Favorite Democratic candidate?
MrDeuce
Illinois
To those on the progressive side of the political spectrum (I don't say "liberal" any more -- it's been misappropriated by the Left): Whom do you favor for the Democratic nomination? To provide some structure, I'll steal Larry Sabato's recent classification into three categories (see http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystal…):
1st Tier: The Undisputed Frontrunner -- Hillary Clinton
2nd Tier: The Leading Challenger -- Sen. Bernie Sanders
3rd Tier: The Others -- Gov. Martin O'Malley, Larry Lessig (I know -- who?)
From where I'm sitting , they're all loathsome. When I watched the Democratic debate recently, there were two others who have since dropped out: former RI Gov. and Sen. Lincoln Chafee (truly a joke) and former VA Sen. Jim Webb. Webb was the only one with an ounce of sense, and he's gone. There's no room in today's Democratic party for a candidate who opposes [some] gun control, opposes [some] affirmative action, opposes partial birth abortion, and supports a strong national defense. Twenty years ago Webb's views were practically in the Democratic mainstream!
Assuming that Hillary is not indicted for some scandal or another, I think the Democrats' strongest ticket would be her and Julian Castro, former three-term mayor of San Antonio, current Secretary of HUD, and keynote speaker at the 2012 Democratic convention. (Or possibly his twin brother, Congressman Juan Castro.) Hispanics now make up 15% of the population and at least 10% of the electorate.
One of the funniest political things I've heard this year is that Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Democratic National Chairman), when asked on at least two occasions to explain the difference between Democrats and Socialists, was unable to provide an answer. Remember, Bernie Sanders has driven Hillary decidedly leftward this year and is in fact to her right on some issues.
Talk amongst yourselves.
1st Tier: The Undisputed Frontrunner -- Hillary Clinton
2nd Tier: The Leading Challenger -- Sen. Bernie Sanders
3rd Tier: The Others -- Gov. Martin O'Malley, Larry Lessig (I know -- who?)
From where I'm sitting , they're all loathsome. When I watched the Democratic debate recently, there were two others who have since dropped out: former RI Gov. and Sen. Lincoln Chafee (truly a joke) and former VA Sen. Jim Webb. Webb was the only one with an ounce of sense, and he's gone. There's no room in today's Democratic party for a candidate who opposes [some] gun control, opposes [some] affirmative action, opposes partial birth abortion, and supports a strong national defense. Twenty years ago Webb's views were practically in the Democratic mainstream!
Assuming that Hillary is not indicted for some scandal or another, I think the Democrats' strongest ticket would be her and Julian Castro, former three-term mayor of San Antonio, current Secretary of HUD, and keynote speaker at the 2012 Democratic convention. (Or possibly his twin brother, Congressman Juan Castro.) Hispanics now make up 15% of the population and at least 10% of the electorate.
One of the funniest political things I've heard this year is that Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Democratic National Chairman), when asked on at least two occasions to explain the difference between Democrats and Socialists, was unable to provide an answer. Remember, Bernie Sanders has driven Hillary decidedly leftward this year and is in fact to her right on some issues.
Talk amongst yourselves.
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I like Bernie, but more as a Senator.
I actually fear Hillary becoming president, I don't feel that way about anyone else. If 1/3 of the stories you hear about her are true, she is just pure evil. Plain and simple.
I like Bernie, but I think he killed himself before he even started by using the word "socialism." So many people write him off after hearing the word, without listening to what he has to say.
Sanders is as far left as we've seen in a while so I'm voting for him in the primary mostly to shake up the Democrats, much as the Tea Party has shaken up the Republicans. But conservatives better watch their Hillary bashing, because even I think Sanders is too much if he were president, America is too immature to actually handle poor people having an equal footing with the rich. In the general election I expect i'll be voting for Hillary, who is unfortunately to the right of Obama on many issues but my #1 concern in my voting is for a liberal Supreme Court. That's my biggest issue when I decide who to vote for.
tumblingdice writes (quoting the great Charles Barkley): "Poor people have been voting Democrat for fifty years and they are still poor." TD, this is the smartest thing you've ever posted. Maybe we have more in common than I thought.
The only one that made any sense was Webb, but the lunatic leftists would never support someone that made sense.
I am a huge fan of Bernie, however I really wish Elizabeth Warren would have run.
As a lefty... I'm enjoying the Republican debates. They made the last Dem debate seem boring. The only two candidates on the right who do not scare the shit out of me are Kasich, Bush and Rubio. I do believe Rubio will one day be our president. I just hope it is after another 8-12 years of democratic leadership. There are a lot of Supreme Court seats that will be filled in the next couple of terms.
I haven't posted lately and have been, as you people put it, been "lurking".
This topic put me over the edge. If anyone can even remotely consider any those mentioned above, I now know that this "group" of people is top heavy with imbeciles and a total waste of internet bandwidth. Sayonara.
I thought feminist lesbians hated strip clubs....'cept lopaw of course :)
Brilliant!
NinaBambina shows how lefties reason: ". . . odds are that Hillary will be the next president of the US. Which wouldn't upset me, because I like Bill." (because, you see, Bill and Hill are so much alike!)
rockstar666 illustrates the fact that lefties don't even realize how leftwing other lefties are: "Hillary is no left wing liberal; I consider her to the right of Obama" (well, yes . . . almost *everyone* is to the right of Obama!)
To Mr_O, who rejects *all* of these candidates and calls us TUSCLers a bunch of imbeciles and a waste of bandwidth, I say: Don't let the virtual door hit you in your supercilious ass on your way out. Buh-bye!
All in good fun -- I hope no one (except Mr_O) is offended by my remarks!
On October 15, 2015, Castro endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. When Clinton was asked if Castro could be her pick for vice president, she said, "I am going to look really hard at him for anything, because that's how good he is."
I've been predicting since the 2012 Democratic convention, at which Julian Castro gave the keynote address, that he (or his twin brother Juan) will be on a Democratic presidential ticket in the not-so-distant future . . . like 2016. BTW, other keynote speakers in the fairly recent past include Bill Clinton in 1988 and Barack Obama in 2004.