I am going to say something very controversial for some...

[Miles Archer]

207. I acknowledge that might be controversial for some, but not for me

And yes, not acknowledging the people you have named as a potential candidate is not a show of disrespect for their service.

There's a bitter pill that we need to swallow before 2020.

We KNOW...even if we ONLY use the "Trump Administration" as an example, or the continued tenure of a sub-human, conscience-lacking, self-serving worm or a human being like Paul Ryan...that politics is often about false promises, public image, and telling the "public" whatever it needs to hear to cast their votes.

A book could be written right inside of this thread about what the "Trump Campaign" did to speak directly to the voters that became its "base." We know that many in the "base" are becoming disillusioned (even though, surprisingly, some are still rabid in their support).

We need to identify and develop a candidate who can reach those same voters with something of substance, rather than false promises.

And obviously, we're not going to choose a candidate who's going to promise to build a big, beautiful wall that Mexico will pay for,

The hardcore "base" of Trump voters will just have to cast a second vote for Trump (assuming he defies the odds and is up for re-election in 2020), Pence (God help us all), Ryan (God REALLY help us all), or whatever abomination becomes the 2020 "Republican PResidential Candidate."

WE NEED TO AGGRESSIVELY WIN FAVOR AMONG EVERYONE ELSE. We're not going to win 100% of Trump's "base." They are still going to be white supremacists and "low information voters" (or whatever the appropriate term is for people who get their news exclusively from Fox & Friends).

We need somebody new. Not "new" in the sense that they're not out there right now, holding public office. "New" in the sense that they are going to have to be solution-centric, they are going to have to speak directly to the "disenfranchised" (without, as I said, pandering to the racists and "nut jobs" in the red hats who won't listen anyway).

That's a TALL order. We need a new Barack Obama. I don't mean someone who looks like him, talks like him, thinks like him. We need someone who can connect with the American voter as powerfully as he did when he ran for his first term.

I have no idea who that person might be.

But that's the person we need.