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Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:32 PM Jan 2020

On Meet the Press, Hugh Hewett announced that he is voting for sanders

The GOP is back to another Operation Chaos. A asshole like Hugh Hewett is scared of Joe Biden and want the weakest possible candidate to be the Democratic nominee


If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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On Meet the Press, Hugh Hewett announced that he is voting for sanders (Original Post) Gothmog Jan 2020 OP
Hewitt creeps me the fuck out... (n/t) Democrats Ascendant Jan 2020 #1
I agree Gothmog Jan 2020 #5
Yep. This is ratfucking 101. NO OPEN PRIMARIES. brush Jan 2020 #20
I hate open primaries also Gothmog Jan 2020 #26
Very creepy PatSeg Jan 2020 #22
This!! Thekaspervote Jan 2020 #2
This is the problem with open primaries still_one Jan 2020 #3
Exactly Democrats Ascendant Jan 2020 #4
Yes. That is one of the big factors Lipinski won over Newman in Illinois, because still_one Jan 2020 #18
Hewitt is super Conservative. Sloumeau Jan 2020 #6
anything to prevent a Biden nomination is what media and GOP need to happen beachbumbob Jan 2020 #7
Of course he is. C_U_L8R Jan 2020 #8
He made it clear in a column last August that he's pushing this as a disruptor. femmedem Jan 2020 #9
Trumpists want to run against the weakest possible candidate. The Valley Below Jan 2020 #10
Isn't he a Trump guy? dewsgirl Jan 2020 #11
What does the LARGER CONTEXT of this means..... LovingA2andMI Jan 2020 #12
He's trying to pick Trump's opponent. He's still voting for Trump in the general. Arkansas Granny Jan 2020 #13
Bingo! FM123 Jan 2020 #34
Not all of HH's fan base will get the rw why he supports Sanders, guess its empedocles Jan 2020 #14
Hewitt added that he'll vote for Trump in the GE after he votes for Sanders in the primary. highplainsdem Jan 2020 #15
That does bring up a problem that might occur in primaries. GOPers crossing over. Hoyt Jan 2020 #16
Hewitt is a diabolically evil person. He's making this announcement to split the vote. He's lying. Eyeball_Kid Jan 2020 #17
That guy loves trump. Now why would he announce that he's voting for Bernie? Kahuna7 Jan 2020 #19
This is why I hate open primaries... VarryOn Jan 2020 #21
POS Reagan worshipper wants to protect the tax scam dalton99a Jan 2020 #23
Look for many conservatives voting for Bernie in the primaries where no party affiliation is needed. Fla Dem Jan 2020 #24
It's the republicans who are driving Bernie's poll numbers up NYMinute Jan 2020 #25
This is a major Republican chaos operation staring to divide the democrats at every level Gothmog Jan 2020 #27
+1. This guy is hardcore rightwing dalton99a Jan 2020 #28
Hewitt is just another RW shock jock brokephibroke Jan 2020 #29
Hugh Hewitt helps... Mike Nelson Jan 2020 #30
Tom Nichols tweet: highplainsdem Jan 2020 #31
That slimy asshole will vote in the Democratic primary MineralMan Jan 2020 #32
So Virginia Sander Supporters Will Stand with Hugh Hewitt? MineralMan Jan 2020 #33
Predictit projects Sanders is more likely to defeat Trump Cicada Jan 2020 #35
That is not how that website works Gothmog Jan 2020 #36
I think that's how Bayesian probability works Cicada Jan 2020 #39
I don't have a tv.. I've heard the name.. but Cha Jan 2020 #37
Oh No A Concern Troll! booley Jan 2020 #38
He hasn't had much good to say about Trump for 3 years. JohnnyRingo Jan 2020 #40
Malcom Nance: DON'T BE FOOLED. Cha Jan 2020 #41
K&R RandySF Jan 2020 #42
GOP support of sanders show that he is the weakest candidate Gothmog Jan 2020 #43
They are corrupt and this is how they win. We must not let them anymore. nt UniteFightBack Jan 2020 #44
The GOP really wants to run against the weakest possible candidate Gothmog Jan 2020 #45
 
