Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Destroys Liz Warren Attack by Defending the Promise of the Country, the American Dream

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Howard Schultz Shoots Down Liz Warren Attack With Passionate Defense of the American Dream

On Wednesday, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz shot down an attack from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who said that because he is a billionaire, he is out of touch with America. He responded with a passionate defense of the American dream.

"Senator Elizabeth Warren said some pretty sharp words about me. She referred to me as a billionaire out of touch with the American people," Schultz said in a short video. He told his rags-to-riches story succinctly and in a patriotic way.

"I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in Canarsie, in federally subsidized housing, the projects. When I was 7 years old my father, who was a laborer, came home and had a serious accident. He was dismissed from his job, we lost our health insurance. I witnessed the fracturing of the American dream," the former Starbucks CEO began.

Schultz witnessed failure early, but he did not let that define him.

"I started with nothing and I made it in America because of the aspiration, the magnetism, and the spirit of our country," he declared. "I’ve always believed in the promise of the country. What is the promise of the country? What it is is regardless of your station in life, the color of your skin, your gender, your sexual orientation, whatever it might be, that everyone should have a chance in America."

Then the former Starbucks CEO — who is mulling a 2020 presidential run as an independent — chided both Republicans and Democrats for failing to provide the leadership America needs.

"What we need right now in America is for the country to come together, and for the Democrats and Republicans who have been unwilling to work together, to finally realize that the American people deserve much more than political slogans and tweets," he said. "What we need is a government that can work for us, leadership that we can trust."

"And if I run for president, what I am going to try to do is restore the faith and the promise of the country and the American dream," Schultz declared.

The former Starbucks CEO has attacked the Democratic Party for running too far to the Left, and even bringing the destructive ideology of socialism to America. Howard Schultz is too liberal for the Republican Party and, sadly, too pro-American for the Democratic Party.

Impassioned defenses of the American dream like this are Schultz's path to shaming both Republicans and Democrats. There's a tiny chance it may actually work, although Democrats might see in Schultz the very same "hate" they see in Trump. Many have started equating the very word "nationalism" with "white nationalism," and lists of "microaggressions" have included statements like "America is a land of opportunity."

 

https://pjmedia.com/video/howard-schultz-shoots-down-liz-warren-attack-with-passionate-defense-of-the-american-dream/

[MyLadiesDaddy]

I can't wait to see how @Shabibilicioustears this guy down. I'm stunned at how realistic he is, I like him,though I wonder how many times he's cheated on his wife 

[Pitcher]

Mike Allen, the well-wired reporter for Axios, says Democrats are beyond being furious at Howard Schultz, the former CEO of Starbucks. Allen is “hearing threats of boycotts and social isolation, attacks on Starbucks, and emotional, insistent lobbying of his advisers.”

The anti-Trump talking heads and liberal consultants are terrified at the mere thought that an “independent centrist” presidential candidate like Schultz would draw some votes from a liberal Democratic nominee running against President Trump in 2020.

Democrats claim that third party candidates such as Ross Perot and Ralph Nader have swung elections in the past.

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Jim Messina, Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, goes so far as to say Schultz should “spend this time and money doing something that won’t ruin the world.”

So Schultz, a lifelong Democrat who nonetheless thinks some ideas like excessive debt and the cost of entitlements should be up for debate, has gone overnight from being viewed on the left as an innovative business hero to a partisan piñata

Let’s calm down and look at the evidence that Howard Schultz is an enemy of democracy.

“It’s not at all clear – in my opinion – whether an Old Rich Business Guy running a 3rd party bid would be more likely to hurt Trump or to help him. People are assuming the latter but not really presenting much in the way of proof,” said Nate Silver, founder of the election website FiveThirtyEight, which has a good track record of prognostication. “If you think Ross Perot and Ralph Nader belong in the same category you probably ought to be doubting yourself a lot more.”

Other analysts agree. Steve Kornacki – now with MSNBC – wrote in Salon in 2011 that independent “spoilers” often don’t spoil who people think.

In 1980, liberal Republican John Anderson was thought to hurt Ronald Reagan’s chances of beating President Jimmy Carter.

