Well, I suppose Hume is paid to analyze things like “raw political talent,” so I’ll have to assume he’s being genuine here. Even though any ass can see Buttigieg has that.
Just don’t come to Hume if you want analysis on these tough topics:
-personal charisma
-avoiding the appearance of having tuna-sandwich breath
-how not to bore people to death with your droning, pedantic voice
Hell yeah, just throw in some sugar water and a mint sprig…they’ll love it! Probably should use a big slurpy cup too.
Water’s fine, Brit. Let’s see a cannonball.
I don’t know. We haven’t heard nearly enough about Andrew Yang.
Day by day it seems as if more and more of the rats have detected rising toxic bilge waters and are now desperately seeking the spring lines. With any luck they’ll soon become so desperate to escape they’ll run down the hawsers only to discover the cleat is actually a pair of feline incisors.
Aloha, toadies of the Trumptanic.
Actually, Donnie seems to do that a good bit:
Deliberately promoting the guy you think you can beat?
Hillary’s Team tried that technique with Trump. Needless to say, it didn’t quite pan out. I can’t recommend this tack.
Of course,they want to kkeep him in the limelight so they can disparge democrats. Buttigieg should run for the senate in 2022.
Now if we just double-down and note that drinking bleach not only cures autism, but is the one-stop vaccine-replacement that government doesn’t want you to know about because then Big Pharma couldn’t sell you lots of different vaccines that give you autism in the first place…
I don’t know what it is and it might be unfair to hold it against Buttigieg but I want to know why the list of republicans gushing over him just keeps growing.
To date the ones I know of:
David Brooks
Bret Stephens
Jennifer Rubin
Joe Scarborough
& now Bret Hume
ETA: looks like a bunch more conservatives are keen on Buttigieg
He’s always reminded me of the left version of Evan McMullin.
I like his presence and what he says but there’s not much to go on and the nevertrump support is pretty weird, especially with no real sign of deep support from elsewhere.
It seems like Mayor Pete is very popular among never-Trunp Republicans from Ana Navarro and Jennifer Rubin to Max Boot, Nicole Wallace and Brit Hume. I just don’t know many lifelong Democrats who feel the same way.
From that email:
…make them more “Pied Piper” candidates who actually represent the mainstream of the Republican Party.
I think the same rationale is being applied to AOC, Tlaib, and Omar in rightwing outlets. The righties hammer on them constantly, not because they’re “scared” of them or worry they will be effective leaders, but because they believe they can use them as albatrosses around the neck of the Democratic Party.
Yes. And they couldn’t be more wrong. Those people represent the future that the right will be dragged to, kicking and screaming.
I’m a lifelong Dem and Pete is my primary candidate, the only one i’m giving donations to at this time. If he’s not the nominee of course i’m voting for the nominee in the general but in the primary, he’s my guy.
Maybe I’m completely wrong here, but that support makes a lot of sense to me. Old-guard GOP and NeverTrumpers want Trump gone and hope he will lose in 2020, but it’s exceedingly unlikely a Republican is going primary him. They’re relegated to looking toward the Democrats to both shore up the nation’s institutions and restore sanity to the Republican Party. They definitely don’t want a Sanders or Warren in the WH, and Biden presents the danger of re-litigating the Obama-era grievances that gave us Trump. Buttigieg now…here’s a guy who is talking the liberal social agenda, but pairs it with a strong security mindset and market-driven policy rather than “socialism”. There’s quite a bit in his agenda for old-style conservatives to sign onto while they try to tamp down the fascist element that’s currently ascendant in the GOP.
Iowa and New Hampshire are open caucus/open primary states. They are also very white. I imagine Buttigieg’s strategy is to try to win there with a coalition of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents so he can be viable in South Carolina. As a strategy, it may well work. Like you I just don’t really know where he stands on issues. He’s hard to pin down.
His website might be a decent place to start. There’s an “issues” section on the upper left that takes you to all his rather vague policy stances.
I kinda think its like republicans that vote in a democratic primary to skew the results. I wonder what they think of beto or warren or harris or gillibrand or booker?
Brit is feeling the fizzz. When you lose Brit…Buttigieg is the polar opposite of Trump.
More than anything I think this shows Trumps act is wearing thin with more folks than ever.
Maybe many more than expected.
Seems like Brit has been eating his Wheaties this week. LOL
