Posted on 05/21/2019 4:36:37 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Please note that headline says “Become President,” not “Become the Democrat Nominee in 2020.” – That’s a key distinction here, because Biden still does have a slightly better chance of being the party’s nominee, although even that edge is steadily declining and will continue to do so over the summer.
And this shouldn’t be just a comparison between Buttigieg and Biden. I would submit that Kamala Harris has a better shot at becoming president than Elizabeth Warren, and that even Irish Bob O’Rourke has a better shot at doing so than Cory Booker and everybody has a better chance than The Commie does.
Why? The first reason is simple. Because, as I wrote back on April 5, American voters don’t like electing Washington, DC long-timers to be their president.
Here’s what I wrote in that piece:
… since Biden first came to Washington, the American people have shown a very strong bias against electing “experienced” guys like him to serve in the presidency. Going back to the 1976 election, here is how many years’ experience in Washington DC our past seven presidents had when they got elected:
Jimmy Carter – 0
Ronald Reagan – 0
George H.W. Bush – roughly 20
Bill Clinton – 0
George W. Bush – 0
Barack Obama – 2
Donald Trump – 0
Combined, those seven presidents had about 22 years’ total experience in the DC Swamp, with Bush 41 having almost all of them. Bush 41, as we all remember, was defeated in 1992 by an outsider, Bill Clinton, who got a big assist from an even more authentic outsider, Ross Perot.
Are you seeing a trend here? I am.
Who are the “establishment” candidates in this race? Biden, The Commie, Fauxcahontas, Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar, Tim Ryan. While Biden, the Commie and Fauxcahontas are currently leading the polls for the nomination, the odds are heavily-stacked against any of these people being our president-elect come November 4, 2020.
Americans don’t want some crotchety old geezer who’s been ensconced in the DC swamp for 30+ years – or even 10 years – to be their national leader. If they did, Robert Dole and Walter Mondale and John Kerry and Al Gore and John McCain would have all served in the nation’s highest office over the past 30 years.
Yes, Harris is a senator, but she’s only been in that office a little over two years, same as Obama circa 2008. Yes, Irish Bob O’Rourke was in congress for 8 years, but he never did anything notable while there so nobody is really aware of his time in DC. Thus, both are viewed by the media and public through that same Obama “outsider” prism.
But back to the Biden/Buttigieg thing: The simple fact of the matter is that Buttigieg is a better, more effective candidate than Biden, and Biden knows it. Biden right now is riding the same wave of party establishment support that Jeb! was riding at this point in 2015. Well all know how that turned out.
Mayor Pete was all over the news yesterday because of the townhall he did on Fox News Sunday night, which was hosted by Chris Wallace. Conservatives complained all day Monday about Wallace’s softball conduct of the interview and the fact that Fox News chose to fill the venue with a pack of Buttigieg supporters, but so what?
The fact is that Buttigieg proved once again that he is an extremely composed and impressive public speaker, far moreso at age 37 than Creepy Sleepy Joe is at age 76. He is also very adept at fielding tough questions, as he proved back in March when Wallace peppered him with much tougher questions on Fox News Sunday. I was so impressed with Mayor Pete’s performance at that time that I tagged him as one of the real “Rising Stars” of this primary season.
Yes, most of what he says and thinks is batsh*t crazy. Yes, most of what he says is outright lies. But Buttigieg is, as one Democrat congressman said of Bill Clinton back in 1993, “an unusually good liar.” He says the crazy stuff he says with the conviction born of a true sociopath, which puts him in company with the last two Democrat presidents.
Contrast that with the likes of Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker, both of whom are also inveterate liars but who are both unusually bad at it. Come to think of it, Gore and Kerry were also unusually poor liars, as were Dole, Poppy Bush and McCain – it must have something to do with spending too much time in the nation’s capital.
And then there’s Biden, who has been lying about so many things for so long that they just pop right out of his mouth, but only in short, semi-literate bursts in which no sentence is ever completed. Biden’s like a guy with a case of political Tourette’s syndrome. Biden is fond of saying “I’m the guy that passed that [fill-in-the-blank] bill!” only the bills he talks about either don’t exist or were written by someone else. On Sunday, he went even further, claiming he was the guy who started the whole “Climate Change” thing back in 1987. Somewhere, Al Gore – who also didn’t invent this whole “Climate Change” thing but likes to claim he did – is saying “whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?”
