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Why You Love Mayor Pete: Buttigieg detaches progressive policy from the culture war.
NY Times ^ | April 1, 2019 | David Brooks

Posted on 04/02/2019 12:28:32 PM PDT by C19fan

Pete Buttigieg has some kind of magic right now. His campaign bio, “Shortest Way Home,” was the 25th-best-selling book on Amazon when I checked on Monday. That put him just a few dozen places behind Michelle Obama, and thousands or tens of thousands of places ahead of Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and the other candidates who have campaign books out now.

In a recent Iowa poll he surged to third place. His campaign just announced that it’s raised an impressive $7 million since January. And I can’t tell you how many Democrats in places as diverse as Nebraska, Indiana, New York and Washington have come up to me over the last few weeks raving about the guy. I met a superfan in Frederick, Md., who says that every few hours she calls the campaign to give another $10.

This is the biggest star-is-born moment since Lady Gaga started singing “Shallow.”

Why are people so in love with the mayor of South Bend, Ind., who almost nobody had heard of until he did a CNN town hall on March 10?

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020demprimary; buttigieg; buttigieg2020; buttigiegbio; potus
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Brooks fell for Obama and it looks like he never learned his lesson.
1 posted on 04/02/2019 12:28:32 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

LOL - how much was he paid for this puff piece?


2 posted on 04/02/2019 12:29:53 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: C19fan

Based on the drool on the article by Brooks, looks like this clown is the chosen one by the Deep State..


3 posted on 04/02/2019 12:30:14 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtards at our company for the past 12 yrs at every election. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: C19fan

The fact that Buttigieg is a serious contender shows the utter bankruptcy of the party.


4 posted on 04/02/2019 12:32:15 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: C19fan

Marshmellowy poofter piece from a palace of poofterism.


5 posted on 04/02/2019 12:33:27 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: C19fan

I hope he picks Thomas Paine as his running mate.


6 posted on 04/02/2019 12:35:18 PM PDT by MNDude (Don't be a "posted already Nazi" I am postin blind!)
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To: C19fan

Why are people so in love with the mayor of South Bend, Ind., who almost nobody had heard of until he did a CNN town hall on March 10?

Because it is an orchestrated phony baloney plastic banana good time rock and roll snow job.


7 posted on 04/02/2019 12:35:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: C19fan

Butthead is the most dangerous candidate the Dems have brought forward. As a comment on another thread indicated, he is an update of Jimmy Carter—ever-so-flyover-America . . . until you realize what he really believes and would put into practice if elected. Just watch: we’ll soon be treated to videos of his Sunday School classes at the (gay) Episcopal Church he and his hubbie attend.


8 posted on 04/02/2019 12:35:53 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: max americana

They need harris for top of the ticket..He is still a white man,gay or not.....


9 posted on 04/02/2019 12:37:31 PM PDT by Hambone 1934
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To: max americana
"Based on the drool on the article by Brooks"

David Brooks wanting a warm soapy shower with Booty itch.

10 posted on 04/02/2019 12:40:25 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: max americana

The Chosen one by the Gay Mafia.
I hope they are foolish enough to throw money at this nobody.


11 posted on 04/02/2019 12:42:51 PM PDT by Zathras
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My take is the dems will run Mayor Pete because they know Trump will win. They will then declare America, homophobic for his entire second term.


12 posted on 04/02/2019 12:43:46 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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If any of these fake intellectuals like Brooks did any real research, they’d discover Buttigeig’s father was a raving Marxist. See:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pete-buttigiegs-father-was-a-marxist-professor-who-lauded-the-communist-manifesto

“Mayor Pete” could easily be the most dangerous of all the DemonShit candidates.


13 posted on 04/02/2019 12:44:02 PM PDT by libstripper
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Butt gig is a traditional, old school closet communist - not one of today’s openly raving intersectional whack jobs.

Butt gig is a red diaper baby, raised as a communist, back when they were trained to hide their true intentions.


14 posted on 04/02/2019 12:44:09 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: MNDude

Pete Buttigieg “Shortest Way Home,”

Through the back door.


15 posted on 04/02/2019 12:44:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Zathras

I hope they are foolish enough to throw money at this nobody.

Rest easy. They will.


16 posted on 04/02/2019 12:56:04 PM PDT by samtheman (To steal an election, who do you collude with? Russians in Russia or Mexicans in California?)
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To: BenLurkin

My daughter told me many of her high school female associates had a thing about gay guys. They fantasized about turning them normal. She thought it was disgusting, but many high school kids don’t grow up.


17 posted on 04/02/2019 1:00:07 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: madprof98

Who knows what could happen with a crowded field, could Buttgig become a front runner?

Speaking of Jimmy Carter, he became the front runner in a crowded field,by doing well in the Iowa caucuses.

“Uncommitted” actually won the Iowa caucuses in 1976, but Jimmy Carter in 2nd place was the “winner” among actual candidates, so the media anointed him the front runner. In a crowded field, the unknown Jimmy prevailed in Iowa and New Hampshire, and was able to win the Democrat nomination.

Mr. Buttgig could perform the same trick, by getting a small percentage of the vote in a crowded field, as Jimmy Carter did.

And as noted, though he’s a white man, as a homosexual, he brings that victim status to the table.


18 posted on 04/02/2019 1:01:19 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Publius

Maybe this guy is angling to be the VP nominee?

The same could be said of many of the Democrat nominees.


19 posted on 04/02/2019 1:02:07 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: BeauBo

His father translated an edition of Gramsci’s “Prison Notebooks”.


20 posted on 04/02/2019 1:02:37 PM PDT by Borges
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