RE: Just listened to Warren's announcement.
February 14, 2019 at 8:43 pm
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2019 at 8:46 pm by bennyboy.)
(February 14, 2019 at 8:25 pm)Thena323 Wrote: Warren's the only Democratic frontrunner I've come close to "feeling" thus far...But I honestly don't think she stands snowball's chance in hell at defeating Trump.
I'm not convinced that anyone else in the current crop of potential Democratic candidates stands a remarkably better chance at pulling it off either.
My god, is there really NO ONE ELSE who's willing to throw their hat in the ring? Because at this point, it seems that 2020 is staging to be another fucking disaster for the Dems.
I hope I'm wrong.
I feel the problem may be connected to charisma, and the tendency of charismatic people to say things that are unpolitic. Trump doesn't have that problem-- he knows the Republican mating call, and he can moo moo moo till the cattle come home. But you put up say Biden, and he'll say something dumb about women or something, and he'll lose 1/2 the Democratic base. It's not that they'll vote for Trump, it's that they won't show up because they're too busy stamping their feet.
Never before Obama did anyone ever say so many right things so intelligently, and with so much charisma. I mean, when he got elected, he could literally have asked Americans to fall on the sword for him, and millions would have. And now. . . nothing but zombies and lizards-- not a charismatic bone among them. To be honest, I think the only solution is to import charisma-- grab one of your smarter media liberals-- Colbert for example, or John Stewart, and fight fire with charismatic fire.
Watching Trump try to debate one of those guys-- the very idea of it makes me hard.
