Buttigieg has just announced support for decriminalization of all drugs. This is not the same thing as legalization, but nonetheless it would be a big step in the right direction. So he deserves credit for taking a clear stance on a big, bold policy proposal.
I’m still not voting for him, though.
Just out of curiosity, who’s your preferred candidate?
This is Pete Buttigieg: raised 24.7 million dollars in Q4.
NYT, probably paywalled.
Why Pete Buttigieg Enrages the Young Left
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/01/01/pete-buttigieg-enrages-left-liberals-2020-091479
I’ve seen a bunch of these type of articles. I think some of the authors need to realize that Twitter isn’t real life.
Link for this.
Hey, the Wine Cave candidate should be able to raise big bucks.
Empty editorializing, and about what you’d expect from TBOTP.
That’s Tiger Beat on the Potomac, per Charles P. Pierce.
It may be empty editorializing but something here is weird. You Warren people are scrutinizing, with laughable bias, the merest facial tic in the PB camp.
I must expand on how I don’t get it. Buttigieg and Warren are seemingly taking very different lanes, why go hard on someone with so little overlap? I know her internet strike force doesn’t report to her campaign manager but even still… Some well informed intelligent Warren boosters seem to think hyperbolic nitpicks are going to win back the people who got nervous a month and a half ago when she began her ~7% decline.
To be honest, I think her campaign staff is scared of engaging Bernie’s army of trolls and nasty supporters , both online and in person. She and her staff don’t want videos of protesters at her rallies. That video of the ‘Black lives matter’ white Bernie Bro yanking the microphone away from the black woman speaking in favor of Pete should be a reminder that when she has to turn her attention to Sanders, she’d better be prepared for the absolute worst from Bernie’s trolls.
I like Buttigieg reasonably well, don’t know if I’ll vote for him or not when my state’s primary comes up this spring. I’ll certainly consider him, but it’s by no means a done deal.
I’m also a little baffled at the degree of hostility I’m seeing toward him in various places on the internet. The things being referenced in this thread–well, I don’t think I would describe them as “merest facial tic[s]” (sorry, CarnalK), but they don’t seem like big issues and certainly don’t seem like disqualifying ones. From the time he threw his hat into the ring my main concern about him has been his lack of political/governmental experience, and the last couple pages of this thread don’t do anything to add more concerns on top of that.
I’ve seen anti-Buttigieg screeds from fans of several different candidates, I think, but since Warren’s fans have been mentioned I’ll just add that Jezebel.com, a site which generally supports Warren, also seems to have it in for Buttigieg in a way that it doesn’t for Biden, or Sanders, or Yang, or Klobuchar. The level of anger at his campaign seems out of proportion to the things he’s doing and saying. YMM of course V.
I thought Boycott’s link was interesting, and it brings to my mind the question of how Buttigieg is actually doing among people under, say, 40. Is it just that he’s not polling as well as we might expect among folks in that demographic (because as a young guy he “ought” to be getting 50% and he isn;t), or is he really doing much better among other age groups? Anybody know the numbers?
Yes, well “merest facial tic” was simple hyperbolic exaggeration. I’m speaking to my audience. 
Fair enough! 
On his first campaign event as former mayor, Buttigieg eschews his trademark white shirt and blue tie and wears a full suit like he does for the debates and did in his position as mayor. He’s also updated his post mayoral a twitter profile with a new profile pic.
Okay, that “we” was disturbing. You and Pete, polling like mofos… but this?:
You’re now keeping us posted on what he’s wearing? And that he took a new photo of himself?
Just, whoa…
You don’t think what a candidate wears is part of the campaign? What if Andrew Yang started wearing a necktie during his appearances?
So, yes, I do think his recent appearances wearing a suit is noteworthy since he was so well known for the white shirt, blue tie, and slacks in 2019.
And yes, I notice when someone I follow on Twitter changes their profile pic. Pete’s new profile pic looks far more Presidential as he’s now no longer mayor.
Pete continues to be my favored candidate. Here’s how I described my initial reaction to him last year: “Expected Pete Campbell; got Don Draper.” The instant he starts talking, all of the other candidates sound like “grade-school tee-ball vs. the New York Yankees”, to use another AMC-series metaphor. He has confidence. He has authority. The fact that he has this and is still only in his 30s speaks volumes, but then again, you don’t get to be both a Navy officer AND a Harvard graduate by being an underachiever.
Peoples’ cynical, blase attitude about this very gifted individual is disconcerting to me. Here we have another JFK in the making, and people are just dismissing him as “that gay white dude.”
Washington Post has an article on Buttigiegs in Malta: It’s a common name there. 2,850 of them – mostly unrelated to Mayor Pete of South Bend. There are mayors, ambassadors, a bishop, and a past president named Buttigieg.
And the article confirms: The name means chicken farmer.
In Malta, a land of 2,850 Buttigiegs, they’re rooting for Mayor Pete
Mayor Pete has dropped out and so can now aspire to better things.
If this run was really about brand-building, this is the perfect time to drop out - he’s kept a solid level of support and funding throughout, he’s got a couple of “wins” under his belt but also enough of an excuse to drop out before Super Tuesday so he’s not tainted by material losses, everybody knows (and mostly can pronounce) his name, he’s given the Overton window on the whole “gay president” thing a shove in the right direction, he’s identified his weak areas with the public (mostly around experience and the need to gain the confidence of black voters), and he’s positioned to become somewhat of a power player in the party.
I’m guessing his next step is a House run in 2022; going for the Indiana governorship would probably put him in better stead for the next run but the timing is off and it’d be a harder lift for him anyway. Maybe a House run and then the governorship? And a keynote speech at the DNC either this year or in 2022.
Also he looks like a party team player, to drop out and allow ‘anybody but Sanders’ support to coalesce around somebody else. Party ‘establishment’ types will be grateful to him for doing that, or at least would have tended to get pissed off at him for remaining in the race when he has no real chance of winning. Which Warren and Klobuchar both risk doing I think. Although that probably matters less to Warren, who’d be viewed as too old to try again in 2024 or 2028 by conventional standards.