This morning we are given the great news that Tulsi Gabbard is leaving the
Democrat Party - or rather that it left her! Let's hope this is just the start of
reasonable Dems who will follow her.
I admired her from the Democrat debates as her "Party" showed only contempt for her.
Mike Huckabee's comments:
Tulsi Gabbard leaves the Democrat Party
Military veteran and former Democratic Congress member and Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced that she is leaving the Democratic Party, and she explained why in a nearly 30-minute YouTube video that’s definitely going to leave a mark.
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Ms. Gabbard said, "I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism” and “actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms...I believe in a government that is of the people, by the people and for the people. Unfortunately, today's Democratic Party does not. Instead, it stands for a government that is of, by and for the powerful elite. I'm calling on my fellow common sense, independent-minded Democrats to join me in leaving the Democratic Party."
This doesn’t surprise me too much. I’ve always liked and respected Tulsi Gabbard. I complained when she wasn’t given her due time on the Democratic debates and booked her as a guest on my TV show. She’s one of the few remaining prominent Democrats who can have a civil conversation with people of different views and find common ground. I’ve long had an open invitation for Democrats to appear on my show, and the few who do will tell you they’re stunned by what a friendly welcome they receive. But very, very few take me up on it.
Ms. Gabbard didn’t announce plans to become a Republican or any other political affiliation. In that, she’s representative of millions of Americans who grew up voting for Democrats back when there were patriotic, moderate, pro-life Democrat politicians. That was before the radical left faculty lounge wokesters drove them all out. As Ronald Reagan said, he didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Party left him. Now, it’s up to the GOP to convince all those people looking for a new political home that there’s a place in the tent for them.
They could start by reminding them that if they believe in government that's "of the people, by the people and for the people," that's a quote from Abraham Lincoln, who was a Republican.
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