What Kamala and Beto have in common
Neither is going to be the Democratic nominee.
But they each had their day in the sun as the darling of the MSM and the person who was going to rise to the top. The media is so eager to locate the great Trump-slayer that anyone will do until the public rejects that person and it’s time to move on to the next.
Beto had two big problems. The first was that he seemed profoundly bizarre as a person, and the second was that the policies he advocated were to the left of even the current Democratic electorate. Kamala’s problem has been twofold as well: she is not the least bit likeable and she was flailing in terms of policy and never figured out what she stood for or even if she stood for anything other than Kamala Harris.
But for one brief shining moment they were the press’s favorites, and at that point they must have believed that they might truly win the whole shebang. That’s a hard notion to give up.
It is refreshing to see these “rising stars” crash and burn.
I must remember that the next time I see the media pushing someone as the next best thing.
I think people may be starting to realize that Harris slept her way to where she is and that even Willie now supports Hillary.
As to Beto, Aside from gun confiscations, andstopping tax exemptions to churches, there is also his teeth cleaning. He is an idiot.
Beto had two big problems. The first was that he seemed profoundly bizarre as a person, and the second was that the policies he advocated were to the left of even the current Democratic electorate. Kamala’s problem has been twofold as well: she is not the least bit likeable and she was flailing in terms of policy and never figured out what she stood for or even if she stood for anything other than Kamala Harris.
1. Looks like Bobby, drives like Ted. And, ‘to the left’ if you mean ‘willing to ramp up the harassment of cultural dissenters to such a point that it qualifies as persecution’.
2. She never stood for anything but Kamala Harris. At age 28, she made it her avocation to get Willie Brown waving his arms and practicing his trademark Swiss yodel. That’s motivation.
Trump had a good time mocking Beto:
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“You know in the world of the internet, in the world of smart people, that’s why I’m like, Beto wasn’t smart, couldn’t handle it,” the president told the audience.
“I told my wife, I said, see, it’s not so easy. I told our great first lady tonight, who people love, they love,” he said, before being interrupted by applause for the first lady.
“When Beto quit like, he quit like a dog, when he quit I said, see, people think this is easy, this isn’t easy!” he continued.
‘But, you know it just worked out that way,” he concluded.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-mocks-beto-orourke-after-he-drops-campaign
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Typical Trump, but he’s got a point. It’s not easy to do what Trump does. I have no idea how he’s standing after three years of satanic abuse and very tricky manuevering, yet still be in office with a fairly successful first term.
Beto is a pure poser. His high point was his Annie Liebovitz cover on “Vanity Fair.” Perfect!
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2019/4/betos-choice
He’s the least serious presidential candidate I can remember, including the current clown car.
Nonetheless, he performed a service in showing how deep the bottom of the barrel is in terms of Democratic candidates and putting the real Democratic anti-gun and anti-Christian sentiments on the YouTube record for all to see. Democrats have already started to hate him for that.
I’m pretty sure we haven’t seen the last of Beto, and possibly not even of Kamala.
I’m certain there will be Rep ads that include Beto’s words, and they’ll be effective at making the Dems look terrible. There might be Kamala ads, too. I would try to make some about sleeping her way up, and getting a married older man to cheat on his wife with her.
Beto was the fantastic “New Coca Cola” Obama vanilla, lean good looking, great teeth, skate board idiot who spent two time the amount of money Cruz, the least likable but dependable Senatator from Texas to lose in the most expensive, due to carpet baggers, election in the history of the USA.
The man is kind of dumb as rocks and today we are posting ourselves taking our ARs away. It was not a close call.
That is suppose to say safe from taking out ARs away.
This is a recurring problem. Someone who’s obviously never going to be the nominee gets their “moment in the sun” and people pointlessly obsess over him or her. Remember when Michele Bachmann was going to be the nominee? Or Newt Gingrich? Or Rick Santorum? Remember when Ted Cruz, Benjamin Carson, or Carly Fiorina was supposed to eclipse Trump and be the nominee? This nonsense needs to stop.
Now we have Mayor Pete rising to the top, maybe just him and Warren. Is this all the Dems have? Pretty pathetic bunch. Problem is that one of them might just win.
What a mess.
