The “Who is running in 2020?” tea leaves thread, Part 2

[Alabama_Indy10]

At an event in Texas, Franken says “I don’t want to be president”:

http://lacrossetribune.com/news/franken-says-he-won-t-run-for-president-in/article_61fde4bb-ec86-5852-9104-7aa1610cc342.html

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God damn it

Don't take the Lord's name in vain

[Alabama_Indy10]

Hillary is going to run:

No she is not. She has said as much and donors are already looking in other directions at this point. The woman is done. Though I know you'd like her to be running because she is the reddest of the red meat for the Republican base.

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This statement is factual. Your personal hate/dislike of her will not negate this.

I will not believe yet she is not running.  I remember “‘Tricky Dick’”. Saying the press would not have him
to kick him around anymore.  She is every bit as tricky.

Hillary always gained her importance by her connections to Bill.  If she had been on her own. She would never have gained any any recognition.  She certainly would not been elected a Senator from New York or never been a candidate for President.

I disagree. She wouldn't have had the same pull certainly, having a politician has a spouse helps your political moves especially when they're president ESPECIALLY when it's Bill Clinton. Hillary IMO would've been able to become prominent without Bill.

Well not in Arkansas.  She was a reason Bill lost re-election as Governor In 1980.  If you knew what she looked like you would be rattled.  She would never have seen the light of day in Illinois or New York in her own stead.  There would have been too many other politiiians to contest with her.

She was the reason he lost in 1980? Not the National Republican Title Wave? Not Carter's decision to send Mariel boatlift refugees in large numbers to Arkansas? Not his decision to raise vehicle registration tag fees?

And just curious, did Clinton do some sort of fake divorce when the voters Handley returned into office in 1982 followed by overwhelming reelection in 84, 86, and 1990?

You should have seen what she look like? Really?? That's a really stupid and sexist thing to say. Don't believe me? Did Barbara Bush looking like as Robin Williams famously joke George Washington on the one dollar bill ever stop you from voting for her husband or son? Did Nancy Reagan's looks as a septuagenarian keep you from voting for Reagan?

Frankly, if you want to play that game, take a look at it Hillary in 1992 before she cut her hair, though that may be only my personal taste for long hair. She was in my humble opinion better looking then any first lady since Jackie Kennedy at minimum, and arguably, again in my opinion, even more beautiful than her. Sorry dude, but I just looked online for some images of Hillary is first lady of Arkansas in the 80s, and even if a first ladies physical appearance truly mattered with a damn, your state had nothing whatsoever to complain about frankly.

If you're going to be sexist, at least try not to be such an easily rebuttable idiot about it.

I agree with your argument but let's not go that far.

[Alabama_Indy10]

If the Democratic Party nominates Michael Bloomberg then they/we really do deserve to lose.

I'd probably write in Karl Marx.

You are lucky not to live under marxist regime. I know what it means and wouldn't wish it even for the worst enemy...

This is a great post. Young leftists today don't know what communism is like, and see billionaires or Republicans or whatever as their enemy, so many of them endorse Marxist ideas or outright communism to trigger the enemy or to display antagonism to them or even out of real ideological convicition. It's quite unsettling.