I. Kesha Rogers picks up an endorsement.
This week began on a high note for Kesha Rogers, who is in a runoff for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, as Lyndon LaRouche, the leader of the resilient fringe movement to which she has belonged for a decade, offered a most dire endorsement of her candidacy.
“The United States will be destroyed unless Kesha is elected in her campaign,†said the 91-year-old LaRouche, who ran for president eight times, including one campaign conducted from a prison cell. “Anyone who is opposed to her is an enemy of the United States. It’s true.â€
It’s an endorsement that always seems to sink candidates. See, for instance, John Kerry in 2004 — never quite recovered from that one.
Let the Debates commence.
POINT:Â As the economy tanks, there is always the danger that impoverished voters could rally behind an FDR Democrat like Kesha Rogers or Elizabeth Warren, which would spell trouble for the 1%. Therefore, Mr. Alameel has been selected to squander a few million of his dollars (he can afford to do that) in order to stop Ms. Rogers and re-elect Cornyn.
Counterpoint:Â Lyndon LaRouche and his cult followers such as Kesha Rogers might try to claim the mantle of FDR now that they think it is expedient, but LaRouche earlier attacked FDR as “fascist” and likened the economic policies of the New Deal to those of Nazi Finance minister Hjalmar Schacht. Kesha Rogers is not a Democrat and should not be running in the Democratic primary.
http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Cult.LaroucheFDR
The campaign news comes tumbling about uninterestingly. (And sometimes interesting… is this one of the worst campaign ads ever? And this is an interesting comment: Rogers identifies as a “LaRouche Democrat,†but she’s managed to break further into the mainstream than her movement’s leader.)
The request for polling, and time has probably run out.
With Democrats coming out in full force against Kesha Rogers, and this being set as a marker with which to judge something:
As has been stated many times on this site: Kesha Rogers is not a Democrat. Â She will face the independently wealthy David Alameel in the May runoff. Alameel has plenty of money to run a campaign and has put together a professional team to get him elected while Ms. Rogers is essentially broke and running an amateurish operation. So, the question of who is likely to win this runoff is not in question, rather it is the margin and the strength of the Texas Democratic Party. A strong performance by Alameel would be a strong statement by Texas Democrats that they are organized, informed and ready to vote in November. If Mr. Rogers has a strong showing, it could be a sign that Texas Democrats are not yet ready to compete on the big stage in November.
Maybe? And…
With few runoffs in local races, this should be a low turnout affair – I’ll set the under/over at 200,000 votes, about what there was in the 2006 Democratic Senate primary runoff. Which is fine, since these should be the most plugged-in voters, thus the most likely to know not to vote for Kesha.
Maybe?
What is the Kesha Rogers plan to get to 50 percent plus one? (I basically agree here that in the crapshoot of the Democratic Senate Primary contest Almeel did reasonably well getting close to 50 percent)…  Is there an opening in the way of Republicans who didn’t vote in the initial primary? Er… no. That would entail voters not energized in the intial primary somehow now being surprisingly energized by voting for Kesha Rogers, but here’s your … pitch from out in the ether.
The $64,000,000 question: Why would a conservative or a Republican who hadn’t been smoking too much reefer WANT to vote in a demoKKKrat primary??
The other reason is that, in real life, you want to maximally avoid choices between good and evil. Any time you have a choice between good and evil, evil can win. You want all of your choices in life to be between good and good, sort of good and really good, or really good and super good. In 1961 the US had two political parties which while markedly different in their approaches, were both reasonably patriotic. We would all be better off if that situation could be restored. If Kesha gets past the runoff, then a first step towards that objective would have been taken and you’d still have five months to make up your mind for the election in November.
And now time to play a game of “Scalia versus Rogers“… with this item.
Yet — and you must for the moment overlook the fact that she would have to get elected in order to help bring an Obama impeachment trial to reality — if she were on the November ballot, the Tea Party faction that opposed John Cornyn so strongly (well over a third of GOP primary voters just two months ago)Â would have a rather humorous dilemma:
— vote for Cornyn the RINO?
— or vote for the black Democrat who wants to impeach Obama?
Hm.
DISPLAYING A picture at political rallies of President Obama with a Hitler-like moustache does seem a little over the top even in Texas. When you consider the candidate with the anti-Obama slant is a Democrat you really have to wonder.
Everything’s Bigger In Texas. ™
She has one supporter with… democratic bonafides.
