C-Mag wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 12:52 am
StCapps wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 12:47 am
C-Mag wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 12:44 am
Democrats don't look for Merit. They like smooth talkers and relative unknowns. They haven't elected a well known politician to the Whitehouse since 1964. Mayor Buttigeg best fits the bill, but he has a lot of work to do.
Buttigieg aint Obama, he aint Bill Clinton either. Democrats only like those candidates when its a quality candidate, Buttigieg doesnt fit that bill, or he is playing possum for some weird reason. The messenger matters.
No he's not. But he's the closest thing they have right now. It's unknown that he can rise to win the nomination. My point being he's the type of candidate Dems have put into the Oval Office since 64.
It's like they don't want anyone that is well known or much of a track record, someone that can say whatever in the election because there is not track record and they can lie because if they came out and actually tried to reason for shit like post birth abortion they'd lose bad.
Plus someone like that they can hide their backgrounds for 6-9 months. Did it with Clinton and Obama both.
Indeed, it's a great strategy when they got a smooth politician to execute it, if they had someone who could do that, he would fuck Biden up real bad, might even beat Trump. Unless I am sleeping on Buttigieg something fierce though, he ain't that guy as much as they wish he was. When they don't have a charismatic unknown, they tend to resort to boring insider political weather vane pick though, like Kerry or Mondale.
They only really go Bill Clinton against an incumbent, when they got a Bill Clinton and people get sick of the Republicans after 12 years. The Democrats just had 8 years prior to Trump with a slow recovery, Trump has a booming economy, GHWB had a recession after 8 years of Reagan and 4 years of Bush Sr.
Clinton had it a lot easier than a very poor Clinton knock off would, and any potential Bill Clinton's or Barack Obama's know to wait it out until 2024, and not blow their unknown status running into an "Incumbent POTUS with a booming economy" buzzsaw.