Posted on 08/12/2019 1:29:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
DES MOINES — Democratic presidential candidates descended on Iowa in a flurry of activity this weekend, attending the annual Wing Ding dinner and speaking at the Iowa State Fair, meeting as many voters as they could and kicking off the primary season in earnest. Top-tier candidates like Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders attracted huge crowds who followed their every move as they ate corn dogs and looked at the cow made of butter. And then, more quietly, there was Bill Weld.
Weld, the former governor of Massachusetts, arrived at the fair Sunday morning as a drizzly rain started to pick up. In 2016, Weld ran on the Libertarian presidential ticket as Gary Johnson’s running mate. This time, Weld is mounting a primary challenge to President Donald Trump as a Republican. Weld is the quintessential never-Trump Republican; he believes, essentially, that the Republican Party has been hijacked by Trump and twisted beyond recognition, and that with the right candidate and some momentum, everything could go back to normal. “Patrician” is a word that has often been applied to Weld. During a gaggle after his speech at the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox, a reporter asked what he planned to eat at the fair; I expected Weld to mention Iowa State Fair staples like pork chops on a stick or corn dogs, but instead he said that he generally wanted to eat “something fried,” and asked if the fair had fried dough.
Other Republicans’ names came up early this year as possible primary contenders to Trump in 2020, centrist moderates like Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and former Ohio governor John Kasich. But only Weld has actually gone through with it. He represents a different time, a different era of his party....
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A drunk Mitt Romney.....
It’s usually called a funnel cake.
Since Trump has about 95% of the Republican vote locked up, he has to be paying Weld to run to show the American people what a Republican Bozo looks like. Weld has to be going along for the biggest under the table payoff of his lofe.
One of those people I always forget is alive until there is an article on them.
Some people eat fried bread like that here, too-and I’m sure they think it is yummy-it just isn’t to me since I was not raised eating that stuff and I still don’t eat it-paleo for me-no white rice or bleached flour, and very few carbs-local honey instead of sugar if you want sweet-lots of free range meat and fresh veggies, butter, eggs etc-no processed food at all-I just never developed a taste for floury sugary stuff I know some people like-just how I am-a fresh local peach, pear or apple-or some blackberries- is sweet enough for me...
Weld isn't even a real Libertarian. He just got himself on the ticket so he could say he was a presidential candidate. Or maybe he wanted to be able to say he was both a RINO and a LINO.
Weld is not a serious candidate. He should be campaigning with Vermin Supreme, another joke candidate who has run as a Republican, a Democrat, and supposedly in 2020 was a Libertarian. Weld will get about as many votes as Vermin Supreme has in the past.
Time for a moratorium on Massachusetts-born Presidents. So far we’ve had four of them and the only good one was John Adams. (Although his son wasn’t too bad.)
I am wondering the same thing. The media is not going to cover much of the GOP convention, and the last time it looked like more than one ballot might be needed to nominate somebody, was with the Ford-Reagan race of 1976.
attracted huge crowds who followed their every move
I stopped right there.
Bill Weld was not born in MA, but in Smithtown, Long Island, NY. His family has historic ties to MA though, and a long history of studying at Harvard going back to the 1600s. Thus his run for Gov. in MA.
His family also has a long history being in the upper crust. His grandfather helped found White-Weld and Co (a Wall Street investment bank) about 1900.
FWIW I met Weld’s brother some years ago. The brother was a cardiologist working in Manhattan. He was an extremely good doc. And as far as I could see, he was a very kind and honorable man, who pulled more than a few people’s cookies out of the fire. Not that that tells me that much about the Gov’s character.
“And then, more quietly, there was Bill Weld.”
Actually, the terminology was more like the following:
“While Donald Trump riled up a crowd measuring in the 10s of thousands by talking about the invasion of Illegals...in a more intimate setting, Jeb Bush presented his plans on moving forward on hedge trimming reform...”
Mass. RINO S**thead. Those three words explain it all.
Thanks for the correction. I should have checked on William Floyd Weld’s birthplace. His ancestor William Floyd the Signer was a New Yorker.
looks like redneck sopapillas ...
Looks like a donut without a hole in the middle.
If anything, Trump is liberating the party from the do nothing Bushes and Romneys. See the tag line!
It was a hostile takeover and there are still many who don’t like the new management.
They need to be replaced with people who side with the citizens and the rule of law.
Bill Weld? No thanks...and that is why I left the Libertarian Party, if you think RINOs are bad LINOs are even worse. Libertarians are all LINOs, since they hate borders...and love drugs...
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