DC: The Democratic party’s choice to provide Tuesday’s rebuttal to President Trump’s congressional speech was “a mistake,” Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver said Wednesday.
“I don’t mind saying when we make mistakes, and that was a mistake,” the Democrat said when asked in an interview on MSNBC about the decision to have former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear respond to Trump’s speech.
Beshear’s rebuttal was widely criticized, because of both the awkward staging — MSNBC host Craig Melvin said his rebuttal looked like a “hostage video” — and the fact that Beshear, a 72-year-old white man, is not in the Democratic Party’s target demographic.
*I* thought it was pretty good (as you dems usually go).
….Lady in Red
Yeah, they shoulda showcased an illegal, cross-dressing, pervert, musselman while (s)he cut the head off a Jew.
THAT would have been more emblematic of the Demonrats.
izlamo delenda est …
Yep, that was a mistake, all right, like mistaking brake fluid for motor oil.
Surrounded by a bunch of crusty white liberals in a diner didn’t help either
Yeah! Old White people suck!
(except me, of coarse)
Crazy Joe Biden would have been their perfect choice! He could have been bookended by his immoral, bat shit crazy family displaying Democrat values for all the world to see!
“Imagine all the tatted, gauged, man-bunned and pussy-hatted young progs who tuned in hoping to see someone like Kamala Harris give the Dem response. Instead they got Gramps at Cracker Barrel.”– commenter Exiledonmainstreet at Althouse
Pretty Quick to apologize for a speaker.
They’ve never apologized for obamacare, deficits, unemployment, Benghazi, depleting the military, high taxes, unreasonable regulations, unconstitutional executive orders, stealing private property to enlarge state forests, Running guns to Mexico’s drug cartel, Hillary’s treason on the e-mail that threatened National security, Obama’s hundreds of $millions of vacations, paying Iran to support terrorism, corruption, illegals crossing the open southern border, muslim terrorist refugees, BLM, or the murders and rapes caused by illegals, refugees etc., etc.
Apologize for what has had a negative, life threatening impact on our Nation you caused….not impact of the progressive/socialist democrat party. Tool !
Democrat mistake.
Redundant we must.
Democrats are a mistake!
I thought the rebuttal scene was great. Old time restaurant, fat guy sitting to the left and a fat woman with someone sleeping next to her. I was really waiting for the guy playing the banjo from Deliverance to show up. I was disappointed that he didn’t.
And Hillary WASN’T a mistake?
Trump boxed them in with his address, and no Democrat would have looked good giving this rebuttal. The Democrats are casting themselves as out of touch coastal leftist liberals who put their own personal agendas over the welfare of the people, while Trump pushed for a better life for all Americans. The Democrats were at least smart enough to know that putting up one of these leftist liberals to rebut Trump would have been a big disaster.
Beshear was put forth in order to show that the current perception of Democrats as loud, angry, intolerant and egalitarian snowflakes (a perception ironically promoted by the MSM) is not necessarily true. However, what the Democrats ended up with was an older white guy who did not appear to have even listened to Trump’s speech, much less address any substantive issues. The Democrats took their perception of the Tea Party – older, conservative and ordinary people – and tried to fool the American people into thinking that this is what the Democrats are as well by showcasing Beshear at least momentarily, and deflecting attention from the true loud, angry, intolerant and egalitarian Democrat leaders like Warren and Pelosi.
The Democrats are trying to understand the 2016 electoral debacle, but their world view won’t let them. The issue is not who should lead the United States, but the values of those leaders and the Democrats won’t compromise their current left leaning values nor will their most vocal bases allow this. Beshear was a calculated risk that didn’t work and a mistake only in hindsight.
Their problem is that anyone they would have chosen would be a mistake.
I wouldn’t underestimate the Democrat/Progressives out there. The ones that are really running the party are in the background, not exposed to the press or the people and are working on rebuilding from the Trump debacle. The ones out front like Pelosi, Maxwell, Warren, Rahm etc are out there to catch the bullets while the new leaders are being picked and new strategy is developed. Watch for the party to come back from extreme left position to something more centre (well, it will appear to be centre until they regain power then they’ll slowly turn up the temperature of the water in the pot) and for charismatic young new leaders to come out. The old guard will be swept away and the new ones take their place. Don’t assume that the Democrat Party is almost destroyed because they aren’t.
scr, I agree. They’re just like a herd of predators, biding time, waiting, waiting, waiting. That is a Communist tactic. For the sake of our children and grandchildren, we HAVE to do all we can stop them. IMO, Conservatives know and understand this; Republicans, on the other hand, want to be invited to Democrat/Communist parties and BBQs. God help us.
Sounded like the Russians wrote it before Trump’s speech. heh!
Bizarre set, cast, extras and lighting.
This must be what a director imagines “white voters” to be, when that director is 24, female, biracial and multiple-hyphenated, with a brand new Berkeley BA in Womyn’s Intersectional Studies.
And yes, we need to destroy them utterly before they can regroup to attempt the next treasonous Coup.
The Left must be eradicated.
Squish ’em like bugs, Firefly.
The list of Demonrat mistakes should be much longer than this one item.
Obama, Hillary, Pelosi, Schummer, and many many more should be added.
and the Indian Princess. Fauxahontus.
Welcome to a diner where no one eats or even cooks.
Where one man talks nonsensically about irrelevant things, while the other patrons sit quietly behind him like they are in detention, at tables bare of anything edible or drinkable.
Don’t look for wait staff – no reason for any to be there. In fact, there is no “there” there..
Welcome to this creation from an echo chamber, welcome to Potemkin Cafe..
A place that can only be found in…
The Democrat’s Twilight Zone – Where reality is subjective.
Excellent observations, scr_north. Why can’t most conservatives understand a ideological/geopolitical war is happening right now and the left is serious about wiping out conservatism.
Leftists will sacrifice anyone or anything to establish a world void of freedom and liberties. Globalists, progressive established socialists driven by communist doctine are waiting in the wings for their moment.
What can conservatives do? Take the lesson of the Trump victory to heart – immitate and implement it. Force the creeping leftist oligarchy out of the shadows to be confronted by conservatives who are in for a fight and won’t back down.
Alls I can say is that the thought of involving KY musta been overwhelming to these Shitpickles!
“Mistake”? I think that the word he was looking for was “joke.”