{"id":31742,"date":"2018-03-12T13:32:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T20:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31742"},"modified":"2018-03-12T13:32:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T20:32:30","slug":"conor-lamb-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/12\/conor-lamb-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Lamb for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We seen to have a lot of discussion here and more at Care2 that one not goose-stepping in lock-step progressive conformity is not an acceptable Democratic candidate.&#160; I disagree.&#160; Conor Lamb, who is running in the Congressional Special Election tomorrow for Pennsylvania&#8217;s 18th Congressional district.&#160; Conor Lamb is a centrist, and if he is elected, I have no doubt that I will disapprove of more than one of his votes.&#160; But consider the alternative.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0312conor_lamb\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0312conor_lamb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0312conor_lamb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"368\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pennsylvania&#8217;s 18th District was Trump country in 2016. But on Sunday, voters there gave a raucous standing ovation to Democrat Conor Lamb.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump made a desperate and disgusting <a href=\"https:\/\/shareblue.com\/steve-mnuchin-trump-funny\/\" target=\"_blank\">last-minute pitch<\/a> for the Republican in the Pennsylvania special election. But many former Trump voters are vocally and enthusiastically backing Democrat Conor Lamb.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night, Trump trotted out <a href=\"https:\/\/shareblue.com\/steve-mnuchin-trump-funny\/\" target=\"_blank\">his familiar mix<\/a> of racism and despotism in service to Republican Rick Saccone. He unleashed hateful attacks on women like California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters and Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren. He smeared members of the press. And he rambled on again about making Mexico pay for his border wall.<\/p>\n<p>But many Pennsylvania voters are no longer interested in what Trump and Saccone are offering.<\/p>\n<p>At a Sunday rally in Waynesburg, Lamb received an uproarious standing ovation from the audience.<\/p>\n<p>And that coal country crowd included \u201ca lot of Trump-voting Dems,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VaughnHillyard\/status\/972898568129470464\" target=\"_blank\">according to<\/a> NBC News\u2019 Vaughn Hillyard&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/shareblue.com\/trump-voters-conor-lamb-pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\">Share Blue<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qXUCiCEsqUI\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/qXUCiCEsqUI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now, raise your hand if you prefer Sick Rick Saccone.&#160; While it&#8217;s true that Lamb will vote against us some of the time, he will voted with is more often than not.&#160; Trump clone, Saccone will vote against us 100% of the time.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course, I&#8217;d prefer that we elect pure progressives everywhere, but we can&#8217;t always have what we want.&#160; When presented with a choice between a centrist Democrat, and an extreme-right Republican, we must throw our support to the Democrat.&#160; Had all lefties done so 2016, we&#8217;d be far better off.&#160; I wish I was bitching about President Clinton&#8217;s centrism, instead of trying to save our home from a Russia-loving Nazi.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We seen to have a lot of discussion here and more at Care2 that one not goose-stepping in lock-step progressive conformity is not an acceptable Democratic candidate.&#160; I disagree.&#160; Conor Lamb, who is running in the Congressional Special Election tomorrow for Pennsylvania&#8217;s 18th Congressional district.&#160; Conor Lamb is a centrist, and if he is elected, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/12\/conor-lamb-for-congress\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}