1. Hewitt creeps me the fuck out... (n/t)
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:33 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
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Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
5. I agree
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:35 PM
Jan 2020

This is NOT a good endorsement for sanders

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primary today, I would vote for:
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brush

(53,475 posts)
20. Yep. This is ratfucking 101. NO OPEN PRIMARIES.
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:59 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
26. I hate open primaries also
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 01:29 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

PatSeg

(46,807 posts)
22. Very creepy
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 01:08 PM
Jan 2020

He always looks like he is smirking, much like the Joker.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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still_one

(91,967 posts)
3. This is the problem with open primaries
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:34 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 
4. Exactly
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:35 PM
Jan 2020

Register with the party, then vote away.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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still_one

(91,967 posts)
18. Yes. That is one of the big factors Lipinski won over Newman in Illinois, because
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:56 PM
Jan 2020

of the republican crossover vote for Lipinski

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Sloumeau

(2,657 posts)
6. Hewitt is super Conservative.
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:37 PM
Jan 2020

There is only one reason he'd vote for Bernie, and that would be to give Trump an easier opponent.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
7. anything to prevent a Biden nomination is what media and GOP need to happen
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:37 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

C_U_L8R

(44,897 posts)
8. Of course he is.
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:37 PM
Jan 2020

Speaks volumes.

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femmedem

(8,190 posts)
9. He made it clear in a column last August that he's pushing this as a disruptor.
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:41 PM
Jan 2020
No self-respecting climate-change activist can win an argument for Biden or Warren now, not when Sanders has lapped them eight or 10 times in the fictional commitment game. What are they going to say? Our program can get through Congress and Sanders’s can’t? None of them can, unless the country is persuaded that this whole “existential threat” stuff is real. Sanders believes it. He put our money where his mouth is.

Those of us who acknowledge the temperature of Earth has indeed increased a degree or so in the past century, who believe humans contribute to that increase — perhaps significantly and, if so, mostly these days by the Chinese and the Indians who show no intent to stop emitting carbons as they have billions of mouths to feed — are all for mitigation and adaptation. Many of us strongly support nuclear power as the key to replacing carbon emissions. See on this point the new book by Daniel Poneman, President Barack Obama’s deputy energy secretary, “Double Jeopardy: Combating Nuclear Terror and Climate Change.” If you are serious about slowing climate change, you have to be for nuclear power, Poneman concludes. (Similarly, nuclear power production need not result in weapons proliferation, but that’s another subject.) Poneman’s a true believer that carbon emissions must be curtailed, but his program is detailed, incremental and balanced. That’s not Bernie.

But Poneman isn’t one of the Democratic primary voters lying awake at night imagining that the 2004 film “The Day After Tomorrow” understated what’s ahead. Sanders doesn’t need Poneman’s vote. Sanders doesn’t care about the approval of policy wonks. Sanders needs the climate-change vote. Sanders needs the true believers.


snip

I’m hoping Sanders is the nominee. A choice, not an echo campaign on climate change, is what we need. “There ain’t no middle ground.” Let’s put that to the people in a Bernie Sanders-Donald Trump vote. Sweep aside the pretenders and get to the candidate who is genuinely serious about changing everything to save Mother Earth. That’s Sanders. By about 14 trillion bucks total.


https://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20190830/hugh-hewitt-bernie-sanders-offers-clear-choice-on-climate-change
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The Valley Below

(1,701 posts)
10. Trumpists want to run against the weakest possible candidate.
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:42 PM
Jan 2020

Let's make sure that does not happen.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
11. Isn't he a Trump guy?
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:43 PM
Jan 2020
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LovingA2andMI

(7,006 posts)
12. What does the LARGER CONTEXT of this means.....
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:44 PM
Jan 2020

Disinformation Campaign. Now the open question is if Bernie Sanders and his team are taking an ACTIVE in the DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN. Unless they come out immediately and disown this "endorsement" one would have to believe YES in the light of what happened to Elizabeth Warren, this highly QUESTIONABLE "Endorsement" and now this right here:

Biden rips Sanders campaign for Social Security attacks

"Indianola, Iowa – Joe Biden has called for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign to “disown” what he calls “doctored video” that some Sanders supporters say shows the former vice president endorsing Republican calls to cut Social Security and Medicare.