Elizabeth Jennings, the secretary of the Sharpstown Democrats Club in Houston, said that Rogers’ stance on banking reform and support of NASA won her support. She added that the party shouldn’t be blindly supporting the president, who she believes has overstepped his bounds.
That’s your “Point”. Here’s your “Counterpoint“.
She is truly insane. Please do NOT vote a straight dem ticket in TX!!
She’s ready 4 a one-way trip 2 the LOONIEFARM, or mental institution if U like.
And on no support with politicians downticket…
Watkins can also rely on Democratic support groups like Battleground Texas to be in Dallas County with their voter turnout strategies. And if businessman David Alameel can get by Kesha Rogers in the May 27 U.S. Senate runoff, Watkins will benefit from his campaign. Alameel has pledged to spend whatever it takes on his underdog effort.
Just curious… what’s an “Emergency Town Hall Meeting“? One where the politician on the stage is the “dining room table”?
Good to see David Alameel is out on the hustlings. Finally. Kesha Rogers is making her into this church, and … don’t make me laugh.
For someone willing to make the argumentum ad Hitlerum you’d think she’d have a better answer when Buzz asks her to define Nazism.
Into the Llano Tea Party.
ITEM NUMBER TWO
Hm. Why is the conservative Human Events making a reference to this here?
Paul Gallagher, on the economic staff of Executive Intelligence Review, told Watchdog.org that Dodd-Frank is “riddled with loopholes†that pose a grave, but little-known, threat to U.S. consumers.
A little embarrassing, and we see a bit more from the mouth of Washington Times Kendric Ward — noted in the past — as it counters the point made by the Conservative Commentary Magazine.
Tom Gross, probably Europe’s leading observer of the Middle East to whose work I have linked before, points out on his website that the U.S. State Department has become a “cultural partner†with the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, which this year has run from April 30 until May 5. […]
He notes, rightly, that there are many books on display that have absolutely nothing to do with Israel, Jews, or conspiracy theories. Still, no other U.S. government agency would even consider sponsoring a conference that promoted the works, for example, of racists David Duke and Louis Farrakhan, or conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche, even if it also sold books by J.K Rowling or Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys.
Also note this tiff between the conservative media org “News Busters” and some blogging at the daily kos.
It’s in regards to making Cliven Bundy a cause celebre. And so from daily kos:
There is no similar phenomenon on the Left, not even close. We didn’t rush to embrace Lyndon LaRouche because he said mean things about George W. Bush because we’re apparently much better at sniffing out the crazies. There is no one in liberal punditry as consistently wrong as Bill Kristol, Dick Morris or Jennifer Rubin, because we don’t need to bend reality to sleep at night. And when genuine liberals go down, like Anthony Weiner, Elliot Spitzer and John Edwards, we don’t feel compelled to rally around them and invent conspiracy theories. If someone is a scumbag, party ID doesn’t rescue them from our scorn.
The text in bold is interesting, because I don’t know what the entirety of the message comes from boldening this text. Comments in the “bottom half of the Internet” are predictable, as we move about finding points of equivalence — ranging from relatively understandable to nuts — I will point out, for example, Mumia Abu Jamal supporters are roundly dismissed by Michael Moore.
Then there’s this standard attempt at causalities… presenting.
I believe there is a connection between MORON Paul and Lydon LaRouche cult. Lanna. Yes, they have never learned their history have they! truebearing.
Careful. You may just have Rand Paul as the Republican Presidential nominee in a couple years, and have to choose him or Hillary Clinton.
ITEM NUMBER THREE:Â Yet another in a long line of deluded stunts from out in the political fringe…. another of those “Pretend we’re ousting Obama by protesting and demanding he leave the White House”… also, all the Democratic leaders in Congress, but surprisingly (or maybe not) none of the Republican leaders.
And it’s endorsed by.,..
An Open Letter to Operation American Spring
As you undoubtedly know, Lyndon LaRouche and his political movement have been in the forefront of the drive to impeach Barack Obama as was earlier the case in respect to George W. Bush and his acting President Dick Cheney, in both cases for systemic violations of the U.S. Constitution. We therefore support the effort you are sponsoring along with Operation Overpass to impeach Barack Obama.
And I guess they’ll be stomping the grounds with this message…
American statesman Lyndon LaRouche today called on Congress to launch immediate impeachment proceedings against President Barack Obama before he starts a thermonuclear world war conflict with Russia and China.
A message relayed by none other than the blog of Direct Descendant of, Roman General, and Consul of Rome, BRITTIUS, of the Imperial Roman Army. Impressive credentials!
