“You hear that baby purring into third gear, your vote isn’t the only thing Uncle Joe’s gonna get.”
Will be interesting now that he’s finally in. Half of the pundits are saying his candidacy will pull all the energy and money from the middle candidates like Booker and Klobuchar. Others are saying he’s gonna have a real hard time keeping up with everyone else as far as fundraising goes.
I don’t think him being officially in really changes things, because everyone’s been assuming right from the start that he was going to run. I guess this means he can officially start fundraising?
Most of the posters on this board aren’t running for national office. Speaking personally, Trump makes me want to let out a constant, unending scream of inarticulate rage. But I’m still not going to support a candidate whose opening campaign statement is “ARARRRRRAGGGHHSHITGGGLLLLFUCKGRAAAAAAACOCKDICKS!”
I think the far-left wing of the party has taken over more than Joe realizes, and he’s positioned himself as too much of a moderate to win the nomination.
If the peckerhead wins, it will amaze me even more than when the buffoon won the last election. Good Christ, I miss when our politicians weren’t all cartoon characters.
I love how you think you’re taking a stand for not supporting a candidate whose opening campaign statement is “ARARRRRRAGGGHHSHITGGGLLLLFUCKGRAAAAAAACOCKDICKS!” I also love how you think that’s relevant to this thread.
We FINALLY! have a centrist candidate that has a chance of winning.
Hot damn, finally a Democrat that isn’t uktra left wing.
I had early hopes for Kamala Harris she had an outstanding reputation as AG of California. Tough on crime. Tough, no nonsense pragmatic politician. She’s been backpedaling and apologizing like crazy. Letting her political minders reshape her image. Shifting left. A damn shame.
I’ll be crushed if Biden lets those PR clowns do that too him.
I still don’t understand the appeal of Biden and how he jumps to 1# in mere hours. He is an old white man and a throwback to the 1980s-1990s instead of the 2020s. What is generating the fireworks exactly?
Because that old “white man” will appeal to many Trump voters? He’s going to draw a lot of votes away from Trump. Voters so disgusted by Hillary that they voted this egomaniac into office.
That’s assuming the ultra left doesn’t force Biden to shift from the center. He’s already backpedaling on the Anita Hill hearings 25 years ago.
The irony doesn’t escape me that Biden is the only centrist still standing.
20 years ago I thought of him as too liberal. Not any more.
He looks like John McCain compared to the other bleeding heart candidates.
Well, the statement is (a) correct, and (b) reflects what most decent Americans are thinking and the consequences they fear, having seen what the first three years of Trump has done. Furthermore, by not addressing Trump’s deeply immoral character and malignant nature directly and forcefully, Biden would in effect be normalizing him as just a regular politician, which he absolutely is not.
I don’t think a campaign should be predominantly negative, and I don’t believe Biden’s will be. Probably quite the opposite, actually. But an important statement of truth about the conditions in the nation since January 2017 and why he’s running is hardly something I would characterize as “stupid”.
He starts his campaign by making it about Trump’s supporters and not about Trump; ask Mrs. Clinton how well that worked for her.
That’s one of the reasons it was stupid: it sets this as us-vs-them instead of as us-vs-Trump. He’s declared war on at least 40% of Americans. That’s not what this country needs and IMO it isn’t what will stop Trump from keeping the presidency.
In terms of endorsements, the thing to watch is where they come from on the ideological spectrum. Jeb Bush got a lot of endorsements but they were coming from what was considered the centrist and moderate wings of his party. I’m not sure how much endorsements matter these days, but if we’re going to use them as a sign of strength, then the endorsements need to be in alignment with the party’s base to mean anything.
I’m falling in love already. This is the straight taking attitude the country needs right now. It feels good hearing someone speak for me and my values.
That’s not necessarily how everyone would read it. People who were somehow rubbed the wrong way by the portion you quoted are probably going to be turned off the color of Biden’s ties for all we know. There’s nothing wrong about what he said.
All of that being said, though, I wouldn’t be surprised if Biden tanks early. He’ll be like a 40-year-old guy at a college bar. Same club, but not the same staff or patrons. He’s going to struggle to fit in.
A damn shame.