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Pete Buttigieg is more electable than Bernie Sanders — and more progressive than you think
Vox ^ | February 4, 2020 | Dylan Matthews

Posted on 02/05/2020 7:15:33 AM PST by C19fan

The case for Pete Buttigieg is simple: The Democratic Party wins when it nominates young, charismatic leaders who are able to convince people outside the party’s base that Democratic values are their own.

It is a model that drove Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and John F. Kennedy to the presidency. And it could be the model that puts Pete Buttigieg there.

As the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, he’s not the most experienced candidate running. And while he would probably be the most left-wing nominee since at least Walter Mondale, he is hardly the leftmost candidate in this primary, and he’s worked hard to differentiate himself from the maximalist platforms of Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

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To: C19fan

Lefties are posturing for a Booty pivot.


41 posted on 02/05/2020 7:35:57 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: dsrtsage

Heh, heh!


42 posted on 02/05/2020 7:37:09 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Williams

Vox is DNC propaganda being turned on the Bernie Bros, to attempt to get them to accept Pete being shoved down their throats!


43 posted on 02/05/2020 7:37:29 AM PST by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

That ranks up there as one of the cuckiest cucks I have seen in awhile.


44 posted on 02/05/2020 7:38:02 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: 9422WMR

He reminds me of so many gay men I’ve known or encountered in NYC: bland and narcissistic at the same time. I haven’t looked at him lately but I’m sure his “spouse” is a clone.

Watch out for Democrat suburban women. They are the ones to put him in the lead.


45 posted on 02/05/2020 7:38:46 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Prayers for Rush)
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To: miss marmelstein

But the WILL know, when/IF he gets the nomination, because he ALWAYS brings his geeky “husband”on stage with him and kisses him often.And Trump would have a field day outing him and talking about his far lefty “ideas”, failed mayorality, etc.!


46 posted on 02/05/2020 7:41:11 AM PST by nopardons
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To: LeonardFMason

That’s why I think it will be Hellary again. She will be the sacrificial lamb against Trump. Why? Reasons I think this:

1. When she is crushed in ends the meme that she was cheated. A notion that has played out its usefulness and needs to disappear. Thinking Rats know this.

2. Hellary being crushed ends the Clinton mystique which has had a stranglehold on the Rats for far too long.

3. Bernie will either take his payout to go away like he did the last time or go 3rd party. Given his age either way it finishes him.

4. Teaming Hellary with a black VP selection is their best chance of cutting back the inroads Trump has made in the black vote. It won’t restore it but it will staunch some of the bleeding. Who for the black VP selection? I think more likely male say Booker maybe? If female then Harris. That will help tee them up for 2024 . It will have to be someone young and energetic because they actually have to campaign, something Hellary will do as little as possible,


47 posted on 02/05/2020 7:43:22 AM PST by Reily
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To: C19fan

God I hope that Buttigieg is the nominee. America will not vote for a gay president, period. A lot of blacks and Latinos will sit home and not vote. Or vote for Trump. It would be a huge wipeout. Bigger than if they nominate anyone else.


48 posted on 02/05/2020 7:43:56 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Paladin2
ButtGiggityGiggityGoo’s Dad was a Commie Prof.

Holy Crap -- you're right. The MSM has done yeoman's work to cover that up. This is a complete replay of Odumbo, a hard-core marxist who was pitched to us by the MSM as a wonderful guy, a nice African American with a good crease in his slacks and somebody we need not fear.

It took a couple of seconds to find this article, the theme of which has gotten zero traction.

Pete Buttigieg's father was a Marxist professor who lauded the Communist Manifesto
by Emily Larsen & Joseph Simonson
April 02, 2019 12:02 AM

The father of Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg was a Marxist professor who spoke fondly of the Communist Manifesto and dedicated a significant portion of his academic career to the work of Italian Communist Party founder Antonio Gramsci, an associate of Vladimir Lenin.

Joseph Buttigieg, who died in January at the age of 71, immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s from Malta and in 1980 joined the University of Notre Dame faculty, where he taught modern European literature and literary theory. He supported an updated version of Marxism that jettisoned some of Marx and Engel's more doctrinaire theories, though he was undoubtedly Marxist.

