You forget with whom you are dealing. Dem aparatchiks have an agenda. In accordance with that agenda, they pick somebody most likely to further it, and construct a narrative to hype that somebody. So all these critiques are valid, but it just means they will have to spin a narrative to gloss over the defects in the candidate. Lurch? He was swiftboated by some right-wing extremists. Michelle? She has plenty of experience. She was by the right hand of the wonderful wizard of O, watching and learning. Tulsi? She’s a centrist, and boy is she hot.
But some realities are simply too difficult to spin. It’s getting to the point where they cannot sell Quid Pro Joe, because of his senility and his glaring corruption. Likewise, Hillary. Alcoholic with Parkinsons and a personality so poisonous, she actually lost to Orange Man, who was really a pushover. Never mind that they’ve broken their backs trying to push him over. Bernie has lost Florida, because the Cuban ex pats are not nearly as forgiving nor as forgetful as Americans, and the same would hold true for the Scots Irish of the Carolinas and the great heartland. He toasted himself.
But none of the other likely replacements can’t be spun. So that leaves Tulsi, Lurch and Michelle.
Big Mike was a three-term mayor of NYC. His problem is, he’s not a people person.