Posted on 05/18/2019 4:50:30 PM PDT by madprof98
“So whatever we do now will decide not just what the next four years looks like, but what like but the next 40 years will look like,” Buttigieg told more than 500 people at the Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon. “That’s why we’ve just not got to win an election, but win the era for our values.”
Republicans have made claims on those values and Buttigieg is reclaiming them, said Sarah Prineas, who introduced him.
Buttigieg “doesn’t pay a whole lot of attention to the giant, orange elephant in the room,” she said. “He is a uniter. He makes us feel like we’re in this together.”
Buttigieg, who made a stop at the Iowa City farmers’ market ahead of the rally, contends his rhetoric about values appeals to not only his Democratic audiences but to voters “who are not tribal, committed partisans.”
By appealing to shared values “like freedom and security and democracy and faith and family ... means there is more to reaching out to independents than moving into the center.”
“These are things that don’t belong to one party unless we surrender them on my side of the aisle,” Buttigieg said. “If we do that, we shouldn’t be surprised that someone family oriented or faith oriented of shooting [?] oriented thinks the Republicans are the only ones speaking to them.”
Republicans weren’t as generous in their assessment of Buttigieg’s campaign swing through Iowa.
“Pete Buttigieg hasn’t been properly vetted by the American people yet, but we already know he’s fully embracing the 2020 Democratic platform of late-term abortion, government-run health care, abolishing the Electoral College and court packing,” Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Jeff Kaufmann said.
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Homosexuality is not an American value.
Selling American values to Democrats sounds like selling ice to Eskimos.
FU Buttgood-
For decades you and your ilk have dictated to us that values aren’t important - that morals are evil and that we should do whatever you feel like.
But of course, now that you’ve got the vote the way you want it you want to freeze everything in your image and call that “utopia”
Bs and FU - you wanted to see America destroyed you make yourself comfortable with the fact that there’s factual, civilizational reasons that sexual morality exists the way it does and, here’s a hint. It’s not “hate speech”
“You can’t make this kinda crap up.”
With liberals, every day is ‘opposite day’. Sick people.
No thanks Pete my behind is OK just the way it is.
Selling American values to Democrats sounds like selling ice to Eskimos.
He’s as American as baseball, apple pie and a reach around.
LOL
Diana we can’t let ourselves get complacent these Dems will do whatever it takes to win!!! I myself am very worried about Trump winning this time, I will be completely devastated, but these Dem BASTARDS will find a way to steal it unless our numbers are so massive they can’t do it!!! I pray all of Trumps previous voters know this and get to the polls as enthusiastically as they did in 2016!!!!!
What could be easier to do for the party which embraces criminals, sexual perversion, baby killers, eugenics, elderly killing, slavery, Godless communism, and treason?!
I don't think it's the court Buttgag is trying to pack........
Ain’t Affirmative Action wonderful?
All I’ve heard him say is that he wants to tear down Jefferson everywhere and attack Mike Pence. How are that “reclaiming” American values?
Good luck with that Pete, we are Americans, we don’t cotton to people telling us what to think. We are capable of doing that on our own.
Errr eh, selling American values to Democrats sounds like selling rice to China.
Which American values are those? Homosexuality? Big government tyranny? Onerous taxation? Slaughter of innocents? All those principles the Constitution and Declaration enshrine?
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