Go Amy Go!!!
Did the Hit Piece work?
Sen. Klobuchar got Brett Kavanaugh to utterly embarrass himself in front of the whole country. She clearly has some political skill.
Wow! Our Democratic field is so awesome and talented, unlike the Republican field full of misfits who ran in 2016.
The reference to the bridge project is more than just a throwaway example IMHO. James Fallows has been lately publicizing the results of a multiyear book project where he and his wife flew their private plane all over the country, looking at innovative renewal projects being done by bipartisan teams everywhere on the local and regional level. They see it as a a hopeful thing in the face of national-level GOP nihilism. (Not their words I don’t think.) And that git-er-done spirit is something I value in this country, I think it’s something we value in ourselves, that resourcefulness and pragmatism, and if as a party we can prove to people who embody it that we value them too that’d be big. IMHO as always.
Klobuchar had worked with then Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., to help fund
the new bridge and get it completed at a faster-than-usual pace, and has
cited it as an example of achieving results through bipartisan
cooperation.
Getting a collapsed poorly renovated interstate bridge replaced hardly strikes me as an otherwise partisan issue.
What do people make of the Huff Post writing earlier this week about staff complaints about Klobuchar and the left leaning press going with the story?
I don’t know yet about her being president.
6 months from now I will have a better idea.
Going to be some kind of extraordinary primary for sure on this go around.
The story is now not being covered as “allegations” but as truth that she is a “brutal boss.” Someone is going after her big time.
Is that the worst they have? Clinton famously had a temper, for all his affable grins, and I remember his getting elected a couple of times. Maybe she’s a jerk boss in private but Trump is one in public.
I don’t think anyone is going to forget Wisconsin and Michigan this time around.
Assume the new standard of Russian meddling in US elections will forever be attempts at collecting “dirt” on all viable candidates.
“This is the moment for the Midwest,” she said, “and we don’t want to be forgotten again in a national election.”
Really?
TPM carried that story also.
I think Klobuchar is a top notch candidate. She has one of the strongest electability arguments of any Dem running. She would kick Trump in the rocks and hurl a few accordion folders at his orange face if she got to the general and do it with a smile.
Probably to a small extent.
Klobuchar doesn’t have huge name recognition outside of the party, and I suspect most people view her as a moderate who’s respected but doesn’t inspire much passion.
So, for those of us just getting to know her, the hit piece raises a minor concern about her termperament. I suspect that most voters who would consider her are aware it was a hit piece, and don’t attach that much credibility to it - but they’ll keep a weather eye out for anything that confirms that concern.
So, to a very minor extent, yes, it worked. Keep in mind, too, that an article about an early, not particularly well-known POTUS candidate, probably didn’t even register with anyone but political junkies like us.
On the one hand, I fucking hate POLITICO and their inherent GOP lean no matter how they try to walk it back. On the other hand, if you are going to run for President, you have to expect your background to be gone through, pretty exhaustively, including by the Murdochs and POLITICOs of the World. So, let the allegations be explored.
And every boss I have ever worked for has had his or her issues. No one is perfect, including the employees.
After electing a record number of women to the House, the vast majority of Democratic nominees for President, to date, have been women. And if not, then a person of color. And Bernie. It’s clear where the passion and the energy in the Party is. Hillary didn’t win, but she can take some small comfort in this.