Posted on 12/20/2019 8:46:53 AM PST by Kaslin
During the sixth round of Democratic debates Thursday, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg told Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., he was fit to run for president because he won an election in “Mike Pence’s Indiana.”
“We should have someone heading up this ticket that has actually won and has been able to show that they can gather the support that you talk about. Like moderate Republicans and Independents, as well as a fired-up Democratic base. And not just done it once, I have done it three times. I think winning matters,” Klobuchar said.
“If you want to talk about the capacity to win, try putting together a coalition to bring you back to office with 80 percent of the vote, as a gay dude in Mike Pence’s Indiana,” Buttigieg said.
“If you want to talk about the capacity to win, try putting together a coalition to bring you back to office with 80% of the vote as a gay dude in Mike Pence’s Indiana.” – Mayor Pete Buttigieg responds to Sen. Amy Klobuchar questioning his track record. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/8y2iNHY8sU
— CNN (@CNN) December 20, 2019
Here are some pictures of Buttigieg “struggling” in Indiana when Pence was governor.
Some pictures of Pete Buttigieg struggling to endure in “Mike Pence’s Indiana” pic.twitter.com/wXfaeXpvgm
— Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) December 20, 2019
Buttigieg did not come out as homosexual until years after he was elected mayor in the town of South Bend, population 100,000. The first election Buttigieg ran for after disclosing his sexual behavior was for chairman of the Democratic National Committee, an election that did not take place in Indiana.
Even if Buttigieg ran for re-election in South Bend, he wouldn’t be running in “Mike Pence’s Indiana,” because South Bend is a historically blue city. Every mayor since 1972 has been a Democrat and in the 2016 election, South Bend was one of only four counties that voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Further, and perhaps obviously, Pence no longer holds office in Indiana.
Pence in fact presided over the Republican state legislature’s capitulation to pro-LGBT business interests, who snowballed a state version of the Bill Clinton-signed Religious Freedom Restoration Act into special legal protections for people who claim an LGBT designation. As Dennis Saffran explained in 2015 in these pages:
In caving to corporate and elite pressure to ‘fix’ Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Gov. Mike Pence and the rest of the state’s laughingstock Republican leadership have ironically bungled into amending it in a way that now makes Indiana the most hostile state in the country to the conscience rights the original law was designed to protect.
The hastily and stupidly crafted amendment they enacted during Holy Week provides that Indiana’s RFRA can never be used as a defense in any gay rights or other civil rights proceeding by anyone other than a clergyman, church, or religious institution.
Buttigieg vastly overstated his credibility and record of bringing together diverse coalitions and winning elections. He’s also giving a false portrayal of Pence and state Republicans’ actions that created legal preferences for LGBT people over people of faith, even though Pence often gives the opposite impression of his own record while out giving speeches.
Bootyedge is running for VP - the corrupt media would love him vs Pence in the debate.
The Gay Blade is busy collecting donations which he will enjoy as a newly-minted millionaire after the primary because he’s going nowhere and everyone knows it.
Can you imagine a first husband of the husband in the WH? Perish the thought.
What an inane statement.....He won the mayoral election in a city that hasn’t put a republican in office since 1968.
His city has a 25%+ poverty rate, one of the highest violent crime rates in the country for a town it’s size and an unemployment rate of 6.8% compared to it’s sister city (Mishawaka) with an unemployment rate of 3.6%.
The “mans” a disaster.
Powder Puff Pete couldn’t even win state wide in IN.... When he first showed up I thought he might be a competitor in 2024... he’s clearly smarter than most of the rest in the Democrat Clown Car this cycle, (granted that’s a low intellectual bar to beat)... But the pandering and nonsense he’s done just prove this guy isn’t ready for prime time at all...
Any momentum he may get out of IA and NH, will be crushed come SC and Super Tuesday.
What a cheesy little turd .
How did they decide who throws the bouquet?
What a stupid moron.... spends all his time relating to his a22hole and thus it is the primal stimulant to his thinking.
Permanently stuck in childhood anal fixation stage, a permanent infant. On top of a FRAUD.
You lied to yourself first, butt boy, and that was easy, so everything else is easy in your warped world.
who wears kahakis on his wedding day??!!
He got like 8,500 votes in the last election he won. This is not a mover and shaker.
It would be great if Indiana did have 271, since the chance of Butteegig carrying his home state is nil.
Yeah that queer vote will get you about 2%
The White House would look like a endless “gay pride” parade.
Mike Pence doesn’t own Indiana, and so what the f*ck does that matter to anything? You think you are special because you use the back door when nature said you should use the front one?
The world will not accept a gay president, he would be virtually powerless.
Delusions of grandeur
He is a gay man in very liberal college town South Bend. Its a population of 100K. Thats it. 26% are black. Half of the rest are connected with the University. And they are poor. The town is $12K below the state average per capita income.
Says it all about Notre Lame.
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