Beto
Beto announced that he’s not running against John Cornyn, so that clears the way for someone else to do it. It’s polite and good for the party for him to let folks know early.
That means he has something else in mind.
I think he’s running for Vice President.
People keep saying Biden/O’Rourke. Nope. That’s not going to happen. The days of two white men on a presidential ticket are over. If it is Biden, he’ll have to pick a woman. However Harris/O’Rourke or Klobuchar/O’Rourke or Warren/O’Rourke sounds great. They all also sound great reversed.
That’s just my thinking.
ON EDIT:
So, right now on this day, there are three people who stand a good chance of beating Trump in Texas.
Once Texas flips, there will never be another Republican in the White House.
I better get to work.
I know it’s early early, but Klobuchar barely survived 5 minutes post-announcement before her manifest weaknesses became known. We can and should do better. In some respects she reminds me of the sitting president.
1A Harris/O’Rourke ticket sounds terrific to me.
2If anyone wonders why Biden can’t seem to make a decision about running, its probably because of all the bizarre stories during his tenure as vice president. Stories which don’t rise to Slick Willie’s adventures as the Chief Romeo Executive but still have a high retch factor.
Biden’s indecisiveness has been long known since the 2016 headlines about him in a jogging photo that read: “Lacing up his running shoes”. (he bailed out)
This is one of many sources with video showing Biden’s lack of control in photo ops with DC folk and their families.
Dated 11/22/2017
3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ-YjGmpO4Q
Whoever wins the Democratic primary will be fine with us. We’re in a “support our candidate” kind of mood. Our ‘worries’ are the Senate and taking back the majority. And, removing dead weight Mark Amodei from our congressional district for a true blue NV. So if not Beto, please Texas find a candidate to oust Cornyn. Kentucky if you’re listening, Old Scratch McConnell’s time is up.
Vulnerable Senate snocilbupeR, let’s find them and turn the Senate Democratic in 2020. The WH and both chambers of Congress will be needed to clean up after Dotard45 and his maladministration. Also needed to send the message to the Cons that IOKIYAR is no longer acceptable.
4Beto sounds too much like another Obama– knows all the right words, but has a terrible track record on hewing to Democratic principles. (Didn’t he vote GOP 90% of the time in Texas?)
Are you Texas Democrats really comfortable with him? Can he be counted on to go after Wall Street and the monopolies? Could he be sent to a Bernie training camp?
5I really like the sound of Warren/O’Rourke.
6@Papa,
I do as well.
7Warren, Harris and others I can whole heartedly support. It is time to run a flaming leftist progressive.
8In a sane world klobacher would be a “rockefeller” rethuglican, like nominating lierman for VP in 2000 it would be a potential diaster for the party.
Her “minnesota” nice schtick is nothing more then an excuse not to be nasty to thuglicans, no matter how foul their policies may be.
Warren/Harris pulls two good Senators offline.
Bernie is too old, like Feinstein and Biden.
How about Buttigeig/Abrams or vv?
9Don’t count Bernie out because of his age~~ His ideas are fresh, and mentally he’s years ahead of where Reagan was at the same age.
10Hope you have someone good to run against Slippery John. The old sleazeball has been sounding like he’s ready to retire.
11I’m afraid that a lot of middle-road voters would look at a choice between Trump and a “flaming leftist progressive” and, however reluctantly, choose to vote for the devil they know. It is NOT the case that “any Democrat can beat Trump.” 2016 gave the lie to that one, and if it was buggered up by Russia, gerrymandering, lying and other tactics, that could happen again. I’m sympathetic to most of the lefty agenda, but if we go with somebody too far out there, we could lose it.
12@cgregory #10
I supported Bernie last time and voted for Hillary in the general.
But in the interveneing time 2 issues that Bernie has commented on that, to me, have root in the same flaw have bothered me.
1) His deference to rural doofusses on access to weapons of murder- guns
2) His statement of how some of his constituents are uncomfortable around people of color because of miminal exposure to any but the lily white and that they should be given time to overcome their bigotry.
In both cases he seems to be of the opinion that the vast majority of the American public should be scarifices upon the alter of rural ignorance, bigotry and intransgience.
I can appreciate being a senator from a state that more closely resembles the american population of the 1800’s rather then the 21st Century that he would have empathy with his constituents.
But it is time that some one spoke truth to the welfare kings and queens that is our rural population.
With out price supports, subsidies, government irrigation systems and subsidizing of infrastructure the condition of rural communities would be worse then any inner city slum.
But according to popular propaganda the rural folk live with out welfare, a lie, and represent what is “best” in the US population. If by best one means bigotry, ammosexual fetishes and sucking up as much welfare as possible.
This delusion sold to the american people ranks up with the dishonest and false defense of the traitors of the 1860’s fighting for something other then slavery and genocide even when those toilet paper “constitutions” they produced to state the reason for their treason stated protection of slavery being the reason for them murdering Government employees.
I like bernie but from his own statements he seems to have a blind spot for his rural folk and thinks that people of color should give them yet another 200 years to become comfortable around them, much like the arguement in the 60’s that african americans should just be more patient.
13As for his defense of their “love” of their guns well that is just to stupid to even bother with.
Jane & PKM, do you know about this racist, misogynist, rapist scum sheriff in Virginia City? He’s a monster, and yes, loves Lying Lunatic.
https://goo.gl/6zF873
14Rhea # 12
“I’m afraid that a lot of middle-road voters would look at a choice between Trump and a “flaming leftist progressive” and, however reluctantly, choose to vote for the devil they know.”
I beleive that fatigue and disillisionment will erode demented donnies support.
15I beleive what the last election proved was that we need a good campaigner who can run the marathon with a smile.
Hillary proved not to be that campaigner.
I hope you are wrong on principle, but I fear you may be right. The fear is because if we as a country allow this criminal cabal to seize our government again I question its survival.
K @ #13: You don’t know either Bernie or Vermont very well. I can’t see how you’d have supported Bernie in 2016, given your opinions. They very much resemble a trolling effort.
16@CGREGORY # 16
1) Was I incorrect in ascribing statements to Senator Sanders.
Sorry this “fear” is a form of racism. These are the enablers of the hard core racist.s
( “You know there are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to vote for an African-American.” https://www.npr.org/2018/11/08/665809570/bernie-sanders-clarifies-comments-about-racism-hurting-black-candidates)
How many guns sold in Vermont end up on the streets of major cities? Hawaii has strict gun laws that work because neighboring “rural” state cannot drive in with a trunk full of “legal” guns to sell on the street. The same types of laws do not work in Chicago because of ammosexual Indiana has laws similiar to vermonts.
“SANDERS: We have been yelling and screaming at each other about guns for decades, with very little success. I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. But the people of my state understand, I think, pretty clearly, that guns in Vermont are not the same thing as guns in Chicago or guns in Los Angeles…..”
Source: CNN SOTU 2015 interview series: 2016 presidential hopefuls , Jul 5, 2015
( Vermont highest % of Gun ownership, Sanders votes to give gun manufactors and dealers immunity, Voted against the Brady bill)
2) Is not Vermont a primarily rural state?
So please if you disagree facts not just unsupported insults.
17Apart from Tulsi Gabbard, whom I cannot stomach, there’s no one in the Democratic field for whom I would not vote. Let’s not trash each other’s candidates before the primary; it just feeds the Republicans.
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