V.P. Material for Hillary?
One of my concerns is Martinez of NM as a G.O.P. Vice Presidential candidate. I don’t like her.
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There’s this thing called demographics people keep telling me about 
and it’s becoming clear that I personally am not in the A. Schumer demo and do not find her funny either.
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The Clinton machine has always been in place but idling and just waiting for the time to put it into gear again. Those who run the machine were not going to step away quietly while a Castro tried to assume the top spot. It wouldn’t have been pretty. Something like feeding a turkey into a killing machine.
Castro might be excellent VP material, Martinez would serve a purpose as well, but I don’t think that the choice of a VP in either party even it is a Latino/a makes a difference. It is the person at the top of the ticket.
I am afraid we again are about to fall down the rabbit hole of MSM pseudo intellectualism. All of the sudden policy and governance are not the goals of winning elections. Being authentic, whatever is it that that means, is the new paradigm. Trump is spontaneous and “authentic”. What about his governing philosophy? Since when that is not important? If we carefully listen to what the current crop of candidates to the presidency of these United States are saying, HRC is head and shoulders ahead of all of them. Bernie Sanders, God bless him, has zero chance, nada, niente, of enacting his domestic agenda. None. And enacting agenda and governing is what elections are all about! What is his foreign policy going to look like? How about monetary policy? Destroying the banks is not a governing program I am afraid. Still, discussing his issues is important and a requirement to the proper vetting process. But all we are talking is about how “authentic” he is! Are we insane?
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One more thing about the MSM…which feathered_head’s post dramatizes for me:
They want a Republican in Power…maybe Kasich-esque, but Republican nonetheless. The Krazies would vote for Kasich just like they voted for McCain and Romney, by the way. The only people who can stop that are voters who are still capable of resisting corporate imperatives. Resisting a MSM (corporate) assault is very difficult, because, even for the Distracted (or maybe, especially for the Distracted) the MSM creates Social Reality, particularly in a large, dispersed country like the United States.
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Well, that’s the thing. The MSM is going too far down this path with Hillary to be able to pull back on the reigns and keep it a close horse race next summer/fall. And while they are hell bent on destroying her campaign, they are doing nothing to lift up Sanders as the replacement.
I think a large part of the media coverage of Hillary is retribution. She pissed them off by not doing interviews early.
“How dare she?? Trying to go around the media to speak to the people…doesn’t she realize that its their Sacred Duty to spin everything a politician says before the people can hear it?? Well, we will show her who is in charge of this race!”
And they are. There was a guy on Gwen Ifil’s show last night, who asked the question “she has the smartest staff, the best pollster…how did she miss the public’s reaction to this, when it was clearly right there?”
Except it wasn’t right there. The public gave a huge yawn to the non story. But the press decided to make it a story, and has been unrelenting in their attacks over nothing.
Just watching the expressions around the table, it became crystal clear that this was inside baseball, and they all knew exactly what was going down, and were all quite pleased with themselves for taking her out back of the woodshed.
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Sent TPM a heads up when this came out a day and a half ago.
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I don’t think so. The Clinton machine has been pretty idle vs. Sanders, largely because they are having to spend too many cycles on the email nonsense. And going after Castro hard would have echos of the racist calls against her for going after Obama, especially with Trump raising the volume on anti-Hispanic rhetoric to 11 in the country.
The “Obama coalition” would also, I think, have a much easier time gathering around Castro than they would around Sanders. I would use different phrases and messaging of course, but essentially make his campaign “Hope and Change: Part II”
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I saw a Spanish-language presentation of Castro’s mother and her influence on him.
I like Castro.
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He is VP material, for either Hillary or Sanders. Top of the short list is my guess.
If he had actually thrown his hat into the ring, there wouldn’t have even been a list. Running nationally would have given him massive national exposure and experience in running campaigns. He would have been a tremendous driver for pushing up Hispanic participation rates…and probably still will be as VP. But getting people active and involved early in the process is vital.
And all of that is if he ran and lost. Right now, I think the chances are extremely good that he would be leading or near the top.
Martinez is the go-to candidate for the GOP at VP, particularly if Hillary is the nominee. A Hispanic woman governor from a blue state with a relatively low profile, but not off the radar low like Palin…she is a perfect fit for anyone not named Rubio or Cruz.
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Having to look forward to 14 or 15 months of this kind of horse race conjecture will do no one any good and maybe make some a little.stupider. You can see it happening now, pundits unthinking comments are being recycled by posters here and elsewhere as a substitute for reasoned debate
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She only occupies the Roundhouse (capitol building) as a stepping stone to a GOP Veep or POTUS nomination. You should check out La Tejana’s Secretary of State, Diana Duran.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/complaint-a-story-of-casinos-campaign-money-and-crime/article_908bf902-799c-5433-8ee7-bd2199e308c8.html
And as a bonus Martinez has Duran trying to purge 15% of the State’s voters for fraud.
