Tulsi Gabbard - The Democratic Party's Big Miss

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  1. Kal'Stang

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    Beats me. I never even heard of the guy.
     
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    Wouldn't surprise me and you're probably right.
     
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    If someone were to hold a M-1911 to my head and I had to vote for a Democrat, I would probably go with Tulsi Gabbard.

    Of all of the Democratic candidates, she's probably the only one who's not low information.

    Unlike most of the Democrats and MSNBC, CNN and the MSM, she knows that it was Al Qaeda who attacked us on 9/11 not the Taliban.
     
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    I like her, too. I loved it when she went after Kamala Harris on her own record as a prosecutor. Having lived in the Bay Area from 2003 to 2013, I didn't like her then and I still don't. She's a liar and a phony.

    I disagree strongly with the DNC and their 'rules' for who will or will not be allowed on the debate stage, especially this far out from an election. Every candidate should be heard, or else how will they build the support the DNC so crassly requires for inclusion? It's their own "Catch-22."
     
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    She said: "'It's fair' to say 2020 Democrats advocate for 'open borders'"

    She's outside of the narrative and outside of accepted leftist political dogma.

    She cannot under any circumstances be allowed to become the candidate.
     
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    What we learned from Wikileaks back in 2016, that the Democratic National Committee is a corrupt third world political organization and that it's not the registered Democratic voters who decides who will win the Democratic presidential nomination but the DNC will have the final say.
     
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    Do you truly believe that the RNC is any better? I sure don't.
     
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    Let's not pretend that you would vote for her over Trump. If she were the nominee, she'd be swiftboated just like Kerry was by GWB. And you'd cheer it on.
     
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    Weird but not unexpected really. From your link it appears that he tried to run as a Republican but got rejected...twice. Like many politicians he was probably just trying to run for a party that might get him a seat of power.
     
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    His VP pick, Jon Edwards Shiny Pony said that if you wanted to know John Kerry's Character, that you only needed to ask his fellow Swifties, well, they had some stories to tell! A whole generation was unaware of how John Kerry launched his political career by savagely and repeatedly slandering his fellow Swifties.

    As for Bernie Sanders, Never Forget That He Was Asked to Leave Hippie Commune for Shirking
     
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    I don't know about HD, but I would have voted for her. My fav WAS Yang, until he started playing the identiarian game. Now that Tulsi is, essentially, out and I definitely can't stand any of the others I guess I'm going to be forced to either stay home or vote for Trump. And since its my duty to vote I guess I won't be staying home. You can thank your fellow Democrats for this vote going to Trump. Just like they were when they rigged their primary to put Hillary in Bernies place. Too bad he went down the rabbit hole with all the others this election season. I liked some of his policies.
     
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    Gabbard has 1% support...She is a joke
     
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    The Joke is on the DNC for tossing her. Trump 2020.
     
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    Will trump have enough old white men around to vote for him?
     
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    She is running as a democrat, but she refuses labels. You can't run as a republican and favor medicare for all and a transition to green energy and a non interventionist foreign policy.
     
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    No, what happened was a lot of dems did not vote for her and stood home and that killed her in some swing states.

    Now I am a Tulsi supporter and a small contributor to her campaign. to clear up her stances as you detailed them.

    1. Tulsi want free CC with the state paying 1/2 and the feds paying 1/2.
    2. Health insurance is not free, the nation spends 3 trill a year now on health care. What is not paid by the feds is paid by policyholders with payroll deductions and copays, and by consumers of the goods that thier employers make and again by a 40% tax deduction subsidy. The nation pays 3 trill, The only thing is now 20% of non government insurance premiums go to a middleman and not providers. Medicare for all eliminates the middleman.
     
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    All she said was that she was not going to take the US intelligence service at face value after WMD and Iraq. She is not running for cover, you sound like msnbc or the View.

    We don't belong in Syria. What the hell did we do, we weaken a dictator that protected minorities including Christians from a religious mob at the behest of SA and Israel. That she questioned our involvement is something she should be applauded for.
     
