Discussion for article #236943
A long way to go to 18 candidates (the TeaBagging standard).
Can we make it?
Well, I’m considering a run. I formed an exploratory committee, but it got lost.
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As much as I respect O’Malley, I’m not entirely sure how well he’s going to do. We shall have to see.
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To date O’Malley has been a Clinton supporter. He may not have the heart to challenge her but he can’t continue to support her. What’s an ambitious pol to do.
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Angle for the V.P. spot. He’s young enough to spend two Clinton terms making connections, and still be a “not past it” candidate for President in 2024.
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The Republicans have a clown car. Looks like we’ll have a Land Rover. 6 passenger. All the mod-cons.
The repubs are past having a full clown bus and are now working on filling up a clown train.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has jumped into the race for the Democratic nomination for president.
Like a flea on a bloodhound.
A race between these three will be good for the party, and good for the eventual nominee. It could be the most productive, least nasty Democratic primary in decades. It’ll sharpen the campaign teams, separate the twits and the dolts and the boors from the pros, deepen the general election talent pool, and, perhaps most importantly, keep the Third Way douchnozzles from dominating the message (or, I hope and expect, have anything much at all to do with the message other than handwriging and concern trolling from the sidelines).
But above all, no matter how hard the MSM horserace reporters try to convince people that Sanders run is evidence of how far the Dems have shifted to the left, and how that’s just like the madhouse on the right, the people who only pay attention to politics for six months every four years are going to see people in one party speaking sanely and coherently and people in the other raving like a bunch of unmedicated psychotics whipping up frontier bigots to form a lynch mob.
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Sometime I think the VP spot puts the guy on the road to obscurity, but Clinton-O’Malley has a nice ring in any case.
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Eight years would be a long snooze, and it doesn’t help that the president said this a few months ago.
Not to be outdone, Martin O’Malley went completely unrecognized at a Martin O’Malley campaign event.
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This is what makes those of us who read and respond to this website and follow most political news in general outliers. We’re in in it every day, but it would be good to see a display of mostly sincere people competing not just aiming for the next level, i.e. radio and TV gigs, consulting, etc.
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And . . . still giggling when I read this.
O’Malley is 2016’s Tim Pawlenty.
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I thought that was George Pataki.
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I hope you’re right. The extent and depth of the virulent HRC hatred that many “progressives” display makes me wonder what will happen if/when Clinton dispatches Sanders in the primaries. The number of pompous screechers over at places like DK who swear they won’t vote for HRC in the general because she’s a Republican-Lite war-loving neocon who eats middle-class babies for breakfast doesn’t inspire confidence.
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Unfortunately, they are good at tactics, not strategy.
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What particularly makes my blood boil is the fantasy that HRC is literally no different from a Republican. We’re still living with the consequences of the similarly fraudulent belief in 2000 that Gore was no different from Bush.
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