Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: NYT ltte: Run a governor, not a Senator, for president in 2020 [View all]doompatrol39
(428 posts)Who the hell said anything about experience? The OP posted an article about how we need to run a Governor as our candidate due to a very narrow set of historical parameters, which is (I feel) outdated conventional wisdom that we were chained to for too many years.
I'm saying we shouldn't shackle ourselves to notions of what has worked in the past in terms of feeling that our candidate HAS to be a governor, or HAS to be southern, or CAN'T be a Senator or not a woman, or a person of color or whatever else. If our best candidate and the one that the most primary voters pick and feel strongly about happens to be anything then that's fine. I simply don't think there's any "Oh we have to nominate someone who fits this specific mold because that's what history tells us is the only thing that has worked in the past!!!" Up until we won in 2008 these very same wise men and women of DC would have told us we could never win with an African American Senator from a northern state. Needless to say that was proven wrong, and who knows where we would have been if we listened to any of them.
As someone who has the very qualified Senator Harris as their primary pick, I'm not sure which part of this you disagree with or why you feel compelled to argue that we need to adhere to a very specific set of rules that only seem to apply to Democrats?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided