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Here’s something we can agree with the Democratic Party base on:

Presidential candidate Julian Castro is despicable.

According to Nate Silver’s outfit, Five Thirty Eight, Castro was the big loser of the third Democratic debate, based on his sneakily age-ist and downright dishonest attack on Joe Biden.

Castro lost big points on favorability and the willingness of even left-wing voters to vote for him, according to Five Thirty Eight:

So after Ipsos polled voters before and after the debate, we calculated the change in candidates’ net favorability (favorable rating minus unfavorable rating). O’Rourke may not have picked up many potential supporters, but he did improve his net favorability rating by more than 8 points with his debate performance. Castro, meanwhile, took the largest hit, dropping 6.7 points in net favorability, which could be related to his heated exchanges with Biden.

He lost nearly a third of his support, if you look at Five Thirty Eight’s fourth chart, with Castro at the bottom, the only one highlighted with red line, based on how badly he lost support compared to the others. He went from an already miserable 19.7% favorable rating to an even more pathetic 13% favorable rating in just one night. None of the others saw that kind of tumble. Castro really turned off a lot of voters.

What’s more, Castro, in Five Thirty Eight’s third chart, is one of the candidates least likely to be Democratic voters’ second choice – pretty much every candidate is considered more of an option to Democrats than this guy. There are a couple of tiny exceptions, such as Amy Klobuchar’s voters being more repelled by Bernie Sanders, and Biden’s supporters not being interested in Andrew Yang, but Castro overall is rock bottom, and he’s particularly repellent to Bernie’s supporters. (It’s an interesting chart).

All it took was one debate and now even the Democrats, having gotten a good look at him, want no part of him. We couldn’t stand him anyway. Now even the Democratic voters are onboard.

Which is quite a fall. Less than a year ago, Five Thirty Eight, which slants left but tries to be fair because of its focus on forecasting (which it still sometimes gets wrong), was hailing Castro as a guy who could potentially win the Democratic nomination, based on his appeal to Latino and Millennial voters, along with a slice of what it calls ‘the left’ (obviously, he lost the Bernie people, so somewhere along the line he offended them earlier) He was less strong with black voters and a group they call Democratic ‘party loyalists’ — presumably nice Democrats you run into in places like rural New York or outback Texas —  the much-eclipsed Clinton-era-type moderate Democrats who quietly won much of the House in the last midterm.

It’s made Castro the one big loser out of the Democratic debate, done in by his attack on Biden’s age, which offended Democrats – certainly older Democrats who like Republicans are a large bloc of voters – and probably a lot of others. For me, the dishonesty of how he represented Biden’s remarks – aggressively misrepresenting Biden’s remarks and then calling him old and forgetful — even though everyone knew what Biden actually said, was just despicable.

Then to make matters even worse, he lied about it – get a load:

 

Julian Castro Defends Controversial Attack on Biden: ‘I Wasn’t Taking A Shot at His Age’ https://t.co/r5FuvvekMK

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) September 13, 2019

 

CASTRO: ““I wasn’t taking a shot at his age, I was taking a shot at the fact that he had just said the words ‘Buy-in,’ you would have to buy in. So I said, ‘Look, you just said that you would have to buy in.’ He said, ‘No, I didn’t.’ I said, ‘You know, I mean, did you forget that you just said that you would have to buy in?'”
REPORTER: “Yeah, right. ‘Did you just forget what we said two seconds ago?'”
CASTRO: “Right. So what I’m saying is, when you read the transcript and you understand the health care policy and the meaning of that, the significance of that, the difference is that 10 million people would get left out under his plan. That’s why that’s so important. It’s not an attack on Vice President Biden. It’s not something about personality. It’s about the health care policy. That was my focus.”

Which was the same kind of lie his no-good twin brother Joaquin made when he first doxxed the Trump voters in his district (which included some of Julian’s) and then dishonestly claimed he had no intention of wishing them violence. Nice business you have here…

Which actually raises questions about why Castro was in the debate at all. He’s clearly not ready for prime time and now he’s mercifully scuppered his own hideous political career. He was in the bottom-of-the-barrel position at the end of the debate lineup, way over on the end, and that signals his support was already very low, possibly lower than the threshhold of qualification. Was he placed there as an affirmative action concession? To make the stage look diverse? I wouldn’t put it past the Democrats, who already have been caught rigging even this nomination process. 

It’s time to give this clown the hook, and cripes, keep him away from any public role whatsoever.

