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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Yes. And they couldn’t be more wrong. Those people represent the future that the right will be dragged to, kicking and screaming.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Seems like Brit has been eating his Wheaties this week. LOL
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what a boss
Trump doesn’t need FOX News. He has FOX Faux News.
In fact he is a fox himself and all he has to do is tweet his news and hold rallys. That will show them. He doesn’t need them. Only losers need them.
FOX will be outfoxed.
I’ve given more money to Warren but Buttigieg is my second favorite. He has the messaging and framing skills that the party badly needs.
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You’re joking, right?
You can go to his website issues page: Pete for America/issues
Or watch a few videos on YouTube by searching “Pete Buttigieg”
Super simple.
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Or drinking the clean water.
His rallies, void of positions or policies, are not gaining supporters and are getting weaker and weaker by the day.
The last one I saw he couldn’t find even one African/American to stand behind him for show.
They are going to have to go out and actually pay people to go to his rallies, if they can afford to pay ANYONE any longer.
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He’s got a war chest that would make King Midas blush. But I hope you’re right about the rest and that the number of his true believers is getting whittled down.
Maybe he’s what you get when people like the Koch Bros realize the Ryan/Moulton type turn off a large portion of Democratic primary voters.
Something doesn’t add up. Why wouldn’t they get behind someone with the same qualities who we know more about like: Beto, Klobuchar, Booker, Harris? And I don’t think they give a daymn about Biden re-litigating anything. He seems like their ideal candidate if they want what you say, to beat trump (& has strong foreign policy and market driven policy).