Yeah, right.
Posted on 05/18/2019 6:57:03 AM PDT by madprof98
When Buttigieg . . . broke through as a candidate during a CNN town hall in March, he . . . questioned the merits of the fixation among religious conservatives with sexuality in paragraph-length answers that his friends from his Harvard years recognized immediately as quintessential, undergraduate Pete.
Whether he’s arguing that Democrats should take back God, morality, and freedom from Republicans or that liberals too often play on conservatives’ political turf instead of articulating their own vision and values, Buttigieg’s rhetoric as a candidate sounds nearly identical to his political musings when he was at Harvard, according to interviews with more than a dozen of his former classmates.
That’s in part because Buttigieg honed these very ideas for years with a group of like-minded Harvard students he met through the Institute of Politics, or IOP, who endlessly discussed, over late-night Chinese food and beer, how the Democratic Party could make its way out of its Bush-era malaise.
The six young men sometimes jokingly referred to themselves as “The Order of the Kong,” after the Chinese restaurant in Harvard Square called The Hong Kong where they began meeting as freshmen over dumplings and scallion pancakes.
“Whether or not it was spoken, all [of us were] oriented towards a life of service in some form or another,” said Ryan Rippel, a member of Buttigieg’s group who is now a director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
One of Buttigieg’s hobbyhorses was that conservatives managed to “own” moral and religious issues, according to former classmates, while the left missed out on opportunities to reframe issues such as health care and the social safety net as moral.
His friends said it never occurred to him at the time he might be gay.
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This long and flattering portrait of the mayor of South Bend offers an inside glimpse of the expensively miseducated liberal elite who control our lives in the name of “service.” The swamp is full of them.
Yes the swamp is full of these elitists From Stanford and USC on the west coast to the Ivy League lawyers/thugs onow the East Coast.
They control liberal towns/counties/states from ocean to ocean.
They hate us because we stand in their way of normalizing the sick and abnormal behavior and lifestyles they live and stand up for.
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Yeah, right.
Buttwipe was only elected mayor thanks to the students and faculty of “Catholic” Notre Dame University.
“Buttwipe was only elected mayor thanks to the students and faculty of “Catholic” Notre Dame University.”
Thanks for the above info.
Donald Trump
Class of 1968
Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania
Notre Dame is not in South Bend, it is in Note Dame, IN, a separate entity, and residents there are not allowed to vote in South Bend elections.. Only Seniors (around 2,000) and post grad students can live off campus, and less than half of those live in South Bend itself. The same for the 1,300 faculty.
< shrug >
If you have a point, make it.
I’d gladly trade Trump for getting rid of all the Ivy League leftists in The Swamp.
re: “questioned the merits of the fixation among religious conservatives with sexuality “
Gimme a break! It’s in the Bible ...
So, that raises the question, WHAT BIBLE DOES MAYOR PETE USE?
Or, does he disavow the Bible, or parts thereof?
I stand corrected, then. Still, no doubt he still has a lot of fanbois at Notre Dame.
Sure does. And you don’t have to live in a voting district to influence an election. Enthusiastic young supporters from the nearby college, campaign funds from well-paid profs, it all adds up. Notre Dame gave us Pete Buttigieg, and that is the truth.
I call him Mr.Fister.
(After Buttplug wins the presidency)
Secret service official asks, does the president have a duck in the oval office?
Spurred his rise, with spurs, and buttless chaps.
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