Candace is low hanging fruit. So I’m going to critique the Tulsi choice.
Republicans are smitten with Gabbard but she was attempting to get the Democrat nomination for president as recently as 2020! Had she gotten the nod, she would have been more than happy to defeat Trump and give the MAGA movement a permanent dirt nap. The standard-issue Left AND the radical Left would have had access to her White House, and the usual Democrat paymasters, donors, various operatives, and denizens of the Deep State — who have been lurking in Biden’s White House —would have had access to her’s, even if she didn’t share all their radical views and even though she wouldn’t have been mentally compromised like Biden. That’s how politics works. Republicans would have been greatly marginalized. That would have been a Gabbard presidency: a calcification of Democrat power in Washington. Would it have been better than Biden’s? By a long shot. But still, Republicans would have been riding in the back of the bus and nowhere near sniffing power for another decade+.
Now a lot of people want her to lead the Republican Party?
I’m old enough to remember her policy positions on a lot of items. I worked on The Hill when she was a member and she could be very liberal. Her time in Congress is not that long ago. Was she offensive in her demeanor? No. Could someone disagree with her without her accusing them of being a Nazi? Yes. But she was no conservative.
I think she’s come over to our side because of the abuse she took by the Clintons, the deep state, and her own party in general. If she wanted to stay in politics and have political relevance, she had no choice but to switch teams. She had many, many years to ditch the Democrat party, because they’ve been nutso for all the world to see for a long time, with things like all the various manifestations of critical theory (including radical gender theory), cultural Marxism in general, open borders, green energy (read: green communism), free speech issues, gun rights, on and on. Yet she stayed with them and operated amongst them at a very high, strategic level. When did she leave? Only last year when they stabbed her in the back one too many times.
Does any of this make her bad? No. Are people allowed to evolve and change their views? Of course. Does she seem like a sensible person? Yes. But Republicans have this bad habit of falling in love with every single Democrat — be it a politician or a celebrity — who agrees with them on anything, and isn’t a total jerk. The Republicans are like the nerd in high school who thinks the popular girl is going to go to prom with him just because she didn’t let her jock boyfriend slap the lunch tray out of his hand. She’s affectionate and kind to the nerd when she sees him in the hall, and tells people not to stuff him in his locker. Sometimes she will even sit and be seen with him (gasp!) when he’s eating alone. Why? Because she’s a fundamentally good person. But does any of this mean that she’s, in her heart of hearts, really simpatico?
I don’t see Tulsi Gabbard as carrying the mantle for MAGA when there are others who were there from the beginning with a more consistent political philosophy. She’s the popular girl in high school now, and if she does let you take her on a date, is it really because she loves you, or is it for something else?
I’m skeptical.
Vance is obviously the heir to MAGA but will be challenged by the Nikki Haley’s of the world for control of the Republican Party. Vance is bright and I think he’ll be a good #2 for Trump. He’ll be the anti-Pence. If Trump has a successful 4 years, he gets Trump’s endorsement (I would think). And that’s a wrap because the ride-or-die MAGA wing is maybe half of the Republican Party, with another 25% of the Republican electorate seriously warming up to the idea. The remaining 25% is still old GOP establishment.
Candace would be hilarious, but no. Might as well select Milo.
It’s wild how Republicans slobber over her. I guess they don’t know what she was doing in Congress.
She’s an inoffensive person that you can always have a polite debate with. She’s clearly woken up and smelled the coffee in the past couple years. But it sure as heck took her long enough, and she saw all the things the Democrats were doing that we, the general public, did — only she understood it more intimately. Yet she persisted in her allegiances with them.
Her realignment only happened when she started to look like a porcupine from all the knives sticking out of her, compliments of her old friends.
I don’t think betrayal by your own party automatically gets you a seat at the war table with ours. But I’m obviously in the minority.
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u/JinxStryker 7d ago edited 6d ago
Candace is low hanging fruit. So I’m going to critique the Tulsi choice.
Republicans are smitten with Gabbard but she was attempting to get the Democrat nomination for president as recently as 2020! Had she gotten the nod, she would have been more than happy to defeat Trump and give the MAGA movement a permanent dirt nap. The standard-issue Left AND the radical Left would have had access to her White House, and the usual Democrat paymasters, donors, various operatives, and denizens of the Deep State — who have been lurking in Biden’s White House —would have had access to her’s, even if she didn’t share all their radical views and even though she wouldn’t have been mentally compromised like Biden. That’s how politics works. Republicans would have been greatly marginalized. That would have been a Gabbard presidency: a calcification of Democrat power in Washington. Would it have been better than Biden’s? By a long shot. But still, Republicans would have been riding in the back of the bus and nowhere near sniffing power for another decade+.
Now a lot of people want her to lead the Republican Party?
I’m old enough to remember her policy positions on a lot of items. I worked on The Hill when she was a member and she could be very liberal. Her time in Congress is not that long ago. Was she offensive in her demeanor? No. Could someone disagree with her without her accusing them of being a Nazi? Yes. But she was no conservative.
I think she’s come over to our side because of the abuse she took by the Clintons, the deep state, and her own party in general. If she wanted to stay in politics and have political relevance, she had no choice but to switch teams. She had many, many years to ditch the Democrat party, because they’ve been nutso for all the world to see for a long time, with things like all the various manifestations of critical theory (including radical gender theory), cultural Marxism in general, open borders, green energy (read: green communism), free speech issues, gun rights, on and on. Yet she stayed with them and operated amongst them at a very high, strategic level. When did she leave? Only last year when they stabbed her in the back one too many times.
Does any of this make her bad? No. Are people allowed to evolve and change their views? Of course. Does she seem like a sensible person? Yes. But Republicans have this bad habit of falling in love with every single Democrat — be it a politician or a celebrity — who agrees with them on anything, and isn’t a total jerk. The Republicans are like the nerd in high school who thinks the popular girl is going to go to prom with him just because she didn’t let her jock boyfriend slap the lunch tray out of his hand. She’s affectionate and kind to the nerd when she sees him in the hall, and tells people not to stuff him in his locker. Sometimes she will even sit and be seen with him (gasp!) when he’s eating alone. Why? Because she’s a fundamentally good person. But does any of this mean that she’s, in her heart of hearts, really simpatico?
I don’t see Tulsi Gabbard as carrying the mantle for MAGA when there are others who were there from the beginning with a more consistent political philosophy. She’s the popular girl in high school now, and if she does let you take her on a date, is it really because she loves you, or is it for something else?
I’m skeptical.
Vance is obviously the heir to MAGA but will be challenged by the Nikki Haley’s of the world for control of the Republican Party. Vance is bright and I think he’ll be a good #2 for Trump. He’ll be the anti-Pence. If Trump has a successful 4 years, he gets Trump’s endorsement (I would think). And that’s a wrap because the ride-or-die MAGA wing is maybe half of the Republican Party, with another 25% of the Republican electorate seriously warming up to the idea. The remaining 25% is still old GOP establishment.
Candace would be hilarious, but no. Might as well select Milo.