Image credit: Twitter screen shot, from Mediaite

Here’s something we can agree with the Democratic Party base on:

Presidential candidate Julian Castro is despicable.

According to Nate Silver’s outfit, Five Thirty Eight, Castro was the big loser of the third Democratic debate, based on his sneakily age-ist and downright dishonest attack on Joe Biden.

Castro lost big points on favorability and the willingness of even left-wing voters to vote for him, according to Five Thirty Eight:

So after Ipsos polled voters before and after the debate, we calculated the change in candidates’ net favorability (favorable rating minus unfavorable rating). O’Rourke may not have picked up many potential supporters, but he did improve his net favorability rating by more than 8 points with his debate performance. Castro, meanwhile, took the largest hit, dropping 6.7 points in net favorability, which could be related to his heated exchanges with Biden.

He lost nearly a third of his support, if you look at Five Thirty Eight’s fourth chart, with Castro at the bottom, the only one highlighted with red line, based on how badly he lost support compared to the others. He went from an already miserable 19.7% favorable rating to an even more pathetic 13% favorable rating in just one night. None of the others saw that kind of tumble. Castro really turned off a lot of voters.

What’s more, Castro, in Five Thirty Eight’s third chart, is one of the candidates least likely to be Democratic voters’ second choice – pretty much every candidate is considered more of an option to Democrats than this guy. There are a couple of tiny exceptions, such as Amy Klobuchar’s voters being more repelled by Bernie Sanders, and Biden’s supporters not being interested in Andrew Yang, but Castro overall is rock bottom, and he’s particularly repellent to Bernie’s supporters. (It’s an interesting chart).

All it took was one debate and now even the Democrats, having gotten a good look at him, want no part of him. We couldn’t stand him anyway. Now even the Democratic voters are onboard.

Which is quite a fall. Less than a year ago, Five Thirty Eight, which slants left but tries to be fair because of its focus on forecasting (which it still sometimes gets wrong), was hailing Castro as a guy who could potentially win the Democratic nomination, based on his appeal to Latino and Millennial voters, along with a slice of what it calls ‘the left’ (obviously, he lost the Bernie people, so somewhere along the line he offended them earlier) He was less strong with black voters and a group they call Democratic ‘party loyalists’ — presumably nice Democrats you run into in places like rural New York or outback Texas —  the much-eclipsed Clinton-era-type moderate Democrats who quietly won much of the House in the last midterm.

It’s made Castro the one big loser out of the Democratic debate, done in by his attack on Biden’s age, which offended Democrats – certainly older Democrats who like Republicans are a large bloc of voters – and probably a lot of others. For me, the dishonesty of how he represented Biden’s remarks – aggressively misrepresenting Biden’s remarks and then calling him old and forgetful — even though everyone knew what Biden actually said, was just despicable.

Then to make matters even worse, he lied about it – get a load:

 

Julian Castro Defends Controversial Attack on Biden: ‘I Wasn’t Taking A Shot at His Age’ https://t.co/r5FuvvekMK

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) September 13, 2019

 

CASTRO: ““I wasn’t taking a shot at his age, I was taking a shot at the fact that he had just said the words ‘Buy-in,’ you would have to buy in. So I said, ‘Look, you just said that you would have to buy in.’ He said, ‘No, I didn’t.’ I said, ‘You know, I mean, did you forget that you just said that you would have to buy in?'”
REPORTER: “Yeah, right. ‘Did you just forget what we said two seconds ago?'”
CASTRO: “Right. So what I’m saying is, when you read the transcript and you understand the health care policy and the meaning of that, the significance of that, the difference is that 10 million people would get left out under his plan. That’s why that’s so important. It’s not an attack on Vice President Biden. It’s not something about personality. It’s about the health care policy. That was my focus.”

Which was the same kind of lie his no-good twin brother Joaquin made when he first doxxed the Trump voters in his district (which included some of Julian’s) and then dishonestly claimed he had no intention of wishing them violence. Nice business you have here…

Which actually raises questions about why Castro was in the debate at all. He’s clearly not ready for prime time and now he’s mercifully scuppered his own hideous political career. He was in the bottom-of-the-barrel position at the end of the debate lineup, way over on the end, and that signals his support was already very low, possibly lower than the threshhold of qualification. Was he placed there as an affirmative action concession? To make the stage look diverse? I wouldn’t put it past the Democrats, who already have been caught rigging even this nomination process. 

It’s time to give this clown the hook, and cripes, keep him away from any public role whatsoever.

Image credit: Twitter screen shot, from Mediaite

Health Care:

Why do you think life expectancy started to decline unexpectedly after Obamacare went into effect?

