Posted on 11/20/2019 4:49:04 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Has Pete Buttigieg found the fairway for getting to the Democrat 2020 nomination? – It’s beginning to look as if he might just have stumbled into it. Or a better way to say might be that he has, to borrow a Clintonian term, ‘triangulated’ his way into it.
With new polls showing Preacher Pete, the middling mayor of a mid-size, racially-torn city in the mid-size mid-western state of Indiana, suddenly jumping out to strong leads in polls in both Iowa and New Hampshire, it has become time to take the 37 year-old seriously. Readers will remember that, way back in March I predicted that Buttigieg would become one of two media-created “rising stars” in the Democrat field, with the other being Andrew Yang. Ok, so far I’m just one for two, but there’s still time for Yang and his blatant $1,000 per month effort to outright buy votes to catch fire at some point.
The interesting thing about Preacher Pete is that he has wiggled his way up to the top of the field in the first two caucus/primary states by channeling Bill Clinton and his 1992 campaign strategy of being all things to all people. While Elizabeth Warren has been out there going as far to the left as Fidel Castro in order to steal the Party’s very sizable communist vote away The Commie, and Joe Biden has been focusing on securing the African American vote by telling South Carolinians that Republicans really just want to go back to Jim Crow laws that Democrats in fact created and getting the senior citizen vote with the 1968 tactic of claiming marijuana is a “gateway drug,” Buttigieg has managed to thread his way right in between them to capture the Party’s “middle.”
Just as Bill Clinton understood 27 years ago, Preacher Pete understands that, in the Democrat voter base, a “moderate” is someone who really favors all of the radical leftist nostrums that have utterly failed an murdered hundreds of millions of human beings over the last century, but wants to be able to pretend to their non-crazy friends that they’re really just “open-minded.” These people want a candidate who is radical but doesn’t look or sound radical.
That’s what Bill Clinton delivered to them in 1992 and what Barack Obama gave them in 2008: a radical leftist who’s going to nationalize healthcare and destroy the economy with a raft of Soviet-style command-and-control regulations over the “environment” and pretty much every other facet of our lives, but who looks and sounds like just a guy who you’d like to have a drink with at the local bar or, as in Preacher Pete’s case, the harmless Jehovah’s Witness who knocks on your door and wants to talk to you about his vision of what God actually is.
Preacher Pete is delivering all of that, right down to the starched white shirt and black pants uniform and scripture-quoting (and often mis-quoting) of your local missionary. When radical leftism is packaged like this, you hardly notice how radical it all really is until it’s too late and the harmless missionary is implementing a $2500 penalty on you for not signing up with the medical non-coverage mandated by the bill he just signed into law.
This Clintonian triangulation approach of adopting pretty much all of his opponents’ most radical ideas, but doing so with the demeanor and talking points of moderation has suddenly landed Preacher Pete with a 9-point lead in the new Des Moines Register poll in Iowa, and a whopping 10 point lead in a new St. Anselm poll in New Hampshire. Yes, these are just single polls in each state, but every other poll taken recently in these two crucial kickoff contests have shown Buttigieg’s fortunes rapidly rising.
Supporters of Quid Pro Joe point to their guy’s leads in South Carolina and Nevada, the next two states that will be contested before Super Tuesday rolls around, but history is filled with the rotting carcasses of presidential candidates who thought they could lose Iowa and New Hampshire and then build firewalls around later states and still be the nominee. Reality dictates that if any candidate can win both Iowa and New Hampshire, they will immediately become the odds-on favorite to be the nominee as the momentum from those victories carries over into other states.
Just as in the game of football, momentum is a very real factor in presidential politics. Right now, Preacher Pete, through his strategy of channeling the 1992 version of Bill Clinton, definitely has it. Whether or not it can last is anyone’s guess, but he is proving to be a very formidable presence in this race.
That is all.
He’s the only one that sounds half sane.
Butt is trying to be the Democratic answer to “None of the Above.” A rejection without leaving the Party.
A reasonable approach to the primaries, but not exactly a position that will generate enthusiasm in the election.
The irony here is that the vaunted Dem African-American voting bloc is rabidly homophobic....
This country already has had a serial rapist and also a homosexual as president. We don’t need another sex pervert in the White House.
Auto-erotic triangulation, no doubt.
That there is an awful visual. Still, if he’s the nominee the #WalkAway movement will turn into a monster marathon.
he has wiggled his way up to the top....
like the gerbils they use :)
If we end up with a fruit guy married to a guy for president, there isn’t enough Jack Daniels in the WORLD to numb me enough.
And I pray God takes me on the same day.
Cause I’ll want out
He’s a fag, Jim.
Will he have the nerve to copy Trump and say you have no choice but to vote for me.
I don’t dislike gays but he’s gay and for that reason alone I wouldn’t vote for him.
The blacks who actually vote might well be the most conservative block in America when it comes to social issues. However, when the rubber actually hits the road, they’ll be climbing over top of each other to vote for atheist, baby murdering homos. Stupid, stupid people.
Sorry Dave, but Pete’s problems with the black community (his record on crime and his ‘lifestyle’) are going to be very difficult to overcome, which is why he’s getting destroyed in SC. Not to mention that his attempts to get on their good side has been utter failures.
I still expect Skunk Cabbage to ride in at the convention and ‘save the party’, and I think she had Deval come in to prevent Biden from doing too well in the South and potentially running away with the nomination.
The story of how Mayor Butthead destroyed South Bend is yet to be told. For all those who know Northern Indiana, Gary is equal to Camden, NJ. Without Notre Dame, South Bend would look like Gary or Camden. It is a failed city because of Mayor Butthead.
Will he and his boyfriend/husband campaign as a couple?
That opens a lot of doors of speculation.
Google: Chasten Glezman (who now goes by Chasten Buttigieg on social media)...
I guess olePete and Chasten are giving the presidency to Trump on a silver platter.
If you let that happen, you'll be voting for democrats for two decades.
I hope they nominate him. The public will think about how he would stand up to the likes of Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, Erdogan and the ayatollahs.
Trump will emerge as the alpha male.
I like it.
We all like nicknames...Lol.
I called Buttplug as the nominee in July so not surprised at all. Although I never thought anyone could beat Trump with Pete I am very worried about the same stupid White women who gave us Obama and the AOC House. It is truly disgusting to read the women’s comments on Facebook fawning all over Pete and his fake husband, especially when they suggest they want to adopt children. The media is also going to Obama-ize him as “historic” and I think even Black women might end up backing him.
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