Discussion: I Don't Know About You...But Gov. Steve Bullock's Feeling 22

[c_stedman]

This guy would have better name recognition if he associated himself with Sheriff Bullock from the Deadwood HBO series.

[srfromgr]

Too bad there are too many men in the MSM’s political pundit class that will never spend near enough time focusing on their candidacies. That’s just one way candidates get their message and visibility amplified. That’s what I mean by inherent bias. There’s already an institutional bias at the heart of the problem where their own industry values and promotes white male dominance.

[eggrollian]

Remember when Andrew Yang was supposedly the stalking horse for Silicon Valley crazies opposed to male circumcision? What if Steve Bullock is just the stalking horse for Andrew Yang?

[zenicetus]

@srfromgr

It is getting ridiculous…[/quote]

Yes, it’s getting beyond ridiculous at this point. Every one of these new ego-driven entries is harming the primary selection process.

[quote]and yet, this guy will get more attention than Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris by the media as will other no-name-nothings in part because he’s a “moderate” that can appeal to “both sides”, and in part because he’s male (we shouldn’t fool ourselves there is already an inherent bias towards a male candidate in the MSM).

His problem there (as well as a few others in the race), is that the “White Male who is Moderate and Can Appeal to Both Sides” slot is already occupied by Biden, who has the name recognition and funding base to keep everyone else out of that slot. Why would anyone vote for this guy instead of Biden?

[tsp]

“A fair shot for everyone.”

Well, i wish him the best, but i strongly suggest he adopt a new campaign slogan. This suggests he’s running for President of the NRA. Not the best Dem audience.

[tsp]

And you run for President! And you run for President! And you run for President! We ALL run for President! Campaigns for President for EVERYONE!!!

[Bri2k]

@tsp

“A fair shot for everyone.”

Someone needs to run A Fair Shot for Victims of Mass Carnage campaign.

[Bri2k]

I like Andy Yang. He’s the only one to come out for UBI.

Of course, he’s doomed. I’ll be amazed if he makes it to Labor Day.

We’re all doomed without UBI. Welcome to Elysium. Enjoy being on the outside looking in.

[srfromgr]

@zenicetus

Why would anyone vote for this guy instead of Biden?

Not sure. Someone above suggested this is to be on the list of potential VP candidates. I’m not so sure about that either. I think its just pure ego…which already tells me a lot about what I need to know about the guy. Biden would be good as a perennial VP imo, not prez, but I’m starting to see how I’m in the minority…

Makes me crazy that Donny Deutsch got a show on Saturdays almost exclusively to blast socialism. His favorite boogeywoman is to go after Elizabeth Warren on that as he’s been doing since she got into the race. He pretends he’s some kind of Democrat, but I see him as less party oriented and more BS Madison Ave public relations nonsense than anything else, even as it applies to the current political playing field. His new gig is to help steer MSNBC towards some moderate, male-dominated position, where he preserves capitalist ideals and the privileges of the parent company, imo. Protecting the stock prices of Comcast is like the mother’s milk for their existence. Deuetsh is a company man…otherwise why else is he there with his own show? He has no political chops whatsoever to speak of, and yet they put him out to comment on politics regularly now by giving him his own show?

Maybe I think too much. Anyway, gonna go outside and do some gardening today. First day we might warm up for good. Been colder than a witch’s tit here this spring and need to get going. Sunshine in abundance today.

[ncgirl741]

Can someone please explain to me why are all these people are running for potus when the most important thing is winning back the senate?

[arrrrrj]

I suspect those guys are thinking they’ll be there as the fallback when (as many expect) Biden stumbles as he has in past campaigns, when suddenly everyone will realize he’ll be 80 before the 2024 election. Of course, Biden’s appeal to Dems has much more to do with his association with Obama than the attributes those guys have in common with him, but IMO they’ve all bought the conventional assessment that we have to win back a relative handful of working-class white guys rather than, say, getting the parts of Obama’s coalition who stayed home to turn out again. (Nice to get both, of course.) I’d been praying that anyone who knew he’d be turning 80 in his first term – looking at you, too, Bernie – would stay out of this, but alas; so given that reality, I’d bet every one of these white guys sees himself as positioning to rush in save the party from the supposedly inevitable catastrophe of our having to settle for brown skin and/or a vagina.

[zenicetus]

@ncgirl741

Can someone please explain to me why are all these people are running for potus when the most important thing is winning back the senate?

The Senate isn’t sexy. It’s hard work, and the odds are stacked against Democrats due to the 2-Senator-per-State rule that gives disproportionate power to less populated and more conservative-leaning states. So the Senate is inherently less attractive for Democrats than Republicans, because they have to work harder to get a majority to get anything done. This situation won’t change any time soon.

The Presidency on the other hand, is sexy. It comes with amazing perks like Air Force One, lifetime Secret Service protection, and a cabinet to do your bidding. You have enormous unilateral power compared to being a Senator.

A run for President is also an image boost for anyone aiming for Governor, which probably explains more than a few of those in the current race. Governors have a lesser version of Presidential perks and power, without having to work as hard and face the same obstacles as Senators.

[midnight_rambler]

@taylor

With Breyer warning that we have a radical right wing Supreme Court willing to overturn decades of precedent, so control of the Senate has never been more critical, these mediocrities think their energies are better spent on these vanity campaigns where they can strut the national stage and pretend to be Presidential candidates.

In an interview with Bullock yesterday in The Atlantic he talked about why he was running and went on and on about how broken Washington is, which was really referring to how broken the Senate is - and then said he absolutely wouldn’t run for Senate. I wanted to jump through my screen and strangle him.

@srfromgr

It is getting ridiculous…and yet, this guy will get more attention than Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris by the media as will other no-name-nothings in part because he’s a “moderate” that can appeal to “both sides”, and in part because he’s male (we shouldn’t fool ourselves there is already an inherent bias towards a male candidate in the MSM).

I highly doubt that. He’ll end up with Hickenlooper, Bennet, and Inslee, four Western governors with no cohesive vision, reason for running, or support.

[downriverdem]

There are too many running. What’s the point?