If Democrats Hadn’t Embraced Crazy, Howard Schultz Wouldn’t Be A Threat To Them

[Blackrook]

If Democrats Hadn’t Embraced Crazy, Howard Schultz Wouldn’t Be A Threat To Them

But what Schultz’s potential candidacy really does more than anything else, and why the establishment really hates the idea of it, is it exposes just how crazy they’ve gone. Even an only semi-sane Democrat next to a lunatic radical leftist pulls back the curtain on how far left they’ve gone as a party. Schultz admits the country can’t afford the Democratic Party’s new proposals for “free” everything, no matter how much they tax the rich.

I don’t blame Democrats for worrying, but they’re worrying for the wrong reasons. The possible entry of Schultz does threaten them, but not because he’d pull votes from them, it’s because their current positions could drive votes to him. A man having a screaming match with a lamppost looks even crazier when standing next to another man simply having a casual conversation with one.

It’s not the fault of the former Starbucks CEO that the Democratic Party has abandoned sanity and blue collar America for the outrage mob. To paraphrase Jeremiah Wright, whose racism and hatred of America are now mainstream liberal dogma, their chickens are coming home to roost.

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The article is spot on. Howard Schultz is perfectly suited to get the votes of all Democrats who are alarmed by how far the party has lurched to the left in recent months.

 

[JGalt]

If Democrats Hadn’t Embraced Crazy, Howard Schultz Wouldn’t Be A Threat To Them

But what Schultz’s potential candidacy really does more than anything else, and why the establishment really hates the idea of it, is it exposes just how crazy they’ve gone. Even an only semi-sane Democrat next to a lunatic radical leftist pulls back the curtain on how far left they’ve gone as a party. Schultz admits the country can’t afford the Democratic Party’s new proposals for “free” everything, no matter how much they tax the rich.

I don’t blame Democrats for worrying, but they’re worrying for the wrong reasons. The possible entry of Schultz does threaten them, but not because he’d pull votes from them, it’s because their current positions could drive votes to him. A man having a screaming match with a lamppost looks even crazier when standing next to another man simply having a casual conversation with one.

It’s not the fault of the former Starbucks CEO that the Democratic Party has abandoned sanity and blue collar America for the outrage mob. To paraphrase Jeremiah Wright, whose racism and hatred of America are now mainstream liberal dogma, their chickens are coming home to roost.

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The article is spot on. Howard Schultz is perfectly suited to get the votes of all Democrats who are alarmed by how far the party has lurched to the left in recent months.

The Democrat's craziness is making it real easy for Trump win term #2.

 

[BuckToothMoron]

Howard Schultz can do more for the Democrats than Trump did for the Republicans. Trump was an outsider that forced the establishment GOP to look at themselves. Schultz could get them democrats to abandon the wackos like Warren, sanders and AOC. But he will also draw from moderate conservatives who think Trump is an embarrassment, people like me. He is a disrupter.

 

[Blackrook]

Howard Schultz can do more for the Democrats than Trump did for the Republicans. Trump was an outsider that forced the establishment GOP to look at themselves. Schultz could get them democrats to abandon the wackos like Warren, sanders and AOC. But he will also draw from moderate conservatives who think Trump is an embarrassment, people like me. He is a disrupter.

Good. Our system needs to be disrupted. The choice last time was between Clinton and Trump. All normal people were disqualified.

 

[Care4all]

Schultz felt Democrats were a threat to him winning the Democratic primary, too much competition, thus he is trying the independent route.....

 

[Blackrook]

Schultz felt Democrats were a threat to him winning the Democratic primary, too much competition, thus he is trying the independent route.....

Crazy people control the primary process in the Democratic Party. Schultz is a normal person, so he wouldn't stand a chance.

 

[basquebromance]

Sherrod Brown, in Iowa: "Yeah, I mean you got this idiot Schultz running, maybe. He’s an idiot, I mean, he’s a total idiot."

