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Cory Booker might be an option...He's relatively young, has had a fairly high-profile from his appearances on the judiciary committee, and is seen by many as a moderate.

The main complaint against him might be the fact that he's unmarried, which will give the far-right to attack him as being gay, or a pervert, or whatever. (Not that the attacks would be fair, just that they might be effective given a certain portion of the electorate.)

And we can be quite sure there is a portion of that electorate that will eat whatever pablum is put before them. To wit: yon current POTUS.

Cory Booker might be an option...He's relatively young, has had a fairly high-profile from his appearances on the judiciary committee, and is seen by many as a moderate.

The main complaint against him might be the fact that he's unmarried, which will give the far-right to attack him as being gay, or a pervert, or whatever. (Not that the attacks would be fair, just that they might be effective given a certain portion of the electorate.)

And he's not very experienced. I think that was a big part of Obama's problem. He ought to have waited another decade before running. Booker might be a good VP candidate, but if the Democrats want to ensure they get rid of Trump they need a centrist white guy - preferably ex-military.

Trump now claims to know the group fleeing north from Central America are riddled with MS 13 and ,OMG, people from the middle east. That makes geographical sense right? And they must all be murderers right? But wait, some of those ME murderers, such as the crown prince of Saudi, now they are acceptable, as long as they provide the bucks to bail Trump's failing hotels out of bankruptcy. 

The Right down south are obsessed with Obama, and the big knock on the Democrats is their own obsession with race and identity politics. Part of politics is getting your own base excited but another part is not exciting the other guy's base. Putting out a candidate who is going to be seen as another Obama will definitely help Trump. On the other hand, a white, moderate male will cut the legs out from under the right wing outrage machine.

If I was Trump, and wanted to select a dream team to run against, I'd have it as Warren with Booker, or something similar. A capable white guy with a military background that the center and center left could be assured wouldn't go crazy with the identity politics stuff would pretty much guarantee he'd lose.

And that's the sad part of politics, especially in the US were everything is just a game show. 

The Right down south are obsessed with Obama, and the big knock on the Democrats is their own obsession with race and identity politics. Part of politics is getting your own base excited but another part is not exciting the other guy's base. Putting out a candidate who is going to be seen as another Obama will definitely help Trump. On the other hand, a white, moderate male will cut the legs out from under the right wing outrage machine.

If I was Trump, and wanted to select a dream team to run against, I'd have it as Warren with Booker, or something similar. A capable white guy with a military background that the center and center left could be assured wouldn't go crazy with the identity politics stuff would pretty much guarantee he'd lose.

You might be right.  It disgusts me, but you might be right.

 -k

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Cory Booker might be an option...He's relatively young, has had a fairly high-profile from his appearances on the judiciary committee, and is seen by many as a moderate.

The main complaint against him might be the fact that he's unmarried, which will give the far-right to attack him as being gay, or a pervert, or whatever. (Not that the attacks would be fair, just that they might be effective given a certain portion of the electorate.)

And he's not very experienced. I think that was a big part of Obama's problem. He ought to have waited another decade before running.

Booker first got into the senate in 2013. If he runs for president in 2020, he will have served as a senator for  ~7 years. At least to me that sounds like a pretty decent length of time to figure out how the federal government runs. (And in that time he served on both the foreign relations and judiciary committees, both high profile and rather important.) Plus, he has experience as a mayor in New Jersey (sort of a semi-Executive position.)  I certainly feel he has enough experience, and don't really know how much more benefit he would get from hanging around Washington for another decade or so.

Plus, there are drawbacks of waiting. The longer you are around, the more chance that you will either be associated with scandals (deservedly or not), and/or will be seen as a Washington flack.

if the Democrats want to ensure they get rid of Trump they need a centrist white guy - preferably ex-military.

You may be right in that the Democrats may need to return to a more 'traditional' candidate to secure victory. But, elections are rather hard to predict. Another minority running for the democrats might energize the republican racists, but it may also entice black voters (who voted for Obama but often sat out the Clinton election) to return to the polls.

That's the thing about racism... Trump managed to use bigotry to his advantage, even though his opponent wasn't a minority herself. He doesn't have to run against a minority to whip up racist sentiment, he just has to use the appropriate dog whistle. "They won't protect our children from the evil foreigners".

 

That's the thing about racism... Trump managed to use bigotry to his advantage, even though his opponent wasn't a minority herself. He doesn't have to run against a minority to whip up racist sentiment, he just has to use the appropriate dog whistle. "They won't protect our children from the evil foreigners".
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And he is throttling up that similar racism/bigotry on the eve of the mid terms by making unsubstantiated claims  that the so called "caravan" of migrants contains ME people, MS13 members etc. And he's also throwing out even more out and out lies saying his arms sale contract with the Saudis (which doesn't actually exist) will generate "a million jobs" while the industry actually provides around 300k jobs.  And it goes on and on however I'm convinced he knows what he is doing and that his base will buy whatever horse shyte comes out of his mouth, regardless of any facts.

The timing of this migrant caravan reaching the US border is going to be fascinating.  Nov. 6, they have lots of time.

Yeah, that idiot Trump claiming the Democrats are funding it when it's the best thing that could have happened for the Republicans.
Now if they can only persuade a Muslim to blow something up before election day...