Posted on 08/23/2022 6:30:29 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
A veteran of campaigns for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is urging far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) to run for President in 2024, citing her as the Democrat Party’s best hope of beating Donald Trump.
In a column published in The Hill earlier this month, political strategist Michael Starr Hopkins can barely keep up with the drool coming out of his mouth to type as he presents Ocasio-Cortez as the future of the resistance party.
Hopkins suggests AOC has had a “meteoric rise,” is following a path “eerily similar” to that of Obama, and is a “smart, photogenic” force to be reckoned with.
The congresswoman, Hopkins writes, “is less of a personality and more of a movement” and “also the future of the Democratic Party.” She “could out-Trump Trump like no other politician has been able to,” he explains.
Hopkins surely believes the tripe he is typing but his own words betray the sincerity. There isn’t a serious argument to be found in the entire column, but rather false equivalent arguments that AOC in 2024 would be a replica of Obama’s run in 2008.
Except it would be much better because she is a true progressive – and American voters are clamoring for a true progressive in the White House, to hear Hopkins tell it.
“AOC has the ability to tell the story of her generation,” she said, despite any and all evidence to the contrary. “She’s Barack Obama if Barack Obama was an actual progressive. I love Obama, but he was a moderate who sounded like a progressive.”
Obama was a moderate! Can’t make this stuff up.
Even more amusing – Hopkins believes she’s the Democrat Party’s best choice because of one “superpower” in particular.
“AOC wields a superpower that is rarely found in Washington,” he wrote. “She isn’t afraid to lose.”
Should she run, AOC will need that superpower. She stands virtually no chance of even making a dent in the election.
This isn’t the first time progressives have been clamoring for AOC to run for President – in 2024 or otherwise.
Politico in 2019 reported that Ocasio-Cortez’s work as a surrogate for Bernie Sanders had been prompting buzz about a future presidential run of her own.
“As she’s drawn massive crowds,” the outlet fawned, “progressive insiders and activists are increasingly whispering about Ocasio-Cortez inheriting the movement one day — and running for the White House with it behind her.”
For her part, AOC has played rather coy when asked about any plans to run for the presidency in 2024.
She dodged a question on the matter this past June in an appearance with Stephen Colbert.
“I know somebody who’s going to turn 35 about a month before the election in 2024 and they represent New York’s 14th. Is that job appealing to you at all?” Colbert asked.
“We need to focus on keeping a democracy for anybody to be president in the next couple of years,” she responded. “That’s my central focus is helping the people of this country right now.”
Asked again by Colbert she replied, “I don’t know about all that … you’re trying to get me in trouble, I don’t know about all that.”
Volumes – encyclopedia sets – could be filled, single-spaced with no margins on every page, with the number of things AOC doesn’t know about. From Hopkins’ lips to God’s ears, please let her run.
She won’t be 35 till October before 2024 election. Can you run if you are not of age?
You can run if you are under the age requirements.
As long as you are ofagewhen you assume office.
But rules and laws do not apply to democrats..so who knows.
🤔 Why are you posting this drivel? 😉
Not funny. 😡😁
Good! Someone finally found the bottom of the barrel...
The dorky little bartender who didn’t even know what a garbage disposal was is the best bet to beat Trump? Seriously?
I bet YouTube and Tik-Tok, whoever have been working overtime trying to delete all the stupid videos she made trying to put IKEA furniture together, sus out the wonders of upscale lifestyle and accoutrements, etc. What a dork.
AOC has Three big advantages not to be overlooked.
Big Mouth.
Big titties.
the best part is, Bronx Tina could replace her in the House...FOH!
THe funniest thing about Sandy the bartender is...republicans “want to date me”. She confuses a “date” with a “booty call”.
Ocasio-Cortez-Marx for President???
Sure.
I thought this might be from the Babylon Bee? ;-)
Why was she at CPAC a few months ago?
RUSTY’S BACK.
AOC is the ultimate dumbass. Check this via pookie18’s cartoons:
https://i.imgur.com/u7sxiCy.jpg
Wow, the Dems are in worse shape than I thought.
Yes, she’s their best!
If AOC is the Democrats’ best hope of beating Trump in the next election, it means they are dead as of now.
The similarity between AOC and 0bama is both are socialists at heart and will do any and everything to manage the decline of the US.
What does the media focus on? They are both telegenic and well spoken.
Noooopo
They said that about Obozo figuring no way he could win. We were stuck with him for eight years
Given the level of cheating they had to do to put the current idiot in there, they could do it again to put AOC in there. I suspect they will need a full blown communist like her to put the final knife through the heart of the USA.
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