In 2009, President Obama and other Democrats continually lied that with Obamacare you could keep your doctor, keep your health plan, and premiums would go down substantially. Instead, freedom of choice was taken away, and premiums, out of pocket expenses, and deductibles skyrocketed. So why should the public believe Democrats’ promises today that you can have a choice of doctors and your costs will go down?

Why do you tell the public that Medicare for all will pay for everything when there are many limits on Medicare?

Shouldn’t the public be told that Medicare pays bonuses to hospitals if they don’t readmit as many patients after thirty days? Isn’t that essentially encouraging hospitals to deny care to people with preexisting conditions?

If the Democrats get their way on government run health care, millions of good private sector jobs will be lost, and hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars in stock value, real estate and bond value will be lost. The federal and state government will lose substantial income and Social Security tax revenue. State and local governments will lose sales, property and other taxes and fees. Severely underfunded public pension plans will become more severely underfunded. How will the Democrats fill all these gaps?

Opiates

Did President Obama contribute to the drug overdose crisis by dictatorially stopping a years’ long investigation into a billion dollar a year drug running operation by terrorists to appease Iran?

How many people have died from terrorism and drug overdoses because of Obama’s actions?

Should the federal government be sued along with drug companies for helping to fuel the drug overdose crisis because they didn’t enforce the border very well and they allowed drug running to continue?

Racism:

Why is it racist to enforce immigration laws that Congress passed?

Presidents Clinton and Obama, along with Sen. Schumer and other Democrats, said similar things about illegal aliens as Trump, so why weren’t they called racists?

Isn’t it racist to continue to abort black and brown babies at such a high rate compared to their share of the population?

Does the Democrats’ complete devotion to Planned Parenthood help fulfill its founder’s wish to have abortion to build a cleaner race?

Since the Democrats say they are the party of science, when is the only scientific date that a human life can begin?

Why do Democrats continue to support prevailing wage laws such as the Davis Bacon Act, which is racist in intent, which have oppressed minorities and taxpayers for almost ninety years? Is it because they are beholden to the big money from labor unions?

Doesn’t the fact that Democrats didn’t push for reparations while Obama/Biden were in office show that they are just pandering for votes and have no intent that it will ever happen?

Why do Democrats continue to lie about what President Trump said about Charlottesville in order to gin up racial hate and division?

If the statues and murals were so racist and divisive why weren’t there protests and actions to take them down during Obama/Biden or in previous years?

Why do Democrats continue to spread the lies about Ferguson, Missouri which have been used to gin up racial hate and violence and especially hate of cops?

How many cops have been killed because of the false “hands up don’t shoot” narrative?

Isn’t the term “white privilege” a purely racist term to gin up racial hate and division?

Why have the Democrats played the race card for decades? Would they rather keep minorities dependent on government than give them opportunities to move up the economic ladder? Why won’t Democrats admit how well minorities have done under Trump’s economic policies?

Climate Change/Fossil Fuels:

How would people from the Bahamas be evacuated without the benefit of planes and boats that are powered by fossil fuels?

When you get rid of gasoline how will you fund roads and bridges. What tax will replace it?

What do you replace plastics, asphalt and the thousands of other products derived from crude oil with?

Why do you call people who say truthfully that the climate is changing and has always changed cyclically and naturally “climate change deniers”? Is it because you want to mislead the public?

In 1922, the Washington Post and other newspapers said coastal cities would soon disappear because of warming. In 1970, on the first Earth Day, billions were going to starve soon due to a food shortage because of global cooling.  In 1989, the UN said there were only ten years left to save the Earth because of global warming.  Why should we believe the current predictions which are the same as the ones in 1922 and 1989 when previous predictions have been 100% wrong?

Why are the Democrats always running on fear? They seek to scare the public, especially the children, and the solution is always to transfer more freedom, power and huge amounts of money to the very wealthy DC area?

Why should the public believe that Democrats can control temperatures, sea levels and storm activity forever when they didn’t keep their promises on Obamacare and can’t balance the budget?

Shouldn’t government policies be based on facts instead of inaccurate, manipulated computer models and wild guess predictions?

Constitution and the rule of law:

President Obama repeatedly said the Constitution didn’t allow him to dictatorially change immigration law but did it anyway with DACA. Is it OK for a President to violate the Constitution if Congress doesn’t do what they like?

Can sanctuary cities and states pick and choose whatever laws they like?