I think the GOP’s window for selling the base on “moderates” has closed. They held their nose with McCain, they grumbled a lot louder with Romney, and they are screaming “Hell, No!” at the top of their lungs this time around. The anti-establishment candidates have something close to 70% of the vote right now.
The MSM, like the GOP establishment, made the mistake of anointing Bush as the heir apparent far too early. Now he is collapsing, but too many are too invested in him for them to easily walk away. By the time they do, it may very well be too late to get behind another establishment candidate like Kaisch.
BTW, my early guess on the next GOP debate is Kasich comes out with some headline grabbing one liners. He has been prepping the media for the past 2 weeks, and I expect this debate is where he is hoping on making the breakthrough over Bush.
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It really wouldn’t help him much. At this point, he could drive Virginia’s length of I-95 in a Geico sponsored sports car and most would still be hard pressed to remember who he was.
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Not really apropos of anything in particular, but I’m beginning to suspect that the nation isn’t being run by a cabal of billionaires, financiers and bankers, but a cabal of French post-modernist deconstructists sequestered in a secret bunker filled with LSD vapor. I get these odd ideas from time to time.
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Talking about that subject:I know it’s CNN hopefully it will spread.
“Trump’s latest insults is sooo much more important.”
At a company town hall meeting, CNN president Jeff Zucker reportedly took some heat over the network’s expansive Trump coverage.
Twenty-four-hour news networks are taking a lot of heat
from outside for their wall-to-wall coverage of Donald Trump. Now some
insiders at CNN may be tiring of it as well.
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Even if its not true, it would make for an awesome movie though. Just don’t cast Jack Nicholson in any of the roles though. It might give him an unintentional flashback.
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“But the coverage continues”
They can’t help themselves. “Trumpoyeurism”.
He nailed it. Unless Sanders, Biden, or (by longshot, unfortunately) Elizabeth Warren somehow step up, the next four to eight years is going to royally suck. I honestly don’t understand how anyone can watch Hillary and think otherwise.
But I suspect that’s because they refuse to look at the reams and reams of evidence that shows that Hillary doesn’t know how to play offense politically, doesn’t know how to handle attacks against her, doesn’t know how to handle the media, doesn’t know how to run an effective campaign, doesn’t know how to deal with fights among her staff, and yes, doesn’t know how to act like a real live human being. These are all things Obama does so well that he doesn’t get credit for it, and which caused the terrible fights in the 90’s that got Bill impeached and which continue to dog Hillary now, even over dumb things like personal emails that aren’t even an issue for anyone else.
She’s a smart person with many strong skills, but not the ones that are needed to be an effective president. But her supporters like her personally, partly because they hate the people who hate her, and since their enemy’s enemy is their friend, they support Hillary. But that’s not a reason to want her to be president. And once she’s in office and continues the Clinton trend of waffling on every issue based upon how they poll and refusing to get out of their defensive crouch and actually take the fight to their opponents, these people are going to forget why they supported her and remember why the Clintons were hated by progressives in the 90’s. They’re not fighters. They’re defenders, and you can’t score points on defense. And that’s why the Clintons didn’t get us any good policies in eight years.
And that’s because the Clintons don’t have core beliefs, beyond winning the day’s news cycle, no matter how much harder it makes it to win the next one. And we’ll see investigation after investigation over the tiniest of things, because they don’t know how to handle pressure. Her standard reaction to any attack is to get defensive and refuse to cooperate, and then finally lash out and give her enemy’s most of what they’re demanding, which only encourages them more because they smell blood every time. It’s what they did in the 90’s and is exactly how the dumb email issue has played out. Because at the end of the day, she just doesn’t know what she’s doing.
Oh, and if anyone hasn’t read the in-depth examination of how her campaign lost against Obama in 2008, you should. It wasn’t just because Obama ran such a good campaign. It was because her campaign wildly overspent early because she hired bozos who had a dangerous strategy that could only work if they won early (spoiler alert: They didn’t), and her staff was constantly fighting over what their daily message should be; to the point that they kept fighting over whether they should attack Obama for being a foreigner who can’t be trusted. Seriously. So while Obama kept pushing the same message every day that his campaign had crafted before it started, Hillary’s staff never could agree on why she was even there and she had no ability to settle these fights herself.
And so far, that’s the same Hillary we see now; with the only difference that we don’t have another Obama to swoop in and steal it from her. But I’ve still got my fingers crossed that someone else can take the lead. I’ve got nothing personal against Hillary. I just wish the Clintons would finally go off and retire, because they were bad at politics in the 90’s and their skills haven’t improved since. And no, giving a good speech doesn’t make you good at politics, and Bill was the one with that skill, while Hillary is the one who plans to be spontaneous.
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