“There’s a little doctored video going around … put out by one of Bernie’s people,” Biden told supporters Saturday in Indianola, Iowa, referring to a 2018 speech in which Biden discussed then-House Speaker Paul Ryan saying rising deficit demanded action on the popular entitlement programs.

“I’m looking for his campaign to come forward and disown it,” Biden continued, pointing to his 2020 campaign proposals designed to shore up Social Security. “But they haven’t done it yet.”Indianola, Iowa – Joe Biden has called for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign to “disown” what he calls “doctored video” that some Sanders supporters say shows the former vice president endorsing Republican calls to cut Social Security and Medicare.

“There’s a little doctored video going around … put out by one of Bernie’s people,” Biden told supporters Saturday in Indianola, Iowa, referring to a 2018 speech in which Biden discussed then-House Speaker Paul Ryan saying rising deficit demanded action on the popular entitlement programs.

“I’m looking for his campaign to come forward and disown it,” Biden continued, pointing to his 2020 campaign proposals designed to shore up Social Security. “But they haven’t done it yet.”

The video in question, circulated on Twitter by a top Sanders adviser, does not appear to be altered. But the short clip omits Biden’s larger argument over how Ryan handled the 2017 tax cuts and subsequent budget debates. A separate Sanders’ adviser included a transcript of Biden’s remarks in the video clip in a separate campaign newsletter. He added other, more extended video, of Biden as a U.S. senator in 1995 and presidential candidate in 2007 explaining his support for a more austere federal budget, including putting Social Security and Medicare “on the table.”

The video in question, circulated on Twitter by a top Sanders adviser, does not appear to be altered. But the short clip omits Biden’s larger argument over how Ryan handled the 2017 tax cuts and subsequent budget debates. A separate Sanders’ adviser included a transcript of Biden’s remarks in the video clip in a separate campaign newsletter. He added other, more extended video, of Biden as a U.S. senator in 1995 and presidential candidate in 2007 explaining his support for a more austere federal budget, including putting Social Security and Medicare “on the table.”

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/01/18/biden-rips-sanders-campaign-social-security-attacks/41026739/
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Arkansas Granny

(31,484 posts)
13. He's trying to pick Trump's opponent. He's still voting for Trump in the general.
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:45 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
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empedocles

(15,751 posts)
14. Not all of HH's fan base will get the rw why he supports Sanders, guess its
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:46 PM
Jan 2020

pays off on media play?

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highplainsdem

(48,732 posts)
15. Hewitt added that he'll vote for Trump in the GE after he votes for Sanders in the primary.
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:48 PM
Jan 2020

Couldn't be more obvious that he's trying to encourage other Trump supporters to vote for Sanders in the primary, knowing that Sanders has no chance against Trump.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
16. That does bring up a problem that might occur in primaries. GOPers crossing over.
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:53 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Eyeball_Kid

(7,410 posts)
17. Hewitt is a diabolically evil person. He's making this announcement to split the vote. He's lying.
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:54 PM
Jan 2020

Hewitt is a GOP propagandist and has been so for years, possibly decades. He is not interested in Sanders for anything but setting up Trump's re-election.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

Kahuna7

(2,531 posts)
19. That guy loves trump. Now why would he announce that he's voting for Bernie?
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 12:56 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
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VarryOn

(2,343 posts)
21. This is why I hate open primaries...
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 01:07 PM
Jan 2020

At my family Christmas gathering, there was conversation at the table among my very conservative family over which Dem to vote for in the Arkansas primary. Sanders was the consensus.

