Most people wouldn’t know anything about Inslee if they haven’t lived in Washington. He is definitely worth considering, knows politics, how government works, and is liberal.
One more candidate to rate higher than Booker, Biden and Bernie.
Just for the official records, I am still not running.
Inslee acknowledges his underdog status but says his emphasis on combating climate change will set him apart.
“Climate change is a unifying issue,” Inslee told The Associated Press in a recent interview, calling it a moral necessity and an economic opportunity.
Don’t count him out. Anyone who sees the need for any kind of a GND (AOC) will be on board with his message. He will survive several rounds in the primaries. He may not win and be the final candidate, but he will be heard, and his message will be incorporated into the Dem platform.
Harris-Inslee might be an interesting combo.
Programs! Programs! Ya can’t tell the players without a program!
I’m glad you made that clear. I keep having to say that I’m not going to be a candidate, over and over. Yet no one seems to listen.
So that’s two of us.
I like the idea of a strong liberal governor running. But though I know it’s shallow, I tend to dismiss candidates’ long-run chances based soley on an odd or awkward to pronounce name (for instance, Vilsack?! Jon Stewart just had to say it once for me to realize that campaign was going nowhere). Inslee, Inslee, Wherefore art thee Inslee? Doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
To misquote Berkley Breathed, your fate can be in your name: I don’t see Abraham Lincoln making it into the history books had he been born “Mortimer Dipthong”
Interesting, yes, and damned good, too. But, too West Coast. Harris/Beto is my ticket. Inslee should be Sec. of the Interior.
I thought about the Left Coast angle, too. And you may be right. I like the Int. Sec. idea, too.
I’d like a Harris-Kennedy pairing, too.
Waiting for the “Draft old-curmudgeon” campaign eh?
Well played sir.
I don’t think Beto is the balance Harris needs for her ticket. She has the relative youth as well as strength as a former prosecutor. Not sure Beto rounds things out for her.
I like Brown better to balance her ticket. He has the rust belt pro-union cred that closes off PA, MI and WI from the president in 2020. The other option is to pull in someone with strong Foreign policy cred like Jack Reed.
The thing I don’t like about Brown as VP (don’t get me wrong - I love Sherrod Brown) is that Ohio has a republican governor, and we’ll need as many Dems in the Senate as possible. Otherwise, your analysis is excellent.
I concede that problem. But a lock down of the states I mention precludes Trump’s reelection. This is paramount IMO.
Better to fight a hostile Senate than have a treasonous POS as POTUS.
I think that if Gardner and Collins go down and the wind is at our backs we may get a 50/50 Senate in which cash Brown will still get to cast some votes in the senate.
Nay, nay! To quote General Sherman: If nominated I shall not campaign. If elected, I shall not serve.
Is that clear enough for you?
Thanks for the look at Inslee. Personally, I’m very interested in him as a candidate and am happy to see someone take up the mantle of Climate Change, which really is the foremost problem facing us (among many others). I hope people will give him a serious look—his rise from the middle class, socially aware, environmentally aware, a Governor not Senator . . . (A name can easily be overcome, especially with repetition: Barack Hussein Obama.)
True to your moniker!
I wish he wasn’t running, for several reasons. Mainly because it hurts the stronger candidates with each new entry that doesn’t have a real chance at winning. It dilutes the field, dilutes the media coverage, and gives our best candidates less time in debates.
That’s just on general principle. On specifics, we don’t really need someone to push climate change as a big topic. That’s going to happen without Inslee. He’s also another “nice guy” candidate like Biden. I’ve seen him campaign (he’s my governor) and don’t think his personality is what we’re looking for, to take the fight to Trump.
All of that is even before getting to the “do we need another old (68) white guy in the race” angle… He’s in now, so there’s no helping any of this, but he serves the country better as WA governor.
I like Brown too. But that means a certain loss of 1 senate seat, since current Gov. is Gooper.