I’m taking a break from impeachment as a great day is on tap with the Times’ presidential endorsement plus the NFL conference championship games.
Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete B, and Joe Biden made this very easy for me. They all have one thing in common, that being, none of them should be the candidate to run against Donald Trump.
Pete B is interesting, but I honestly don’t think America between the coasts is ready for an openly gay POTUS. Plus, I think he needs some experience in a more demanding position than being the mayor of South Bend.
Removing Trump from access to the White House is the primary goal. This isn’t the time to go beyond FDR’s New Deal. Win the damn election and go from there in a deliberate pragmatic manner.
Bernie and Lizbeth should kiss and make up. That nonsense at the end of the last debate would almost make me vote for Trump if they were my only choice. Not really, but almost. Maybe we’ll see them with Rick Perry on Dancing With the Stars this season.
Trump is a different animal and he won the White House running the most ruthless unconventional campaign in American presidential history. Clearly, this explains why ninety per cent of evangelicals adore him. Again…I reiterate, I firmly believe evangelicals pose a more dire threat to America than climate change, Isis, or the debt.
It will take some new ideas and some actual effort which was sorely lacking from Robbie Mook’s disastrous leadership of Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016. Showing up in states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan could you know actually prove helpful in winning the Electoral College.
Newspaper endorsements don’t mean much in our current times. Hillary had almost every major newspaper endorsement and still lost the election despite the Hollywood Access clip.
Our culture has devolved to where Twitter and Facebook are unfortunately where many get their political information. Barack Obama ran two very clever social media campaigns. Maybe David Axelrod could help the Dems again this time around.
Beating Trump will take a tough in your face ticket. Politics isn’t a rainbows and butterflies proposition. It’s a hard ass endeavor which requires a cut-throat mentality at times. I’m not saying it should be that way, but it is when Donald Trump and the descendants of Lee Atwater are the opposition. Winning won’t be pretty. Some blood will be let if the Dems want to win.
Out of the veritable plethora of Dem candidates my final selections are three moving forward for the ticket and in this order as we are two weeks away from Iowa;
1 Mike Bloomberg
2 Michael Bennett
3 Amy Klobuchar
In the NFC Championship Game… I like the 49’ers unless the Packers can break George Kittles’ leg sometime in the first period. Kittles in the new Gronk. Get him out of the game.
On the AFC side the Titans have beaten both New England and Baltimore on the road with the most dominant player in post season being Derrick Henry. Ryan Tannehill’s rebirth is a good story as well. Plus, Vrable is a hard ass disciple of Belichick. I’ll take the Titans.