Posted on 10/28/2019 7:48:05 AM PDT by Liberty7732
It makes so much more sense now. When Never-Ever-Ever Trumper, gay liberal Andrew Sullivan, thinks no one in the current Democrat field can beat President Trump in 2020, it’s easier to understand the impeachment furor over a phone call and the raw, unmasked media partisanship.
Sullivan’s New York Magazine take, which I largely agree with in the analysis, summarized:
• Biden has real strength in the Democratic Party, but his candidacy in a general election is “crippled.” Biden’s crowd size and enthusiasm levels are “anemic” and he looks “confused, addled, over-briefed, and clearly past his expiration date.” Agree. Plus he would have a corruption factor that would mitigate the made-up stuff on Trump.
• Elizabeth Warren is “unelectable” in November 2020. “She’s a supercilious, smug, know-it-all Massachusetts liberal who reveals contempt for the deplorables the way Clinton did last time. The ‘first woman of color’ to get hired as a professor at Harvard Law School is the stuff that GOP dreams are made of.” Further, Warren said on CNN townhall, that in her administration, her Secretary of Education essentially “would have to be approved by a transgender 9-year-old boy, she’s placing herself firmly inside a cultural revolution most Americans are deeply uncomfortable with.” Agree. She is way outside the mainstream, plus she’s not genuine — a sharp contrast to Trump.
• Bernie Sanders had a heart attack at 78. Democrats will not trust that he won’t again on the campaign trail. Plus, and this is no small thing in the general election, “he’s also an actual socialist, and he hasn’t entertained — let alone engaged with — a new idea in decades. That’s appealing to millennial Marxists who have no memory of the 1970s, but Jeremy Corbyn was also a superstar with the youngsters a while back.” Agree. He’ll fade.
• Kamala Harris is just unlikable for most Americans. “Harris has revealed herself as a feckless, authoritarian, lying opportunist who treats the Constitution as cavalierly as Trump, but without his excuse of total ignorance.” I continually fail to see where Trump has trampled on the Constitution, or even pushed it in any ways that previous presidents have not also — without a peep. It’s just said all the time. But on the analysis, agree.
• Corey Booker is laughable. He has no connection with even Democrat voters, let alone the rest of America. “…he comes off as an earnest cyborg from outer space.” Agree. Like Warren and Harris, he’s a “what do you want me to say” candidate trolling for votes.
• Beto is despicable. Sullivan agrees. “O’Rourke is a woke, moronic bigot, who believes we live in a white-supremacist country, and would happily remove tax exemptions from most traditional churches, synagogues, and mosques, because they still believe in the literal teachings of the Bible or the Koran. Of all the candidates, he’s the only one I actively loathe.” Well what can be added to that? Agree.
• Andrew Yang and Pete Buttigieg are fresh, coherent, thoughtful — according to Sullivan — but Yang has zero chance and Buttigieg not much more. Neither would appear to have broad support in the country. Agree on the second part. The first, regarding Buttigieg, not at all.
And just because Sullivan’s writing is just so superb, and his analysis is spot-on from the TDS swamps, I’ll include his ending:
“Don’t get me wrong. I’ll vote for anyone, including Warren or Sanders or even the vacuous Beto to defeat Trump. We proud human scum will not be distracted from the central task at hand. But let’s be honest: This is a field that has largely wilted upon inspection. For what it’s worth, I suspect Warren will win the nomination and dutifully lose the election just like Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, Kerry, and the second Clinton. She has that quintessential perfume of smug, well-meaning, mediocre doom that Democrats simply cannot resist.”
Of course, he lays out a lot more problems with Warren than that conclusion. But when someone as insightful and desperate to defeat Trump is this gloomy on the Democrat options, you can bet that Democrat strategists are also, along with members of Congress.
Hence, they can’t wait 12 months for the American people to weigh in with actual democracy — which they laughably claim is under assault. Impeachment must happen, and it must be now. And the goal of impeachment is to either remove Trump or try to damage him to the degree that one of these bums could win. The authoritarian impulse Sullivan rightly identifies in Warren and Beto is endemic to the Democratic Party.
It’s impeachment, because the left has no viable candidate and they have to keep impeachment alive, until such time as they do.
“gay liberal Andrew Sullivan, thinks no one in the current Democrat field can beat President Trump in 2020”
I had completely forgotten about Andrew Sullivan. I guess I assumed he had died from GRIDS. I’m happy to see that he is alive and still thinking that he has something interesting to offer. He generally doesn’t, but it’s true that impeachment is about the Dem field being weak. That’s not exactly a red hot take.
Biden: looks “confused, addled, over-briefed, and clearly past his expiration date.”
And he is the best they have, LOL!
Kamalalala is not a natural born citizen, her running for President proves how much she despises the Constitution.
No, he didn't. She's not a declared candidate. Yet.
The two frontrunners, in which one will be the nominee, both Biden and Warren are fatally flawed and will get trounced.
I’ve been saying it all along: Trump cannot lose unless the Dems come up with a viable candidate AND there is an economic downturn in 2020 AND there is an October surprise. 4 more years, folks.
They simply and easily lie, and create friction by placing groups of voters against each other, to create an us vs them, in order to stir up some interest and fervor.
Their current crop of candidates exposes them for what they are, naked, with no cover of darkness, sans any ideas for the good of the country.
I keep sayin’ it folks. We have not seen the real Democrat candidate.
None of those people are competent to a gas station, much less the country.
The next Democrat candidate will be obscure - few people will have heard of him, and he won’t have much of a political record.
He (he’ll be a male) will be pretty, eloquent, and probably moderately rich, probably white.
He will be more ‘moderate’ (not a very high bar, I know) than any of the current Democrat candidates.
These things are important.
Single women are the most important part of the Democrat electorate. So he has to someone they can fantasize about. Really. How do you think we got Bill Clinton?
He can’t have a political record because the actual Democrat platform simply isn’t acceptable to most Americans. He must be obscure so that voters can imagine that he supports whatever their favorite causes. This is also important to counter opposition research against him.
Thanks to the train wrecks that are currently the Democrat candidates he will seem ‘moderate.’
If the Democrats can’t pull this rabbit out of their hat in the Convention, they’re going to be slaughtered in 2020, not only in the Presidential election but in the House and Senate. The only states they will hold will be the Deep Blue states like California and NY, and the states where the vote fraud machinery is most effective, like IL.
And they know all of this.
Please Lord, save us from the coming Holocaust...
That doesn’t matter.
What was done to Bernie Sanders in 2016 started out causing burning fury in the extreme left of the party, and in the few Democrats naive enough to believe that Democrat voters had any say as to the party nominee.
This has hardened into cold detirmination to seize power back from the elite billionaires.
If the nominee coming out of the primary is someone who didn’t campaign in the primary then the base will actively oppose them.
Since Trump will be firmly in the Republican lead in Texas, I will probably vote to stick the dems with Bernie in our open primaries.
I hope you are right. I would like nothing more than one of the current crop of candidates to be the Democrat Presidential Candidate.
Big Mike will be the nominee, and always was going to be the nominee. Nearly every day confirms that.
And Big Mike is the only candidate with a chance to beat VSG.
VSG?
Hilary will run! Bet on it...I did! She’s so obsessed and delusional she thinks she beat Trump the first time
Too fat! Too old! And Trump has all he needs to not only throw her out of the race, but throw her in jail. That may be why he is not declassifying stuff against her, Just in case!
Very Stable Genius aka Trump.
Thanks!
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