“But at a practical level, (Anderson) was simply another option for frustrated voters who had already decided not to back Carter for another term,” Kornacki concluded. “Polls found Anderson voters nearly as likely to list Reagan as their second choice as Carter.”

In 1992, Texas mogul Ross Perot won an astonishing 19 percent of the vote against Bill Clinton and incumbent President George H.W. Bush. Many people concluded that Perot cost Bush the election by siphoning off conservative voters.

But Kornacki cites exit polls that found Perot voters were equally split on who they would have voted for as a second choice.

Even the epic story of how Ralph Nader’s campaign as the left-wing Green Party candidate in 2000 wound up destroying Al Gore’s dream of the White House is more complicated than the conventional wisdom would have it. While Nader did win 100,000 votes in the decisive state of Florida – which Republican George W. Bush ultimately won by only 537 votes – there are caution flags in drawing any conclusion from that.

Following Schultz’s announcement, FiveThirtyEight’s Silver pointed out that Nader wasn't cut from the same centrist cloth that Schultz has woven his campaign from.

“Nader hurt Gore because he was a leftist 3rd party candidate,” Nate Silver notes. “The centrists didn’t affect things much.” He cites exit polls showing that Gary Johnson (2016), Perot (1996, 1992), and Anderson (1980) all drew about equally from both major party candidates.

But there’s one last thing that the blowtorch critics of Howard Schultz forget. If in the fall of 2020 the former Starbucks CEO finds himself depleted of electoral caffeine and trailing badly in the polls he can always pull the plug if he thinks Trump is indeed a greater danger to his values than the Democratic nominee.

Note that Ross Perot pulled out of the 1992 race against George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton in July of that year (he later bizarrely parachuted back into the race that October).

Some of Schultz’s most fervent supporters believe Schultz is unlikely to invest heavily in a clearly losing effort. Andrew Caiano, a New York businessman, told the Washington Post that if Trump looks like he would win in the home stretch of the 2020 election, he thinks Schultz is “going to back out before that happens.”

If that’s true, the roasting of Howard Schultz isn’t just about a fear that Donald Trump might be assisted a bit by an independent candidate. It may represent a fear by liberals that his voice will be a powerful rebuke to any overly left-wing Democratic nominee.

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Schultz has already blasted Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax as “ridiculous” and Sen. Kamala Harris’ proposed single-payer health insurance plan as “unaffordable.”

Rather than engage in overheated denunciations of Howard Schultz, Democrats might be better off viewing him as a warning signal that if they really want to beat Donald Trump and outflank any independent challenge they should consider running a more moderate candidate.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/hey-democrats-youre-roasting-howard-schultz-when-you-should-be-working-hard-to-find-a-centrist-candidate

[Shabibilicious]

2 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

I can't wait to see how @Shabibilicioustears this guy down. I'm stunned at how realistic he is, I like him,though I wonder how many times he's cheated on his wife 

 

Why would I tear him down?  His message is fantastic and he's not Donald Trump....which is a huge bonus for the whole country.  My only concern is he would split the Democratic vote and hand Trump a second term....unless one of the better Republicans rises up and gives Donnie a run.  Who knows, it's early.  You keep forgetting, not only am I a "never Trumper", I'm also not registered with any party.    It's very telling that you think adultery is funny though.  

 

GO RV, then BV

[MyLadiesDaddy]

4 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

It's very telling that you think adultery is funny though.  

I don't find it funny at all. What I find absolutely hilarious is your willingness to totally despise and hate someone because they may have done so.

[Pitcher]

I’ve followed this man for years as he lead Starbucks to the juggernaut it is today.  He is a very level headed businessman. 

If he declared as a Dem he would probably win. 

[Shabibilicious]

49 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

I’ve followed this man for years as he lead Starbucks to the juggernaut it is today.  He is a very level headed businessman. 

If he declared as a Dem he would probably win. 

 

If he starts denying the Far Left their Starbuck's overpriced creme brulee' latte fix.....they'll be forced to fall in line and back him.  

 

GO RV, then BV