Dan Rae: “And...” Gov. Sununu: “People got to know her.” People in the rest of the country got to know Warren too. The problem with that was summed up in a Monday, March 1 New York Times op-ed by Michelle Goldberg. The lead paragraph read: On Tuesday [February 25], after the last Democratic debate, Ann Coulter tweeted: “Sen. Warren has convinced me that Bernie isn’t that worrisome. SHE’S the freak who will show up with 17 idiotic plans every day and keep everyone up until it gets done.” Vicious reactionary that she is, Coulter cut to the heart of Elizabeth Warren’s promise. Or threat. And, mind you, this was an op-ed supporting Elizabeth Warren. (Ann Coulter sends her best, Michelle.) Mike Bloomberg is a different story. Bloomberg didn’t lose because he spent so much trying to buy the nomination. We Americans are willing to prostitute our votes. Bloomberg got about 2,340,000 votes on Super Tuesday (according to the rough figures available from Associated Press as I write). True, Bloomberg spent half a billion dollars getting those votes. But let’s divvy up the take... $500 million divided by 2.34 million equals less than $214 per whorish X on a ballot. We’re not a bunch of cheap hookers, Mike. America is a high-price cathouse. You’re going to have to pony up a lot more than $214
to buy our favors. Bloomberg lost because he didn’t spend enough trying to buy the nomination. Pete Buttigieg is out of the running due to his being so amiable, accomplished, intelligent, and personable that people immediately like him without giving it a thought. Then people started thinking. Specifically, they started thinking, “I’ve got socks older than he is.” After that they started thinking about Pete’s political bona fides, of which he has one: Mayor of Nowhere. A political career is like running the high hurdles... You’re supposed to clear a few jumps first. You can’t simply pop out of the starting blocks, trot along the side of the track, and leap over just the very last hurdle to land in the White House. Never mind that that’s what the current resident did. And, when he came to the last hurdle, Trump didn’t even take much of a hop – he just shoved the thing aside. But Pete’s no Trump (as Pete would be the first to point out). And before Pete makes a serious attempt to run for the presidency, So now the presidential campaign has entered a fully geriatric stage. There are only three remaining likely candidates (unless the fellow carrying a scythe and dressed in a floor-length black hoodie decides otherwise).
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