I believe every poster you consider liberal in this forum has said something both negative about the Democrats and positive about republicans. For example I’ve stated numerous times how the republicans are much better at messaging than the Democrats, and how the Democrats fail to learn from that fact.
] Just admit that every SOTU response is negative because every SOTU address is positive and this was absolutely no different than any before her and lets move on.
Yep. She misled people in response to Biden misleading people. In other words the same thing that happens at literally every SOTU ever.
This is always the case because it is written ahead of time. Heck, The Dems actually prerecorded several during Reagan's tenure. So Cmon guys... Stop treating every old thing as something new to complain about.
I do not recall the details of the Democrats responses to Reagan's SUA speeches although my assumption is that if they recorded their responses in advance it was because they had an advance copy of his speeches. Not sure whether the Biden White House released an advance copy with the actual text of Biden's speech but they did release an outline a couple of days in advance, more than enough time for Huckabee-Sanders to address the specifics points which she apparently failed to do.
It's not just positive versus negative either, as I think there is a more general psychological component. You have Presidents making a grand entrance and delivering historical speeches with all of the emotion, applause and groans that entails. Then the response is usually someone staring at the camera, and by comparison, it's awkward and low energy. I think it was Pod Save America mentioning that response speeches are where politicians go to hurt their careers or something like that. I think they mentioned Jindal and Rubio as examples. I didn't watch Sanders by the way so not even weighing in on whether her response was better or worse than usual.
You realize you just admitted that you have no knowledge of the subject but assume the very best of your side and the worst of the other side. The very definition of partisan.
FYI, Democratic responses: 2020 Democratic Response to State of the Union Transcript: Gretchen Whitmer Speech | Rev 2019 Full text of Stacey Abrams' response to Trump's State of the Union 2018 Read the Democratic response to the State of the Union | CNN Politics
i was referring to Reagan's speeches the last of which was in 1988 and the Democratic responses. I do recall some of Reagan's memorable lines especially his speech following the Challenger disaster. I do have enough knowledge of Huckabee-Sanders response to know that she did not address the points in Biden's speech. She essentially just repeated MAGA talking points.
The problem, in my mind, in the SH-S response was that in the past it was an actual response to the address. All she did was give an old campaign speech, and that’s just plain lazy. Nothing about a Republican plan for the future of the union, just doom and gloom.
It was a lot stupider than most. Just a bunch of derp about woke and CRT. That's a winning strategy. Hope they stick with it.
Again ....During Reagan's tenure (and at other times too) they would just pre-recorded it. This is never really about countering the speech. It's about meat for your base.
I dont think anything has ever been won from these things... so while yes, I agree with you on the lack of substance... I think it is meaningless and not uncommon. Just another chance to bash the side we dont like
I'm referring to the OP. She is acting like this isn't the absolute norm. Even libs here are agreeing with those of is calling this normal. Responses are never really responses anymore. In fact they really havent been since their inception in the 1960's.
