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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. In the abstract, no one would think a mayor from South Bend, Indiana is a plausible presidential contender.

2. There was nothing remarkable about his mayorship to change that.

3. Despite that, he tried to run for president anyway. He lost.

4. As a direct result of his loss, he was given a cabinet post.

5. No one actually trusted him with an especially important cabinet post, so they gave him Transportation. Presidents have felt comfortable giving the Secretary of Transportation position to members of the opposing political party (Obama, Dubya) or politicians’ spouses (Bob Dole’s wife and Mitch McConnell’s wife have both held the position).

6. Despite his position’s obscurity, Pete has attracted outsized national attention. And not because he’s crushing it, but because he’s getting blamed for stuff. Sure, you can dispute whether that’s fair or not. But no one wanted it to play out this way.

7. Ultimately, you’re left with a guy who lacks the conventional qualifications about whom the best you can say is “c’mon, that criticism is unfair.” That’s not a recipe for winning the presidency. [/quote]

But he's got every single hallmark of professional Democrat's ideal Presidential candidate:
1. Credentials/elite resume: Harvard, Rhodes, McKinsey
2. Identity politics: he's gay AND married to a dude.
3. Acting: he's more interested in 'sounding like a President' than he is in facing our problems. [/quote]

4.  Military service.  Which you worship in Tulsi. [/quote]

You're making it up that I worship Tulsi. But she was wildly better at earning the respect of military members and families than Pete was. Everyone who actually understands the military gets that Pete, like Hunter Biden, used the DCO program, well known as a gimme to the politically connected+ambitious, to get his position.

Yet again, Pete's supporters show themselves to be delusional.

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