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Title: The Clown Car Is Looking Pretty Full, Fellas By Jim Geraghty
Post by: mystery-ak on March 29, 2019, 02:20:14 pm
   The Clown Car Is Looking Pretty Full, Fellas
By Jim Geraghty

March 28, 2019 12:39 PM

Dear former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, Colorado senator Michael Bennett, Montana governor Steve Bullock, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, and congressmen Seth Moulton, Tim Ryan, Eric Swallwell . . .

No one else will say this to you, so I will say it. There’s no need for you to “throw your hat into the ring” or “dip your toe into the water” or form an exploratory committee. Despite the polite nods of your staff and the vaguely positive mumbled responses from your family at the dinner table, there really isn’t a mass of Democrats clamoring for you to enter the race. There are no Democratic primary voters looking at the 17 announced candidates and lamenting, “I just feel like I don’t have enough options.”

It’s understandable that you would look at the current president and some of the already-announced Democratic field and say, “Why not me?” With Beto O’Rourke, Pete Buttigieg, and Julian Castro, the Democratic field is two young guys short of looking like a late-90s boy band. Yes, I know how infuriating it must be to get elected statewide, actually get some legislation passed, sign some bills into law, and watch the rest of your party go “Ooh! Ahh!” over the mayor of South Bend, some garage-band guitarist who had $80 million and couldn’t beat Ted Cruz, and some tech-company guy who’s talking about circumcision. Yes, you’re younger than Bernie Sanders. Everybody’s younger than Bernie Sanders.

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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/democrats-2020-presidential-campaign/ (https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/democrats-2020-presidential-campaign/)
Title: Re: The Clown Car Is Looking Pretty Full, Fellas By Jim Geraghty
Post by: Fishrrman on March 30, 2019, 12:11:38 am
Of course the "clown car" ain't big enough!

Time to roll out the clown BUS:
(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o--fKXNGyG8/VacIQbBMKZI/AAAAAAAANr8/F8TETI8f9DI/s1600/blog-bus-3.jpg)
Title: Re: The Clown Car Is Looking Pretty Full, Fellas By Jim Geraghty
Post by: mountaineer on March 30, 2019, 02:16:56 pm
Room for one more?
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Bill Weld Feeling Better and Better About Taking On Donald Trump in 2020
March 25, 2019

Former Massachusetts governor William F. Weld said he expects to make it official in April that he’ll challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primaries.

“I doubt there would be anything to prevent me doing this. I’m feeling more comfortable with this all the time,” Weld told SeacoastOnline.com on Monday, March 25.

The special counsel’s report, which according to U.S. Attorney General William Barr finds no evidence that Trump colluded with the Russians in his successful campaign for president in 2016, is not dissuading Weld from his longshot bid.

Weld told Seacoast Online that he “wasn’t really counting on the president getting caught in the soup for having said ‘I hope the Russians find more emails’ during the heat of the campaign. That never grabbed me as an indictable or impeachable offense frankly.”
New Boston Post (https://newbostonpost.com/around-new-england/bill-weld-feeling-better-and-better-about-taking-on-donald-trump-in-2020/)
Title: Re: The Clown Car Is Looking Pretty Full, Fellas By Jim Geraghty
Post by: skeeter on March 30, 2019, 02:28:12 pm
Quote from: mountaineer on March 30, 2019, 02:16:56 pm
Room for one more?New Boston Post (https://newbostonpost.com/around-new-england/bill-weld-feeling-better-and-better-about-taking-on-donald-trump-in-2020/)

Because feckless limp-wristed Republicans need representation, too.
Title: Re: The Clown Car Is Looking Pretty Full, Fellas By Jim Geraghty
Post by: mountaineer on March 30, 2019, 02:36:28 pm
Quote from: skeeter on March 30, 2019, 02:28:12 pm
Because feckless limp-wristed Republicans need representation, too.
I forgot Weld "identifies" as Republican.  :laugh:
Title: Re: The Clown Car Is Looking Pretty Full, Fellas By Jim Geraghty
Post by: jmyrlefuller on March 30, 2019, 02:37:53 pm
Au contraire, Mr. Geraghty. Stuff the clown car high and deep. They've already shown themselves willing to play dirty against each other. Let them all tear each other down. Please.
Title: Re: The Clown Car Is Looking Pretty Full, Fellas By Jim Geraghty
Post by: jmyrlefuller on March 30, 2019, 02:38:16 pm
Quote from: mountaineer on March 30, 2019, 02:36:28 pm
I forgot Weld "identifies" as Republican.  :laugh:
For now, anyway.
Title: Re: The Clown Car Is Looking Pretty Full, Fellas By Jim Geraghty
Post by: truth_seeker on March 30, 2019, 03:38:36 pm
The country is crying out, for Gary Johnson's Libertarian running mate. Now back to being a New England liberal/moderate Republican.

He is supplying a product, for which there is virtually no demand--liberaal Republican.

Hint: If you want what he's going to be advancing, there will be about twenty or so, authentic Democrats to consider.



Title: Re: The Clown Car Is Looking Pretty Full, Fellas By Jim Geraghty
Post by: goatprairie on March 30, 2019, 05:39:32 pm
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/weM8GgHZeGQ/hqdefault.jpg)Everyone of the persons in this clown car would make better candidates than any of the announced Dems.
Title: Re: The Clown Car Is Looking Pretty Full, Fellas By Jim Geraghty
Post by: conservativevoter on March 30, 2019, 05:52:24 pm
Wouldn't stuffing the clown car high and deep be especially smelly?  tri22
Title: Re: The Clown Car Is Looking Pretty Full, Fellas By Jim Geraghty
Post by: mountaineer on March 30, 2019, 07:01:40 pm
Quote from: conservativevoter on March 30, 2019, 05:52:24 pm
Wouldn't stuffing the clown car high and deep be especially smelly?  tri22
I think it would stink pretty much no matter how many Democrats were inside.