Why Isn’t the Dem Primary a Contest Between Klobuchar and Warren?
Both are well-qualified candidates in a political party that prides itself on equal rights for women. Why aren’t they front-runners?
What do you get when you cross a riddle with a rhetorical question?
Answer: You get a question to which everyone already knows the answer- so no one even bothers to give it.
You get a riddle to which the answer is so obvious, the riddle itself is reduced to a rhetorical question with no need for an answer.
If Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Sen. Elizabeth Warren were instead Sen. Andy Klobuchar and Sen. Ernest Warren, there would be no need for moderate Democrats in swing districts to be in a complete uproar over Bernie Sanders.
There would be no need for Democrats to fear losing to Donald Trump- again- in November.
There would be no need for billionaires like Mike Bloomberg and Tom Steyer to have further over-crowded the already over-crowded Democratic field of primary contenders. Both could be meaningfully contributing to the campaign of a well-qualified Democratic woman even now.
Sen. Kamala Harris would have been an excellent choice and her campaign could have used the help of a ruthless pragmatist like Mike Bloomberg or a seasoned rain-maker like Steyer.
If Sen. Andy Klobuchar would have turned in the kinds of debate performances voters have seen from Sen. Amy Klobuchar, he would have blown away any competition from a certain upstart former mayor of a small town in Indiana.
In this thought experiment Sen. Andy Klobuchar would have been a sitting U.S. senator, ‘nuff said. Sitting U.S. senator beats former small town mayor, hands down.
With Pete Buttigieg we get comparisons to Barack Obama; with Sen. Amy Klobuchar we get a great deal of waffle about likability and a re-hashing of the age-old sexist argument that women can’t be funny.
Instead of sitting U.S. senator Amy Klobuchar- articulate, relentless, politically astute, serious, experienced and in the prime of life- the Democratic Party powers-that-be would prefer to allow former Mayor of New York, and former Republican, Mike Bloomberg to…