2020 Presidential Election: let the jockeying commence

Discussion in 'West Mall' started by ProdigalHorn, Dec 6, 2018.

  1. HornHuskerDad

    HornHuskerDad 5,000+ Posts

    ^ Me, too - the more the Dems move to the far left, the more likely moderate voters will turn them off.
     
  2. ProdigalHorn

    ProdigalHorn 10,000+ Posts

    This just in: The Democrat party has decided that all its primary debates will be moderated by 12-year-olds.

    Check out @pdabrosca’s Tweet:
     
  3. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    She keeps making sense and the Dems and their lapdog media absolutely hate her for it. I bet they try and keep her out of the debates

     
  4. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    Frankly, it must be pretty off-putting to be an 85 year old getting a bunch of argumentative back talk from a gaggle of brainless (albeit well-indoctrinated) kids. I'm sure she was thinking, "when I was your age, kids got spanked when they talked to adults like that."

    I wouldn't have said, "you didn't vote for me." That looks bad, but I'm glad that she put them in their place. She handled it pretty well. After all, she just got elected to what will almost surely be her last term since she'll be over 90 when it's over. She could have walked out as soon as they started arguing with her and ripped a big fart on the way out, and it wouldn't have mattered.
     
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  5. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    I'm sure they don't want her in the debates, but her poll numbers will be low enough to ensure that. However, I think her past social conservatism will sink her more than foreign policy will. Plenty of Democrats have been all over the map on foreign policy, and that issue doesn't motivate them that much.

    Social issues are different. It's where the Left gets its righteousness and claims its moral authority. Democrats have claimed socially conservative positions at times in the past, but they weren't activist about it. Furthermore, most knew those positions were insincere at the time. For example, nobody really thought Obama opposed gay marriage in 2008. It's just something he had to say to neutralize the issue.

    Gabbard was a vocal activist. She was undoubtedly sincere. Her conversion is what looks phony.
     
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  6. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Kamala Harris has come out in favor of reparations

    But of course conveniently omitting any mention the history of slave-ownership in her own family in Jamaica
     
  7. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    If there are reparations, the governments of West Africa should all pitch in since they you know were the ones who enslaved those families and sold them to Europeans.
     
  8. Phil Elliott

    Phil Elliott 2,500+ Posts

    Now that would have been something to see.
     
  9. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    And those obnoxious brats deserved no better.
     
  10. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    Who gave these kids lines and coached them how to use them? That is the real villian here. The kids are used as fodder.
     
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  11. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    At her age it probably wouldn't have been JUST a fart, but still, the point remains.
     
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  12. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    Perhaps, but a little trouser chili would be a small price to pay to put them in their place. I'm sure she has a change of clothes in her office.
     
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  13. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

     
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  14. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts


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  15. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    I am for sure NO DiFi fan but I heard on the radio that the vid in play was edited to make her look really bad.
    Apparently she offered one of the students an internship and it all was not as confrontational as it might seem.
     
  16. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    Wait, I thought they only admired places like Denmark, not totalitarian socialist states like the Soviet Union and North Korea.
     
  17. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    Beta likely to enter the presidential race. Link. I still say his chances of winning the nomination are weak. He won't get anywhere near the positive media coverage.
     
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  18. nashhorn

    nashhorn 5,000+ Posts

    May not win the nomination but 2nd place seems VERY likely.
     
  19. Clean

    Clean 5,000+ Posts

    Talk about Russian collusion! Bernie would have won the nomination in 2016 if it hadn’t been rigged! If he’d have won the nomination, I wonder if the MSM would have made a big deal out of his Russian connections?
     
  20. Phil Elliott

    Phil Elliott 2,500+ Posts

    I think you are being facetious here. You know damn good and well they would not.
     
  21. ProdigalHorn

    ProdigalHorn 10,000+ Posts

    He might be VP material except that he's a good enough speaker that someone like Harris would never allow him on the ticket. He'd upstage her too much.
     
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  22. 4th_floor

    4th_floor Dude, where's my laptop?

    Beta is as trustworthy as LBJ. Another reason why you would not want him as your VP.
     
  23. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    Governors are now jumping in. Jay Inslee (WA) last week and John Hickenlooper (CO) today.

    It's only a matter of time until Biden jumps in.
     
  24. theiioftx

    theiioftx Sponsor Deputy

    Something tells me Creepy Uncle Joe has metoo disease.
     
  25. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    It takes a while to get those NDA’s in place.
     
  26. UTChE96

    UTChE96 2,500+ Posts

    It will be interesting to watch. I have a feeling that the Dems may realize that he is their best bet (outside of Biden) in the general election. Only a fool would nominate Harris, but then again the Dems did put up HRC.
     
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  27. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    They would both be tough opponents.
     
  28. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    Not a fan of Inslee. He's a Democrat version of Donald Trump in that he's just not very smart but plays it off as a "man of the people". Inslee is also at his term limit so I suspect he's simply trying to raise his profile for his next gig.
     
  29. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    That's interesting. My recollection of him was as a congressman, and though he was well to my left, he seemed pretty sensible.
     
  30. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    First casualty, OR Sen. Jeff Merkeley officially drops out of the race. He'll rerun for his existing seat.
     

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