(03-14-2019 10:07 AM)Eldonabe Wrote: I love it - they are going to kick the sh*t out of each other in the debates, then have to backpedal on 3/4 of what they needed to say in the debates once the field shrinks.
The few far-lefters are going to force the ultimate final Dem nominee to say many unrealistic things in the early going that Trump will crush them with. Case in point, when AOC came out with the initial Green New Deal BS - many of them were falling all over themselves to support it, only to find themselves "tempering their enthusiasm" a short time after.
This...
The party is going to be pushed SO far left by the 'Justice Democrats' that they won't be able to SEE the middle, much less get votes from it.
"...Is Beto O’Rourke mediocre? Maybe not. He’s charismatic and had the guts to run for a statewide elected position in Texas as a real Democrat—something even Wendy Davis, who famously and literally stood up for reproductive rights, didn’t do when she took the “blue dog” approach of positioning herself as a pro-gun Democrat. But his three terms as a member of the House of Representatives were unremarkable, and his policy positions are so vague that one is hard-pressed to outline a single one.
Humility is not a quality found in politics, generally, but there’s something particularly stunning about a man who spent the aftermath of his failed Senate bid doing a sort of “On The Road” soul-search tease of his presidential bid with a Vanity Fair profile in which he declared he is “born for this” and followed it up with a stunningly dull video formally announcing that bid—a video in which he talked straight to the camera for more than three minutes while his wife sat eerily silent beside him...."
"...Media coverage tends to fixate on novelty and personality over achievements and substance, and it’s unclear whether or not that is a response to what voters want. Do news consumers truly prefer charm over policy, or are we the ones deciding that Beto’s likability is more interesting than, for example, Elizabeth Warren’s detailed plan to break up Silicon Valley’s corporate giants?..."
"...But today, Beto O’Rourke announced he is running for President.
And he did so in rather unconventional fashion – by announcing the end of the world is fast upon us.
As US presidential campaign messages go, it at least had the benefit of being uniquely depressing.
O’Rourke didn’t quite scream ‘WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!’ but he might as well have done.
In direct contrast to Donald Trump’s upbeat winning 2016 slogan of ‘Make America Great Again’, O’Rourke thinks he can win in 2020 by telling 320 million Americans they’re all doomed...."
"...There’s also a large whiff of ‘fraud’ about this new ‘Man of the People’.
He calls himself Beto, to appeal to the Hispanic community, but his actual name is Robert.
He sells himself as just a regular guy, yet he’s actually stinking rich – thanks mainly to his wife who is the daughter of a real estate tycoon worth $500 million...."
Makes sense. The guy is a gold digger. He's handsome, apparently charismatic and he has a decidedly average looking spouse. But she's rich.
Its scary that so many people are so enamored with somebody so unqualified and so empty of substance.
Who are these people? Why are they so stupid?
Its easy to understand President Trump. People who were suffering and got ignored by both parties for the last 30 years put him in office. But why O'Roarke?