I honestly had never heard of him or Mike Johnson until the last week. And I mention them both because they are people of my own age, I could have gone to high school with both of them age-wise.
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I'm actually for Biden at this point, but I do have a lot of disgust about the way primaries are run and I'd like to reform them in many ways. I forgot about these closed-off incumbent primaries, but I'm for adding it to my all-important list of primary reforms.
He talks a lot without saying much. I got a kick out of how he wormed his way out of directly answering the question about what he would be doing different than Biden on the world stage and then pretended to be disgusted with how other candidates criticize the president's decisions because its "demeaning", and that's his excuse for not wanting to outline a substantive policy difference from Biden...obviously he wanted to duck the question and is just running on the fact that he's younger than Biden. That's an odd platform...."Vote for me because I'm 54!"
Mike Johnson is an inexperienced Christian Nationalist. I would like to slap him repeatedly too. While I'm all for a president that is closer to my own age, I don't know much about this guy. Other than Steve Schmidt is running his campaign and we all know that the last campaign Steve Schmidt ran, well, it didn't go well. And the fetish centrist Dems have for Republican operatives in their campaigns just makes me less likely to take them seriously, let alone vote for them. But it's the primaries - I don't care who presents themselves. That's the entire point of a primary.I honestly had never heard of him or Mike Johnson until the last week. And I mention them both because they are people of my own age, I could have gone to high school with both of them age-wise.
Johnson's a douchebag and I hope his tenure/fame is short-lived.
Philips seems a decent enough guy and oddly enough well-liked enough that few fellow Dems seem to be dissing on him right now -- although their response seems to be that he's ruining his career by challenging Biden. Like, everyone is just expected to fall in rank-and-file behind Biden.
I kind of don't get that. Why is it wrong to present options in a primary? It's not like he's going to bring anything up that isn't already known. If Biden has any weaknesses, it's his own fault. If people don't want what Philips is offering, then they'll select Biden in the primary. I'm tired of all this clutching at political power and refusing to offer choices or consider alternatives and letting voters pick. I'm kinda curious to hear more from him, to make up my mind for myself.
'A head scratcher': Dems baffled by Dean Phillips' quixotic bid against Biden
The affable Minnesota Democrat was a rising star who had just won a leadership post in Congress. Then he decided to run against Joe Biden, leaving colleagues dumbfounded.
I agree. It certainly wasn't wrong to have 20 candidates in the last primary (maybe because there was no incumbent) but I certainly would want options. Biden is incompetent and unfit to lead IMO (and INTPs are notoriously intolerant of incompetence) so listening him stutter through teleprompter speeches drives me bonkers.
Moderate Republicans really turned out to the polls in spades to vote for Democrats in 2004 (with a candidate who positioned himself on tough on terror) and 2016 (with a candidate who positioned herself as more in line with traditional American norms and values).
There are moderate Republican voters. There are no moderate Republican politicians left in Congress and state level GOP have amped up the crazy so much their donors have fled. You have to see it to know how bad it is. I'm very familiar with Michigan state politics and the GOP here.
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I always find it odd that something that's claimed to be the best political position, that the majority of people hold, needs to have so much out there to convince people that it's the best path.
Oh great, fucking Tim LaHaye is involved in this.My god, Mike Johnson's wife practices therapy based on Hippocrates'four(modernized) five humors of temperament -- when will this depravity end?!
Kelly Johnson, who is married to House Speaker Mike Johnson, practices a form of Christian counseling that classifies people into 'choleric', 'phlegmatic,' and other ancient personality types purportedly ordained by God
Both Johnsons hold deeply religious views, which have been at the center of their personal and professional lives.www.yahoo.com
Tim LaHaye is the antichrist!