But I digress. All the Democrat candidates lie about pretty much everything because they’re all leftwing hacks and that’s the only way leftists can win elections. It’s just a given. Democrat voters love to be lied to, and will generally end up nominating whichever candidate is the most effective liar of the bunch.
The key for Democrat voters in this cycle will be to nominate the best liar who is not a fossilized DC insider if they want to have any real shot at defeating President Trump. Because Americans innately understand that the DC establishment, regardless of party affiliation, is their true mortal enemy.
Many Americans have tired of all the uproar and chaos that they have seen since the election of Donald Trump, and would love for things to calm down after 2020. But are they likely to choose to replace a political outsider like Trump with a long-time establishment insider who will just return things to the status quo they rejected in 2016?
Nope.
That is all.
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Buttigieg supposedly wants to have a family. Is this country really ready for a presidential surrogate pregnancy.
What if Biden were to choose Obama as his VP? I don’t know if that is allowed, but when has that ever stopped a Dem?
“Yes, most of what he says and thinks is batsh*t crazy. Yes, most of what he says is outright lies. But Buttigieg is ... “an unusually good liar.” He says the crazy stuff he says with the conviction born of a true sociopath, which puts him in company with the last two Democrat presidents.”
Very well put summary of Butt-edge-edge.
This is not possible. I refuse to believe a fatuous vacuous gay wife is going to make any headway. No policy except the policy de jour, no accomplishments. Poor performance as a mayor away 50% of the time.
His approah to holding the power of mayor is very worrisome
in someone that wants the power of POTUS.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/henrygomez/mayor-pete-buttigieg-south-bend-gentrification
And is it appropriate for the Presidency to be held by someone raising an infant, their first. Barfff. Sounds like the gay version of a woman can have it all.
That title enrages me. They clearly are afraid of mispronouncing his name or making Americans (who aren’t paying attention to this race) aware of his ridiculous name that reminds everyone that he is a “married” homosexual. They think they can slide him into office as an inoffensive character. Just as they did Obama when they refused to use the name “Hussain”.
The Constitution has clear language on running for President and times...but VP is different. The 22nd basically has the wording that says that Biden can run, with Obama as his VP. But if something were to happen to Biden (say he passes away), then Obama can only step up into that term and serve that out. He couldn’t run for the position again.
The odds of this? I’d put them near 1-percent. But if you were dreaming up scenarios like this...why stop there? You could have Biden bring in Hillary to be his VP, or Al Gore, or Mayor Pete, or Oprah Winfrey.
I find it hard to believe that America is ready to vote for a gay man whose name is Butt-Gig
Oh the irony!!!
The life expectancy of the President would be very short is Hillary were the VP.
Never thought America would have a president with the name Hussein only 7 years after 9/11.
Exactly right.
Americans rushed to the polls in 2008 to PROVE, once and for all, that they are NOT racist. They voted for a colour, not a president. Americans will then rush to the polls to prove they are NOT homophobic. It wears on a person, constantly being called names. They wind up leaning a way they wouldn’t normally lean, just to feel some approval.
This is also the reason you may see what you thought were conservative justices on the SC siding with the opposition. It takes remarkable strength to work day in and day out with someone who disagrees with you. The funny thing is, it doesn’t seem to work the other way around.
Thanks. I’ve been thinking about that question lately.
Back in 2008 I said to myself, “There’s no way Americans will vote for anyone with the middle name Hussein. Not after 9/11. No way.”
Please lets quit giving RAT scum cute names like “mayor pete” or “auntie maxine”.
So many well meaning people that didn’t think things through because they were too eager to prove they weren’t prejudiced. The road to hell is paved with the good intentions of those kind of people.
Yes I understand that, but remember after 9/11 the country elected Barack Hussein Obama.
His campaign slogan should be:
BEND OVER AMERICA
Already been done. see the Kenyan Obama.
Peter-puffer is the only one I’m genuinely concerned about. I think Biden will flame out. But he does get the nom, he’ll choose Butt. And they will be hard to beat.
All these posts assume there’s even a Democrat primary, when we know there isn’t. Pete’s gonna “win” the primary because the DNC leaders will pre-select him ahead of time to meet their diversity happiness just like they pre-selected Hillary over popular Bernie.
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