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Is Buttigieg Running The Wrong Way?

Tuesday, 2 July 2019, 23:30 MJA Uncategorized 17

Liberty Nation:

There seems to be a general consensus that South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg was one of the winners of the two-part Democratic presidential debate in Miami. His calm and restrained tone certainly helped him in his desire to appear a reasonable voice in a party seen by many Americans as dominated by shrill and divisive figures. But there is something very, very wrong about Buttigieg’s basic political approach and he foolishly put it on full display before a nationally televised audience on June 27.

Mayor Pete is running a campaign that is the reverse of what it should be. Short on experience and having never garnered 10,000 votes in an election before, Buttigieg knows he has to offer something unique to draw supporters his way. He has tried to define himself as a Midwestern progressive who can bridge the gap between the grassroots left that dominates the Dem ranks, and the heartland voters who overwhelmingly awarded Donald Trump the presidency in 2016. But Buttigieg has got it all backward. Instead of sending a message to progressives that they need to be more open to Midwestern values and give them a place in the party, he is sending the very different signal that Midwesterners need to be more progressive.

Strange Way To Reach Out

We’re just beginning the combat phase of the primary process, so it is understandable that Buttigieg would seek to please Dem voters with conventionally left-leaning positions on immigration, race, and the rest of the social justice ball of wax. But that is just what his pronouncements on these issues have been so far, conventional. He is not saying anything that will differentiate himself from the rest of the 20+ candidates in the crowded field. The looming promise that he can connect with voters outside the blue bubble justifies his existence as a contender. So why then does he feel an uncontrollable urge to sermonize to Christians about the evils of holding political positions that veer from Dem orthodoxy?

Buttigieg’s sweeping decree on the debate platform that no true Christian could possibly want to prevent illegal aliens from streaming over our southern border was an error of the highest magnitude. “We should call out hypocrisy when we see it, and for a [Republican] party that associates with Christianity to say it is OK to suggest that God would smile on the division of families at the hands of federal agents, that God would condone putting children in cages, has lost all claim to ever use religion language again,” he haughtily declared.

Such a simplistic statement, waving away all nuance about what is going on at our chaotic border, will drive off the millions of patriotic Christians all over America who are justifiably alarmed by the current illegal immigration crisis. Buttigieg’s remarks scratch hipster leftists right where they live. They love to see conservative Christians lambasted for being the “judgmental” simpletons they so obviously appear to be from the perspective of a vegan coffee bar in Brooklyn. But the Dems don’t have to worry about that demographic. They’ve already got it wrapped up. Buttigieg is supposed to be able to reach out beyond such limited environs. more

17 Comments on Is Buttigieg Running The Wrong Way?

  2. Horsefeathers. Petey has all the differentiation he could possibly use and then some: he is a homosexual; he and his husband are sexual deviants. For a soi-disant presidential candidate, that’s pretty fucking different.

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  3. Well, I’m not homophobic. Phobic, afraid. I’m not afraid of anything that walks, talks, or swims. Well, save Grizzly Bears and big ass sharks. AlGore was chastise for sticking his tongue down Tippers throat during his Presidential Campaign. Later on he divorced her be cause she was rude and dying of cancer. I really don’t give a flying fuck what you do in your bedroom. But when your a fag giving your husband a lip lock on national TV, you just jumped the shark. Let’s cut to the chase, tell me your qualifications for leading the greatest country ever other than getting fucked in the ass.

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  7. Pete Buttplug has zero chance of convincing any REAL Christians to vote for him.

    The Bible is very clear on the subject. Mayor Buttplug is a degenerate and unrepentant homosexual sinner who wants to inflict his perversion on the whole United States. He is a horrible choice for any political position. The fact that his progressive positions are the same as the rest of the Democrat clown car occupants is just icing on the cake.

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  15. We have already elected the first openly queer president (as well as the first tranny wookie)…..TWICE! I actually had nothing to do with it but, been there done that!
    “Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell

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  16. If Pete is claiming we can’t be Christians and protect our southern border, he’s going to be awfully surprised when Jesus comes back to “judge the living and the dead.” “Judge me?” asks Pete. “How un-Christian!”

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