He was an adviser to Rethinking Marxism, an academic journal that published articles “that seek to discuss, elaborate, and/or extend Marxian theory,” and a member of the editorial collective of Boundary 2, a journal of postmodern theory, literature, and culture. He spoke at many Rethinking Marxism conferences and other gatherings of prominent Marxists.

In a 2000 paper for Rethinking Marxism critical of the approach of Human Rights Watch, Buttigieg, along with two other authors, refers to "the Marxist project to which we subscribe."

In 1998, he wrote in an article for the Chronicle of Higher Education about an event in New York City celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Manifesto. He also participated in the event.

“Equity, environmental consciousness, and racial justice are surely some of the ingredients of a healthy Marxism. Indeed, Marxism's greatest appeal — undiminished by the collapse of Communist edifices — is the imbalances produced by other sociopolitical governing structures,” Buttigieg wrote.

Paul Kengor, a professor at Grove City College and an expert in communism and progressivism, said Buttigieg was among a group of leftist professors who focused on injecting Marxism into the wider culture. "They’re part of a wider international community of Marxist theorists and academicians with a particular devotion to the writings of the late Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci, who died over 80 years ago. Gramsci was all about applying Marxist theory to culture and cultural institutions — what is often referred to as a 'long march through the institutions,' such as film, media, and especially education," Kengor told the Washington Examiner.

Pete Buttigieg, an only child, shared a close relationship with his father. In his memoir Shortest Way Home, Pete called his dad a “man of the left, no easy thing on a campus like Notre Dame’s in the 1980s.”

So the Dem slate has multiple hard-core communists this year.
49 posted on 02/05/2020 7:48:39 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: C19fan

Vox is trying to put ear-rings on a.......

Black voters will never vote for a gay, so Butt-man is DOA.


50 posted on 02/05/2020 7:50:33 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: C19fan
Pete Buttigieg is more electable than Bernie Sanders

I never thought Buttplug would do this well in Middle America.
I guess those Iowa winters must be LONGER and HARDER than I thought.

51 posted on 02/05/2020 7:53:11 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Takedown My Duly Elected President and You're Attacking The Constitution! IT WILL BE DEFENDED!)
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To: C19fan

Enough voters will be revolted by his “orientation” to throw any chance he has. These voters will be absolutely silent about their reasons.

(Regardless of what I think about such, fair to observe that fact.)


52 posted on 02/05/2020 7:53:17 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Democrats oppose democracy.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

For whatever reason Baby Boomer woman are fawning over Buttplug; my mom being one of them. Maybe they see in him the son they have always hoped for: Ivy League undergrad, Rhodes Scholar, and worked at McKinsey.


53 posted on 02/05/2020 7:55:53 AM PST by C19fan
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To: Zathras

It only matters who the Clintons want. It is obvious that the Democrats still march to the Clinton drum.


54 posted on 02/05/2020 8:02:17 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: Texas Eagle

Don’t give him any ideas. Especially ones that he would enjoy.

Yuk - image the commercials about the come from behind kid.


55 posted on 02/05/2020 8:07:45 AM PST by desertfreedom765
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To: Reily

The hacking hag should pick Stacy Abrams, ghettopotamus at large. Black and vaguely female.


56 posted on 02/05/2020 8:13:04 AM PST by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all. And send her back!)
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To: C19fan

His first agenda will be to send Christians to the camps if they don’t sign a declaration affirming homosexuality.


57 posted on 02/05/2020 8:16:01 AM PST by kaehurowing
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Jerry Lewis as the Nutty Professor?


58 posted on 02/05/2020 8:18:42 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: dynachrome

I thought of her. What I don’t know regarding black voting demographics is which has the higher turnout percentage black women or men. Goal is to staunch the bleed of black votes. If black males turn out in higher percentages then black females, I don’t think ghettopotomas will help (might make the bleed worse!). If females are the higher percentage ghettopotomas would probably be a good choice.


59 posted on 02/05/2020 8:19:24 AM PST by Reily
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To: Romans Nine

A toast to Mare Pete: “Bottoms up!”


60 posted on 02/05/2020 8:22:54 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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