California Democrats Reject Hard-Line Leftist Senator Dianne Feinstein

[StLucieBengal]

https://www.dailywire.com/news/27561/stupid-party-california-democrats-reject-hard-line-ben-shapiro

If Feinstein isn’t leftist enough for Californian Democrats then what does that have to say about where California is going. Absolutely crazy. Sad commentary about where the democrat party is heading.

Quote:THE STUPID PARTY: California Democrats Reject Hard-Line Leftist Senator Dianne Feinstein For Insufficient Radicalism

Ben ShapiroFebruary 26, 2018

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has been a member of the United States Senate since 1992. In that position, she’s been one of the most reliably hard-Left members of the body. She wrote the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994. She has a 100% lifetime score from the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and NARAL Pro-Choice America and the League of Conservation Voters, and a 95% lifetime score from the Service Employees International Union. She has a 7% career rating from the National Taxpayers Union, and a 49% lifetime score from the Chamber of Commerce.

That’s not good enough for California Democrats, who refused to endorse her bid for a fifth term on Sunday. Instead, the state Democratic Party nearly endorsed radical State Senate leader Kevin de Leon, and when Feinstein spoke, the crowd chanted, “Time’s up!” Now, does that mean Feinstein loses the race? Of course not. She’s got more money and she’s got more name recognition. But it’s just another indicator that the Democrats are intent on moving further and further Left.

That’s no great surprise, given the near-victory of socialist Bernie Sanders in the Democratic 2016 primaries. But it’s a bad sign for a party that is currently in the minority at every level of federal government, and in most state governments as well. California suffers under a Democratic near-supermajority; the state is running a deficit of nearly $2 trillion, according to supposed fiscal conservative Governor Jerry Brown. The state is overtaxed and overregulated, and businesses are leaving California for states like Texas and Arizona. Quality of life has also declined in cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, where homeless problems have become a national disgrace.

Yet the Democrats want to double down on Leftism. Feinstein, you see, isn’t harsh enough about President Trump, and still cares a whit about national security. That means that she must be ousted in favor of de Leon, who is most famous for sponsoring California’s idiotic “affirmative consent” standard, which essentially obviates due process in cases of rape allegations.

The Republicans may be unpopular in the polls. But if Democrats continue to purge their own successful members because those consistently Leftist members aren’t radical enough, they’ll be relegating themselves to minority status on a long-term basis.

[GMDino]

(02-27-2018, 10:56 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: https://www.dailywire.com/news/27561/stupid-party-california-democrats-reject-hard-line-ben-shapiro

If Feinstein isn’t leftist enough for Californian Democrats then what does that have to say about where California is going.   Absolutely crazy.   Sad commentary about where the democrat party is heading.  

Quote:THE STUPID PARTY: California Democrats Reject Hard-Line Leftist Senator Dianne Feinstein For Insufficient Radicalism


Ben Shapiro

All seriousness aside I'm glad they want to move on to new people and new ideas.  Some of these elected officials have been there long enough.

[Griever]

(02-27-2018, 10:56 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: https://www.dailywire.com/news/27561/stupid-party-california-democrats-reject-hard-line-ben-shapiro

If Feinstein isn’t leftist enough for Californian Democrats then what does that have to say about where California is going.   Absolutely crazy.   Sad commentary about where the democrat party is heading.  

yeah i saw daily wire, ben shapiro, stupid party

that told me enough to know it was gonna be completely biased and a waste of time

and as dino said, good, its about time we move on to different people with different ideas instead of more of the same

[BmorePat87]

As with most of this garbage, the source material provides more insight


https://www.npr.org/2018/02/25/588669505/california-democrats-decline-to-endorse-another-term-for-sen-dianne-feinstein


Feinstein has long had a contentious relationship with the Democratic Party in CA and can hardly be called a "hard-line leftist" simply because she supports Planned Parenthood, Unions, and isn't liked by conservative tax group (though she scores higher than the average Democrat).

Despite delegates not giving her their full support, she maintains popularity with voters.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

If I'm not mistaken, Feinstein is closer to the Center than most of the Left.

I'm cool with the Democrats moving further and further to the Left, it just means that more and more Right leaning people will be elected.

I don't know where Democrats get the idea that moving further left is the answer to all their problems, but keep going to whomever is telling you to.

[GMDino]

(02-27-2018, 05:10 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: If I'm not mistaken, Feinstein is closer to the Center than most of the Left.

I'm cool with the Democrats moving further and further to the Left, it just means that more and more Right leaning people will be elected.

I don't know where Democrats get the idea that moving further left is the answer to all their problems, but keep going to whomever is telling you to.

