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Bucky

(55,334 posts)
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 10:57 AM Feb 2020

Bernie worries me. Bloomberg worries me. Buttigieg worries me. Klobuchar... [View all]

... worries me. Biden worries me. I have concerns about all the candidates I'm not supporting currently. Of course the concerns I have about Bernie getting nominated will be a lot more concerning once I see him getting more than 30% of the vote. That hasn't happened yet, so I think it makes a lot more sense for supporters of other candidates to be more positive and more assertive about their own top choice instead of tearing down somebody else's.

Similarly, Mike Bloomberg's million dollar a day campaign will concern me a lot more once I see him getting more than 5% of the vote.

Also, Warren's vulnerabilities worry me. But once I decided to support her, I sacrificed those worries to the greater good of trying to help the candidate I thought was best qualified. To be honest, I'm kind of stealing that line from Benjamin Franklin at the Constitutional Convention.

Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors, I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were born, and here they shall die.


Once we have a nominee, I expect to sacrifice my concerns about them to the public cause of stopping the deranged fascist baboon from ripping up that Constitution. Right now I think we're all suffering from the traumas of losing despite winning in 2016 and seeing millions of seemingly normal people fall for the mawkish shenanigans of a malicious con artist.

I mean, how do you believe in democracy when you can read about a 49% approval rating for such a monster?

I actually have a diagnosis for that disease, but I don't wanna get into it right now. Accept and let me leave you with the thought that all successful politics depend on compromise and enthusiasm. I don't know what the solution is to 2020, but I'm going to hang on to my faith that we will come up with someone by the end of the summer to lead my party who I can and will support. And I won't be alone, because in a democracy you're never alone.

We can pull this out and we might as well have hope, because having despair never fixed a problem anyway.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Well said PatSeg Feb 2020 #1
+1 n/t Laelth Feb 2020 #9
you sure are a worried man DBoon Feb 2020 #2
Haha! Bucky Feb 2020 #4
no NJCher Feb 2020 #7
Thank you for your sanity! dchill Feb 2020 #3
You know, I nearly wrote Bucky Feb 2020 #5
"despair never fixed a problem" handmade34 Feb 2020 #6
I'm on it, Bucky. CTyankee Feb 2020 #8
Of all of them, Klobuchar worries me the least. BusyBeingBest Feb 2020 #10
I think Warren and then Klobuchar are the strongest in the field. krissey Feb 2020 #11
Couldn't agree more Dietz Feb 2020 #12
Recommended! Mike 03 Feb 2020 #13
Very well said! Thanks for the post. nt MH1 Feb 2020 #14
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