 

[Mac1958]

If Democrats Hadn’t Embraced Crazy, Howard Schultz Wouldn’t Be A Threat To Them

True.

The Regressive Left is in control right now, right when the party could have taken over the middle.

Schultz is fucked, of course, and I'd be very surprised if he made it to the general.
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[BluesLegend]

The left are crazy nut jobs who live in fantasy land, and they are now in charge of the Democratic party.

 

[basquebromance]

It’s a good bet that the press is making too much of Howard Schultz’s presidential trial balloon. he isn’t officially in the race, doesn’t have anything resembling a coherent platform, and has no prior experience in politics.

The problem is that Schultz’s rollout has been so clumsy that journalists find it irresistible to mock him.

 

[basquebromance]

some of the similarities between Trump’s and Schultz’s biographies: outer-borough boys made good; billionaires; lack of political experience; a disastrous stint owning a sports franchise; a history of donating money to both parties, etc.

 

[Crepitus]

If Democrats Hadn’t Embraced Crazy, Howard Schultz Wouldn’t Be A Threat To Them

But what Schultz’s potential candidacy really does more than anything else, and why the establishment really hates the idea of it, is it exposes just how crazy they’ve gone. Even an only semi-sane Democrat next to a lunatic radical leftist pulls back the curtain on how far left they’ve gone as a party. Schultz admits the country can’t afford the Democratic Party’s new proposals for “free” everything, no matter how much they tax the rich.

I don’t blame Democrats for worrying, but they’re worrying for the wrong reasons. The possible entry of Schultz does threaten them, but not because he’d pull votes from them, it’s because their current positions could drive votes to him. A man having a screaming match with a lamppost looks even crazier when standing next to another man simply having a casual conversation with one.

It’s not the fault of the former Starbucks CEO that the Democratic Party has abandoned sanity and blue collar America for the outrage mob. To paraphrase Jeremiah Wright, whose racism and hatred of America are now mainstream liberal dogma, their chickens are coming home to roost.

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The article is spot on. Howard Schultz is perfectly suited to get the votes of all Democrats who are alarmed by how far the party has lurched to the left in recent months.

Billionaire CEOs are a threat to everyone.

 

[basquebromance]

Neither Schultz nor any of his billionaire peers is going to be able to match Trump, because they don’t have the right views—they probably don’t think there were good people in the Charlottesville ranks. And even if they did, they would be unwilling to say them out loud because of the reputational damage they’d sustain, whereas Trump is immune to shame.

That leaves Schultz trying to replicate Trump’s success while advocating for milquetoast views with no clear constituency. Not only is Schultz pushing on a locked door, but there’s no one on the other side.

 

[BS Filter]

Schultz is a threat to Democrats. They're going crazy.

 

[basquebromance]

His plan is to skip the grueling Democratic primary and buy his way past one tier of certain electoral failure, jumping straight to the general. Once there, he’ll spend just enough of his personal fortune to split the anti-Trump vote and re-elect the dumber version of himself currently in the White House.

 

[basquebromance]

"At one point, teen Howard curses his mother out (hurling “a certain four-letter curse word followed by ‘off’”). Then just before dinner, he blithely goes to take a shower, not hearing his father come home. Dad bursts into the shower and punches Howard.

Howard leaves Canarsie, meets a girl in the Hamptons, gets married, then moves to Seattle to work for a coffee company called Starbucks. He goes on a trip to Italy, visits a café in Milan, and has the Eureka moment about opening espresso bars in America."

 

[task0778]

It would be interesting to see how much support Schultz can get from his side of the aisle, and then maybe if somebody like Mark Cuban ran for Prez on the GOP side, how much support would the two of them garner? Might we be seeing the possible beginnings of a viable 3rd political party? Maybe, maybe not. Cuban said in an interview back in December that if he did run for office it would be as a Repub; I don't see either guy winning their party's nomination, but I wonder how support is out there in both parties for more moderate candidates who are more interested in compromise and cooperation and moving the country forward than they are in winning the next election.