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    I would consider voting for her.
    Democrats sure do know how to silence good candidates and push the extreme ones instead. I’d take Tulsi over Pocahontas any day!
     
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    The Gay thing is totally overblown, she was for gay rights before Clinton and Obama. She was raised in a religious household and her beliefs when she was 21 got erased when she served with Gays in the military and realized they were just like the rest of us except for who they wanted to have sex with.
     
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    Tulsi, Bernie, or Yang, are the only candidates that are not a joke. The joke is, that we live in a society that can vote into office, a narcissistic, pathological lying, misogynistic, sociopathic failed business moron, and still feel we were right. The joke that no matter what he does(push leaders aside, assert blatant lies, shutdown the government in a temper tantrum, promise that Mexico would pay for the wall, lie us into another war, and is a world-wide embarrassment), his "trumpanzees" will still worship the ground he walks on. What is not a joke, are the millions that are going to die in a war with Iran, based on another lie. So, get ready to make more excuses to the parents, families, and friends of those whose lives will be wasted for oil, the ego of a madman, and for corporate America.

    Tulsi, is our last hope for any change in our society. All the other corporate-bought stooges will go along, to get along. Any candidate that promises on day one, that they will stop all wasteful regime-change wars, save trillions of dollars to address our urgent social and environmental issues, return to both nuclear treaties, and bring our troops home, then that is the candidate that I would vote for. But a candidate that is a 2 toured combat veteran, a current major, top in her class at officer training school, years of military and political leadership and experience, and has the integrity, gravitas, authenticity, and maturity to put service above self, then that is the candidate I will campaign for. But a candidate who has actually proven what they are willing to sacrifice on many occasions, and not compromise their principles and integrity, is the candidate that would earn my respect and trust as a human being forever.

    The DNC, Corporate America, and Corporate Media are fully aware just how dangerous she is to their profits, payroll, fiscal bottom-line, and donor contributions. Big Tech giants will know that they will be split up. Banks will be faced with the return of the Glass-Steagall Act. Private prisons, and the "cash-bail" systems will be abolished, the Military Industrial Complex will lose maximum profits for making more weapons of war, the President would lose the power to simply declare his own wars, and all members of Congress could no longer accept money from corporate lobbyists and end the "revolving door". So yes, Tulsi is so dangerous that the smear campaign to discredit, derail, lie, and "red-bait" her over all corporate media outlets, began on the same day she announced her candidacy. She is the full package, and the real deal, and they know it. We all saw what happened in both debates. They don't want that to ever happen again. This is the reason why her polls are so low.

    You can tell that these smear campaigns are working. You simply ask people why they didn't vote for Tulsi? They will either parrot a debunked smear or hit piece(like TYT), or they don't have a clue. They all seem to like her, and that she definitely stands out from the field, BUT..... . It is just subliminal and subconscious. Ad agencies use this tactic all the time, because it works. People do not think, they are taught how and what to think.

    I would give my right arm to see a debate between Trump and a foreign, domestic, and military policy expert. She would expose that Trump is just an empty suit, like Buttigieg. The contrast would be so obvious, that it would be like a mother debating with her 6 year old. She could probably be the first candidate to win all 50 states. I still have hope, that talent and reason will eventually rise to the surface. If not, then it will be 4 more years of the last 55 years. Tell a sucker what they want to hear, and they will listen to you. But tell a sucker that it is HIS idea, and he will follow you.
     
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    If the RNC were just as half as corrupted as the DNC, it would be President Jeb Bush today.

    It's the registered Republicans who decide who will win the Republican nomination for President, not the RNC.
     
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    Are you speaking for all hodads ?

    Tulsi Gabbard was the only Democrat running for President who got it right.
    The Taliban didn't attack America on 9/11....Al Qaeda did.
     
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    Personally out of all the democrat candidates, I believe she stands out as the best
     
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