Guns:

Houston has 2.3 million people. Chicago has 2.7 Million people or 17% more. They have similar demographics, with both cities having a little less than half of their population being white. Houston has very lenient gun laws and lots of gun shops. Chicago has very strict gun laws and very few places to buy guns. Yet from 2016 through 2018 Chicago had 1,960 homicides and Houston 850, so Chicago had 130% more. Why did Houston have so many fewer homicides per population vs. Chicago if the availability of guns is the problem? Doesn’t the cause have to be something else?

Did you realize homicides are down nationwide in Trump’s first two years vs. Obama’s last year?

When the Nazis took away the guns in Germany, did that make the people safer or more vulnerable?

Political corruption:

Isn’t the biggest example of political corruption for decades when the Obama White House, the Justice Department, the intelligence agencies and the State Department colluded with the Hillary campaign and the DNC to defeat Trump before the election and to take him out after the election with a fictional document created by a foreign national who hated Trump?

Is it ever proper for the FBI to get warrants to spy on and send informants into an opponent’s presidential campaign?

Was it proper for people within the Obama administration to shake down businesses and have slush funds at CFPB, Justice and the EPA that they used for political purposes and to reward political supporters?

Was Hillary corrupt when her family and her Foundation got huge amounts of money from foreign sources?

Should Russia have received permission to buy United States uranium assets accompanied by huge amounts of money sent to the Clinton Foundation from interested parties?

Corporate greed vs government greed:

Doesn’t too much power in the hands of politicians and bureaucrats lead to corruption?

Have you ever seen a country collapse because the private sector had too much money and freedom?

Have countries throughout history collapsed when the government got too much power and money?

Graphic credit: YouTube screen gtab

Health Care:

Why do you think life expectancy started to decline unexpectedly after Obamacare went into effect?

In 2009, President Obama and other Democrats continually lied that with Obamacare you could keep your doctor, keep your health plan, and premiums would go down substantially. Instead, freedom of choice was taken away, and premiums, out of pocket expenses, and deductibles skyrocketed. So why should the public believe Democrats’ promises today that you can have a choice of doctors and your costs will go down?

Why do you tell the public that Medicare for all will pay for everything when there are many limits on Medicare?

Shouldn’t the public be told that Medicare pays bonuses to hospitals if they don’t readmit as many patients after thirty days? Isn’t that essentially encouraging hospitals to deny care to people with preexisting conditions?

If the Democrats get their way on government run health care, millions of good private sector jobs will be lost, and hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars in stock value, real estate and bond value will be lost. The federal and state government will lose substantial income and Social Security tax revenue. State and local governments will lose sales, property and other taxes and fees. Severely underfunded public pension plans will become more severely underfunded. How will the Democrats fill all these gaps?

Opiates

Did President Obama contribute to the drug overdose crisis by dictatorially stopping a years’ long investigation into a billion dollar a year drug running operation by terrorists to appease Iran?

How many people have died from terrorism and drug overdoses because of Obama’s actions?

Should the federal government be sued along with drug companies for helping to fuel the drug overdose crisis because they didn’t enforce the border very well and they allowed drug running to continue?

Racism:

Why is it racist to enforce immigration laws that Congress passed?

Presidents Clinton and Obama, along with Sen. Schumer and other Democrats, said similar things about illegal aliens as Trump, so why weren’t they called racists?

Isn’t it racist to continue to abort black and brown babies at such a high rate compared to their share of the population?

Does the Democrats’ complete devotion to Planned Parenthood help fulfill its founder’s wish to have abortion to build a cleaner race?

Since the Democrats say they are the party of science, when is the only scientific date that a human life can begin?

Why do Democrats continue to support prevailing wage laws such as the Davis Bacon Act, which is racist in intent, which have oppressed minorities and taxpayers for almost ninety years? Is it because they are beholden to the big money from labor unions?

Doesn’t the fact that Democrats didn’t push for reparations while Obama/Biden were in office show that they are just pandering for votes and have no intent that it will ever happen?

Why do Democrats continue to lie about what President Trump said about Charlottesville in order to gin up racial hate and division?

If the statues and murals were so racist and divisive why weren’t there protests and actions to take them down during Obama/Biden or in previous years?

Why do Democrats continue to spread the lies about Ferguson, Missouri which have been used to gin up racial hate and violence and especially hate of cops?

How many cops have been killed because of the false “hands up don’t shoot” narrative?

Isn’t the term “white privilege” a purely racist term to gin up racial hate and division?

