What would the ideal Democratic candidate look like?

[kentuck]

What would he/she believe in?

Would he/she be a leftist, a moderate, a conservative, an independent, a radical, a populist?

Or would he/she be a combination of all of the above?

There is no one candidate that is going to please everyone, in my opinion.

[ATL Ebony]

1. Obama with the experience he gained from trying to work with R's

[JustAnotherGen]

2. For what office?

[Sanity Claws]

3. "look like" - no such ideal Democratic candidate

Democratic candidates should ideally be diverse as the US population.

[pangaia]

28. Do you really think "look like" actually was used to mean look like ?

[comradebillyboy]

4. Bill Clinton and Barak Obama are the only two Democratic

Presidents to serve two full terms in my lifetime. Both were young when they won. Oh yeah, both were relatively moderate. Those are the examples of good winning candidates.

[dogman]

5. Just ask Gorsuch or T-Rump and his aboministration.

What did we win?

[comradebillyboy]

10. What does that even mean?

Neither Clinton nor Obama appointed Gorsuch. I don't recall either one campaigning for Trump for that matter.

[dogman]

14. Again, what did we win?

The others are our reality.

[comradebillyboy]

17. What are you babbling about? Are you upset I didn't give

a response that you wanted to hear. I responded to the OP's question; so sorry if it didn't please you.

[dogman]

20. Adios comrade.

I read too much in to your post. By winning, I thought you meant the people. Apparently you meant the race. Yes' you answered what you wanted. I apologize for wanting more.

[Willie Pep]

6. Somebody who is more conservative on social issues but liberal on economics.

It is because I am Catholic. Economically liberal/socially conservative is a good way to describe the Catholic position on political issues.

I think John Bel Edwards would be the contemporary politician who is closest to my ideal Democratic candidate right now. He is even Catholic like me.

[CherokeeFiddle]

12. More conservative on social issues?

[Willie Pep]

15. Well mostly on issues like abortion and assisted suicide.

I don't really care about overturning gay marriage and I think marijuana should be legalized so I am not totally conservative on all social issues.

[CherokeeFiddle]

16. You're anti-abortion & against assisted suicide?

Eeeeks!

[Willie Pep]

19. Yes that is correct.

I know that makes me an odd duck on DU but it is a religious thing for me. Still, I vote for the Democrats in every election since they are the more pro-life party in my opinion. When you get down to the practical issue of helping people sustain life the most important things are health care, jobs and anti-poverty programs. You can't say that you care about human beings in the womb but then kick them to the curb after they are born like the Republicans do.

[fleur-de-lisa]

18. LOL! Perfect! eom

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. Me

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Depends on the goal.

[maxsolomon]

23. Like winning?

that'd be a good goal.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

25. Unfortunately, that's not always the goal for some.

[maxsolomon]

26. oh right

ideological purity is most important.

"it's always darkest before the dawn".

[SpicyBoi]

9. Tulsi Gabbard

NT

[comradebillyboy]

13. She would certainly improve US relations with the Assad regime.

[BainsBane]

29. Why not just pick a Republican and go for the real thing?

She is Steve Bannon and Fox's favorite "Democrat" for a reason.

This is Gabbart:

As Democrats we should be representing the views of the people, not a small number of homosexual extremists."[23] Gabbard opposed Hawaii House Bill 1024, which would have established legal parity between same-sex couples in civil unions and married straight couples, and led a protest against the bill outside the room where the House Judiciary Committee held the hearing.[175] In the same year, Gabbard expressed her opposition to Hawaii undertaking research on LGBT students, arguing that it would be a violation of their privacy and that "many parents would see the study as an indirect attempt by government to encourage young people to question their sexual orientation".[176] At the time, she disputed that Hawaii schools were rampant with anti-gay discrimination.[176]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard#Social_issues_and_civil_rights

Then there is her undying admiration for the children-gassing Assad regime. You may have some sort of misconception that she's anti-war. She's not. She criticized Obama for the very same thing Trump does, not denouncing "Islamic extremism." She doesn't oppose US intervention. She simply loves RW dictators and criticized Obama for not bombing the rebels against Assad.

She has blasted President Obama for failing to talk about Islamic extremism. And she recently tweeted this criticism of the president's perceived weakness and hypocrisy in Syria:



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/10/15/rep-tulsi-gabbard-the-democrat-that-republicans-love-and-the-dnc-cant-control/?utm_term=.8a84a9ca8011

[SpicyBoi]

32. I'm not a fan of the Hillary Clinton/Barack Obama leadership anymore (Tom Perez, DWS, etc.)

Tulsi was an early supporter of Bernie Sanders and is anti-war. More than good enough for me.

[BainsBane]

33. Who cares about issues. Stick with tribe

Yeah. Not exactly a shock.

[SpicyBoi]

36. Are you for regime change?

Because if so, it seems we haven't learned anything from the Iraq War, Libya, literally everywhere...

[BainsBane]

34. She isn't anti-war

Her own words conveyed in those tweets I posted show as much. She was pissed off at Obama for NOT BOMBING Syrian rebels. Being pro-Assad is not anti-war.

[SpicyBoi]

35. I am not in the business of regime change

And neither should our party. Who are these moderate Syrian rebels?

[dogman]

11. He/She would have to believe in this country and the Party platform.

It appears to win at this time, we need a populist. My preference is to the left since center has been driven so far to the right. Radical in the sense of willingness to embrace change as needed. Independent of the interests that support our opposition. Not researching at this time, just observing.

[fleur-de-lisa]

21. I'm kinda' diggin' Kamala Harris right now . . .

Young-ish (52), female, smart, minority . . . and she kicked the Nazi Elf's ass during the hearing in June. She's checking off all my boxes.

[maxsolomon]

24. She'd be hard for Trump to stick a nickname on

That's an actual consideration for me.

It's a deliberate tactic used by Con Men like our President - if Bill died, he'd call Hillary "Crooked" in his condolence tweet.

[HeartachesNhangovers]

22. Hot! To appeal to the media and low-info voters.

[pangaia]

27. Jimmy Kimmel

[HeartachesNhangovers]

31. Hot celebrity! Double points!

[DeeDeeNY]

30. Unfortunately

The ones who will make great presidents are not necessarily the ones who also make great candidates. Running a successful campaign calls for a different set of traits.