No Amateurs as Democratic Presidential Candidates, Please!

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76. Fuck it. She's got TREMENDOUS appeal, power and clout with the public, class, and DEEP pockets.

Whatever it takes, to take back the White House, and start reversing all these spectacularly stupid, short-sighted, and damaging trends. She's smart. She's involved. She's a natural leader. She's got COLOSSAL positives and she can reach all the demographics that can take her straight to the top. And, hell, she's built herself up on TV. If we're in THAT particular place, which we ARE (whether one likes it or not), then let's play THAT game to win. If she's the nominee, I'm with HER, too!

But I've said it before here - I can be as machiavellian as the next guy. How did Malcolm X put it? "By Any Means Necessary."

It's about WINNING. That's the fundamental, bedrock, harsh-reality and frustratingly stupid truth, THESE days. THIS is where we are, whether we like it or not. So I propose that, if indeed that IS the way things are now in the trump era, then let's grab that trend for ourselves, steer it OUR way, and use it to take power back. It's ALL about WINNING, and it's ONLY about WINNING.

You can't govern if you don't win.

You can't set the agenda if you don't win.

You can't make ANY changes for the better if you don't win.

You can't lead if you don't win.

You can't chair the committees and own the subpoena power and set THAT agenda if you don't win.

You can't serve the public interest and address serious and very real public needs if you don't win.

You cannot serve the greater good if you don't win.

And insisting on only the perfect (because in reality there IS no "perfect&quot isn't gonna get you a win.

I think it was Vince Lombardi who said "winning isn't everything, it's the ONLY thing." (My dad had that quote on a plaque, hanging on his office wall. "There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's first place.&quot

On edit - another thought: how totally and deliciously exquisite would it be if trump got pushed out of OUR White House by A) a woman, and B) another successful African-American candidate? Even just the thought of that makes me salivate!