Gretchen Whitmer was Democrats' poor
choice to respond to Trump
Washington Examiner,
by
Tori Sachs
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
2/6/2020 4:37:37 AM
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is commonly referred to in Washington as a master tactician. But like the partisan impeachment fiasco and the humiliating Iowa caucus disaster, her selection of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to deliver this year’s response to President Trump’s State of the Union address was a major strategic misstep. The selection of Whitmer was a politically calculated decision to introduce a relatively new name on the national scene from a state that will play a critical role in November. The irony of Whitmer’s selection, however, is that she represents exactly what is wrong with today’s Democratic Party — unrealistic promises, massive tax hikes,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Upright2 2/6/2020 5:37:05 AM (No. 309224)
I swear that she really says Dummocrat ... Dummocrats... Dummocratic Party.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Krause 2/6/2020 5:55:11 AM (No. 309235)
Michigan is a blue collar state. Trump has helped blue collar people the most, by far.
46 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/6/2020 5:58:53 AM (No. 309240)
The dimmies wanted a new and pretty face to represent them in countering the SOTU but they forgot that the woman had to speak. When her big tax was not approved, she took her spite out on children and the poor, the dimmies bread and butter. Forty five cents a gallon? Truly stupid governing but then Michigan is known for its poor choices in politicians.
53 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
NancyD 2/6/2020 6:10:08 AM (No. 309252)
She's the Governor of my State, she's wacky and a typical democrat panderer. Pelosi also picked our past Governor Jennifer Granholm to give the dem response, it was the same type of bs. She didn't end up as a "rising star" either..
45 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 2/6/2020 6:48:53 AM (No. 309295)
If Madame Pothole is a rising star in the dem party, next November will be a GOP landslide of biblical proportions...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
HerbVA 2/6/2020 7:10:59 AM (No. 309317)
At least she spoke in English, unlike the woman who gave the other response.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MSUDoc 2/6/2020 7:20:41 AM (No. 309327)
Gretch wants to impose a 45 cents per gallon gas tax to fix the roads here. Guaranteed that if it passed, less than 5 cents of that would actually go to the roads. Because Democrats.
61 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 2/6/2020 7:32:43 AM (No. 309338)
Typical Democrat. She failed in raising gas taxes by 45 cents a gallon that was sold to "fix the roads", yet the amendments and crud added on meant that less than 20% would have gone to road repair. Now her next great idea is to float bonds without taxpayer approval to borrow money to fix roads. Somebody else's money.
25 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 2/6/2020 7:50:09 AM (No. 309355)
She is to nice looking to be a Democrat. Maybe when she grows up ... ?
12 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
JrSample 2/6/2020 8:19:07 AM (No. 309391)
They need to come up with a cutesie nickname for her like "Beeto" or "Mary Pete".
10 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 2/6/2020 8:50:05 AM (No. 309419)
I skipped the dim response.
32 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 2/6/2020 8:51:40 AM (No. 309420)
She's Jennifer without the beauty mark. If there is a Dog, we'll only be stuck with her for 4 years.
13 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
cactus 2/6/2020 9:05:59 AM (No. 309436)
Filling a pothole with dirt got me. Proved she knows nothing about repairing roads. In my mind she became a typical no-nothing Democrat. Her voice almost put me to sleep too.
18 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hermoine 2/6/2020 9:11:42 AM (No. 309441)
She was a great juxtaposition -- the Trump Administration is solving the world's problems and she's busy getting people to fill potholes with...DIRT.
23 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
beca 2/6/2020 9:26:09 AM (No. 309465)
Again the Dems can’t do anything right. Blue collar state. Michigan. Trump has helped blue collar workers big time and that’s who they pick. A pretty face. Matter of opinion.
9 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
skacmar 2/6/2020 10:10:36 AM (No. 309538)
Whitmer talked about Muskegon Heights road problems and the Flint water crisis. Both are Democrat run cities. The roads and water systems are both local government responsibilities! Flint created their own water crisis by not maintaining/replacing the the pipes. Muskegon Heights created their own street issues by not maintaining them. All of the "solutions" that Whitmer gave were by local leaders or governors. There was a distinct absence of national Democrat Congressional leaders named on her list of who was able to fix things. Whitmer's $0.45 per gallon gas tax was luckily not implemented. It would have cost my business over $15,000.00 per year!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
snakeoil 2/6/2020 10:41:47 AM (No. 309584)
Wish she had gotten her 45 cent per gallon tax. The the people who elected her could have looked in the mirror and asked themselves: What did I do?
7 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Right Time 2/6/2020 10:42:03 AM (No. 309585)
Gretchen gave us a vivid example of a clueless Democrat.
She went on and on about fixing potholes--even with dirt---, and infrastructure repair, bridge repair, etc.
But all the examples she gave were from DEMOCRAT STATES.
No one ever asked her why it was in all of these states that were Democrat run for years, and collected taxes to repair roads and bridges for years, everything was falling apart and even more taxes are needed.
IT IS THE DEMOCRAT CONTROL that is the problem.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
dbdiva 2/6/2020 11:04:07 AM (No. 309625)
Based on Nancy's current track record I'm surprised she didn't appoint Gov. Good Hair Newsom to give the response! Because, you know, her state is a forward thinking example of great government.
9 people like this.
Communism was a lie in 1846.
174 years later it's still a lie. Sending out this or that party apparatchik in a skirt doesn't change the fact that the lie is getting harder and harder to sell.
13 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 2/6/2020 11:26:24 AM (No. 309661)
Dems have no leadership and they have no bench. After they rammed BOCare down our throats, they lost massively in state elections. They still held on in very liberal states but they are all Leftists and, as exhibited, do NOT have good stories to tell.
Gretchen shouldn't be embarrassed however. Look how Nasty Pelousy, Schiffty, Nadless, and Chucky have fared lately. There is no one with real political skill to train the up and comers. The party is imploding with the voters and in its skills.
6 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
Smart11344 2/6/2020 12:19:27 PM (No. 309760)
She was more ditzy than most blonds. Apologies to blonds with brains.
2 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
inspectorudy 2/6/2020 1:16:23 PM (No. 309846)
What was amazing a clue as to how clueless she is that she bragged about a kid filling potholes with dirt! Number one, filling potholes is a state function which means she and her party have failed. Number two, you never fill a pothole with dirt because it will wash ut after the first rain. And three, why is a kid doing that DOT's job in the first place? Number four, she is so stupid that she is bragging about a kid filling potholes with dirt not being smart enough to realize that makes her administration look extremely incompetent! She looks an awful lot like a Pelosi protege!
4 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
cat2 2/6/2020 1:33:59 PM (No. 309871)
The writer didn't notice what seemed to me to be, despite a lot of smiling, a certain nastiness, vindictiveness, aggressive manner. Scary. I turned her off.
2 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 2/6/2020 1:58:18 PM (No. 309903)
And did she really say she was filling potholes with dirt?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
hughglass 2/6/2020 8:27:23 PM (No. 310226)
Rats had to dig pretty deep to find a democrat woman who isn't ugly. I was hoping they find delauro
0 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
4Justice 2/6/2020 9:48:23 PM (No. 310290)
Actually there are a lot of people in California that are not leftists. The problem is the DemonRats manipulated the rules, the districting and the elections to gain monopolistic control over the state. They are manipulating each state, one st s time, a little at a time so (non-leftist) people won't notice and don't push back enough to make a difference. Look at Virginia. They are trying to turn Texas too.
Anyway, Witless tried to cut all those services...what was she keeping? Lots of unnecessary bureaucracy, excess state government employees and their fat guaranteed pensions, and other wasteful stuff? I wonder...
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