Tim Walz Defends Dick Cheney’s Campaign Support on ‘The Daily Show’
Tim Walz Defends Dick Cheney’s Campaign Support on ‘The Daily Show’
The Democratic vice presidential candidate dropped by ‘The Daily Show’ and chatted with host Jon Stewart about football, gun control, and making room for Republicans in the Democratic Party: “They don’t have a home anymore,” said Walz.
Rational people understand it’s an emergency, and we need to have the biggest tent with the most people in it.
Just not big enough for the left, naturally.
The "center" has run to and supported her so they're getting what they want. If the left wants anything you have to get in the tent first. There's a reason Bernie ran in the Democratic primary. Keep our democracy and work on shifting left via primaries and ballot measures. Otherwise we've got an R dictatorship and I'm not rich enough or white enough to deal with that.
Who is the Dick Cheney/Liz Cheney constituency though? Whose opinion will be swayed by the former VP of a deeply unpopular administration at its end? Or by a former Congresswoman with a infamous last name?
This is a nice-to-have for Democrats, but is it actually moving the needle with voters? Is it actually changing minds or increasing turnout? Harris and her advisors certainly think so, she's out there campaigning with Cheney actively, but where is the movement in the numbers, cause I'm not seeing it.
In other words: Yes, Stalin is a murderous dickbag who won't let us use his territory to bomb Japan and steals every piece of technology we send him but we need him to beat Hitler.
forging that relationship at the time was helpful and a clear benefit and, unlike then, the poll numbers are making it clear that campaigning with support from war criminals is not helpful.
we need to have the biggest tent with the most people in it.
Which is why we're gonna completely ignore the sizeable uncommitted movement and probably the entire state of Michigan.
Exactly. As long as they dump them as soon as they win. The thought of having a Cheney in the Harris cabinet is unacceptable.
If she wins, there will suddenly be a ton of "former" MAGA that are suddenly "center-right" and ready to cooperate.
Remember when Obama tried that?
As long as they dump them as soon as they win.
They won't. We're watching D jump right in response to the Republican own-goal of the past few years.
somehow
It’s all about results. That said…
Its stupid. Energize the fucking progressives. There are far more progressives than there are conservatives. There might even be more progressives than there are moderates.
Energize the fucking progressives.
Yes. She could be capitalizing on popular progressive ideas, like healthcare or lowering grocery prices. These ideas have traction with groups beyond just leftists. She could have run an Obama style campaign, rather than be Biden 2.0. Instead we get Cheneys and "opportunity economy" for small business owners.
There are far more progressives than there are conservatives.
Doubt. Gallup has 48% of Americans identifying has Republican or Republican leaning. Unless you're telling me that self identifying Republicans are not conservative, but are in fact made up of mostly "moderates" or secret progressives, I don't know how else you came to this conclusion.
There might even be more progressives than there are moderates.
Also doubt. Where's the data on this?
At this point, I've started assuming all of these polls are bullshit.
Architect of the greatest war crime in the 21st century but hey, welcome to the resistance!
Enemy of my enemy is my friend. For now.
It's like an alien invasion happening. Except a complete fascist takeover. And not even the Cheney's are willing to go that far.
Once this is over, if the good guys win, we can all go back to hating each other.
It's been an all-hands-on-deck moment since 2016, and this is the culmination. Anybody willing to help is on the team. Anybody refusing help for the team is not on the team.
So not only is Dick Cheney on the team (at least right now), he's more on the team than some progressives.
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