Wait, wait, wait–you can’t rattle off the names of every single Democratic candidate from memory? What kind of conscientious and patriotic American citizen are you, anyway?
Luckily, the DNC can’t actually pick the nominee.
Wait, MortSahlFan, you don’t want a right-winger, and two of your top three choices are Sanders and Warren… but your third choice is the most right-wing candidate in the lot? I don’t get it.
Let Biden and Bernie slug it out. Gabbard should stay in to force foreign policy into the discussion. Yang should have a constituency. Everyone else has no purpose in my opinion. Blank-faced pols.
Which of Gabbard’s positions or characteristics make her right-wing? Her measured demeanor and composure?
Her hawkish rhetoric and advocacy, especially regarding Iran. Yes, Tulsi Gabbard Opposed the Iran Deal
With the possible exception of Gabbard, any candidate the Democrats nominate this cycle will be in favor of LBGTQ rights, will be in favor of a much more equitable tax structure than the Republicans are, will work to safeguard voting rights, will do the same with reproductive rights, will work to extend the government’s role in health care, will work to remove many of the barriers to immigration, will be in favor of reversing climate change and protecting the environment, and will nominate judges who will generally support these things. All very right-wing principles.
I wonder what it is about those things that **MortSahlFan **finds so objectionable?
I see lots of Biden fans here , at least so far. Can’t understand that.
Experienced, moderate, perceived as best chance to beat Trump.
Not my first (or second) choice, but acceptable.
Hmm. So Harris is the most hawkish and right-wing of all candidates. I look forward to your further education on the matter.
Assuming you misspoke and mean Gabbard, then yes, she is the most hawkish, by my reading. And I’m not sure if it’s even close, when it comes to the last 5 years or so.
Gabbard was beloved by progressives until she met with Assad, who just had to go according to the Wilsonian hawks.
Somehow I remain unconvinced by your supposed mind-reading of progressives.
Yeah when you are searching for items to disqualify Gabbard, they are easy to find. Much easier for Harris. Since Gabbard is an antiwar stalwart who makes courageous stands against war and meets with and confronts dictators I tend to take a pragmatic approach.
Harris’ claim to fame is literally mass incarceration and she makes no antiwar statements of any kind.
So says WillF! Sure, progressives might make their own judgments and investigations when it comes to progressive candidates, but why not just accept cite-free assertions from someone who has made it clear that they despise progressives?
You might want to revisit your assumptions about that.
Everyone is chasing Biden at the moment, and while Sanders is decidedly second, he is currently dropping while Warren is (slowly) rising.
Name one candidate on this list who you feel is more antiwar than Gabbard so we can compare.
It is no surprise that the attacks on Gabbard are coming from pro-war hawks. They will use all types of disingenuous tactics to attack Gabbard from the left while running candidates on the right like Harris, a quasi-fascist.
The Gabbard haters loved her until she turned on the Uber-hawk Clinton and moderate hawk Obama’s intervention in Syria. There was that mainstream millennial columnist who embarrassed herself on Rogan That was funny you should look that up. Typical Doper response to Gabbard.
Enjoy taking down these straw men! I won’t take part, but I’ll giggle from the sidelines.
You get that purple monkey bicycle on the chainwax good! Bring pie and take the stairs! Karate kick the bacon up the slide!
Don’t understand why people think Biden has best shot of beating Trump. Biden’s experience is mostly way too long as a Senator from a very blue state with about 50 people in it. And holding Obama’s coat for 8 years.
Look, who are you going to believe, WillFarnaby or Tulsi Gabbard? I mean, obviously, you can’t trust her when she describes herself as a total hawk who wants to escalate military involvement in the world.