2020 Democratic presidential primary

crisis donors

the numbers seems crazy, but Beto has a bigger email list than anyone in the race except Sanders probably

true plus his donor base was broader than texas to begin with

was just reminded that Jeb! raised 155 mil

I've gotten at least three emails from Beto just since he announced.

"South Bend, Indiana, best known for its Catholic university, seems okay with a gay candidate."

colorado just elected a gay governor. Colorado has a lot of evangelical assholes in it; this was unthinkable to me.

giving it up to my mans d-perrin today that was a good tweet

I would cut Beto a lot more slack if he wasn't trying so hard to fail up

I would cut Beto a lot more slack if he wasn't trying so hard to fail up

Mika Brzezinski is personally "getting excited about Joe Biden." She hopes "he gets in, and deep"!

i do not like this post

what's the matter – is "Morning" Joe already disappointing her?

bad morning!

lol

what are beto’s policies?

― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Monday, March 18, 2019 1:55 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what are Buttigieg's? I've seen very little discussion of him from a policy standpoint. I feel like I saw something about him taking a hard line on a good progressive issue, maybe it was court packing or possibly the filibuster? still though, I don't know where he is on M4All, Green New Deal, free college, etc.

the only Beto policy position I'm aware of is he's not in favor of m4a

Buttigieg says he’s “all for” a single-payer health care system. But he has said he wouldn’t immediately jump to single-payer from the current system. Instead, Buttigieg would first implement an all-payer rate setting — a system that would not eliminate private insurance companies.

I just looked at everyone's website (minus some of the dudes I can't remember the names of). Oddly enough Beto and Bernie are the ones that have almost no content on their sites, besides a store and donate button. Unless I just can't work their sites.

Buttigieg supports every U.S. house becoming “net zero” consumer of energy, and is in favor of the government subsidizing solar panels. Buttigieg was one of 407 U.S. mayors who signed a pact to adhere to the Paris climate accord after President Donald Trump pulled out of the international agreement 2017. He also supports the “Green New Deal” proposals on climate and energy being floated by progressive House Democrats.

xps don't shoot the messenger bg

i just thought you should know

s'cool

Beto is pro-weed legalization but that doesn't really count anymore.

into today's Democratic party if you're not pro-PCP you're nothing

Here's some Beto platform stuff from the '18 campaign...not sure how much of this will carry over.

https://ballotpedia.org/Beto_O%27Rourke#Campaign_themes

Healthcare

Healthcare is a moral question that transcends politics – it is a basic human right, not a privilege. 4.3 million Texans – including over 600,000 children – can’t see a doctor, or when they do, they’re so sick they have no choice but to go to the Emergency Room where the cost will be many times more expensive and the outcome will be worse.

When a mother forgoes a routine mammogram because she is uninsured, or a father ignores chronic pain because he didn’t qualify for a subsidy to buy insurance, everyone’s healthcare costs are likely to be greater in the long-term. We want our parents and our children to be healthy and live to their full potential. This is much more likely when they have access to the healthcare they need.

Steps that we should take together to transform healthcare include:

Improving the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by stabilizing our insurance markets. Guaranteeing continued payments for ACA subsidies that reduce enrollees’ cost-sharing and reimbursing insurers for high-cost individuals.
Incentivizing insurers to participate in the exchanges, especially in underserved counties.
Expanding Medicaid to cover more Texans and protecting the Medicaid guarantee for vulnerable children, the disabled, and the elderly.
Lowering premiums and prescription drug costs by using the government’s purchasing power to make healthcare more affordable for everyone.
Creating a public option on the exchanges so that Americans are guaranteed affordable coverage.
Achieving universal healthcare coverage— whether it be through a single payer system, a dual system, or otherwise – so that we can ensure everyone is able to see a provider when it will do the most good and will deliver healthcare in the most affordable, effective way possible.

Wasn't exactly pushing Single Payer then either.

"otherwise"

Psychedlic Warlord says baby steps

Man, I'm very far from a Harris fan but I'd back her in a heartbeat over Beto or Biden. An opportunist willing to pivot left >>>> this substance-free muck

now you're getting it

Beto: Right For Texas, Wrong For America

anyway it's march of 2019 it's still only lunatics paying attention so

true

Sparkle Motion so OTM.

I can hear his concession speech: "Sure, Trump's gonna serve until 2025, but fucking look at this - three more Muslim women were elected to Congress on my coat tails!"

If you can't win against the most loathesome Texan, you don't deserve a shot at beating the most loathesome human.

... who coincidentally, once beat the most loathsome Texan.

Beto: Right For Texas, Wrong For America

― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion),

Beto: Too Right for America

... who coincidentally, once beat the most loathsome Texan.

― pplains, Monday, March 18, 2019 2:32 PM (sixteen minutes ago)

cruz trounced trump in the TX primary, 44-27%

To get so close to beating Cruz -- and genuinely frightening him until the end -- is nothing to sneeze at. He should run for the other seat in 2020.

no question. What he should not do is run for president

beto should join mars volta

Man, I'm very far from a Harris fan but I'd back her in a heartbeat over Beto or Biden. An opportunist willing to pivot left >>>> this substance-free muck

otm

Opportunist? I thought people were using that for Gillibrand or Warren or <insert any other woman>.

i almost posted Booker w/out thinking how that would read

heh

Booker is the sort of person who at a campaign rally would sincerely say, "I'm every woman."

Opportunist? I thought people were using that for Gillibrand or Warren or <insert any other woman>.

Personally I apply that term to anyone whose convictions seem to evolve conveniently according to prevailing political trends. I think that applies to Harris, but not Warren.

fwiw Warren is doing one of those CNN "town halls" tonight (at Jackson State in MS)

To get so close to beating Cruz -- and genuinely frightening him until the end -- is nothing to sneeze at. He should run for the other seat in 2020.

― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, March 18, 2019 1:53 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no question. What he should not do is run for president

― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Monday, March 18, 2019 2:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yep. Yep.

is there a reason why we're ok with buttigieg running but not beto, other than beto's centrism? i see/share the view that it's a selfish decision by beto. but i'm guessing buttigieg would also be credible senate candidate in his state. is it just that buttigieg doesn't have a chance for president, and beto does?

one of the reasons buttigieg is running is that he has no chance at statewide office, except maybe if the Presidential race raises his profile