It Made Me Smile
Go on – try not to smile. You have to and you know it.
“One thing about my marriage is it’s never involved me having to send hush money to a porn star after cheating on my spouse with him or her, So they wanna debate family values? Let’s debate family values. I’m ready.”
— Pete Buttigieg, quoted by Politico.
Have to hand it to Pete – he’s quick. Asked about what he would do if he won and tRump wouldn’t leave – he said that if tRump would do chores, maybe something could be worked out.
1No matter who has been ahead or behind, I have never stopped favoring Pete. I am sure I will vote for him in Alaska’s primary. (Dying to see the results of your primary in Texas.)
2https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/18/buttigieg-marriage-trump-porn-star-115922
Here’s the link. It’s even more fun to watch the video.
3Congratulations, Donnie* for managing something the combined efforts of Denny Hastert, Newt Gingrich and Tom Delay failed to do, slap the name Party of Family Values out of the Republicon self-congratulating list of oxymora.
4Go, Pete! A smart, happily married, politically-minded, decent man. He’s everything Trump is not, and I’d love to see him get the Democratic nomination. If he doesn’t, I wonder how he’d like to be VP?
5i was raised by an alcoholic and his enabler. i’ve NEVER understood the rigid definition of family that so called ‘christians’ uphold. that ‘christian’ ideal of a man married to a woman was not such a great place for my sibs and i. as long as a child is in a LOVING home that can provide for basic needs and some stuff a kid wants, it makes no difference what those people look like. love is love. Pete’s right to direct the focus to what matters. i hope some lucky kids are blessed to be in his home soon.
6Family values without exception.
Hair Furor’s hell on Earth…
7I voted for a woman in the primary but I could vote for Mayor Pete in the general. Actually, I intend to vote for anyone the Dems. put forward although I might have to hold my nose voting for a couple of them.
8More campaign wrecking quotes from DINO Mike. We’re gonna need another billion dollars.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/19/mike-bloomberg-2020-mayor-democratic-primary
9As I see it, no candidate is perfect. At this point I don’t care if the Democratic primary winnner is a male, female, straight, gay or a billionaire as long as he or she can wallop the hell out of Trump on election day.
10Papa @10, any conversation that begins with the caprice of two consenting adults loses the interest of most of us. Anything after “two consenting adults” isn’t a voting matter. Nor should any of the other Republicon ‘hot button’ topics such as reproductive health rights and privacy be on the ballot. Maybe we should explain to Kentucky that due to a mistake on their ballot they errantly voted for Rand Paul, when Ru Paul was their candidate of choice.
Forget “vote Blue no matter who,” folks. It’s all about the season. Gift, present, or sweet treat, whatever one’s beliefs or lack of beliefs, ridding ourselves of Donnie* is the reason for the season this year.
11A candidate who starts his campaign for the D nomination by telling D’s to be more understanding of the deplorables.
12A candidate who’s campaign for the D nomination by accepting thuglican framing of issues
A candidate who’s campaign for the D nomination by trying to be just another christianist hypocrite.
A candidate who’s campaign for the D nomination is based upon a limited tenure of a rundown community in a third world state.
A candidate who’s campaign for the D nomination who’s tenure of mayor has included a racist police force that he claims he has no control over.
A candidate who’s campaign for the D nomination try’s to hide his tenure with union busting mutual/investment fund.
And the hits just keep coming.
If Mayor Pete had a single honest bone in his body he would be running as a thuglican. But since “fighting” for decency in his natural party of choice is just too too hard he figures with his billionaire backers that he can steal the d’s nomination.
After all that strategy worked on wall street.
K, that’s the dry dry ditty on the facts, facts and more facts, thank you. To my preferred images to be taken from the Democratic ‘debate’ tonight add one of Mayor Pete in an ejection seat being ‘removed’ from Magic Mike’s $tretch limo at Mach speed. Shake my notion if you can, anyone please. But timing, $$$, surges & declines, etc. leave me wondering if Mayor Pete isn’t simply being used as a place holder in states where Magic Mike failed to parachute in ahead of ballot deadlines.
13Things Republicans no longer are.
14Compassionate conservatives, law and order party, constitutionalists, drain-the-swamp, moral majority, religious right, family values.
They are however, moral cowards.
That they are.