The ancient Spartacus led a slave rebellion against the mighty Roman empire, dying on the battlefield fighting for freedom. In 2019, New Jersey Senator Cory “Spartacus” Booker’s presidential aspirations are dying on the campaign trail, out of boredom.
The ranks of the vast field of more than 20 Democrat primary candidate hopefuls are quickly being depleted. Once formidable champions of the far left are being discarded by the wayside by voters who find their causes unpalatable, untenable, and simply not worth fighting for.
Sen. Booker earned his facetious “Spartacus” nickname after a political stunt during the Brett Kavanaugh U.S. Supreme Court hearings when he appeared to break ranks with Senate rules. His “transgression” of releasing confidential information was punishable by Senate expulsion. In the heat of the faux controversy, he claimed: “This is about the closest I’ll probably ever have in my life to an ‘I am Spartacus’ moment.”
It’s about as close as he’ll ever get to sitting in the Oval Office as well.
But when the dust settled, Booker had orchestrated a ruse. The materials had already been cleared for public viewing, and he was exposed on a national level as being a drama queen and a fraud.
Much of the left-leaning, fake news media allowed the con-job to persist despite Booker’s fraudulent actions and remarks. But even registered Democrats seem to recall that Booker is prone to on-camera hysterics and that he’s full of . . . beans.
“We got in this race to win it, and if we cannot raise the $1.7 million to scale up our operation, then we don’t believe that we are going to be in a position to compete for the nomination.,” Booker’s campaign manager Addisu Demissie reportedly emailed to staffers.
Despite Booker turning himself into a national laughingstock on more than one occasion, his poll numbers among Democrats wasn’t awful. He qualified for the national debates easily and didn’t take significant damage, unlike the way California Sen. Kamala Harris crushed Obama-era Vice Pres. “Creepy” Joe Biden.
Booker enjoyed a middling place with some moderate polices. Unfortunately, the others on stage and on the campaign trail made his sometimes commonsense vision seem ultra-conservative.
To offset the radical socialist agenda pushed by the likes of Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren, Booker floated a message of love that came off as downright weird in the heated primary battle.
“How can you think that you’re going to beat darkness by spewing darkness,” Sen. Booker said. “If Nelson Mandela can love his jailers, if Martin Luther King can love Bull Connor — we’ve got to be people of love!”
He channeled the names of plenty of great historical figures. Only problem, the New Jersey senator is not one of them. But if his campaign doesn’t make it to at least to Thanksgiving, it sends a strong message that liberal extremism and Obama leftovers rule the Democratic party.
There have also been quick exits from characters who provided everyday Americans with comic relief if nothing else. The likes of Eric Swalwell, Jay Inslee, John Hickenlooper, Kirsten Gillibrand, Bill de Blasio and Seth Moulton were not exactly household names. They made up the glut of presidential hopefuls that swelled the national debates into two nights. If you watched, they were the one you asked the person next to you, “who is that?” only to get a shoulder-shrug response.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio exited the presidential primary race in mid-September after coming to the conclusion most Americans already knew. He’s just another Don Quixote charging windmills. His claim to liberal fame was challenging President Donald Trump — but only in the media.
“I know something about Donald Trump that’s different from the other candidates because I watched him for decades,” de Blasio reportedly shared with CNN. “I understand his game plan. I understand his tricks and his strategies, and I do get under his skin.”
His bolds statement that he’d beat Pres. Trump in a head-to-head race was a fiction. After New York police officers were doused with water buckets and ordered not to respond, rank-and-file members of law enforcement doubled-down and denounced de Blasio, again. Ironically, he says the president is not welcome in New York. Naturally, he got a zinger of a presidential tweet after quitting the race.
“Oh no, really big political news, perhaps the biggest story in years!” Pres. Trump reportedly tweeted. “Part time Mayor of New York City, @BilldeBlasio, who was polling at a solid ZERO but had tremendous room for growth, has shocking dropped out of the Presidential race. NYC is devastated, he’s coming home!”
The New York mayor’s laughable moments will be missed.
