Posted on 02/09/2020 10:24:15 AM PST by conservative98
Pete Buttigieg isn’t going to win You may as well start on his political obituary once you’ve finished with Joe Biden’s
Roger Kimball 8 February 2020 3:49 PM
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As Joe Biden once said of his old (but then-future) boss B. Obama, the 38-year-old former Mayor of South Bend is bright, articulate, and cleans up well. But the idea — an idea that is assiduously circulated by his supporters — that he is ‘moderate’ is ridiculous. In fact, those scrambling for the perfect political epitaph for PB might consider ‘moderate’ in scare quotes.
Remember, Mayor Peter is the openly gay son of the editor and translator of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. Gramsci’s important contribution to the literature of totalitarian tyranny was his idea that Communist dictatorship could only come to free countries by means of a ‘long march through the institutions’, cultural as well as political. The left has pretty well accomplished this with respect to the universities and the elite cultural institutions of the media and the so-called ‘arts community’. Mayor Pete wants to finish the job through such expedients as packing the Supreme Court with six more seats, abolishing the electoral college (it’s ‘undemocratic’, he says), disarming the populace (a precaution tyrants always take), providing a ‘glide path‘ for the government takeover of healthcare, opening up the borders, and forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for college, even for illegal immigrants, whom he also wants to offer amnesty. It’s a start, Comrade.
The truth is, Buttigieg is about as moderate as Bernie Sanders. He comes off as more reasonable than Bernie because he has a more soothing demeanor. (And he comes off as more reasonable than Elizabeth Warren because he does not sound like a screeching harridan whose hectoring voice is like a witch’s nails drawn across a blackboard.) He quotes — and misquotes — scripture. He sounds reasonable, so long as you ponder the timber of his voice and don’t ponder the substance of what he says.
But at the end of the day, this Ivy- and Oxbridge-educated ‘progressive veteran’ is a Gramscian radical. He is there with with Ralph ‘make-’em-comfortable’ Northam on abortion, though he has gotten pretty deft at avoiding the issue. Abortion, in fact, seems to be the one issue on which he wants the government to stay out of our lives. About everything else, it’s all government all the time.
Mayor Pete will have a scintillating couple of months while the media pretends that he might possibly win the nomination. But he can’t, and that will become obvious, I predict, shortly after Super Tuesday. I am really not sure who would have the best chance against Donald Trump in November. I am confident, though, that the sacrificial lamb will not be Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
Anyone know if there’s any validity to the 1998 arrest claims?
Yeah, Lenin or Uncle Joe would have had them shot. Homosexuality was considered ‘’degenerate Bourgeois morality’’.
I hope Biden’s campaign is a complete bust......so sick of hearing how “investigating a political opponent” is taboo.....he’s a weak opponent, who served near the top of a corrupt administration that broke every law in the book trying to prevent THEIR political opponent from taking power.
Bannon just suggested on Jesse Watters the ticket might be Bloomberg and Hillary. Brokered Convention. And Hillary will come in on her cape.
win what?
“There has never been a justice system built to deal with this depth of wickedness we currently see in the republic.”
I concur, absolutely. We are in uncharted territory that even the Founding Fathers, in all their wisdom, could not have foreseen.
On several FR threads, I have expressed my opinion that Trump will end up having to use “extra-Constitutional methods” to remove the cancer. I have been castigated by some FReepers for this, but I still stand behind this view.
This doesn’t mean I like it. But how can our slow-moving justice system cope with hardcore Marxists who will surely riot once Trump wins his second term? Especially since most of the rioting will take place in blue cities like Portland, where the local administration openly coddles the likes of Antifa.
And after the initial outburst of lawlessness, what then? Continued acts of domestic terrorism, amounting to a low-level civil war?
Trump had better be prepared to come down hard on these evildoers — and very quickly, starting the day after the election.
Much like Lincoln, Trump will likely have to suspend habeas corpus. And I suspect the Posse Comitatus Act will have to be shelved as well, at least until some degree of sanity returns to our politics.
But that may be a long wait.
New tagline. Thanks Cowboy Bob.
It will be Bloomberg and Bernie BOTS will be PISSED because a billionaire bought his way into the election 1/3 of their base stay home WE WIN!!!
Doesn’t matter - Butthead has made $$$Millions from his campaign donations - he is headed for a gated mansion in West Hollywood!
That's true, but he "evolved" on a lot of things, and with the MSM's help, got the habitual Democrats to follow him. If he were running today, he'd say he was more reasonable, but that the proponents of the above idiocies had their reasons, and that we should listen to them.
Once elected, he'd steer the ship as hard left as he could, and he'd have a more uncertain country to mess up than he did in 2008.
Well, he, like all Democrats running for office, certainly thinks the government needs to pay for abortions. The fact is, he obviously believes, like all Democrats, that every live birth is a cosmic failure.
I actually switched parties in 2008 to vote for Obama in the NH Democratic primary to help McCain, since I was certain Obama was the one Democrat with no hope of winning.
We already had our first gay president with the first tranny...
Barack and Michael.
He’ll be the winner’s pick for VP...
“Whereas, the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of Virginia, Maryland, New York, Arkansas, and in the District of Columbia by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law: now, therefore, I, Donald John Trump, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union to the aggregate number of 75,000, in order to suppress said combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed.”
Multiple entities are investigating Biden and his son Hunter. As these turn up the heat and begin to release fact-based findings, Biden will be finished in politics for life.
He and Hunter should get jail time. Reality: Hunter, probably, Biden, I doubt it. He’s too old and a member of the untouchable class.
Pete Buttplug is supported by the CIA, Military Industrial Complex, Never Trumpers & Bill Kristol. He’s also a satanic baby killer who wants all unwanted children put to death.
We’ve already had at least one queer president but not one that’s out of the closet.
I don’t know. I thought we weren’t ready for a guy whose middle name was ‘Hussein,’ but I was wrong.
So, a Communist, a queer, a Cherokee, and a criminal. Some choice Democrats!
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