mookie1995
there's a good buck in that racket.
AOC is not a bomb thrower. Stop buying the Fox News narrative.
Anything that scares the establishment is a bomb to be thrown
AOC is not a bomb thrower. Stop buying the Fox News narrative.
She absolutely is.
These little media-packaged soundbites do not do these candidates, nor us, justice.
All of the candidates you blithely summarize to dismiss have depth. They all mix evil and good and strengths and weakness. Don't succumb to pundit idiocy. Not all cynicism is aphorism. Often it's laziness or applause-seeking. You're better than that. Leave that stuff to Rover.
Obama and Hillary were the final cartoon hero and villain. Now we are condemned to radically consider our candidates in full, which is a slow and messy process and doesn't grant social media likes. But the alternative is to keep skipping stones ironically with the idiots, never get to anything of substance, and consequently create a world where Dump and his paper-thin frauds have exactly the same merit and standing as our leaders -- as us, for that matter.
The lesson of 2016 is flippancy doesn't work anymore. Take heart; this is much worse news for me, a natural as-shole, than you, a sincere and good person.
Dx is establishment
LOL. Pretty sure I am more establishment than dx, though not as establishment as Rover or 5mn.
LOL. Pretty sure I am more establishment than dx, though not as establishment as Rover or 5mn.
Oh here I thought we weren’t reducing anyone to strawwomen.
I'm objectifying.
That's different.
found her. Kristen Soltis Anderson. And yes, as assumed, a Useful Idiot
Then we better start electing some women with intelligence and personality to office AND shine the light on them. AOC might fire up the base, but she's a bomb-thrower and doesn't strike me as a leader... yet. Klobuchar is very bright, but has the personality of John Kerry. Gillibrand would feed her own dog to the wood chipper if it would get her elected. Warren is very smart, probably brilliant, but she's about as likeable as an eelpout. Speaking of slimy, there's also Kamala Harris, but she might have the chops. Sinema might be that person, I just don't know enough about her. Duckworth and Abrams are both entirely possible, but again, we just don't see enough of them.
There are a slew of bright women in the House, they just need the spotlight shined on them. I'm hoping party leadership does that in the next few years. I'm also hoping the members themselves take the opportunity to author legislation, give interviews on TV, and get their names out there.
Hillary Clinton was the best and most qualified candidate for the office of president we have ever had. How’s that?![]()
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Actually that’s the truth, she was just an incredibly shi-ty politician.
One of the better ones, but not the best. Go back to the 19th century, and there were dudes far more qualified than Hillary who won. Unfortunately, they turned out to be mediocre-at-best Presidents. Experience is not a predictor of success - Peter Principle.
In the 20th century, as far as sheer qualifications at the federal level, it's basically Bush 1 and no one else. Ike had foreign policy experience through his role as military commander, but he had zero political experience. An argument could maybe be made for Nixon, who was a Rep, Senator, and Veep (though he didn't spend a ton of time in the first two roles), but he lacked foreign policy experience prior to the Presidency (the "Kitchen Debate" was Cold War political theater, and does not count).
And yes, Chris Matthews is the left's Tucker Carlson.
Her entire career, of which you knew nothing minutes before, reduced to 71 characters. To be fair, that was two whole sentences more than I devoted to any of them.
LOL. Pretty sure I am more establishment than dx, though not as establishment as Rover or 5mn.
Yes, but we aren't potentially choosing her to be our nominee.
I'm not calling on people generally to abandon flippancy in judging our fellow humans generally, in a humanistic sense, because all humans are complex and nuanced beings precious in the sight of God. I'm neither strong nor wise enough for that. I'm lazy for one thing, and also a jerk. No, seriously. I've done quite a bit of research on the subject.
I'm calling on liberals specifically to abandon flippancy in publicly judging our potential nominees specifically, in a pragmatic sense, because otherwise we are going to get our keisters handed to us by the orcs. Again.