Is it possible that Democrats appear to be moving left because Republicans are moving right and shifting where the "center" is?

[fredtoast]

(02-27-2018, 05:10 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: If I'm not mistaken, Feinstein is closer to the Center than most of the Left.

I'm cool with the Democrats moving further and further to the Left, it just means that more and more Right leaning people will be elected.

I don't know where Democrats get the idea that moving further left is the answer to all their problems, but keep going to whomever is telling you to.

It is actually happening in both parties.  It is the result of most districts/states being controlled by one party.  When the opposing party is removed from competition then the remaining candidates from one part move to the more extreme position.

I don't know if you ever watched any of the debates during the primaries when the members of one party are debating against each other, but they are much different from the debates in the general election where they have to try to appeal to  the majority of voters who are more toward the middle. 

[ballsofsteel]

Dailywire.

[StLucieBengal]

(02-27-2018, 05:10 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: If I'm not mistaken, Feinstein is closer to the Center than most of the Left.

I'm cool with the Democrats moving further and further to the Left, it just means that more and more Right leaning people will be elected.

I don't know where Democrats get the idea that moving further left is the answer to all their problems, but keep going to whomever is telling you to.

Center? Dear lord if Feinstein is center then what is happened to this country

[StLucieBengal]

(02-27-2018, 05:22 PM)GMDino Wrote: Is it possible that Democrats appear to be moving left because Republicans are moving right and shifting where the "center" is?

Republicans are not moving to the right. Trump policies are just 90’s democrat policy.

Now if Cruz was President then yes you have a point.

Democrats are moving so far leftist it makes the typical 90’s democrat policy look right wing.

[BmorePat87]

(02-27-2018, 07:17 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Center?   Dear lord if Feinstein is center then what is happened to this country

According to the rating the Daily Garbage Can cited, she has a higher average rating from that conservative tax group than the average Democrat. So she's closer to the center than left of her party. 

[SunsetBengal]

(02-27-2018, 08:08 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: According to the rating the Daily Garbage Can cited, she has a higher average rating from that conservative tax group than the average Democrat. So she's closer to the center than left of her party. 

I agree, She's the closest they have to a true centrist, and now they are rebuking her for not being far Left enough.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/02/25/feinstein-loses-california-democratic-partys-endorsement/

Quote:California Democrats rebuked Sen. Dianne Feinstein at their annual convention this weekend, denying her the party’s endorsement in this year’s Senate race and giving a majority of their votes to her liberal primary challenger.

Just 37 percent of delegates to the statewide convention, held this year in San Diego, backed Feinstein in her bid for a fifth full term. More than 54 percent backed state Senate leader Kevin de León, who entered the race in October and has run to Feinstein’s left on health care, taxes and immigration. Candidates needed 60 percent of the vote to win the party’s endorsement, making Feinstein the first incumbent senator in recent memory who will run in June’s primary without official backing.
“California Democrats are hungry for new leadership that will fight for California values from the front lines, not equivocate on the sidelines,” de León said Sunday morning in a statement. “We all deserve a leader who will take our climate action to Washington and will fight each and every day to protect our human and civil rights, our immigrant families and Dreamers, champion universal healthcare and create good paying middle class jobs.”
Losing at the party’s convention does not stop any candidate from fighting to win in the primary. In 1990, as a candidate for governor of California, Feinstein was denied the party’s endorsement at the convention, in part due to her support for the death penalty. She went on to win the nomination, losing in November to Republican Pete Wilson.
Until Sunday morning, de León had little evidence that his challenge to Feinstein could succeed. The senator entered the year with more than $9.8 million in campaign funds; de León had just $359,261. A February poll from the Public Policy Institute of California found her leading de León by 29 points, albeit with 37 percent of voters undecided. And Feinstein, who since the start of her political career in San Francisco had crossed swords with her party’s left, had voted with the left of her Democratic caucus on issues involving the status of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.
 2:03

Feinstein criticizes Trump administration's immigration actions



Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) spoke out on Jan. 16 against the Trump administration's recent steps to constrain immigration. (Senate Judiciary Committee)

De León’s strong showing at the convention changed the narrative, demonstrating the trouble that Feinstein — who turns 85 this summer — will face in persuading a changing party to get behind her. The state senator has won the backing of more left-leaning unions, such as the Service Employees International Union and the California Nurses Association, and attacked Feinstein for conservative votes she cast after arriving in the Senate in 1993. (She is one of just five Democrats still in the Senate who voted for the Iraq War.)

