“ “No, for real,” Crockett agreed before claiming this is already in motion. “And to be clear, when we talk about them, I can tell you that there is one specific candidate. I had a donor on the phones with me telling me that all the donors are lining up behind that candidate.”
“So I can tell you — and I tell you — it’s not a black person nor a woman, ok?” she continued. “So they, quote unquote ‘they,’ have chosen, and when I say ‘they,’ it’s the same donors that most likely had their opinions about [former President] Joe Biden.””
If it’s those assholes - Gavin Newsom? That dog won’t hunt.
Do we need to popularize a poll making it clear we don’t want them anointing anyone ever again because we want to choose a candidate? The donors can flock to whoever wins the initial primary / caucus battles. This no-women and no POC crap sounds like they are still chasing votes from GOP members. Look at the quality of candidates Rethuglicans have offered after embracing the “winning is everything/the only thing” approach - billionaires who buy their seats, nepo babies, and . SMH
“It is this fear that the people within the party, within the primary system, will have about voting for a woman because every time we voted for a woman, we’ve lost,” she said in the Instagram clip.
And every time they’ve run a black man they’ve won, and yet they somehow came to the exact same conclusion about not wanting one anyway. Funny that.
It votes for whom the donors stan or else it gets the trump again.
But I’m not going to vote for some one just because they’re a white man under 80.
Which seems to be all the Dems have pinned on their current vision boards?
At the rate the party is going there’s no reason to even believe this white man will do anything better than a Republican. So the question ought to be what could a white man do to get my vote over the other white man?"
But of course that assumes our government hasn’t found some way to erase or block my vote anyway.
At that point I guess “the donors” can do away with the song and dance and just appoint whom they want to sit on the throne.
Well it looks like Klobuchar is testing the waters for a 2028 run. Are these people really this delusional? She has less charisma than Hillary Clinton. I mean, she’s right that we should have had a primary last year, but the purpose of this interview is pretty transparent. She needs a brutally honest best friend who can just tell her, “Amy, no. It’s never going to happen.”
Could they, though? The Democratic Party leadership would have ostracized them and they would have received zero party support. And not just for the campaign. There would likely have been permanent repercussions. The last time an incumbent President from either party had a serious primary challenger was Jimmy Carter in 1980, when Ted Kennedy ran against him and actually won 13 states. I would love to see challenging incumbents in primaries become a normal thing, and not just for President, but right now, it’s just not. Hell, David Hogg is running into serious opposition trying to do that for the House, and he’s just trying to do it in strong blue districts.
Another Kennedy did run against him. It didn’t turn out so badly for him.
All is forgiven if you win, anyway. If they did well enough and lost - they’d give them a consolation prize to drop out and endorse. An open primary means you can choose to run; not that you are compelled too.
I was just thinking, when was the last time we elected a President who wasn’t, at least for a sizable chuck of the population, charismatic (I don’t personally find Trump to be charismatic, but it’s undeniable that he is to many people). George H.W. Bush, probably? And before that, Nixon? It makes me wonder what would have happened if the Democrats had nominated someone more charismatic in 1988 than Dukakis. The Democratic candidates that year were Dukakis, Jesse Jackson, Al Gore, Paul Simon, Dick Gephardt, and Gary Hart. Pat Schroeder and Joe Biden dropped out before the first primary. Jesse Jackson has all the charisma, but the country wasn’t going to elect a Black President in 1988. Gary Hart had some charm, but personal scandal took him out. Biden was sunk by a plagiarism charge that was all but completely forgiven by 2020. I don’t remember why Ted Kennedy didn’t run. He might have won if he had.
I can’t remember but I feel that he had a best friend that told him that he tried twice before, so maybe it wasn’t meant to be.
Seriously, I remember when scandals plagued any possible future election challenge. I know it seems too simple to say Chappaquidick, but that’s how I remember it playing out for him. For most non-MA or northeastern Democrats, it was something that they couldn’t simply abide. I look back now and think, wow.
Well he challenged Carter in 1980 and that was after Chappaquiddick, and he did pretty well considering he was challenging an incumbent. But yeah, I think he may have decided by then it just wasn’t meant to be. I also vaguely remember some psychic predicting that he’d be assassinated like his brothers if he won, but I don’t know when that was.
Chappaquidick was huge. If he was another pol without the Kennedy machine (and fixers) behind him; he could easily have faced much more serious charges.
A question that gets asked about his challenge is did it weaken Carter’s campaign against Ronald Reagan? He certainly didn’t give the party unity speech expected at the convention.
In the 80’s I took a drive up to that area. The bridge no longer existed.
i remember this parody advert in National Lampoon that posited that, had Ted been driving a Volkswagen, Ms. Kopechne might have survived and maybe he would have become prez.
. SMH
