Posted on 05/09/2019 4:20:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A month ago, he was the hottest Democrat candidate for President. Now he appears to be a flash in the pan. Conservatives largely overestimated what turns out to be a major blowfish. So let’s cast our net and dissect this fish of a candidate named Pete Buttigieg.
Pete’s meteoritic rise featured months of being on television steadily building likability among CNN’s most devoted watchers. He has been able to raise large sums of money. Yet in these strengths hides his very weakness. Twitter is not real life. CNN’s ratings are poor. Polls cannot be trusted when a race is competitive. Pete Buttigieg is running for President… of social media.
The truth is far more cynical than we realize. Americans are largely uninformed. They couldn’t name four Supreme Court Justices, their own Congressman, or ten US Presidents. They don’t know who an AOC is. Want evidence: Ralph Northam in Virginia is still governor. Why? Because despite how his Klan mask picture was all over the news, the general population of Virginia doesn’t know about it. In elections, it’s not policy that’s determinant of a primary, it’s name recognition. How many Americans actually know who Pete Buttigieg is?
Pete Buttigieg has wisely recognized this weakness. Like Michael Avenatti, he lunges in front of any camera he can find. He can be the President of CNN, but nobody watches CNN. Buttigieg’s strength of distribution is also a weakness because it’s not expanding his actual base. He’s covering up the fact that he has no real or proven ground game. In order to win actual primaries, he needs to do that. In order to do that, he needs a lot of ground game and name recognition. Pundits speculated that Pete Buttigieg marked the end of Beto O’Rourke, but Beto O’Rourke has a proven ground game, granted it’s cost inefficient. And so when Joe Biden announced, the candidate with the most name recognition, he now commands the meaningless polls. So he question now is, can Pete Buttigieg mobilize his base beyond what Joe Biden can? And my answer is I don’t think he has his own base, no more than Ben Carson did in 2015. You don’t go from being a mayor of nowhere to being nominated for President.
But during his flash in the pan, there was much reason to be concerned. But the concerns are more culturally pressing than politically pressing. If Buttigieg were to be nominated, the country would be bullied into voting for someone just because they are gay. There will be another fatwa of Rainbow Jihad waged exclusively on Christians and some Jews. But this phenomenon, while bad, isn’t new. It’s a shame Christians are largely on a losing streak, save for Jack Phillips. The biggest concern is strictly cultural. Buttigieg is an apostate Christian, one with a bigger platform for the heretical Social Justice Gospel than a random professor from the Union Seminary. Bottom line is Pete Buttigieg isn’t a Christian but claims he is, believing it’s completely compatible with his homosexual lifestyle. The Bible makes it clear in the book of 1 Corinthians that it’s not compatible to be a homosexual among other sins and a Christian. But often the Social Justice Gospel rejects the words of Paul or, in this specific context, conjures an argument about consensual monogamous homosexual relationships being biblically passable.
If there is one message the bible repeats throughout the Old and New Testaments, it’s repentance. The Old Testament prophets preached repentance. John the Baptist preached repentance. Jesus not only preached repentance, he calls us to higher standards than the Jewish law. Peter’s first instruction to the new believers on Pentecost was repentance. The Social Justice Gospel, in which there is no doubt Pete Buttigieg will play a substantial part in promoting, rejects repentance. It rejects sanctification. Its doctrine is that you can be Christ like without being sanctified because, after all, Jesus was a wonderful teacher. Its mission is rectifying victims according to their intersectionality ranking through government entitlement programs. Its Jesus is a Palestinian.
Progressive Christianity is no Christianity at all, just a mere Social Justice Gospel. If there is no need for repentance, there is no real need for Jesus. Pete Buttigieg is a messenger for the Social Justice Gospel and that is his most threatening feature, not his ability to win the Presidency.
No we didn’t.
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We really didn’t, I said he’d be out by the first primary.
Buttgig shoves his fagdom in everyones’ faces, that’s the main difference. That, and he’s not using a fake identity. Other than that, I agree. :-D
Well, ain't that a big ol' pant load of crap!
Petey Buttplug is a flaming queer.
THAT is why his "star" is dying out.
The majority of Americans still do not want one in our face, much less as our POTUS.
Period.
Case closed.
People that take it up the ass scare me. I’ll never end up in jail.
LOL. I think you explained it clearly.
He may be thinking of Rush who had several segments of his show in which he promoted this guy as a threat. I didn’t get it either.
I don’t think many conservatives paid much attention to him at all, much less overestimate him.
The democrats floated him as a trial balloon to gauge how America would react to an out of the closet raging homo. As usual the MSM was there to promote him in the interests of the democrats. They picked him because he wore his homosexuality on his sleeve and otherwise could be painted as a 1950’s style typical American guy. Clean cut, educated, military background, etc. Oh yeah, he’s got a husband and wants kids (don’t know how that works).
Back on April 19, Always A Marine posted:
Mayor Buttsex garnered 8,515 votes in a city of only 102,000 citizens, and now the Dems hail him as their Savior du jour. Who else have they recently hailed and then dismissed? Bobby O'Rourke, gone. Michael Avenatti, gone and going to prison. Pete Buttsex is the flavor of the month, and the Dems will soon learn that human defecation is not a popular taste for most American voters. We're not Sodom and Gomorrah just yet.
Conservatives are constantly afraid of their own shadows, crying "we are like grasshoppers" compared to every new opponent. Who's next? Batter up!
No if’s, ands or butts about it.
Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory, same girly smile.
buttigigity’s campaign has totally deflated despite massive fluffing by the dying lying leftist fake stream enemedia ... apparently you can fluff a gelding all you want, but you’re still not going to get a stallion out of the deal ..
Nobody underestimated him. The meme-warriors took him very seriously, assembled and ridiculed him to destruction. The left can’t meme and they can’t defend against it, they tread on the mine field of political correctness whereas we are not bound by such idiocies.
‘Peter Buttgeek’ from ‘South Bend’ sounds like a parody...
Who overestimated the Alfred E Newman looking, heretic sodomite?
Not anyone I know... we all openly mocked him.
Good old Powder Puff Pete couldn’t win a statewide election in Indiana, his home state. He never had a prayer at the White House.
However the Democrats, desperate to win back the upper Midwest, are looking desperately for a “great White hope”.. so for some of them they thought this clown might be it... not realizing while he may make your new your metrosexual swoon, he has no chance in the areas you are desperate to win.
Powder Puff Pete
He’s a silly unelectable fop, and I never considered him anything but. The Dems need to win back states like Pennsylvania and Michigan, they need stronger black and union turnout. This fluffer will do none of that for them, they hope Biden can. Biden/Harris.
He was out there simply to bait Republican leaders into saying something stupid, and our side didn’t take the bait.
His silly stunt really says more about the Democrats having a bit of trouble motivating the gay community than anything else.
He is in the race, not to become the nominee but rather, to gain name recognition for the future and to present the homosexual lifestyle to the world as uncloseted normalcy.
He will run for higher office in Indiana or angle for the VP slot.
How quickly people forget that there is a VP slot.
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