The contest between Feinstein and de León has emerged as the only serious Democratic primary squabble, as Democrats in redder states such as Indiana and West Virginia are facing only token challenges. But even a bitter showdown in June may end up helping California Democrats. The party’s top-two primary system sends the two candidates who win the most votes in the summer to the general election in November — regardless of their party affiliation.
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In 2016, that system locked Republicans out of a Senate race that was eventually won by Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Ca.). With Donald Trump leading the GOP ticket and no marquee race down the ballot, Democrats swamped Republicans that year, retaining a supermajority in the state legislature and carrying Orange County for the first time since the 1930s — helping Hillary Clinton carry several House districts once comfortably won by Republicans and nudging two of them into retirement.
No Republican running for Senate or governor in California this year has cracked single digits in public polls, raising the possibility of Democrat-only runoffs in November. That has left Republicans hoping that Democrats punch themselves out in crowded races for the Orange County seats. In the 39th District, being vacated this year by Rep. Edward R. Royce ®, eight Democrats and six Republicans are seeking runoff positions; in the 49th District, which Rep. Darrell Issa ® nearly lost in 2016 before retiring this year, five Democrats are running against four Republicans.

The convention provided only a little clarity about the front-runners in those races. In the 49th District, Mike Levin — a first-time candidate backed by Democratic Party star Rep. Adam B. Schiff — won 53 percent of delegate votes, pushing past retired Marine Col. Doug Applegate, who nearly beat Issa but has struggled to raise funds this year. None of their rivals quit the race.

[Dill]

(02-27-2018, 07:19 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Republicans are not moving to the right.   Trump policies are just 90’s democrat policy.    

Now if Cruz was President then yes you have a point.  

Democrats are moving so far  leftist it makes the typical 90’s democrat policy look right wing.

yeah, pro NAFTA and Free Trade.

If the Democrats keep moving left they may in fact become leftists.

[Belsnickel]

(02-27-2018, 07:19 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Republicans are not moving to the right. Trump policies are just 90’s democrat policy.

Now if Cruz was President then yes you have a point.

Democrats are moving so far leftist it makes the typical 90’s democrat policy look right wing.

90's Democrat policies in the realm of fiscal/economic policy are conservative policies. They are the hallmarks of neoliberalism and why there is a movement in the opposite direction. Globalism is a free-market principle. 90's Democrats were and are right wing when compared to center-left ideologies on a global scale and when compared to liberals/Democrats in the first half of the 20th century in America.

[StLucieBengal]

(02-27-2018, 08:08 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: According to the rating the Daily Garbage Can cited, she has a higher average rating from that conservative tax group than the average Democrat. So she's closer to the center than left of her party. 

Scary.

The Democrats are becoming dangerous in so many ways. Thankfully the age of political correctness is over. They need to be called out on a regular basis.

[*michaelsean*]

(02-27-2018, 05:22 PM)GMDino Wrote: Is it possible that Democrats appear to be moving left because Republicans are moving right and shifting where the "center" is?

Well no because this is intra-party.

[GMDino]

(02-27-2018, 10:56 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: https://www.dailywire.com/news/27561/stupid-party-california-democrats-reject-hard-line-ben-shapiro

If Feinstein isn’t leftist enough for Californian Democrats then what does that have to say about where California is going.   Absolutely crazy.   Sad commentary about where the democrat party is heading.  

(02-27-2018, 07:17 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Center?   Dear lord if Feinstein is center then what is happened to this country

(02-27-2018, 07:19 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Republicans are not moving to the right.   Trump policies are just 90’s democrat policy.    

Now if Cruz was President then yes you have a point.  

Democrats are moving so far  leftist it makes the typical 90’s democrat policy look right wing.

(02-27-2018, 08:53 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: I agree, She's the closest they have to a true centrist, and now they are rebuking her for not being far Left enough.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/02/25/feinstein-loses-california-democratic-partys-endorsement/

(02-27-2018, 10:23 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Scary.

The Democrats are becoming dangerous in so many ways.  Thankfully the age of political correctness is over.   They need to be called out on a regular basis.

So after being told repeatedly that she is not a leftist the goalpost not only gets moved it gets torn down and replaced with a net.

Brilliant.

[StLucieBengal]

(02-27-2018, 11:43 PM)GMDino Wrote: So after being told repeatedly that she is not a leftist the goalpost not only gets moved it gets torn down and replaced with a net.

Brilliant.

She is radical as heck.

[treee]

(02-28-2018, 03:14 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: She is radical as heck.

If a centrist looks like a radical to you, what do you think that makes you?

[Griever]

(02-28-2018, 07:00 AM)treee Wrote: If a centrist looks like a radical to you, what do you think that makes you?

a guy who only respects true women