Didn’t see the response so will check it out.
Separate question. Who do you think actually has a chance regardless of the optics? Warren or Sanders are too extreme for the moderates. Biden would get eaten alive in debates. Pete doesn’t have the large scale experience, but maybe that’s a good thing?
Great question. As I stated yesterday in the Democratic Noms thread:
"Yet Booker and Harris were bounced early. I have to agree with
@tsubaki we really should have an "Obama-like" person to get behind right now, but instead we have an 80 year old socialist, a life long politician who can't string 2 sentences together, and a mayor of a mid-size town. There are only two that are currently hanging around that should given serious consideration, but one of them has the charisma of a lamp post.
So it's really just Warren then. And this is why, on top of ego, a guy like Bloomberg can sit back and say, ah what the hell, I've got two live cards in this family pot, deal me in.
I really liked Harris. I guess she had some smoking guns in her past as a DA but who cares. She was obviously intelligent, which has been so sorely lacking the last 3 years.
Honestly I don't know why the DNC doesn't just throw all their weight behind Adam Schiff and just command him to run, b/c no one is gonna be riding as high as he is right now among people that hate Trump and his ilk and will bring us back to governance by adulting."
It's frustrating. On the one hand I don't think Pete has a chance in the national election b/c he doesn't have enough experience. And god forbid, he's gay. I mean people are thinking that we aren't even ready for a woman President, so are we ready for a gay one? But all that aside, I mean look who's in the WH now, he had no experience and isn't even the least bit presidential. So who knows, anything is possible. He's moderate enough to win, for sure.
I think Bernie is too closely associated with "socialism" which people don't even understand what that really means, but it won't matter. It's a taboo word here, so I think he'll lose.
Warren is on the liberal side but she's whip-smart, and unlike Sanders the establishment does't hate her as much as Sanders. So that would be a possibility. She probably has my vote right now. I live in a state where none of this matters anyway b/c our primary is so late, but if it matters at all I'm leaning her way. Despite the fact I"m more of a moderate.
I just don't want Biden. Too old. A politician's politician. I fear it would be Hillary all over gain.
I"m still up in the air on Bloomberg. He's moderate. He may have too much center-right baggage to win the Democratic nomination. He's a billionaire that's not really likable. But one thing he has in spades is the STONES to take on Trump. He'd turn it into a New York brawl. Which would be fun to watch at least. I also think he's the one guy that could seriously get under Trump's skin. As we debated yesterday, that may not translate into any votes. But he wouldn't cower in the face of Trump. He'd bring Trumps game to him.
Agree to disagree.