On the matter of this:
Speaking to a Tea Party group late last year, retired Army general and Fox News pundit Paul Vallely insisted that he doesn’t want to see a revolution take place…but if a revolution does happen then he will be happy to lead it.
Vallely reminisced about how he once discussed plans to “surround the White House and surround the Capitol building†with 250,000 marines, adding that “it’s going to take physical presence†to make elected officials heed their demands.
“I’m not inciting a revolution but we’ve got to get more physical and stand up and protest,†Vallely insisted. “I don’t want to be criticized for starting a revolution, but I’d certainly head it if we had to. We all love a good fight if it’s worth it, right?â€
Then there’s…
Tea Party Tribune Calls on Readers to Support Glass-Steagall
I have a “user collection” notion of what “The Tea Party Tribune” is.
And the debate over foreign policy runs as to FAIR picking apart this line from out of right field …andÂ
we get this
headache…
From Lyndon LaRouche’s Executive Intelligence Review through Ron Paul’s newsletter through The Nation and The Guardian, the story was essentially the same: little of the factual history of the protests, but instead a play on the idea of a nationalist, fascist or even Nazi coup d’état.
In other words, not only Russian and ex-Ukrainian officials, but also various Western media outlets–with the most oddball and marginal listed first–are putting forth the “propaganda” claim that Yanukovych was overthrown by the far right.
A radio station that broadcast a variety of programs over the years, in English, Spanish and Korean, fell silent recently and is now in receivership.
The Federal Communications Commission transferred control of WTRI AM radio on May 2 to Roger Rafson, president of CMS Station Brokerage, which specializes in selling small to mid-size radio stations, according to its website. […]
The tiny station, at 214 13th Ave., Brunswick, began broadcasting in 1966. A daytime-only station, it went from country music to a political outlet for Lyndon LaRouche from 1986 to 1991.
The station returned to music and in 2005 was renamed “Vegas Radio.” That format included Frank Sinatra and similar singers. In 2007, the station switched to Spanish-language programming.
By 2009, the station was Radio Earl, with classic country music. From January 2010 to September 2010, the station leased it signal to WTHU, a Christian-based talk radio AM station in Thurmont.
Spanish was once again the language of the station at the beginning of 2011, but by May 2011, the format was “eclectic pop music.” The last broadcast period, from May 2012 to March 2013, was “Radio Asia,” via a Korean program based in New Jersey.
Interesting too.
In one of LaRouche’s latest genius essays, “Build the Real American Party,” he mentions something odd in a footnote: “See H. Graham Lowry, How The Nation Was Won, Vol I 1630-1754, Executive Intelligence Review 1988. Graham had been among the very most accomplished historians for the account of the birth and roots of American Revolution, as far as he had been permitted in presenting the full account. Unfortunately, some scoundrels had intervened, behind my back, to prevent Graham’s second volume from being produced: not a mere chronicle, but uniquely insightful living history throughout.”
Who were these “scoundrels” and how (and why) did they “intervene”?
A few weeks ago someone posted on the LaRouche Facebook page that they were hearing impaired and wished the webcast was subtitled, well now it is! It’s funny and somewhat easier because you can read LaRouche’s entire sentences instead of listening to him fumbling around trying to fit the question into the party line.
Yes. Now the hearing impaired get to get their Larouche on.Â
Whoop!
ITEM NUMBER FIVE
Dateline New Jersey
Members of the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee were at the Marcy Plaza on Route 49 today as part of a tour of upstate New York
John Schialdone says their message is clear — impeach President Obama.
The LaRouche PAC also made stops in Albany and Syracuse.
The Tri-State area will never be the Same.
ITEM NUMBER SIX
And another great congressional campaign.
Trott and Bentivolio will square off in the Aug. 5 primary election. For Democrats, several candidates are vying for the nomination: Bloomfield Township urologist Anil Kumar, former U.S. State Department counter-terrorism specialist Bobby McKenzie, Lyndon LaRouche activist Bill Roberts and Birmingham resident and former syndicated radio host and TV commentator Nancy Skinner.
Two years ago, Roberts got a percentage of the vote that would get him the nomination this time out. He is the one most likely to do so this time out.
Bill Roberts the LaRouche-bag.
Interesting to note, Nancy Skinner — a radio host who lost in the 2004 Democratic Senate nomination that was won by Obama. Single digits in a large field. This race appears to have two “names” contending… we’ll just have to wait and see.
Back in New Jersey, Diane Sare has a zero rating from NARAL.
ITEM NUMBER SEVEN
Jeff Rense. The second commenter has his doubts about this message.
