jhu72 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 10:37 am
DMac wrote: ↑Thu Aug 08, 2019 10:42 pm
Geezuz H, 72, that's a mighty tall order, particularly when given to one who doesn't pay all that much attention to the whole mess. Without google I'd have a hard time listing more than a few of our Presidential hopefuls from the D side. I view the whole lot (politicians in general) pretty much as I do magicians. One lot does sleight of hand, the other sleight of tounge. Ultimately I'd agree with a fan, lot of trickery and words but all in all everything remains the same, and what's wrong was the other letter's fault.
Policies (shmolicies) aside, likeability factor (it's only fall ball at this point) only.
Biden...just not seeing it, comes across to me as a deflating balloon. Joe should be put out to pasture.
Kamala...angry person, sharp tounge. She might to be able to stand up to Trump but he might be able to get her so riled up she loses it.
Tulsi...very likeable and sharp. Think she could stand up to Trump just fine too. Could get interesting if Spurz goes down the "your service in Iraq was just chickensh*t stuff and you're no hero" path with her.
Warren...see tech37. HRC, the sequil.
That's a start, will get back to the list later.
Oh, and you really need to up the bar in people whose opinion you value.
Thanks, I realized at the time it was a tall order. I was trying to get a feel for your thought process. I am really intrigued by your take on Warren. It seems like it really is a case of just not liking smart, articulate women who are assertive. She is not Hillary Clinton. She does not have the baggage. Why do you see her like HRC?? What is it specifically? I can see the similarities, but not liking her because she is smart, articulate and assertive, when running for the Presidency seems irrational when at the same time everyone decries the lack of candidates who posses desirable qualities. At the same time you like Tulsi Gabbard. She possesses many of the same qualities, smart, articulate, somewhat less assertive and you like her, oh and much better looking. The real difference between Gabbard and Warren is Warren has clearly thought about a much broader range of issues and talks about them easily - Gabbard not so much.
So the question becomes, if it is Warren running against Trump, what do you do?
The answer to the question is easy, Warren. I really don't like having a revolting, dispicable, shallow, (the Prez is no deep thinker) rude and crude snake oil salesman as the face of our country.
As noted, I haven't really tuned into these people all that much. Of course I've seen them here and there and listened to them a little bit, but I'm far from having made up my mind. Your analysis of my not liking smart assertive women is not at all accurate though. My dislike for HRC goes way back to Slick's days in office, I just think she's a lying, conniving, cover up artist and don't trust her.
Warren just rubs me the wrong way, which is not to say I wouldn't give her a fair shot at winning my vote if I end up liking what I hear from her and read it as being something other than the usual line of BS we get from most of the rest of our politicians. Her, "let's have a beer" ad really turned me off, just felt like a real phony move to me.
The first pol who says it's time we stand up to Big Pharma and stop pushing pills on damn near the entire population, time we stand up to the insurance industry, and oh, time we end the war on drugs, get marijuana off of Sched 1 and legitimize the business (huge tax dollars being lost there) will get my attention for sure. The one who doesn't mention race, gender, and sexual preference will get my attention too.