Campaign 2024 is just beginning . . .
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:38 pm
I suppose it's been going for while of course - don't know if TFG still plans to make a big announcement in a few days. He said he would and he's a man of his word so . . .
Speculation about who the Dems would choose is heating up. I personally hope we can retire Biden - well done Joe, thank you for the monumental gift you gave us all by beating Trump, now go back to Delaware and take it easy.
Good NYT piece today - let know if you want me to c&p it into a post if you are firewalled out - about the relative merits of those who are emerging as front runners: VP Kamala Harris, Indiana's Pete Buttigieg and Michigan's Gretchen Whitmer. Harris just has not impressed me as VP but I don't know if that's her fault or Biden's. I really like what I have seen of Buttigieg but I really do not know if the country will ever go for a gay man with an unfortunate name. Does that make me a homophobe? I hope not and I don't think so, but I understand how some might see it that way. If de Santis is the R candidate I want someone who can beat him and if Buttigieg automatically starts with a 5% handicap because there are Ds out there who will just sit on their hands rather than vote for a gay man, then I want another candidate.
Any candidate is a compromise for any voter (sorry: I forgot that compromise is an ugly word these days and use of the word automatically labels you as an ineffective woke softy and therefore of no consequence) and maybe Whitmer is the best candidate. Rightly or wrongly, the 10% of the male population who would never vote for a woman President are probably balanced out by the 10% of the female population who will vote for her just because she's a woman. It's going to be an interesting year or so until that first primary in NH - March 2024.
Speculation about who the Dems would choose is heating up. I personally hope we can retire Biden - well done Joe, thank you for the monumental gift you gave us all by beating Trump, now go back to Delaware and take it easy.
Good NYT piece today - let know if you want me to c&p it into a post if you are firewalled out - about the relative merits of those who are emerging as front runners: VP Kamala Harris, Indiana's Pete Buttigieg and Michigan's Gretchen Whitmer. Harris just has not impressed me as VP but I don't know if that's her fault or Biden's. I really like what I have seen of Buttigieg but I really do not know if the country will ever go for a gay man with an unfortunate name. Does that make me a homophobe? I hope not and I don't think so, but I understand how some might see it that way. If de Santis is the R candidate I want someone who can beat him and if Buttigieg automatically starts with a 5% handicap because there are Ds out there who will just sit on their hands rather than vote for a gay man, then I want another candidate.
Any candidate is a compromise for any voter (sorry: I forgot that compromise is an ugly word these days and use of the word automatically labels you as an ineffective woke softy and therefore of no consequence) and maybe Whitmer is the best candidate. Rightly or wrongly, the 10% of the male population who would never vote for a woman President are probably balanced out by the 10% of the female population who will vote for her just because she's a woman. It's going to be an interesting year or so until that first primary in NH - March 2024.