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Who Is Your Nightmare Opponent?
There has been a lot of speculation as to who Democrats are hoping to run against (and not run against) in the 2024 presidential election. Since this topic has been covered a bit already, I want to look at the 2024 race on the other side. Presumably nearly everyone reading this is a Republican, or at least an independent who doesn’t want another Democratic victory in 2024.
The majority expectation is that Joseph Robinette Biden will probably again be the Democratic nominee, providing he doesn’t have a fatal stroke or something. But that’s not locked in, so my question for you is: Who do you most fear as a Democratic nominee? Which Democrat do you think would have the best chance of winning, and who would make the worst president of any Democrat who could plausibly win?
My answer is Elizabeth Warren. Bernie Sanders is often regarded as the most left-wing Democrat who has run lately, but I think Warren is more threatening. For one thing, Bernie is and looks like an old man. A lot of people across the political spectrum are thinking maybe it’s time to elect someone at least a little bit younger than dirt. I speculate that quite a few people who didn’t even particularly like Hillary Clinton voted for her because they wanted to say they voted for the first female president, and Elizabeth Warren would likely benefit from some of that mentality. She has a burning, passionate hatred for capitalism, where Sanders has a little less charge in his battery and would not fight as hard to destroy the free enterprise system. Ten years ago, there would have been approximately zero support for Senator Warren from the right side of the aisle, but quite a few Republicans these days have grown hostile to capitalism and sneer at the very concept of free trade, so she might pick up more than a token smattering of votes from populist Republicans.
Gavin Newsom? Yeah, he’s a wacko, but a lot of people see that California is going downhill and don’t want to bring Newsom-style results to the whole nation. I think Warren is more electable than the other prominent Democrats and would likely be even worse at the job than the other prominent Democrats. Unless you do think that capitalism should be destroyed, then she’d be great.
But what do you all think? Which Democrat populates your nightmares?
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Seems like the only safe place to be…
they didn’t have to. they could just run against Trump. it worked. that’s not going to defeat any Republican though. they’ll try.
Except they never go for someone as VP who’s clearly better than their presidential pick.
well, it’s pattern recognition.
Maybe, if the election process in several states hadn’t been corrupted.
No, I don’t remember that first debate. But I think there’s more than a bit of confirmation bias at work.
now they trust random YouTube videos.
So kind of like Republicans after 2018/2020/2022?
I hope we don’t have to wait for the 2020/2024/2028 cycle to complete before we wise up.
And for the Dems it’s actually 1972 -1988. Carter 1976 doesn’t count – it was very close as it was (50.1%-48%), and he never would have won without the aberration of Watergate.
And the voter’s do it unconsciously. Harris (2/4) doesn’t stand a chance. Likewise Warren v/c is a dismal (2/4). Newsome not bad at (3/4). Biden poor at (2/3). Buttigieg high in v/c score (4/5) but poor in Least-Consonants score.
And Klobuchar is out with a v/c of only (3/5) and a less favorable Least-Consonant score of 5, and sounds too much like Abattoir.
So I predict the Dem nomination will be between Newsome and Buttigieg, and Newsome will take the nomination.
Buttigieg will lose despite having a high v/c of 4/5 and a poorer but comparable L-C score of 5, his name still has too many consonants and sounds like Booty-Gig. Newsome’s has a good lower total syllable score of only 2 and sounds like Something New and fresh and like Someone in the News.
Reminds me of the governor’s race in Arizona that I figured came down to people who like ice cream (Napolitano – yes, I know) better than fish (Salmon).
Since we’re doing the count I do have to point out there’s no “e” in “Newsom”. At least in this one’s.
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Amy Klobuchar would be the least scary of the Democrats. She’s definitely the smartest. Valedictorian of her class at a public school west of Minneapolis that was excellent in its day. Then Yale for bachelor’s and U of Chicago for law. She’s probably unelectable as her opponents have said she is partly responsible for the George Floyd death as she is accused of not cracking down on complaints about police when she was the D.A. for Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis.
Actually, there’s just ONE “e”.
From her public appearances etc, she is, at best, only smart-stupid. Or stupid-smart, whichever way it goes.
With all respect, I don’t think you understand the Democrat power insiders, and today’s Dem party in general, Gary.
Tulsi is anathema to them, and for evidence, look to how they boxed her out completely.
So, no one is regretting in any pivotal position she wasn’t chosen.
And Randy, what makes you think in such pure abstractions? Tulsi isn’t a Democrat because she disagrees with most of their fundamental positions. If the Republican brand wasn’t so completely toxic – because they never effectively addressed serial media calumny for decades – she’d be one.
Now, no one wants that label, and the one who are stuck with it are morphing into their own fringe cult that is much more like Democrats and less like MAGA.
She is so much closer to Trumpism than anything else, and interestingly she has (perhaps) the opposite personality.
She recently said she’d be open for a VP spot.
At this point I’d vote for her as President over anyone else – as long as she wasn’t in the Democrat network or under their patronage. This country needs someone like her at this point.
But No Democrat would take her on as VP she’s their nightmare just like Trump. And the Uniparty Republicans would also fight her desperately.
I liked Tulsi as a Democrat. Unless she shifts more to the right, I’m not to keen on her as either a Republican or an Independent.
This is all pretty much literally true, except the real FJB is even worse than their fake FJB, and yet they still elected… FJB!
Tulsi is the the Democrat base, what Jeb! Bush or Larry Hogan are to the Republican base. No chance.
This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain to me again how sheep’s bladder’s may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
I can’t believe I’m actually familiar with that song! My brother used to give me cassette tapes of oddities.
My Liberal friend swears the media is too conservative. I was shocked but he really believes it. It is laughable and told him so.
My nightmare candidate is Barack Obama. If you will not vote for him right now you are a racist and need to die. Any document claiming the Obamessiah is not entitled to rule as God-president is racist.
That’s why it’s a nightmare – if the democrats actually think they could just install a dictator, America is toast.
Then maybe he can’t win after all. Hm.
You simply wear it like a hat.
I’m going to agree with your choice of Warren just because I find her most repellent. And I believe whichever awful person heads the Democratic ticket in 2024 will win. So I’m not in a happy mood.
She’s a Minnesota lefty, which implies a certain amount of stupid. I didn’t say she wasn’t scary, but least scary. I would still bet she has a very high IQ, which seems to be a rarity among big-name Dems.
Any Minnesota Democrat is pretty scary to me.
I’m guessing older brother?