02-19-2019, 05:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-19-2019, 05:22 PM by Eric the Green.)
(02-19-2019, 11:02 AM)David Horn Wrote:(02-14-2019, 03:49 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: No go on Pete; his score is only 5-11. He'll never be president. Oh well, another one bites the dust
We'll have to disagree on that. Any young progressive gay guy who can win a mayoralty contest in rock-rib conservative South Bend Indiana has real political chops. That said, I don't see him winning, or even running that hard, this cycle. I can see him as VP and later POTUS, if things work out that way.
You are welcome to disagree. He seems a smart, articulate guy with good ideas, and you make a good point. The only thing I can see that might stop him from going all the way, besides prejudice against a gay president, is he doesn't seem all that powerful a personality. That may make no difference to liberals like us, and it doesn't tend to. But we aren't the majority, and Americans elect powerful personalities that come out on top amid rough and tumble contests and the rigors of personal disclosure and publicity, and they defeat, well, wimps, wusses, wonks, and so on. And I have to go by what my system says; it works, so I report on it. It is what it is, FWIW!