Posted on 06/23/2019 3:43:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ever since the campaign for the Democratic nomination first began, basically on November 9, 2016, America has been treated to some truly comedic moments, from Hillary Clinton’s delayed concession speech, to two years of “will she, or won’t she?” speculation at a second - strike that - third, run for the presidency, all of which peppered with her $100 speeches to smaller crowds than a Bee Gees reunion concert would draw. And let’s not forget the Costco book signings for "What Happened" by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the only mystery novel with the mystery and answer both printed clearly on the cover.
Now the page has turned. A new collection of characters have thrown their respective hats in the ring as potential party hopefuls. And they really are a cast of characters, enough to make the original cast of Saturday Night Live look, well, amateurish.
We’ve been privy to some of the most awkward and ill-conceived public rollouts since Coca-Cola’s 1985 introduction of New COKE!
We’ve had upstart Beto O’Rourke confess to eating dirt and, for some reason, live streaming both his dental work and haircut. In the end, the only reason anyone even knows his name is that he lost his only major election. Well, that and the fact that he has a tendency to skateboard on stage and stand on counter-tops where people are eating. If he enjoyed some early comparisons to Robert Kennedy, he has a funny way of trying to further such comparisons. It’s hard to imagine RFK leading his brother through the Cuban Missile Crisis while getting a mani-pedi.
The nation was treated to Elizabeth Warren coming to the, hard to believe, revelation that when you’ve spent your entire professional life falsifying your racial heritage (for no gain, I’m sure), video-streaming the proof of your falsity is a bit of an error. But no worries. She quickly bounced back with her announcement video, which was, of course, interrupted by her need to get a beer. Maybe if she wanted to seem authentic, she might have had the beer out ahead of time? And looked like she had had at least one beer previously in her life. And then, of all things, feigning surprise that your own husband, is in your own house, while you are announcing your candidacy for the highest office in the world.
Warren might not have been, how should you say, channeling the famed Harry Truman authenticity. Maybe if she stuck to her usual appearance of erratic screeching as if she had just had three glasses of chardonnay and watched The Notebook, she would look more prepared to handle Kim Jong-un. Or maybe not.
Amy Klobuchar, extolling the virtues of being “Minnesota Nice” while making her underpaid staffers clean the combs she uses to eat her salads. Could one really imagine George Washington asking John Adams to hold his false teeth while he whistled? Probably not.
Kirsten Gillibrand apparently can’t hold the attention of a small Iowa diner unless she provides enough condiments for all. But hey, who doesn’t need ranch dressing with their chicken strips. Yet FDR always had a martini ready for his guests. When you were wholly for gun rights before you were against them, you sound more like the former Massachusetts Senator JFK, just not the JFK that became President (Kerry/Kennedy differential).
Pete Buttigieg is trying desperately to be relevant. But is that really his fault? It’s tough to attract the necessary big dollar donors when your only credential is being mayor of a small city better know for Notre Dame football than for exquisite executive leadership.
Then we have Old Uncle Joe Biden. The man who has consistently proven that flip-flopping isn’t just a young man’s sport. A man with more awkward faux pas than Lenny Bruce hosting a sweet sixteen. The man more famous for plagiarizing the concept of plagiarism than having an original thought. And Uncle Joe is in the lead.
All of this makes for the upcoming Democratic debates amounting to the greatest political theater of our time. A pageantry of victimhood with each candidate relying on their race, gender, or sexuality to propel them past the presumed presidential nominee. And then, it’s more likely than not, if history is any indication, Joe Biden will attempt to co-opt said victimhood as his own.
This is not the way to deal with the escalating Iranian threat. It’s no way to keep Kim Jong-un in check. It’s impossible to imagine any of the hopefuls sitting in for FDR with Stalin and Churchill. Or to see one of them replacing Kennedy in a showdown with Khrushchev
It may not be anyway to pick a nominee for the most powerful position in the world, but this promises to be a comedy of errors like none ever seen before.
The writer is doing his best Ann Coulter impression. Not nearly as funny.
Nothing all that interesting about it. They believe anyone can beat Trump, which makes them all scramble for the honor of being the sacrificial lamb who will lose to Trump, which will then cause further meltdowns across the nation when Trump inevitably wins. It’s like throwing a water buffalo into a tank filled with toothless piranhas. They tickle him. He laughs. Squishes a few of them by accident, and then climbs out of the tank.
I’m a Hickenlooper man myself.