My favorite sweet aunt leaned over to me at one point and told me she would vote for whoever I told her to. She knows I’m a Democrat. Even though she’s Republican, you couldnt meet a kinder woman.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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dalton99a

(81,091 posts)
23. POS Reagan worshipper wants to protect the tax scam
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 01:22 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
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Joe Biden
 

Fla Dem

(23,354 posts)
24. Look for many conservatives voting for Bernie in the primaries where no party affiliation is needed.
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 01:28 PM
Jan 2020

Admits he's voting for Trump. Wants a "clear choice between an authentic, traditional socialist and all the people who just pretend to be"

In other words he wants the candidate ( traditional socialist) he thinks most of the voting moderate and center right voters would either vote against, or not vote. Using Bernie as a ruse.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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NYMinute

(3,256 posts)
25. It's the republicans who are driving Bernie's poll numbers up
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 01:29 PM
Jan 2020

Other than the core devotees, no long term Democrat will ever vote for Sanders.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
27. This is a major Republican chaos operation staring to divide the democrats at every level
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 01:30 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

dalton99a

(81,091 posts)
28. +1. This guy is hardcore rightwing
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 01:32 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
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brokephibroke

(1,883 posts)
29. Hewitt is just another RW shock jock
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 01:51 PM
Jan 2020

Why NBC lends him credibility is beyond me.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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Mike Nelson

(9,903 posts)
30. Hugh Hewitt helps...
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 01:52 PM
Jan 2020

... pick the Democratic nominee? something is wrong with this picture.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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Joe Biden
 

highplainsdem

(48,732 posts)
31. Tom Nichols tweet:
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 01:54 PM
Jan 2020






Shorter @hughhewitt - I am voting in the primary for Bernie Sanders because the reality TV star who owns what's left of the brains of my listeners has been talking about it for days and when the Dear Leader says it, it's not a suggestion.
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MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
32. That slimy asshole will vote in the Democratic primary
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 02:17 PM
Jan 2020

for the candidate Trump most wants to run against.

Many Republicans will be doing the same thing in open primary states. Do Sanders supporters welcome these votes from conservative Republicans? Is winning important enough to allow Republicans to determine the outcome?

Important questions everyone should ask themselves, I think.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
33. So Virginia Sander Supporters Will Stand with Hugh Hewitt?
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 02:20 PM
Jan 2020

Really? This is ratfucking taken to the next level by Republicans, but will Sanders supporters celebrate it?

Will Sanders welcome Hewitt's support? Will he accept Hewitt's endorsement? Trumps?

Time to say NO to Republicans.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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Cicada

(4,533 posts)
35. Predictit projects Sanders is more likely to defeat Trump
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 03:55 PM
Jan 2020

Maybe there is something in Predictit I don’t understand. But they have the odds of Sanders winning the presidency now at 22%, and the odds of him being the nominee as 31%. Doesn’t that imply he has a 71% chance of winning if he is the nominee, 22 divided by 31? For Biden they have him as also 22% to become president but 40% likely to be the nominee. So his odds of winning if he is the nominee is only 55%, 22 divided by 40.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
36. That is not how that website works
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 03:56 PM
Jan 2020

Last edited Sun Jan 19, 2020, 05:01 PM - Edit history (2)

If I were to vote in a presidential
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Cicada

(4,533 posts)
39. I think that's how Bayesian probability works
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 04:04 PM
Jan 2020
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Cha

(295,929 posts)
37. I don't have a tv.. I've heard the name.. but
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 03:58 PM
Jan 2020

who the **** is hugh Hewitt and why should I care?

Thanks Goth

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booley

(3,855 posts)
38. Oh No A Concern Troll!
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 04:00 PM
Jan 2020

Yep, believe that one vote will cancel out the countless independents that would vote for Sanders in the General.

BTW, how is Biden doing among independents? You know, those voters that Democrats need in order to win?

If I were to vote in a presidential
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JohnnyRingo

(18,581 posts)
40. He hasn't had much good to say about Trump for 3 years.
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 05:08 PM
Jan 2020

...but I still don't trust his motives.

He was a local kid here in NE Ohio and everyone who went to school with him said he was weird. I guess that translates to talent on the right.

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Cha

(295,929 posts)
41. Malcom Nance: DON'T BE FOOLED.
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 05:18 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
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Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
43. GOP support of sanders show that he is the weakest candidate
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 06:30 AM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
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UniteFightBack

(8,231 posts)
44. They are corrupt and this is how they win. We must not let them anymore. nt
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 10:47 AM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
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Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
45. The GOP really wants to run against the weakest possible candidate
Wed Jan 22, 2020, 05:32 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
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