The DEM with "Kennedyish" Features
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.com
The Democrats are in trouble. And the list of party
saviors is as broad as it is laughable. There’s
Bernie Sanders, who denies that he’s a Democrat,
Elizabeth Warren, who might not even survive
reelection in her own state, Keith Ellison, an
Islamist who keeps lying about his past with
Farrakhan, Howard Dean, currently denying the
existence of the First Amendment, and Maxine Waters.
You
know you’re in trouble when your party is being
represented on cable news by Maxine Waters.
Desperate lefties had tried to tout the 78-year-old
Waters as a hero to millennials. Maxine tried to
help out by claiming, “I was a millennial once”.
When trying to appeal to millennials, it’s a good
idea to use speakers who know what millennials are.
Jon Ossoff, the latest Dem savior, has one thing and
only one thing going for him. He is a millennial.
Ossoff didn’t vote in the 2012 presidential
election. He can’t vote for himself in his current
battle to take Georgia's sixth district for the Dems
because he doesn’t live in the district he’s running
to represent.
In his defense, Ossoff has argued that no one should
have expected him to live in the district because,
"No one knew there was going to be an election
coming".
And why would he bother living in the district
unless an election was coming? Or even once the
election was underway. At least Facebook billionaire
Chris Hughes actually bought his boyfriend Sean
Eldridge a $2 mil home in the district he was trying
to represent. Even if he didn’t bother living there.
Couldn’t Ossoff have at least paid lip service to
the locals by picking up a nice mansion to pretend
to live in?
His $500K in Apple stock, $250K in Home Depot stock
or $100K in Apple and GE stock should have been
enough to cover a nice fixer-upper in some of the
sixth district’s poorer areas.
However it should be noted that unlike Maxine
Waters, who was born almost half a century before
the existence of millennials, Jon Ossoff really is a
millennial. As Mother Jones boasts, “Jon Ossoff's
Race Is the First Real Battle Between Millennials
and Trump”. (Trump actually won white millennials 48
to 43.)
Ossoff is also the public face of the new DNC plan
which involves DNC boss Tom Perez yelling
obscenities into a microphone to prove just how
“woke” he is and a 50 state strategy consisting of
narrowly failing to win special elections in
Republican districts.
The new DNC is Obama’s creature. Its boss is an
Obama lackey and Ossoff is the perfect Obama Dem.
He's a graduate of the London School of Economics;
the local equivalent of the Patrice Lumumba
University in Moscow. He followed that up by plowing
his dead grandfather’s money into a documentary
company whose biggest clients included Al Jazeera.
Then he claimed that this made him a small business
owner. “I’m a small business owner. I’ve made
payroll every month and balanced the budget every
year at my company.”
When most people think of a small business owner
they don’t think of a rich kid playing around with
documentaries for a terrorist network. But it
doesn’t get more Obama than that.
And Ossoff is the model for what an Obama Dem should
be. As a New Yorker hagiography put it, he has
“Kennedy-ish features and a deliberate, Obama-like
manner of speaking.”
Kennedy-ish features certainly cover a lot of
territory. Ossoff reputedly boasts a nose, eyes and
teeth. Just like a Kennedy. But nothing excites Dems
like the latest incarnation of JFK. Especially now
that its former incarnation, Bill Clinton, is
looking more and more like Ted Kennedy every day.
Ossoff’s experience in politics comes from handling
foreign policy for Hank Johnson; a member of
Congress who makes Maxine Waters seem statesmanlike.
If millennials know Hank Johnson, it’s because he
went viral for asking whether Guam might tip over if
there were too many people living there.
Jon Ossoff’s position on Guam tipping over is
unknown.
Also there was the time that Hank Johnson compared
Jews to termites. "You see one home after another
being appropriated by Jewish people," he grumbled at
a BDS event. "Almost like termites can get into a
residence and eat before you know that you’ve been
eaten up."
Jon Ossoff isn’t a big fan of Jewish termites
either. Instead he backs J Street which has spent
years seeking a two state solution to the Jewish
termite problem. J Street’s PAC has kicked in $56K
to Ossoff.
That’s pennies considering Ossoff’s $8 million war
chest. But it won’t surprise you too much that 95%
of his donors are from out of state. 75% of them
probably couldn’t find Georgia on a map.
It’s unknown whether Jon Ossoff can find the
district that he doesn’t live in on a map.
Ossoff boasts an impressive Hank resume. By 19, he
claimed to have been the Deputy Communications
Director for Hank Johnson where he served as
“Speechwriter, press officer, strategist for
successful 2006 effort to unseat a 12-year
Congressional incumbent.”
That’s not bad for a kid who couldn’t legally buy a
drink in a bar.
By 20, he was the Legislative Correspondent &
Systems Administrator for Johnson. By 23, he was
Johnson’s campaign manager. Not to mention his
Senior Legislative Assistant.
That’s very impressive. Or maybe not.
Ossoff’s parents are regular Dem donors. In 2006,
the year that Ossoff’s LinkedIn resume claims he
became the Deputy Communications Director for Hank
Johnson, his father wrote a nice check to his boss.
His parents, Richard Ossoff and Heather Fenton, went
on writing those nice checks.
Hank Johnson raises a lot of money even though he
doesn’t face competitive elections. He ran unopposed
in 2014. He routinely wins elections by 75%. And yet
he raised $638,258 for that race in which he ran
unopposed.
At the end of 2016, Ossoff’s parents suddenly began
writing some big checks to the DNC for a total of
around $50,000. And the DNC became very enthusiastic
about Jon Ossoff. It anointed him as the candidate.
This is the new Democrat Party.
A ton of money didn’t buy Ossoff the election. And
that was the plan. Bet a ton of cash on a Dem in a
low turnout special election while the Republicans
squabble among themselves. No other Dem managed to
score above 0.3%. But the Republicans still scored a
majority of the vote. And so now there’s a runoff.
And that giant pile of cash might buy Ossoff as much
as it did Sean Eldridge.
Dems are celebrating a near victory in a special
election with a 192,000 voter turnout. The previous
year’s election had a 326,000 turnout. The Ossoff
miracle that the media is buzzing about is that he
won 92,000 votes. The last Democrat to run for that
seat won almost 125,000 votes.
He was still crushed 62% to 38% by Tom Price with
201,000 votes. In a previous midterm election, Price
had to make do with only 139,000 votes.
Sneaking in to win a special election outright with
a giant wad of outside cash was Ossoff’s best bet.
It was a good bet on a bad candidate. Now the new
DNC’s media allies will go back to talking up how
much less of a margin they lost by this time around.
Like that other special election they lost in Kansas
53 to 46. And preemptively blaming racist Republican
vote suppression for Ossoff’s defeat.
Think of all the black people eager to vote for a
rich white leftist hipster with “Kennedy-ish
features” who didn’t get their chance.
All three of them.
But the DNC is more committed to fundraising and
leftist politics than it is to winning. That’s why
Jon Ossoff is where he is. It would have been
smarter to run a more conservative candidate in the
district. But the DNC is now an Obama joint
dedicated to the proposition of running unapologetic
leftists who can be confused with JFK by a blind
drunk in a dark room. If Ossoff does nothing else,
he pushes the party further to the left and blocks
any move to recruit conservative Dem candidates.
Ossoff’s slogan was “Make Trump Furious”. But the
real slogan is, “Keep the Dems Left”.