After all — that old commercial that said, “With a name like ‘Smuckers’, you know you’ve got to be good!” mad a lot of sense.
Or they believe nobody can beat Trump, so the good candidates are sitting this one out while the nuts take advantage of “no such thing as bad publicity” and take in what money & fame they can while they can.
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And who might those be? I am trying to think of a responsible, thoughtful, competent adult among the national Democrats. I'm drawing a blank.
Between Hickenlooper and Bootigeig, which one is a bigger Smucker?
No democrat (short of a complete economic collapse) can beat Trump.
Anyone with just an inkling of political understanding knows this.
So, anyone with half a brain running in 2020 is only in it to build up som national networking and brand recognition and meet donors in preparation for a 2024 run.
The job for the 2020 D, is to keep the base engaged so that Trumps coming victory ( and it is going to be a huge victory, far bigger than 2016) in term of total votes and EC win... it will be the greatest EC re election since Reagan) will not turn into a complete downballot route as well.
As such the D candidate will be 1 of 2 types of people. The first, is a party loyalist, someone who’s been a loyal party man his entire life and way past their prime, who knows it’s a lost cause but will do it out of loyalty. Currently this role is being played by Biden, but should he stumble there will be someone else like him that will take his place. The other type will be a radical firebrand too ignorant to know they are in a lost cause... this is most of the rest of the field.
Neither type can win, but if the D’s choose the latter, Trumps victory will be even greater, as the radical firebrand may motivate the activist base, but will turn off or away most everyone else.
From where things sit right now, the D party machinery is doing its best to make sure the nominee is the former (Biden).. but the radical base is looking for it to be the latter.. if the radical D bass wins the day then 202 will simply be the ignorant youthful left re learning the lessons of the 1972 election.
I wonder what ole’
SnakeHead has to say.
(James Carville)
Bloomburg would have given Trump a good battle. Thankfully he is out of it.
On March 5, 2019, Bloomberg announced that he will not run for president in 2020, instead encouraging the Democratic Party to “nominate a Democrat who will be in the strongest position to defeat Donald Trump”.
As of April 2019, his net worth was estimated at $62.1 billion, making him the 6th-richest person in the United States and the 9th richest person in the world.
Keep an eye on Joe Biden ....if he manages to make it through the debate, he will attempt to milk victimhood
to its fullest. Joe fathered a son that not only boinked his dead brother's wife, but also fathered a hillbilly kid
and took his third wife......most of it while Joe was trying to recook his Chinese Chop Suey position.
BOL......now that’s funny.
Isn’t it interesting that the Democrats are obsessed with defeating Trump, having forgotten that American presidents have any other function whatsoever? I’d like to ask them where the welfare of the United States of America stands in their priorities, if it does at all.
"The first, is a party loyalist, someone who’s been a loyal partyFixed it. Watch for a draft. Hillary - Moochelle - Opra? It doesn't matter - it may have been the strateigery all along to let the wanna-bes distract the public, destroy each other (and with ABC going after Hunter Biden add the MSM to the train wreck) and then the secret stealth candidate - who is neither male nor socialist with name recognition rides to the party's rescue. Clinton is a centrist compared to the current crop of losers and is still the wet-dream candidate of every dem I know. I know it's ridiculous, but what have the dims done recently that wasn't?.man hisher entire life and way past their prime ..."
If only they could have had the Smothers brothers do an ad.
That's why I've been beating the drum (even wrote the President) for a Tampa-like rally in California (probably San Diego). Beside panicking the Democrats into spending money in a "safe" state, it will draw out all the abandoned Republicans there. No, he wouldn't win CA, but the deluge of votes might well carry in some down-ticket Republicans and he might pick up a Representative or two as icing on the cake.
Half these candidates will be gone after Iowa and New Hampshire. The ones who aren't getting any money will have to struggle to get that far. When it comes down to a handful of candidates, somebody will cut a deal with the front-runner and withdraw. It's going to be tough for them though: if you are #3 or #4 and still have a shot at the nomination, do you want to be the one who drops out? And you can't be sure you've made a deal with the right candidate, so you might end up trading away your shot for nothing.
There is more potential for chaos this time than last time, though. The superdelegates (the party regulars who guaranteed the nomination for Clinton last time) aren't voting on the first ballot, so it will be harder to impose a candidate on the convention. But if there is a second ballot the superdelegates will have made their own deals and will pick the winner - and no, it won't be Hillary or Michelle or Oprah.
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