While it wasn’t on the program for the 2017 SDDP McGovern Day Dinner, apparently former Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin was on the podium introducing her husband, former Congressman Max Sandlin who represented a district in Texas as a Democrat, until he lost election .
Stephanie explained how Max had been working with candidates, and introduced him to the podium, where he gave a talk which explained why Republicans and Donald Trump were elected in the last election.
Because (allegedly) the public doesn’t get it. They just don’t get it:
I suspect the exact opposite is true. The public DOES get it. They were just tired of the message from Democrats.
Dare I say….hoodwinked?!?!?!?!
What the public didn’t get was how Hillary’s vagina was going to solve all the world’s problems. While Trump was offering a lot of ideas, Hillary was telling us to vote for her because she has a vagina. And all the other Democrats were riding on her vagina’s coat-tails.
Max was right: the public didn’t get it. they couldn’t imagine a vagina with coat-tails until the women’s marches in January, when vaginas wearing winter coats were running in the streets. By then it was too late.
Looks like little Timmy learned a new word in health class today.
Good God. What did your mother ever do to deserve such misogyny?
Wasn’t he addressing the public? Maybe he should have said, Democrats don’t get it, they just don’t get it.
Listen to the entire 28-second clip. Max says that the public doesn’t get it “because we don’t give it to ’em. We [Democrats] don’t have a message.” He goes on to say that that’s going to change.
Will it? Frankly, it seems doubtful to me. Democrats are facing the same kind of internecine feuding that is threatening to sink the GOP. For the Democrats, it’s the left versus the far left, with Democratic moderates largely ignored.
For the GOP, it’s arguably worse, with the Freedom Caucus struggling with moderates in the House, with Paul Ryan struggling to achieve unity while being identified with “the establishment.” The Senate GOP stands aloof, seeing no political benefit getting involved in the House fight. Donald Trump campaigned as a populist conservative, but has no problem being as pragmatic as necessary to achieve “success” as defined by passing legislation.
I’m reminded of my conversation with a former SDGOP chair. We were discussing the difference between East River and West River Republicans. “In Rapid City, they can’t find candidates they think are conservative enough. Sioux Falls is like Bosnia – several warring factions that can’t agree on anything at all.”
At USD several years ago, Newt Gingrich spoke of a “center-right” governing solution, evoking William F. Buckley’s injunction to support the most conservative candidate who can win an election.
Hard to see how Republicans have it worse when their problems are those of the winning majority, and the Democrats are in denial and at war within their party.
I think your former SDGOP chair friend is entirely wrong.