AOC Gets Compared To Another Popular Female Politician – She Loses Her CRAP

Max Boot wrote a piece comparing Alexandria Ocasio Cortez to Sarah Palin.

While Boot sends me UP A WALL, it’s an interesting take.

Ocasio-Cortez reminds me of Sarah Palin, another talented young communicator who made a big splash in national politics before having her lack of knowledge painfully exposed. This is a cautionary tale for Ocasio-Cortez. My latest in @PostOpinions: https://t.co/bHmNmcyAD0

— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) January 8, 2019

The real problem with Ocasio-Cortez is not how she dresses or where she comes from. It’s that she is an uber-progressive — a self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” — who cares more about ideological correctness than factual correctness. The Post’s Fact Checker has documented her reign of error. She claimed that “unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs” (only 5 percent of people actually have two jobs); that “ICE is required to fill 34,000 beds with detainees every single night” (an urban myth); and that the “upper-middle class does not exist anymore in America” (not only does it exist, it’s growing).

Bless ‘er heart.

But anyway…

In some ways, Ocasio-Cortez reminds me of Sarah Palin, a comparison neither woman will appreciate. Palin was another talented young communicator who made a big splash in national politics before having her lack of knowledge painfully exposed. Instead of studying up, Palin gave up any pretense of seriousness and has now disappeared from the debate. This is a cautionary tale for Ocasio-Cortez. She is a politician of immense gifts who can have an outsize impact — but only if she masters the intricacies of policy and curbs her fatal attraction to political celebrity and vacuous soundbites. Trump has gone dismayingly far with his reliance on “alternative facts,” but it’s not a formula that his opponents should emulate.

Of COURSE it turned into a Trump tirade. This is Max Boot, after all. His TDS is FLAMING.

But um… it’s good advice. Advice AOC keeps getting over, and over, and OVER again.

SIT DOWN AND LEARN SOME STUFF BEFORE YOU KEEP RUNNING YOUR MOUTH.

She’s not taking the advice, though. ‘Cuz she’s maaaaad.

Naturally, the same week we kick-start a nat’l convo on marginal tax rates endorsed by Nobel-Prize winning economists, I’m being described as “vacuous.”

If you’re allowed to characterize female politicians as “unlikeable,” are we allowed to describe takes like these “resentful?” https://t.co/cMikVKcJ5U

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 8, 2019

This woman’s ability to ALWAYS be a victim is truly uncanny, isn’t it?

Let’s refocus our energy and coverage to policies instead of personality.

Right now, 800,000 workers are without a paycheck.

The President is holding gov operations hostage so that he can build a monument to himself on the southern border that the maj of Americans don’t want.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 8, 2019

Ok cool. Now do Chuck and Nancy. Who are THEY holding “hostage?”

(America’s safety, actually. They are holding OUR NATION hostage.)

Humble advice from a nobody: Stop retweeting your haters. Talk policy ONLY.

— crazycarl003 (@CrazyCarl003) January 8, 2019

HAHAHA. That would be tough for her. After all, facts don’t matter as much as feelings when you’re AOC.