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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,192 posts)
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 01:45 AM Mar 2019

Ocasio-Cortez emerges as GOP's new foe at conservative confab

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. - The nation's largest annual gathering of conservative activists has a new favorite political villain: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).

The progressive firebrand and self-described democratic socialist was a nearly ubiquitous target for speakers at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this week.

From Vice President Pence to conservative pundits and activists, this year's conference illustrated a ramped-up strategy from the White House and top Republican figures to condemn what they characterize as a creeping form of socialism in the U.S.

"With AOC we can't take her for granted. We can't think that the American people understand what socialism is. We do have to go out and educate," Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Thursday, using Ocasio-Cortez's initials.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ocasio-cortez-emerges-as-gops-new-foe-at-conservative-confab/ar-BBUhSjX?li=BBnbcA1

She's young and sometimes a bit naïve. But I love how she has the GOP shitting themselves.

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Ocasio-Cortez emerges as GOP's new foe at conservative confab (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2019 OP
"We can't think that the American People understand what socialism is. 3Hotdogs Mar 2019 #1
He meant to say "indoctrinate", the same way they usually get the Progressive Jones Mar 2019 #4
No they are educating on many a college campus . That's what they mean lunasun Mar 2019 #5
For all her naivety she has kicked some big ass. rusty quoin Mar 2019 #2
The CPAC rabble couldn't be more frightened. Progressive Jones Mar 2019 #3
So that means she's taking the heat off Pelosi? wellst0nev0ter Mar 2019 #6

3Hotdogs

(12,406 posts)
1. "We can't think that the American People understand what socialism is.
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 01:52 AM
Mar 2019

We do have to go out and educate."

If they do, that will be the end of the Republican Party and the Gropenfuhrer.

Progressive Jones

(6,011 posts)
4. He meant to say "indoctrinate", the same way they usually get the
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 02:19 AM
Mar 2019

"simple folk" of the American population to keep voting for GOP insanity.

 

rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)
2. For all her naivety she has kicked some big ass.
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 02:00 AM
Mar 2019

I’m amazed by her. And I don’t really know yet that she is a what you say she is a bit.

She is way ahead of me and I’m 60. I couldn’t do what she has done in mass media and held it together in the way she has done. And to boot, I agree with this young woman completely.

I can see it in her face and her words. She knows exactly what she is doing.

Progressive Jones

(6,011 posts)
3. The CPAC rabble couldn't be more frightened.
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 02:16 AM
Mar 2019

Besides Representative Ocasio-Cortez, the rest of the future is here
to push the past into extinction.

Progressivism is a comet. Radical conservatism is a dinosaur.

How did that comet thing work out for the last batch of dinosaurs?

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