Larry Sharpe said he is 100% not running in 2020, but would not rule out a 2024 run. He said his gubernatorial run took a lot out of him.
If the Mises Caucus takes over the party, I'm in. Otherwise, I'll continue to keep an arms distance from the party as I do now.
Mayor Pete the first candidate to blame Trump for Iran shooting down an airplane! Who will follow.
posted by justincredibleLarry Sharpe said he is 100% not running in 2020, but would not rule out a 2024 run. He said his gubernatorial run took a lot out of him.
If the Mises Caucus takes over the party, I'm in. Otherwise, I'll continue to keep an arms distance from the party as I do now.
I am not holding my breath. The LP currently seems more concerned with signaling to progressives than anything else.
I dont think you could make this up:
and Booker is out.
Just checking in to see what the Marxists promised to the citizens and non-citizens last night ……..how much theft from the productive will occur, how much will be shelled out for votes, and how much will they line their own pockets with for this service?
Couldnt tell you. The average smart American didnt watch it
The debate was a clown show.
Bloomberg is the only hope for the Dems.
Heading into impeachment tuesday......Dems throwing Bidens under the bus.
posted by BRFBloomberg is the only hope for the Dems.
I think you may be right. But I'm not sure how he's going to get there without being in the debates, and for some reason the liberal media doesn't have much interest in talking about him.
Maybe he's "plan B" in case Biden starts dropping in the polls. I don't think Biden can beat Trump - with a good economy I doubt swing voters trade one clown for the other just because he's less vulgar.
posted by gutI think you may be right. But I'm not sure how he's going to get there without being in the debates ...
After the debates, I caught Bloomberg on the Colbert show. He explained that he was not allowed on the stage because he is financing himself and you have to have a certain number of donors to qualify. I did not know that.
posted by BRFAfter the debates, I caught Bloomberg on the Colbert show. He explained that he was not allowed on the stage because he is financing himself and you have to have a certain number of donors to qualify. I did not know that.
Right, although I'm not sure that's the only reason because you have to also hit certain polling numbers in several states. I'm sure if he otherwise qualified and WANTED to debate he could petition for an exception.
My guess is he doesn't want to debate and face attacks and tough questions when he can just drop a few hundred million in ads that are 100% positive about him
Also, the Democratic primaries are an absolute mess. I have no idea how it works. Just saw something about how if no one meets the threshold the first go around, people can re-cast their votes but only if they supported also-rans like Klobuchar or Yang....or something.
They definitely put their thumb on the scale with all their rules. Makes you wonder if it's really a "free" election when they seem to create rules to block potentially unwelcome outcomes.
Maybe the dems want a brokered convention. Then the delegates will take the candidate that they really want but cant rig the primaries because they already did that for Clinton
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/19/new-york-times-endorsement-warren-klobuchar-101131
Whats the move here? Endorse 2 people and they are both females. They trying to broker the convention by keeping these 2 around? They trying to guarantee that there is a women on the ticket?
They know that Biden will never have a women on the ticket and that he is likely toast anyway?
In a great moment of unintentional comedy, Hillary criticized Bernie for being unlikable.
To break that down. Hillary Clinton, OF ALL FUCKING PEOPLE, said someone else was hard to like. While also using "career politician" to describe that person. It's really hilarious seeing her as that self-unaware to actually seriously criticize anyone else on either of those things.
posted by HereticIt's really hilarious seeing her as that self-unaware to actually seriously criticize anyone else on either of those things.
She really just doesn't know when to go away. Has to be the biggest case of sour grapes among Presidential losers in history. Seems like she's identified Bernie as reason number #37 why she lost (and none of the reasons has anything to do with her).
In a brokered convention, it wouldn't surprise me to see Hillary running around reminding people she already beat Trump once (it's just the the popular vote doesn't actually count!).
posted by gutShe really just doesn't know when to go away. Has to be the biggest case of sour grapes among Presidential losers in history. Seems like she's identified Bernie as reason number #37 why she lost (and none of the reasons has anything to do with her).
In a brokered convention, it wouldn't surprise me to see Hillary running around reminding people she already beat Trump once (it's just the the popular vote doesn't actually count!).
I'm thinking right now that 95% of the party leaders' reasoning behind the impeachment process is to try to create as much concern about Trump as humanly possible in order to distract from how they're incapable of doing ANYTHING without coming off like bumbling sitcom dads, tripping over themselves at every turn.
2017 -- we gotta vote out Trump
2018 -- we gotta vote out Trump
early 2019 -- we gotta vote out Trump
And then, as time rolls closer and closer to the primary and, then, general election, things just go off the rails. Suddenly, of the people with anything resembling anything close to a chance of getting the nomination, Biden and Buttigieg are getting criticized more and more for not being far enough left. And the fact that Booker and Harris dropped out due to having no popularity means the field isn't diverse enough. And Hillary is saying no one likes Bernie.
And so, we'll have a few months of everyone tearing into everyone else, so that no one winds up looking good and the whole "vote Trump out" movement gets eaten up because the eventual candidate is either too left for the more moderate crowd to get their support because they care more about not having a far left/right wingnut than which party wins or the too moderate for the progs to care about because they'd rather lose and bitch constantly about how it's the fault of everyone else that this is what the situation is than win with a candidate that isn't as unrealistically left-wing as they are.
Just so obvious that's how it's gonna turn out.
Man, Hillary wants back in SO bad lol.
posted by fish82Man, Hillary wants back in SO bad lol.
Only about 4 people have to commit suicide for it to happen.
So they are going to release half the results by 5pm. So who is to say the rest don't get released until after the New Hampshire primary. And only releasing half could, depending on precincts skew a final result.
This could skew momentum for a particular candidate going into the NH primary.
posted by majorsparkThis could skew momentum for a particular candidate going into the NH primary.
Oh nos!!! That would be so unfortunate...
Yeah, if they don't release the final vote tally/ allocations before New Hampshire, the DNC is just begging for conspiracy theories.
I totally forgot, there is a debate on Friday, If there is no known winner there, it could be a shit show as each candidate will just say they won.
I honestly do not think it matters so far as someone like Biden or even Bloomberg may take over the race once we hit Super Tuesday in a month.
posted by ptown_trojans_1the DNC is just begging for conspiracy theories.
Especially since Shadow Inc. is the App Dev company hired.
posted by ptown_trojans_1Yeah, if they don't release the final vote tally/ allocations before New Hampshire, the DNC is just begging for conspiracy theories.
Alex Jones says to buy dried meat just in case.