This sounds like desperation...

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

Interesting that he has no complaints about the women...

[BusyBeingBest]

1. Hard to find an attack angle on Amy, though, isn't it?

[customerserviceguy]

4. Certainly, no one did during the debates

She'll have a target on her back for the next one, though. Every major candidate has an oppo research file on every other major candidate, it's all a matter of when and if they play those cards.

[BusyBeingBest]

5. I'm sure they'll go after her. There's just nothing obvious at the moment, IMO.

Besides "gets mad at employees" and "ate salad weird".

[customerserviceguy]

12. When Amy was in low single digits

attacking her would have been useless, and would have made the attacking candidate/campaign look like bullies. There was nothing to be gained by leaking stories about her that could be traced back to a particular campaign.

It didn't work so well for Pete when he got into a tussle with her about "Washington experience versus small-town mayor experience." She really nicked him on that in the last debate when she spoke passionately about doing the hard work of dealing with the impeachment process, tied down to the Senate chamber instead of stumping around Iowa.

[BusyBeingBest]

13. You make good points.

[customerserviceguy]

15. Thank you

The gloves are off, and candidates don't have to pretend to make nice with each other to get another candidate's caucusgoers on a realignment any more.

We still have a rough ride ahead of us, I'm afraid. When it gets down to about three people on the debate stage, that will really come out.

[squirecam]

22. Well now her 100% planned parenthood rating

Isn’t good enough. Or something.

The smear knives are out on her now.

[BusyBeingBest]

24. Yes, it's to be expected, I guess.

[judeling]

16. Amy is very good with the back and forth.

Bernie, Liz, and Joe know that very well. She is likely to turn an attack right back at the attacker. They will frame it all as a difference between friends as they have doe so far.

It is the Pete Amy interchanges that will be interesting.

[cwydro]

9. I guess they can't be bothered worrying about a woman.

That speaks volumes.

[BusyBeingBest]

10. Maybe that's it. LOL.

[cwydro]

11. Sadly, it was the first thing I thought.

Biden doesn’t look good when he goes low.

I’ve said from the beginning he needs better advisors.

[Indepatriot]

2. Also interesting that he and so many others leave out the "democratic" part of democratic socialist.

Kind of like how the gun nuts leave out the "well regulated" militia part of the 2nd Amendment..

[former9thward]

6. Do you know what "regulated" meant in 1789?

[Indepatriot]

17. I know that there were no automatic weapons at that time.

No one was capable of killing dozens of innocents at will with something they could buy down on the corner. So well regulated now is much more important. not less.

[former9thward]

20. So you don't what the word meant in 1789?

Regulated meant in 1789 what we now call "equipped". If you asked someone in 1789 what are the regulations covering something they would not understand you. They did not use the word like we use it now. Whatever you think about the 2nd amendment "well regulated" means "well equipped" in our modern language. You need to eliminate the 2nd if that is your goal.

[Indepatriot]

23. I know that it also meant referred to the lawful power of Congress over state militias.

I am a gun owner, and support the 2nd Amendment. However, modern technology requires common sense regulation.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

14. That's a great analogy. Well regulated!

[nsd]

3. No, it sounds like truth.

All of those points are true.

Bloomberg was once a Democrat, became a Republican so that he could become mayor of NYC, and has recently become a Democrat again. For those of us who think the Democratic Party has been the chief defender and champion of working people and of non-white people and of women, that is no small thing.

Sanders is a self-proclaimed democratic socialist. It's an honest position. That's one thing I admire about Sanders: his honesty. But it's a tough sell in America.

As for Buttigieg. He is a young man in a hurry. He was mayor of the fourth largest city in Indiana. That is his qualification. Some people think that's enough. Others think that, however promising his future is, Buttigieg should wait 15 years, do something good in the interim, and present himself again.

[leftieNanner]

27. Your points are well taken

I like a lot about Mayor Pete, but I do not believe that he is ready to be President. This is not really a job you can learn on the fly - look how well The Orange One is doing!!

I have been a supporter of most of our candidates at one time or another and am (for the most part) enjoying the discussions we are having on DU.

Thanks.

[Fresh_Start]

7. women are invisible, doncha know?

or at the very least dismissable.

[cwydro]

8. The mayor of a small city lol, with a funny name, who is also gay....

Is somehow beating a two-time VP of the United States.

Hmm...

[LanternWaste]

18. Seems like you hear what your bias wants you to.

But not at all surprised you're interested he doesn't complain about women enough...

[treestar]

19. Why?

It is the logical take for any of the "centrists" who are running. Not particularly "desperate."

[denem]

21. They're not buying it Joe.

[Laelth]

25. I suspect there's some "frustration" over in Biden HQ.

But I also think that Biden is a good ways away from "desperation." That's what we will see if Biden doesn't win SC.

-Laelth

[apcalc]

26. Amy has been a good Dem senator for awhile. Similar to Joe. Imo he has 0 to attack her for.

[blm]

28. I don't think Biden feels good about how badly he treated Warren last fall.

Especially since he actually knows how competent and honest she is, yet he thought it would help him to attack her in the short term.

Warren is the person he wanted to run with if he challenged Clinton in 2016.