were almost irrelevant.

As it turns out, more music fans care about the beat than the lyrics. A lot more fans. To date, Michael Jackson has sold more than 750 million albums worldwide, compared to Prince’s 100 million. There is no comparison.

The same rules apply to the world of politics.

If you don’t believe me, go back to the 2016 Republican primary.

Many of the 17 major candidates in the race understood the “lyrics” of the race just fine. Whether you’re talking about former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, or Texas Sen. Ted Cruz … all of them said and did the right things, and even dressed the part. However, only one candidate understood the “beat” of the electorate: Donald Trump.

Pundits were quick to call him a reality show buffoon, and write him off as a shameless self-promoter who had exactly zero chance at winning the election. Well, that turned out to be fake news.

It didn’t matter that then-candidate Trump was using salty language, or challenging Republican orthodoxies in any number of ways — he understood the mood and frustrations of the electorate better than anyone in the race.

He didn’t need to back the Brinks truck to the loading dock outside the offices of overpaid consultants, to know that the American people were furious over illegal immigration and believed the U.S. was getting screwed in our trade deals with other countries. He just knew it.

On the Democratic side of the aisle, I challenge you to find a politician or media personality who has better expressed the anger, frustration and rage of the “Resistance” better than Maxine Waters.

Joe Biden? Puh-leeze. Kamala Harris? No way. Hillary Clinton? You’ve got to be kidding me.

Nope, the woman who is the biggest rock star with liberals right now is Auntie Maxine. And since she gets their beat, they don’t care if her lyrics are profane or off key.

So, let me say it one final time: it is very possible that in the summer of 2020, Maxine Waters could be the Democratic nominee for president.

John Phillips is a CNN political commentator and can be heard weekdays at 3 p.m. on “The Drive Home with Jillian Barberie and John Phillips” on KABC/AM 790.

I think he's an idiot that doesn't understand how the Democratic Party is completely under the control of the Democratic Elite. Hello, Super-delegates, remember? The same ones that stole the nomination from Bernie would stop Maxine from becoming the nominee.

Of course he's not the only one. Millions of sheeple vote in the Democratic primary thinking they make a difference when in reality, the Super-delegates under the control of the Elite control the nominee.

If the GOP tries to do the same to stop another Trump from winning I'll have to start voting 3rd party.

 

[Guard Dad]

Even the Democrats have sense enough to not let Maxine be the nominee.

 

[lotstodo]

I choked on my Pepsi when I read the title.

 

[Far West]

Even the Democrats have sense enough to not let Maxine be the nominee.

I will agree, however the clones out there picketing and rioting (paid by the progressives to do so,) and those that voted for Bernie will see Aunt Maxine as the next savior. She will promise to give them back entitlements like free healthcare, housing ,college, food stamps, phones and a million other things the progressives promise with the rise of the new socialist country America. She will promise to take from the working and give to the protesters. She is adored by her followers because of her crazy talk.

Examples in the below quotes:

• Back in 2008, Waters was lecturing oil company executives at a congressional hearing when she plainly stated her true intentions: “Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal would be about socializing … uh, umm. … Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.”

• "As a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, Waters played a key role in allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s reckless actions that led to the housing meltdown. Here is Waters, at a 2004 congressional hearing, (and yes, that is the same “Frank” Raines that vastly overstated Fannie Mae’s earnings in order to receive $90 million in bonuses). “We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines.” One housing crisis and millions of homes lost, jobs lost, and a Great Recession later, one has to wonder what Waters is doing on the House Banking Committee in the first place. Especially since her husband had interest in a bank.

• "All of these people who are organized with these oil-and-gas interests, that's in the administration and friends of the President of the United States [Donald Trump], these back channeling that you see. These are a bunch of scumbags. That's what they are."

• "This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty."

• "I am so offended by Trump. I spend an awful lot of time helping to educate people about who I think he is and the danger that I think he is to this country. I will be working on those issues and trying to expose this president. I think that's important work."

• "I think that the Republicans who have been cautious, recognizing that they have to be concerned about their re-elections, etc., they won't be able to stand with Donald Trump when we unfold his connection to the Kremlin and what they were involved in, which I consider to be collusion. I don't think that any Republican, even moderates or conservatives, who love America and who consider themselves patriots, they cannot stand with this president when it appears he has participated in undermining this democracy. They're going to have to fall. That's what I believe."

• “Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. And they have tended to take care of those things that they think are important. Whether it’s their agricultural subsidies, or other kinds of expenditures that are certainly not expenditures for poor people or for people of color. And so we have to band together and keep fighting back.”

• “I have a right to my anger, and I don’t want anybody telling me I shouldn’t be, that it’s not nice to be, and that something’s wrong with me because I get angry.”

• "Riot is the voice of the unheard."

• "It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that if they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're gonna tax them out of business."

• Waters excused the violence of the Rodney King Riots, as her constituents were intent on burning down the city. The Los Angeles Times quoted her saying: “If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.”

• "I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars."

• With the financial crisis looming, Waters was mostly worried about a bank that her husband had a financial stake in. Here, she admits that she contacted the Treasury Department on behalf of OneUnited Bank officials, actions which prompted a congressional ethics probe: “I followed up on the association’s request by asking Treasury Secretary Paulson to schedule such a meeting.”

• In Inglewood, Calif., Waters went after the Tea Party, telling a group of her constituents (many wearing purple SEIU T-shirts): “I am not afraid of anybody. This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.”

 

[Paxilpapa]

I choked on my Pepsi when I read the title.

As a retired Coca-Cola employee, I think it was the P-word as much as anything else!!!!

 

[cptlo]

I wish she would run just for the entertainment factor.

 

[Guard Dad]

It would assure a Democrat loss.

 

[lotstodo]

As a retired Coca-Cola employee, I think it was the P-word as much as anything else!!!!

I was living high on the hog. The Mrs.usually brings home Sam's Choice.

 

[Far West]

I was living high on the hog. The Mrs.usually brings home Sam's Choice.

Wow, name brand!