re: #19 bratwurst

I am starting to see a number of attacks on Senator Harris disqualifying her for being a “cop”. I have also seen more than a bit of bile directed at Mayor Pete for being a white male.

I’ve been seeing that ever since she announced she would seek the nomination.

There are plenty of rodent copulators on the right, because for all effective purposes they don’t have a primary (sorry Bill Weld); they can focus all their attention on sowing dissent in Democratic ranks.

On the other hand, there are plenty of purity ponies on the left. We don’t need a left wing version of the Tea Party.

For me, I want the leftiest leftist lefty candidate who ever lefted a lefty campaign in modern times. That’s for the primaries. In the general election, I am pragmatic and I want Trump out of office. That means voting for the only other candidate who can defeat him (not a third party, write-in, or worse, stay home).

If I don’t get that lefty candidate, I can be part of the group who pushes a Democratic president further left. President Obama wasn’t for marriage equality until he was, for example (though I think when Joe Biden mentioned it, that was sort of a trial balloon, or maybe the VP forced him into it).