Well DUH!
Just DUH!
Posted on 02/09/2020 10:24:15 AM PST by conservative98
Pete Buttigieg isn’t going to win You may as well start on his political obituary once you’ve finished with Joe Biden’s
Roger Kimball 8 February 2020 3:49 PM
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As Joe Biden once said of his old (but then-future) boss B. Obama, the 38-year-old former Mayor of South Bend is bright, articulate, and cleans up well. But the idea — an idea that is assiduously circulated by his supporters — that he is ‘moderate’ is ridiculous. In fact, those scrambling for the perfect political epitaph for PB might consider ‘moderate’ in scare quotes.
Remember, Mayor Peter is the openly gay son of the editor and translator of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. Gramsci’s important contribution to the literature of totalitarian tyranny was his idea that Communist dictatorship could only come to free countries by means of a ‘long march through the institutions’, cultural as well as political. The left has pretty well accomplished this with respect to the universities and the elite cultural institutions of the media and the so-called ‘arts community’. Mayor Pete wants to finish the job through such expedients as packing the Supreme Court with six more seats, abolishing the electoral college (it’s ‘undemocratic’, he says), disarming the populace (a precaution tyrants always take), providing a ‘glide path‘ for the government takeover of healthcare, opening up the borders, and forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for college, even for illegal immigrants, whom he also wants to offer amnesty. It’s a start, Comrade.
The truth is, Buttigieg is about as moderate as Bernie Sanders. He comes off as more reasonable than Bernie because he has a more soothing demeanor. (And he comes off as more reasonable than Elizabeth Warren because he does not sound like a screeching harridan whose hectoring voice is like a witch’s nails drawn across a blackboard.) He quotes — and misquotes — scripture. He sounds reasonable, so long as you ponder the timber of his voice and don’t ponder the substance of what he says.
But at the end of the day, this Ivy- and Oxbridge-educated ‘progressive veteran’ is a Gramscian radical. He is there with with Ralph ‘make-’em-comfortable’ Northam on abortion, though he has gotten pretty deft at avoiding the issue. Abortion, in fact, seems to be the one issue on which he wants the government to stay out of our lives. About everything else, it’s all government all the time.
Mayor Pete will have a scintillating couple of months while the media pretends that he might possibly win the nomination. But he can’t, and that will become obvious, I predict, shortly after Super Tuesday. I am really not sure who would have the best chance against Donald Trump in November. I am confident, though, that the sacrificial lamb will not be Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
Those optics will blind
I think we all know that.
But who's going to get the Dem nomination?
Marx and Uncle Joe would have been right.
Both those guys are phony “socialists.” If Bernie were legit, he would never have accepted the airplane and beach house, and encouraged his supporters to vote for Hillary. As for Buttijig, a smooth-talking, glib opportunist.
Buttigieg will lose with the black vote.
It's really as simple as that.
With Trump a virtual lock on getting at least 20% of the black vote (and that's on the low end), the only chance the Democrats ever had against Trump was to nominate a black person.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some deranged/jealous homosexual did something “dramatic” with respect to butty. They can be vicious.
Judge Booty-Fudge is a loser, a Fudge Packin loser.
He just stole Iowa. I’m sure morals and ethics will prevent him from stealing the general.
“But who’s going to get the Dem nomination?”
Bloomberg or Romney.
Well DUH!
Just DUH!
The day America elects a gay president will be the day God utterly removes His hand of protection from off of this country.
Mark it down.
I hope it isn’t but that it is obvious that Bernie’s been cheated again. Because his followers plan to run their own candidate if that happens.
I think axing Bernie Sanders will permanently split the Democrat party
Well I will say it.
It is right and fair. We don’t need no stinkin fags in the WH!
The DNC Convention will ne one for the ages.
It will make 68 look like Gay Day at Disneyland.
Bernie hasn't joined the RATs, the RATs have joined him.
Do you really think the Democrat bosses in the smoke filled back rooms are going to let Petie close to the nomination much less their candidate for POTUS?
if even the dim “leadership” believe noone can beat Trump...and they can take out Bernie...they may push hard for buttman..just to rub it in America’s face.
Agreed, but isn’t the article also describing why we got stuck with Barack Obama? Could happen again.
If this nation continues to descend down the greasy pole of depravity I wouldn’t bet against this pervert being President in 20 years...or maybe even 10.
“Not a chance since we found out he strangles 5 dogs”
He kills dogs? I knew he juggled kittens, but I didn’t now about the dogs.
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