Yes, you are. MMoore, like the evil dreaded SOROS, or the perennial WICKED WITCH, is a convenient monster-under-the-bed-boogie-man that the Right likes to trot out to frighten the children into coughing up campaign contribution.
History shows that the left doesn’t usually fawn over media personalities as potential candidates like the right does. (Reagan, Trump, Heston, Eastwood, Dwayne Johnson, etc., etc.)
You must be one of the happiest people in the country.
:smack:
Was THAT what this thread was about? That horrible pun?
Sheesh.
You may laugh, but I’ve long suspected that a Moore/Sharpton ticket in 2004 would have beaten Bush in a blowout on the scale of Reagan’s in '84.
…Ah…?? :dubious: 
If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I’ll serve…long enough to read the secret UFO files,
The list is probably more like:
50,000,000 others
Homeless guy in van
Me
Some more people
Michael Moore
100,000,000 more people
the current so-called President
I think you might be out of touch with the American political mainstream.
Where’s Sharpton fit in?
That’s probably true; as mentioned earlier in the thread, mentioning Moore opens GOP wallets just as much as does mentioning George Soros or (gasp) Hillary.
But there is a legitimate reason for the right to hate and fear Moore: he is an unusually effective communicator. I would defy anyone to watch his election-season 2016 film Michael Moore in TrumpLand—or even just its first fifteen minutes—without forming an admiration for the way Moore gets the pro-Trump Ohio audience to listen to what he has to say.
Oh, come on. How far into the liberal bubble do you have to be to think he was addressing a pro-Trump audience?
Dear god, don’t do this, Democrats. He’s like a left-wing Trump, only smugger.
Nominate Franken. He’s funny, he’s smart, he’s articulare, he’s got principles out the arse, he can draw the 50 states by heart as a pub trick and he knows his way around a gotcha and will run rings around any Fox stooge any day of the week. Plus, doggone it, people like him.
Huh. So there are parallel universes. Fucking quantum.
Moore had a high profile at the time from his books and movies, and Sharpton would have energised the base.
I’m part of the Democratic base, and I would not have been energized by Sharpton on the ticket. Nor by Moore. I like them both okay, but wouldn’t truly want to see either set up shop in the Oval Office.
So you haven’t seen it.
Give it a shot. (I’m not sure if it’s available free anywhere–it’s $4.99 on iTunes and Amazon, but maybe it’s free on one of the other services.)
OTOH, Al Sharpton is insane. That kind of stuff matters when you’re not a Republican.
So what? The base was going to vote against Bush anyway. “Energizing” them was just wasted effort. It’s not like they could vote extra hard.
You don’t want to energize the base. You want to convince swing voters to move in your direction. Moore and Sharpton would have pushed swing voters the other way.
No, Moore and Sharpton would have greatly narrowed down the demographic of voters who would be willing to vote Democratic.
You’re correct, all right, that there might have been a 1984-type landslide if Bush-Cheney had gone up against Moore-Sharpton in 2004… just probably not in the directional outcome that you mean.
I’ve seen many clips of it. I do not have a big problem with anything I heard him say. Is there something in it that would make me believe a bunch of Trump supporters came to a Moore pop up movie?
Because, my first guess here is that you think it was a pro-Trump crowd simply on the base of what town it was filmed in.
I don’t see any Democrat out there who really inspires anyone other than factions within the Democratic party.