The field narrows: The Post Super Tuesday presidential poll and discussion

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...aper-has-endorsed-donald-trump-for-president/

If the Klan supports Trump, and the do because they’ve endorsed him, without trump’s repudiation and you vote for trump or don’t vote at all, you’re a racist.

 

I feel like - I know - the media has brought up racism and sexism as problems worth fixing.

 

That's about the quality of argument I would've expected from a 14-year-old.

Next week's topic: "Why the DNC should give Bernie the nomination even if he doesn't get the votes"

 

Reading the stuff on debates. I expect they will have the normal three debates. Generally the debate that would favor Biden the most is the sit down/policy discussion type of encounter that he wiped the floor with Paul Ryan in. The format is going to be important. Clearly Trump isn't going to beat anyone with substance, but he was able to use the format of the debates against Hillary to stand over her and try to position himself as a person of authority.

What COULD be interesting is the VP debate depending on who Biden picks. Mike Pence isn't must-see TV in any form, but if Biden picks a VP candidate that garners a lot of nation intrigue, people will watch. The most watched VP debate in history is 2008 because everyone and their mother wanted to see how Sarah Palin would do. McCain wasn't able to get any traction from it because he refused to go to the Tea Party right and let dumb assholes who thought Obama was a Muslim hijack his events.

Again for Biden the balance is going to be picking someone left of him that progressives can relate to, but not so far left of him that the message gets muddled. McCain's team generally had the right idea with Palin, but I doubt he knew how far right she was and how paranoid the far right was about Obama.

 

My slapping hand itches.

 

Team Fatfuck will want one debate: a nuclear version of the Gish Gallop in which he'll swamp Biden in the Pacific Ocean of bullshit.

 

I've said it since day 1: Biden/Harris.
Her endorsement, to me, sets it in motion.
I don't care if Biden and Harris as much as speak to one another if they are the only two people in an elevator.
That ticket checks a whole bunch of boxes that might get folks out to pull the D lever.

 

Biden won't care about Kamala's brief charges of racism from a few months ago. That's the political game, he's been in it long enough to know that.

 

Have you seen the Bernie people dragging Biden for being so weak that he insists on sitting down at the next debate? Never mind that those are the pre-existing rules, or that he's stood at lecterns all over the country for months, he's suddenly so feeble he has to sit. I guess speculation about MS is up next.

 

Maybe. Did you see Klobuchar's gaffe where she referred to "joining Biden's ticket", quickly corrected to "joining his campaign"?

I'd rather have Harris, personally, but either would be ok by me.

 

Supposedly Harris gets dinged by the Bernie Bros as well as BLM partisans for being too mean and nasty as California AG.

She needs to turn that one around, and say, "we need someone who is not afraid to be mean and nasty as we kick ass to put these racist fascists in prison."

 

I *want* that mean and nasty well prepared prosecutor taking apart Pence's arguments and then gutting him on TV.