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Pete Buttigieg isn’t going to win
Spectator ^ | 2/8/20 | Roger Kimball

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.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: buttigieg; homonazicandidate; petebuttigieg
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To: Qiviut

I guess that any ads that mention bath houses or syphilis would be *really* “homophobic”.


41 posted on 02/09/2020 11:10:24 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: conservative98

There is no moderate D in the race. Even Biden is not a moderate. He’s just not as nuts as the rest of the clown car.. so he looks moderate only when compared to the radicals. But he is not a moderate.


42 posted on 02/09/2020 11:10:50 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: conservative98

Buttgig’s win in Iowa makes him a gay Howard Dean.


43 posted on 02/09/2020 11:11:11 AM PST by Rebelbase (Time for Trump to go Machiavelli on the democrats and never Trump republicans.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

He’s very articulate and well groomed by the CIA but there’s two things that make him on electable

The first is that he’s a white male

The second is that he’s a white male

the gay thing actually give him kudos in the Democratic Party

The problem when you get to the general election however is that there are many people in this country and especially minorities that are not ready for a flamboyant gay guy as the commander in chief


44 posted on 02/09/2020 11:12:13 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: BlueStateRightist

Obama had a the White-Guilt vote. Buttgig doesn’t.


45 posted on 02/09/2020 11:12:19 AM PST by Rebelbase (Time for Trump to go Machiavelli on the democrats and never Trump republicans.)
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To: Phosgood
Whoever runs against Trump will be a sacrificial goat to the point of have a ZERO future in National Politics .

That's very much the issue - Butti would make a terrible Presidential candidate due to age alone, much less track record or his sexuality, (the latter being a plus in the more progressive circles in the party but not in the public at large.) He'd make an ideal Vice Presidential candidate, though, but not if it costs him any chance of leveraging that into a Presidential candidacy later when he's made his bones in D.C. If he manages to garner enough delegates in the convention he can horse trade for that sort of promise even if the Dems lose in 2020, especially if he hands those delegates to the Clinton team for their own power brokerage at the convention. If he has the money to continue, he will.

46 posted on 02/09/2020 11:12:35 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: conservative98
Pete Buttigieg isn’t going to win

I will never say that about any candidate. Remember, Trump wasn't supposed to win.

47 posted on 02/09/2020 11:12:40 AM PST by rexthecat
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To: Williams

Obama didn’t run on free college for all including illegals, i’m going to take your guns away, gov healthcare for all, open border anarchy, infanticide, etc.


48 posted on 02/09/2020 11:12:55 AM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Anyone who is deft is probably hiding something.


49 posted on 02/09/2020 11:14:21 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: Gay State Conservative

Joe hasn’t “gone there” yet, but he’s a nasty old perv himself & as he gets more desperate, like the cornered Rat he is, I’d put nothing past him. Mayor Pete is likely to get bloodied up by Uncle Joe & likely Uncle Bernie too (politically, of course - not advocating violence) before it’s all said & done.


50 posted on 02/09/2020 11:15:31 AM PST by Qiviut (President Trump: defies political gravity - MAGA! Nasty Nan is a walking obscenity.)
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To: conservative98

Finally, someone called him by his real name, Peter.

That should be done all the time by everyone.

Because, Peter is ready!


51 posted on 02/09/2020 11:15:45 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: Jess Kitting

“But who’s going to get the Dem nomination?”

My prediction is no one - on the first ballot at the DNC.

Then all Holy Hell will break loose.


52 posted on 02/09/2020 11:16:41 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding" don't)
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To: gibsonguy

I agree... He won’t beat Trump, but I can believe the idiot Democrats would pick him. They don’t have many options


53 posted on 02/09/2020 11:17:12 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: gibsonguy

I agree. the Mayor is dangerous.


54 posted on 02/09/2020 11:19:06 AM PST by Solson (Trump 2020!)
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To: conservative98

The media love him, he is one of them: Marxist, queer, and phony. What could possible go wrong?


55 posted on 02/09/2020 11:22:55 AM PST by centurion316 (.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

“There isn’t a Democrat Politician alive who wouldn’t relish loading all us Deplorable types into Cattle Cars destined for Reeducation Camps, not one”.

In my opinion those Cattle Cars wouldn’t be headed to Reeducation Camps, they would be headed to the Gas Chambers and Crematoriums.

The Democrats don’t want us Reeducated——They want us DEAD.


56 posted on 02/09/2020 11:25:36 AM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: conservative98

Can’t believe I’m saying this, but right now I think Hillary has a better chance in 2020 than the rest of them, and she’d still lose. They’re all leaning progressive socialism, and she’s just an opportunistic corruptocrat; most Dems will be satisfied with that.


58 posted on 02/09/2020 11:30:19 AM PST by Buttons12
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To: ImpBill
I'm thinking the Dems know they are going to lose big to Trump in November no matter what so they are in "sacrificial lamb" mode. So they might be thinking they might as well get the "homo dude" out of the way so that they can start fresh in 2024.

But they are in a real pickle because Buttigieg will likely get blown out in SC and just about every other red Southern state. My money is still on Bernie getting the nod. Especially if he plays the long game and settles for #2 in most states. He may well end up with the most delegates by convention time.

Remember how he hung tough against Hillary in 2016 almost to the very end?

59 posted on 02/09/2020 11:30:44 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Persevero

“... a Proud Homosexual with a First Gentlemen?”

For some reason I initially read that as “Fist Gentleman,” and that answers the question.


60 posted on 02/09/2020 11:34:32 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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