A Biden/Tulsi Ticket

A Biden/Gabbard Democrat ticket for 2020 would pose the most legit threat to President Trump and therefore I hope it doesn’t materialize.

I am NOT impressed with Tulsi Gabbard’s record or speeches — and her platform is as leftist as they come. Immigration, abortion, you name it. People are praising her anti-interventionism foreign policy stance, but this would only be relevant if Trump were truly a warmonger. Which he is not. He is the consummate diplomat if anything.

But alas, I can see how moderate conservatives and swing voters could be swayed by her appeal.

Gabbard is one of the biggest hypocrites in the field. Maybe the biggest.
She use to be PRO LIFE and PRO REAL MARRIAGE. She decided to run for office as a democrat and presto became a baby killer and now says homosexual “marriage” is fine. And of course she’s apologized to her fellow democrats for ever being a normal person with common sense.

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Gabbard opposed civil unions and same-sex marriage in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when she was a teenager and in her early twenties.[212][213] She worked with her father’s PAC, The Alliance for Traditional Marriage, to pass a constitutional amendment “to protect traditional marriage”. Campaigning for her first political office a few years later, she cited her experience with her state senator father’s political action committee, which opposed pro-LGBT lawmakers and laws and promoted conversion therapy.[214][215] The Alliance for Traditional Marriage spent more than $100,000 opposing LGBT rights.[62] In her campaign for the Hawaii legislature in 2002, she vowed to “pass a constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage.”[216][217]

As a Hawaii state legislator in 2004, Gabbard argued against civil unions, saying, “To try to act as if there is a difference between ‘civil unions’ and same-sex marriage is dishonest, cowardly and extremely disrespectful to the people of Hawaii who have already made overwhelmingly clear our position on this issue... As Democrats we should be representing the views of the people, not a small number of homosexual extremists.”[212] She opposed Hawaii House Bill 1024, which would have established legal parity between same-sex couples in civil unions and married straight couples, and led a protest against the bill outside the room where the House Judiciary Committee held the hearing.[218] The same year she expressed her opposition to Hawaii undertaking research on LGBT students, arguing that it would be a violation of their privacy and that “many parents would see the study as an indirect attempt by government to encourage young people to question their sexual orientation”.[219][220] She also disputed that Hawaii schools were rampant with anti-gay discrimination.[219]

In 2012 Gabbard said that she believed same-sex marriage should be legalized throughout the United States[221] and apologized for her prior anti-LGBT stance. She has since worked to advance LGBT rights.[222] Gabbard credited her tours of duty in the Middle East for her change in views.[212][223] She co-sponsored The Equality Act. The Human Rights Campaign gave her a score of 100 for her votes during the 115th Congress, with scores of 88 and 92 for the previous two sessions, respectively.[224] She has opposed both the Defense of Marriage Act and a proposed state constitutional amendment to define marriage as between a woman and a man.[225] In June 2015 she issued a statement supporting Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court ruling that same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional, arguing that the United States was not a theocracy.[226][227][228]

After launching her presidential campaign in January 2019, Gabbard again apologized for her past anti-LGBT rights positions and statements, saying that her views had changed as her experience outside of a socially conservative home grew.[229]

Reproductive rights and abortion

Gabbard supports reproductive rights,[232] including federal funding for abortion.[233] She opposed abortion earlier in her career, but changed her mind.[234][129][1

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