Paragraph 6 dismissed the most obvious and most potent challenger.
Politico said, "No one now in office — and none of the top-tier presidential contenders from 2020 — is viewed as a serious prospect to take on Biden. Nor is there any expectation that Sanders or Sen. Elizabeth Warren, both of whom have enjoyed a significant amount of influence in the Biden administration, would primary Biden. Few seriously think Ocasio-Cortez would risk her political capital in a long-shot challenge to the president, either."
The press also blew off Obama when he announced he was running in 2007 and Trump when he announced he was running in 2015.
She certainly is not a longshot for the nomination. If a tired, old, lazy socialist from Vermont can get nearly half the party's backing, why not her?
AOC is a giant killer, as she knocked off Joe Crowley -- an heir apparent to Pelosi -- in the 2018 primary in New York. None of the experts saw it coming. The New York Times did not bother interviewing her before the primary.
In August, she nixed a 2024 run. She turns 35 that year, the minimum age to be president or vice president.
She said she could run for the Senate and primary Chuck Schumer.
My take is she is better off running for president because she has a bigger national constituency than she does a state constituency. Crowley ignored her. Schumer won't. And he has markers galore and chits ahoy. The money men in New York are not going to trade in the Senate leader for a pretty face. Her base is small. Unlike her House district, the state is less than 7% Hispanic.
But the presidency could be hers. Lincoln lost to Douglas for the Senate. So what? 2 years later Lincoln beat him for the presidency.
Nationally, AOC would attract money. Maybe not as much money as Paternity Pete will get from the Gay Mafia, but the Silicon Valley crowd would finance her.
Her voting bloc is better established than Hillary's because all AOC has to do is show up and take Bernie Sanders votes. He has huge appeal in the Democrat Party. He forced Hillary to fight for the nomination. In fact, Trump secured his nomination a month before she did.
Had Sanders not sold out to Biden, he would have been the nominee in 2020.
AOC could do it in 2024.
The media will pimp her like it did Obama. Her Marxism may be nearly 200 years old, but she's young and pretty and easily sold as the First (Blank) American to be (Insert Office).
Democrats primarying Biden is not good news for Republicans. Ted Kennedy primarying Carter in 1980 did not split the party. Reagan really had to work to win that race. It was a dead heat (with a slight lead for Carter) up until their only debate two days before the election. No matter what happens, Republicans will be fighting for their lives in 2024, and AOC is dangerous.
Politico can blow her off because it is just a media outlet. Republicans cannot afford the luxury of being wrong.
2024? We have to get through 2022 first.
ReplyDeleteAmen.
DeleteYou have to resolve 2020 first or no election going forward will be worth the paper used for ballots.
DeleteThe country will be a smoking ash heap by 2024. Democracy ended in 2020 with the institutionalization of mass vote fraud. Everything that happens from now on is aftermath.
DeleteIt’s pretty hard to predict the events of the next three years, but it seems safe to say that the Dems will continue to be punished by rational voters for foisting the mentally impaired Biden on the electorate, while assuring all of his competence and moderation.
ReplyDeleteAOC (Alexandria Occasionally Coherent) may well seek and get the Dem POTUS nomination, but it seems likely that the nomination of such an airhead would splinter further the Dem Party. Her tact when challenged is to act like a little girl who’s being abused. It’s not a stretch to imagine her telling Putin to stop being mean to her.
Rational people would never trust such a weakling to be POTUS, particularly after enduring the Biden hoax in the immediately preceding election.
Now that Democrats know a mentally deficient person can "win" the presidency, the Democrat field is wide open.
DeleteRational people are in shorter and shorter supply these days. Just look around at the folks driving alone while masked or having their 5-year-old given an experimental shot and then posting the pics on social media.
DeleteIf the Dems achieve their wet dream of war with Russia, AOC has not a chance. Her stance on immigration isn't even popular among Hispanics. I think She's going to run for senate.
ReplyDeleteAs do I
DeleteThe hole in that theory, aside from the idea she is a pretty face, is that she really can't be controlled like Brandon, or Chlamydia, for that matter.
ReplyDeleteShe is the prototypical loose cannon.
She pretty for a filly anyways.
DeleteLol, smell my finger?
DeleteNot even really a pretty face. She's basically a set of nice boobs with a child's temperament.
DeleteBig D, I hadn’t heard that there was any really KILLAH native grown weed down in yer part of Almost Heaven. Damn, bro, why didn’t you tell me?
ReplyDeleteDon, I think you are right about AOC. She could potentially, eventually win the presidency. Republicans must take her seriously, despite what they may see as her flaws. She is like an Obama 2.0 Be very wary of her.
ReplyDeleteAlthough my initial reaction to this scenario would be to throw my head back and guffaw/whinny like Mr. Ed, (aka, Alexandria Occasional Cortex) further reflection on this Presidency business renders it rather frightening. I wouldn’t think it would happen with AOC.
ReplyDeleteThen again, I didn’t think a known pedophile, with his 2020 campaign crop circle press conferences, anger control problem, and general brain scattered-ness could pull off winning the Presidency (which he did NOT, but they let it stand).
It’s anyone’s guess.
don't forget the capacity to cheat. We haven't locked that door yet.
DeleteI agree that we should take her (or any of the bozo brigade) seriously; having back in 2008 watched the hype machine turn a dim-witted, lazy, platitude-regurgitating featherweight into the second coming of Demosthenes, Jesus, and a bunch more... and having watched 2+ decades of the bozo brigade doing more and more manipulation of elections... any of these walking catastrophes need to be taken seriously just on the threat that they pose and the machinery that can rig the system to put them in office.
