is sparking more speculation, primarily among AP reporters who are lazy as fuck and yet still feel reluctant to write “Dem’s in Disarray” stories every single day.
I appreciate all he’s doing to fund candidates who’ll support comprehensive gun reform. I respect that he’s putting his money where his mouth is, but he’s lost his mind if he thinks the Democratic Party wants a “moderate” right now. Whomever becomes the nominee will be a bona fide progressive, although one wing of the party will loudly complain that whomever it is isn’t liberal enough, and someone who isn’t afraid to repeatedly throw haymakers that land. Frankly, if it’s a choice between a billionaire many don’t know and the fake billionaire we all know, fake billionaire probably wins.
These hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts have gotten tiresome. Ross Perot, Steve Forbes, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Mike Bloomberg. Really doesn’t feel right.
And if we’re going to go with the white guy again, it’s going to be Schiff or Sherrod Brown or the like, not 70+ elder statesmen like Bloomberg or Biden. AP just can’t write enough about them, but they’d be gone half-way through the primaries.
Do you think Brown would run?
Just between us, I think so.
Yeah I’m pissed off at Gary Johnson for making Martin Heinrich’s senate race here in NM into a 3-way.
Yeah 70+ is too fucking old.
And I agree with @pluckyinky that a moderate isn’t going to cut it this time.
I preferred him as Dem VP in 2016, no disrespect to Kaine.
Reagan was the oldest ever elected. Until Trump. But if Biden ran and won in 2020, he would be 78 when he took office. That’s crazy.
It’s also Stassenesque.
It’s definitely crazy. He needs to stop while he’s ahead - he was one of the greatest VPs ever. Just leave it on that note.
I don’t think he’d have a chance. For one thing, he’s a little handsy and that would come back to haunt him I’m afraid.
Besides we poll heavily in favor of another woman candidate.
I was trying to figure out how it was Stalinesque until I reread your comment.
we’d better
Word. Kamala is running - I know she is and I love her.
Harris/Brown (or Chris Murphy or Schiff)
Yeah. I love Sherrod Brown and he’d make a great VP. For some reason I have trouble seeing him as a president but he’d be a great veep and it might change my view of him as a president.
I love him too and he’s from Ohio, which is critical, as you know. He does have an unfortunate voice … but needless to say, that hasn’t stopped the moron. I have a soft spot for Murphy - he’s been so dogged in the gun battle (no pun intended).
Johnson was elected as an R governor but had a strong libertarian streak I think having to do mosly with wanting to corner the marijuana market. That freaked out the Legislature and got him some votes from stoners who thought he was going to legalize pot for them instead of for his own business interests. But he was a loyal R when it came to taking from the needy, rolling back safety and environmental regulations, giving to his friends and destroying public education in favor of home skules and storefront charter alternatives. Maybe that is why they elected him to a second term, much to my amazement. He also wanted to do great things by stealing the Public Employees Retirement fund to pay for them. So anyway, I think he will split off some of the R votes too.