How about Pete Buttigieg? Or maybe as VP candidate?
He seems to be pretty centrist on certain issues, Afghanistan veteran, Rhodes Scholar, mayor of South Bend, IN, openly gay, favors redevelopment (and completed his redevelop program on schedule), supports health care, etc.
Actually, the more I write the more I think he’d be a great VP candidate with… SOMEone, but who the hell knows now. He’s only 36, so might be too young?
Good VP choice, I agree.
His last name is too weird for him to be the presidential candidate. I know this sounds ridiculous, but it isn’t. I also know people said the same thing about Obama’s name, but for a different reason - its ethnic origin. But “Obama” is easy to pronounce, and it’s easy to spell, and it’s actually a very pleasant combination of vowels and consonants. The same cannot be said of Buttegieg. Ok, I’m pretty sure I didn’t spell it right. (Checks). Nope. Didn’t.
This is a lot less ridiculous of a concern than it sounds, when you think about it logically. The way a word or name sounds is extremely important to how we humans make connections (both emotional and practical) with whatever the word represents.
Yes, and Orange Turd would maturely call him “Butt-man” or something. :rolleyes: But a VP debate with Buttgrieg and Pence would be funny. My bet is Pence wouldn’t shake his hand because of, you know, getting gay germs in his body.
I remember Dukakis running, many of the lady folk in my family did not like his name (not American enough) and he was too short! (gasps)
It would be amusing to troll the Republicans with the Senator from Illinois, who was born in another country, but to an American father, and has a weakness, it would hopefully be noted, on the opposite end of her body from the guy she would be going up against.
A great idea if you’re trying to lose the election. As far as this country has come on gay rights, we’re not ready for a gay president. And a VP is a president in waiting.
And as I said in other threads, when was the last time someone went from mayor to president? And small town mayor, at that. (And yeah, Trump. If this guy was a national celebrity, you could compare him to Trump. Butt i’s gnot.)
Let’s not screw things up and hand the presidency to the Republicans again.
But that’s the problem. I’d LOVE Biden… if he was younger. And he’s still considered as an Obama licker by many goofball GOPers, I’m sure. Now it seems like the only candidate to beat Trump is someone that can out-celebrity him. Who the hell could that be?
Famous NY mayor Rudy G ran for president and was crushed in the primaries . Can’t recall another mayor running for president as a serious candidate in the recent past other than Rudy.
Maybe John Lindsay, but that was a different time and Lindsay was certainly unique.
Um, are we ignoring that Biden has the same baggage that was said to have cost Clinton the election?
I never heard anybody call him “Crooked Joe”.
I would love, love, love to see Tammy Duckworth run. Any Democrat will have my vote, but she’s my preference.
Don’t bet on her status as a wounded vet getting her any special consideration. I remember Max Cleland. “I like people who still have both their legs.”
Cleland was from very red Georgia and got caught up in the post Sept 11 hysteria. Duckworth is from blue Illinois and has been quite good at serving constituents and staying close to Illinois.
Duckworth would make a fantastic VP candidate.
I don’t see her being a viable Presidential candidate this time around, though possibly in the future.
We are going to need to see her long form birth certificate, too. Need to thai up any loose ends in that area.
https://youtu.be/V_2HCG1usCE?t=104*
I’m still big on Amy Klubachar’s name gaining enough prominence over the next eighteen months to seriously contend for veeping for Will Arnett er I mean Gavin Newsome.
O’Malley came to mind.
Fits the bill?
So then am I to be pilloried (well, at this ridiculously early:rolleyes: stage in the game - sure, possibly) at the prospect of dusting off the antediluvian shoulders of Al Gore? (failing my earlier bets?)
*Awesome killer quotes from deceased: “I have no use for those on welfare”.
Being the target of a partisan smear machine for literally decades? No, he hasn’t, but there’s time to catch up.
Democrats who have visited either Iowa or New Hampshire.
The three men have two things in common, aside from Politics. They are all old and from the North Eastern Region.
The below article is from 2-19-18. A lot of time has passed.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/374318-2020-dem-contenders-travel-to-key-primary-states
I imagine it is more likely to be someone not on the radar in any major way right now.
I found his appearance on MSNBC last night impressive so why not Gov. Jay Inslee?