ReplyDeleteHowever, as per something I said this morning, methinks that AOC is chiefly in it for the celebrity and the grift that make an otherwise-unattainable lavish lifestyle possible. That's basically what bernie sanders (i - lunar orbit) has done for his whole political "career" (sic) - and a safe legislative seat is a great place to be a celebrity gasbag without having any actual responsibility for anything. If AOC runs against chuckles next year and loses, unless she was able to arrange a sanders-like deal with the D party (basically, the D who got the nod for her house seat would drop out and she would run as an I), she'd be out of office and a nobody again.
One sad fact that AOC embodies is that the D party right now simply lacks a figure with genuine national appeal. The superannuated clowns like bernie sanders (i - lunar orbit) and elizabeth warren (teepee party - harvard) have very narrow appeal confined to narrow geographic regions.
And, Don, for God's sake get an eye exam. AOC is what we call "a two-bagger"...
She has a decent body and her face isn't bad until you see the crazy insanity in her eyes.
DeleteMost college age males would hit her in a heartbeat and most Boston University guys probably did.
Just remember to give a fake name and address and you'll be fine.
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Delete___Since she self-'objectified' herself...War's, "Low-Rider (Ride-uh) immediately comes to mind...Her assets are quickly headed south...Navel, next stop! zb
Delete2bagger, an action you wish didn't happen in the morning? Lmao,but remember what she did let you do!what a mess, and you had nothing to help clean it up! Ahhhh the memories and you HAD TO WEAR A MASK!
DeleteNone of the so-called top-tier POTUS candidates on the Left can survive the primaries or the general. AOC's true base in the country is 20% (thank the universities for it being that high), if that. That would swell to maybe 40% in the general election with the native anti-GOP voters. I agree we need to play like we're behind and follow Corleone's advice to never over estimate your friends and under estimate the enemy.
ReplyDeleteTotally.
DeleteThe difference now is that we are well aware of Democrat cheating and we will not let them get away with it like we did a year ago. Nevertheless, eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.
ReplyDeleteDon, you make it sound like Republicans actually want to win.
ReplyDeleteHer Marxism may be nearly 200 years old, but she's young and pretty and easily sold as the First (Blank) American to be (Insert Office). Carter was the first mental midget, worthless Willie the first black president and Barry sewed up the first nonmale title. Anal Oral Crossconnected might qualify as the first not hardly human. Sadly, the vast majority of the donk voters would elect Stalin or Mao in a heartbeat. The survival of the Nation is at stake, and the dem base want it dead.
ReplyDeleteTotally see it happening. She has Donald Trump levels of media skills and the MSM will be on her side. She is the most winnable Democrat out there.
ReplyDeleteI never took commie Bernie seriously and he should have gotten the nomination in 2020. AOC has a bigger following.
ReplyDeleteWith the stupidity and corrupt nature of many if not most republicans, I won’t let my guard down.
A shellacking in the midterms will take the bloom off of the socialist rose. There is starting to be a push to the center aka old dems like Hillary. The country is in bad shape and all of it is because of dems like AOC. She won't be able to hide from that.
DeleteOcasio-Cortez was picked out of the crowd by the powers that control the democrat machine on the national level. They recognized that the occupant of that seat was a typical grafting local leftie-lite politician who had no broader appeal. She won with less than a 20,000 vote total out of an electorate of nearly a quarter million. She has no national appeal beyond her teeth and tits. Her nasal, squeaky voice is the perfect aural delivery system for her minuscule intellect. She is dumber than dirt, thus a perfect empty vessel into which the left-wing globalists who dominate the democrat party and its media catamites can project their aspirations. She is an embarrassment who would not merit a morning after phone call.
ReplyDeleteLet's face it, no matter who the democrats nominate, he/she will receive well over 40% of the vote! So basically 40%+ of voters are Communist. Period.
ReplyDeleteYet we are told to not let politics affect our relationships with friends and family. F that! I'm not going to blindly look away or ignore the fact that my 'friend' or family member is a Communist! They are either evil or stupid/ignorant, and I'm too old to spend one minute with someone evil or stupid/ignorant. When people show you who they are, believe them.
AOC would be success as Elizabeth Theranos for what D party selling to their base = many programs on one vote.
ReplyDeleteThe thing to trust is that the Dems will pick the candidate that they believe will do the most harm to America, if elected.
ReplyDeleteExcept that she has completely caved over to Pelosi and the establishment. Her appearance at The Met Gala was her ritual humiliation which she was too dense to realize.
ReplyDeleteHer radical base is abandoning her in droves making harder each day to win the primary.
My 32 year old daughter has been saying this exact thing right after horse teeth was elected.
ReplyDeleteExcellent analysis! Don't underestimate this hand-picked female Obama, and don't forget that the "progressive" strategists' have played the long game since forever.
ReplyDeleteI don’t think she has the intelligence to run at the national level. Unlike Obama, she’s as dumb as a rock and will not do well in debates. Biden won because he was a compromise candidate In 2024, the D’s will have to stay with the status quo, Biden (I believe he will run again) or go a different route. The smart move would be to move to the center and run a candidate that’s more moderate and will have appeal in the larger population states (NY is decaying, so it has to be Florida, Texas) or they could go full stupid and go more to the Left which will favor AOC. Sanders is just too old.
ReplyDeleteI don’t think she has the intelligence to run at the national level. Unlike Obama, she’s as dumb as a rock and will not do well in debates. Biden won because he was a compromise candidate In 2024, the D’s will have to stay with the status quo, Biden (I believe he will run again) or go a different route. The smart move would be to move to the center and run a candidate that’s more moderate and will have appeal in the larger population states (NY is decaying, so it has to be Florida, Texas) or they could go full stupid and go more to the Left which will favor AOC. Sanders is just too old.
ReplyDeleteI can no longer read this column. Too many reaches
ReplyDeleteWith all due respect...HAHAHAHAHA
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