Beto is weird. End of story.
Beto reminded me of a Navy signalman, with his arm waving. I learned Semaphore signaling in Boy Scouts. Taught to me by a l Navy vet who was a signalman during WWII. It was a useful skill back in the day. Beto ought to join the Navy, learn some useful skills, and grow up. Gravitas is not his major suit.
They *really* wanted Harris, she checked off a lot of intersectional boxes. Too bad she can’t speak off the cuff.
Beto was too artificial, too focused grouped, too inorganic, too empty , too plastic, too grasping; or at least he was until those hens on the View bock-bock-bocked him back to his place at the bottom of the progressive stack. That was funny.
These elite party progs sure have a lot trouble pretending to *like* the proles. Their whole schtick relies on being *better* than the proles lol
Not sure what the winner has to do to get traction but… not *that*.
Unless something changes, I see Warren consuming ol’ Bernie then breaking down ol’ Joe to win the nomination… then getting thrown, writhing and screaming, into the Great Wu that is the 2020 Trump referendum.
Pete Buttigieg: they never say his last name. It sounds fruity. He’s a gay guy and his last name is “booty” -something. Can’t have that.
Saying his last name out loud in public is *homophobic*.
Let’s call him Mayor Pete.
What if he wins? We’ll call him President Mayor Pete.
In any election cycle like this, it’s good to have a large number of candidates, as it can be a sign of healthy interest in the system. And after checking wikipedia, there are still 17 (seventeen) people in the race, although we tend to only hear about the top three (Biden, Sanders, Warren).
With the way things are now, the best option for the country might be for a relatively normal Democrat who is outside of Washington, DC, like a governor or a businessman (such as Howard Schultz, of Starbucks) to push very hard for the nomination. That person could make the case for centrist positions, and also be able to repudiate the excesses of previous Democrats (corruption and spying on Trump). An outsider Democrat who is populist and America first could end up winning.
With the way things are now, the best option for the country might be for a relatively normal Democrat who is outside of Washington, DC, like a governor or a businessman (such as Howard Schultz, of Starbucks) to push very hard for the nomination.
That’s not what Democratic Party voters want. What they want is the flotsam and jetsam currently in the lead.
Remember when Michele Bachmann was going to be the nominee? Or Newt Gingrich? Or Rick Santorum? Remember when Ted Cruz, Benjamin Carson, or Carly Fiorina was supposed to eclipse Trump and be the nominee? T
No, I don’t, because that never happened. A succession of people had a brief moment (a few weeks each) leading in the polls in the latter part of 2011, or at least performing well ‘ere they disappeared. That included Herman Cain, Mrs. Bachmann, and Gov. Perry. Santorum and Gingrich performed satisfactorily contra Mitt Romney, but were never close to him in the delegate count. Carson’s campaign was notable for a number of things, but he was not near the leaders once the votes were being counted. There was a small Carly poll boomlet in late 2015; that’s it. Cruz was a real contender for the nomination, but I doubt he was the favorite in anyone’s mind at any point, except perhaps for a brief period between Iowa and New Hampshire.
Pete Buttigieg: they never say his last name. It sounds fruity. He’s a gay guy and his last name is “booty” -something. Can’t have that.
Mentus: According to some web page the proper pronunciation is “boot-edge” but that sure strikes me as post-hoc.
Even Andrew Sullivan admits he sounds it as “booty-gig” in his mind’s ear.
At one point I was told, “it’s ‘boot-edge-edge‘”.
Now I say “booty-gig” just to get a chuckle… or start an argument.
Art and life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWxLc555sgU
and if you want to sing along here are the lyrics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MM2DMQy0tg
You’re welcome!
At some point, the Dems will have to stop looking for another Kennedy. There are plenty of voters who never knew JFK as president. He was killed, what? 56 years ago? We got Bill Clinton partly because of his good hair, like Kennedy, and the fact that he met Kennedy. That should be the warning, right there. Plus, we’ve learned a lot about the “sainted” Kennedy clan since then, their reckless behavior and sense of entitlement.
At one point I was told, “it’s ‘boot-edge-edge‘”.
Mentus: I believe you’re correct. I remembered it with one “edge” because it made (a bit) more sense.
One is a puta and the other a puto.