Oprah on running for president: Never occurred to me before that you could do so with no experience

HotAir ^ | March 1, 2017

[Guenevere]

What a putz!

Wasn’t it enough to ruin Weight Watchers, Oprah

[Dawgreg]

The only thing “STOOPIDER” than “Orca” running is the idiots that would actually vote for her and that frightens me.........just damn!

[RooRoobird20]

Anyone who thinks Orca would be a competitive Rat candidate doesn’t understand what really happened in this last presidential election.

Orca is an arrogant narcissistic prima donna, only slightly less unlikable than Cankles. If the Rats want to keep pushing hard left (which Orca would be pushing), they will ensure a second Trump presidency and possibly two Pence presidencies.

IMHO, overall the country is (for now) done with black and female leftist presidential candidates; we’ve had enough of the whiney “victim” cards these kinds of candidates always play.

[Cheerio]

The RAT bench is might thin, if not empty!!

[Hostage]

Tom Hanks may not be a bad choice. He's between a rock and a hard place dealing with the Hollywood crowd and the studio unions. He has to watch what he says.

But he is an Orthodox Christian and he did tell the Hollywood crowd last year before the election that "We will be fine with Donald Trump".

But I don't think he has the negotiating skills that Donald Trump has nor the experience to manage so many issues and projects at once.

Many say President Trump had no experience in politics. That is so false that it might as well be an undeserved slap in the face.

Donald Trump was never before elected to public office but he cut his teeth in NYC politics doing whatever he needed to do to get the building permits approved. Anyone who knows just how political that is will know that Donald Trump has more experience in politics than most career politicians could ever have but with a difference that he actually solved problems and got things done.

As for Oprah? She has done some insightful and interesting things in terms of educating people with her shows. I have watched her once in my lifetime in an airport lounge. But as President? No way, why? Because she would need a life makeover, an impossible repackaging, a complete transformative rescripting of who she is and who she needs to be.

Her energy to transform would need to be a multiple of that of Donald Trump and his energy is off-the-chart into an area that is unknown to ordinary people. She would also need to 'bond' with so many disparate groups that it she might as well hypnotize herself into a whole different person, 'Oprah becomes a new Non-Oprah Oprah'.

Whereas Oprah's transformation would be similarly to traveling to Mars and back, Donald Trump was always an executive, always understanding and mingling with vets and skilled blue collar trades people, always cutting deals and playing politics at a high level to get clearance for his projects, and so as a result, he campaigned as himself and sits today in the White House as if it was made to order.

Oprah's boundaries of experience are confined to the studio, to producers, to marketing and media, and to her product lines consisting of soap, perfume, makeup, cakes, magazines, etc and gossip or commentary.

Although there is some crossover between the pursuits of Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey, it is quite marginal with nothing substantial to compare.

Donald Trump's whole life prepared him for the White House. Oprah Winfrey's whole life prepared her for educating consumers and issue groups.

Although I do not doubt that Oprah could do an incredible makeover in the years before 2020, her biggest hurdle will be the issues themselves. The democrats have lost the issues platform. They have nothing to offer the American people. Even during the Obama years, there was nothing that compelled Americans to vote for democrats, it's true. 2012 was lost to Romney because more than 6 million conservatives could not hold their nose enough to vote for him because they knew what a liar he was and that conservatism had no future with him. 2008 was largely a fluke with Obama as a 'fresh face' who hadn't been fully vetted. I guarantee if in 2008 Hillary had won the nomination, just about anyone and his dog could have defeated her. But Obama vs. McCain was easy to predict.

So it's the issues that would plague Oprah. Even if she appeared to soul search and come tot he realization that Trump is right on the issues, she would then need to persuade and convince the Trump voters that she is the better choice. Not going to happen.

[beaversmom]

"Never occurred to me before that you could do so with no experience"

She didn't know Obama was president for 8 years!? Wow.

[stylin19a]

It worked for Obama.

[SamAdams76]

U.S. Constitution only requires that you be a natural citizen and at least 35 years of age to be president.

If any of the Leftist celebrities want to run for president, I highly encourage them to file their papers and do so. Then they will quickly realize that they are no Donald Trump. I bet a steak dinner that none of them will be able to stick it out like Trump did. Celebrities are just too thin-skinned and sensitive. They will quickly be reduced to tears on the campaign trail.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Oprah’s “The One” was proof positive that even the least qualified and inexperienced executive could become president, governing for the betterment of the nation is something altogether different. Anyways O, you’ll be running against Hildabeast in 2020 for your party’s nomination.

[Da Coyote]

Not defending her, but she infinitely more capable than the Hillabeast, Cheasea the dalking dog, or Fauxahauntis.

[Slyfox]

Seeing as how even the rank and file demoncraps are thinking President Trump is not half bad, they might need to run Alec Baldwin so as to fool their own people:

[dsc]

Dunning–Kruger effect all out of control.

Or, as Doyle put it, “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself.”

[chris37]

Absolutely agree.

There are incredibly few actual leaders in history.

[SaveFerris]

Why is Drudge pimping Oprah?

My gosh.

[ViLaLuz]

No experience? Ha! How much you want to bet she’d support Michelle 0bama if she ran.

[eyeamok]

I can see her catch phrase already: A Twinkie on every plate

[Organic Panic]

Oprah does have way more experience running things than Obama ever did. The only way Obama got ahead was his communist puppets moving all obstacles and destroying all his opposition.

[Deplorable American1776]

I met Oprah a few times when her BFF/lover was a news anchor at WFSB in Hartford CT. At the time I was in the restaurant business (being a waiter), both of them were rude.

[philman_36]

Never occurred to me before that you could do so with no experience

I distinctly remember an interview she conducted where she asked a person "with no experience" if he would ever run for POTUS.

If he could do it "with no experience" then she could too and it had to have crossed her mind that she could run too.

I call BS on this.