Should a White Man Be the Face of the Democratic Party in 2020?

The New York Times ^ | April 20, 2019 | Astead W. Herndon and Matt Flegenheimer

[GuavaCheesePuff]

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — As Peter Johnson and Emily Neal waited for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to arrive at Barley’s, a brick-lined sports bar in southwestern Iowa, they gamed out possible nominees in the Democratic presidential primary. Mr. Johnson, a 27-year-old law student, said the large field was a great equalizer, and “if at the end of it we get an old white guy, someone who represents the status quo, it’ll be because they’ve proven themselves.” Ms. Neal, a dental hygienist, made an agonized face at Mr. Johnson, her boyfriend. Wouldn’t something be lost, she asked, if the historically diverse slate of 2020 Democrats was passed over?

[Right Wing Assault]

Ah, NYT, the two-20-something-persons-beer-joint-debate right on time to help the hapless voters. That's some heavy political analysis. It even required two (half-drunk?) NYT "journalists" to cover it.

[tm61]

Only a bag of tofu that identifies as a black bean
Can unite the true believers of the dim party, duh.

[Doogle]

...cousins,nephews,uncles,and the occasional loose hedgehog passing through possibly.

[PapaBear3625]

Yeah, go ahead, Democrats. Make your party the official “People of Color” party where white people are made to feel unwelcome, or at best merely tolerated.

See how that works out for you in 2020.

[ronnie raygun]

No, we have had much success with a half breed president parading around as the first black president as with much of his minority administration for 8years lets have some more!!!!!!

[trebb]

Better question - should a “news” entity be obsessing over sex and race of a Presidential candidate instead of qualities and qualifications?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Many colorful posts have preceded me. No one has mentioned an Asian... Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, etc.

You can’t have rainbow politics without considering all colors of the spectrum.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

We already gave that “black thing” a try ... didn’t work out too well.

[justiceseeker93]

Should a White Man Be the Face of the Democratic Party in 2020?

The mere posing of this question shows that the asker - in this case, the New York Times - is bigoted!

But we already knew that!

[Eleutheria5]

Sure. No problem. Beto, Bernie, Joe, whoever. Just have him do black face like the VA Gov. did. No consequences for him, no consequences for them.

[Eleutheria5]

So nominate Jusse Smollet, the perfect candidate!

[Eleutheria5]

Why bother with a leader. It’s not like any of them are going to be elected, no matter whom the Dems nominate. They want a sacrificial lamb that will make a statement, but not be missed overmuch when he/she/whatever limps away in defeat.

[Yaelle]

I’m with MLK Jr. Content of their character.

[justiceseeker93]

It has become nothing but a socialist subversive anti-America treason cabal . Populated by people that are so stupid and disloyal that they should not even hold the right to vote.

Not only that, but many who legally do not hold the right to vote actually do. And they could vote multiple times in the same election or vote absentee for others.

What I'm getting at is that in addition to this description, the Democrat Party has no respect for the integrity of the voting process itself. It is the party of cheating and fraud before, during, and after elections. They could represent only a distinct minority of the real American electorate, yet win elections by their sleazy methods.

[Eleutheria5]

News flash. Voter fraud is nothing new. It was done in the days of Boss Tweed, Chief Tammany, the Pendergast Machine and the Daly Machine. Somehow, the country survived it and got better. But the Dems are trying to drag the country back to the bad old days, not because they have any good prescription for the country’s ills, but because they want to hold onto power. In short, they are the country’s ills, and they must be defeated so the progress that has occurred since 2016 can be given the chance to take root and grow and expand. DJT is a great man, and the only way they can take him down is by assassination. Which, if they succeed at it, will be their end. But they will not defeat him electorally, because there aren’t enough dishonest votes to elect any of these idiots over him, any more than Scott McClellan could have been elected in 1864 over Lincoln, or in 1984, Mondale over Reagan.

[nobamanomore]

You left out Muslim

[GOPJ]

If you’re not a black homosexual transgender working class single mother, you are an oppressor pig and deserve to die!!!

What liberal elites want us to know:

... it's NOT THE BOOK THAT MATTERS IT'S THE COVER, IT'S NOT WHAT'S BETWEEN A PERSON'S EARS THAT MATTERS, IT'S WHAT'S BETWEEN THEIR LEGS

[Impy]

The leading candidates right now are White “men”. Bernie, Biden, and Butt Judge.

Femiznazi supporters of Warren and Commella are complaining hardcore that no one likes like their horrible candidates.

[RipSawyer]

“No no no...should be a black muzzie Somali female with the IQ of groundhog.”

They will NEVER find one of THOSE with an IQ that HIGH!

[RipSawyer]

Only American Democrats can field a “historically diverse” group of candidates who all sound like the same babbling idiot.