Why have the Democrats played the race card for decades? Would they rather keep minorities dependent on government than give them opportunities to move up the economic ladder? Why won’t Democrats admit how well minorities have done under Trump’s economic policies?

Climate Change/Fossil Fuels:

How would people from the Bahamas be evacuated without the benefit of planes and boats that are powered by fossil fuels?

When you get rid of gasoline how will you fund roads and bridges. What tax will replace it?

What do you replace plastics, asphalt and the thousands of other products derived from crude oil with?

Why do you call people who say truthfully that the climate is changing and has always changed cyclically and naturally “climate change deniers”? Is it because you want to mislead the public?

In 1922, the Washington Post and other newspapers said coastal cities would soon disappear because of warming. In 1970, on the first Earth Day, billions were going to starve soon due to a food shortage because of global cooling.  In 1989, the UN said there were only ten years left to save the Earth because of global warming.  Why should we believe the current predictions which are the same as the ones in 1922 and 1989 when previous predictions have been 100% wrong?

Why are the Democrats always running on fear? They seek to scare the public, especially the children, and the solution is always to transfer more freedom, power and huge amounts of money to the very wealthy DC area?

Why should the public believe that Democrats can control temperatures, sea levels and storm activity forever when they didn’t keep their promises on Obamacare and can’t balance the budget?

Shouldn’t government policies be based on facts instead of inaccurate, manipulated computer models and wild guess predictions?

Constitution and the rule of law:

President Obama repeatedly said the Constitution didn’t allow him to dictatorially change immigration law but did it anyway with DACA. Is it OK for a President to violate the Constitution if Congress doesn’t do what they like?

Can sanctuary cities and states pick and choose whatever laws they like?

Guns:

Houston has 2.3 million people. Chicago has 2.7 Million people or 17% more. They have similar demographics, with both cities having a little less than half of their population being white. Houston has very lenient gun laws and lots of gun shops. Chicago has very strict gun laws and very few places to buy guns. Yet from 2016 through 2018 Chicago had 1,960 homicides and Houston 850, so Chicago had 130% more. Why did Houston have so many fewer homicides per population vs. Chicago if the availability of guns is the problem? Doesn’t the cause have to be something else?

Did you realize homicides are down nationwide in Trump’s first two years vs. Obama’s last year?

When the Nazis took away the guns in Germany, did that make the people safer or more vulnerable?

Political corruption:

Isn’t the biggest example of political corruption for decades when the Obama White House, the Justice Department, the intelligence agencies and the State Department colluded with the Hillary campaign and the DNC to defeat Trump before the election and to take him out after the election with a fictional document created by a foreign national who hated Trump?

Is it ever proper for the FBI to get warrants to spy on and send informants into an opponent’s presidential campaign?

Was it proper for people within the Obama administration to shake down businesses and have slush funds at CFPB, Justice and the EPA that they used for political purposes and to reward political supporters?

Was Hillary corrupt when her family and her Foundation got huge amounts of money from foreign sources?

Should Russia have received permission to buy United States uranium assets accompanied by huge amounts of money sent to the Clinton Foundation from interested parties?

Corporate greed vs government greed:

Doesn’t too much power in the hands of politicians and bureaucrats lead to corruption?

Have you ever seen a country collapse because the private sector had too much money and freedom?

Have countries throughout history collapsed when the government got too much power and money?

Graphic credit: YouTube screen gtab

Thousands of unborn children were found in the home of Dr. Ulrich Klopfer, an abortionist who passed away earlier this month. In 2015, the abortionist’s medical license was suspended after he allegedly failed to report an abortion performed on a 13-year-old girl.

The remains of 2,246 unborn children have been found inside the Will County, Illinois home of a now-deceased abortionist, Dr. Ulrich Klopfer, who passed away on September 3, according to a report by WGN-TV.

Klopfer reportedly used to practice abortions at the Women’s Pavilion in South Bend, Indiana, but had his medical license suspended in 2015 after allegedly failing to report an abortion preformed on a 13-year-old child.

The attorney for Klopfer’s family said that he discovered the fetal remains while going through the deceased abortionist’s property and making arrangements with the local coroner.

According to the Will County Sheriff’s Office, the attorney contacted authorities on Thursday, who arrived at the property, where they found the remains of 2,246 medically preserved unborn children inside Klopfer’s home.

Will County authorities are now reportedly conducting an investigation into the matter, adding that Klopfer’s family is in full cooperation.

Authorities say there is no evidence of any medical procedures having been conducted at the abortionist’s home.

This is an ongoing investigation. Follow Breitbart News for updates.

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