How to Decide?

The New York Times has endorsed both of the women candidates still running for president on the Democratic ticket. After outlining each of Sen. Warren’s and Sen. Klobuchar’s very different virtues they conclude:

There will be those dissatisfied that this page is not throwing its weight behind a single candidate, favoring centrists or progressives. But it’s a fight the party itself has been itching to have since Mrs. Clinton’s defeat in 2016, and one that should be played out in the public arena and in the privacy of the voting booth. That’s the very purpose of primaries, to test-market strategies and ideas that can galvanize and inspire the country.

Ms. Klobuchar and Ms. Warren right now are the Democrats best equipped to lead that debate.

May the best woman win.

or, in other words they think that a diversity hire is the most likely to prevail in the general election. We’ll see.

Elizabeth Warren has an unworkable plan that she can’t get enacted into law and more than half of the country doesn’t want for everything. Amy Klobuchar is a senator from a relatively small state which, like a lot of the Upper Midwest, is being forced into the Republican column by coastal Democrats who are out of step with the rest of the country. At least she’s a pragmatist. IMO we could use a little pragmatism right about now.

Of those two I would undoubtedly favor Sen. Klobuchar. I think the most important issue facing the Democratic Party isn’t health care or immigration or Russian interference in our elections but political corruption and IMO she’s better prepared to face it.

10 comments… add one
  • Greyshambler Link

    Where racial or gender diversity is possible, it’s a good thing. Where it’s required, as in the portrayal of couples and families in tv advertising, it’s annoying. This could be as they say, virtue signaling on part of the Times, or they may believe Trump would have a difficult time in debates against a woman who is not HRC. If so, they underestimate Trump’s political instincts. At one point he floated skipping the debates altogether.

  • Andy Link

    I guess given the choice between Klobuchar and Warren, I would definitely choose Klobuchar, even though she’s far too interventionist-friendly for my taste. But I think she’d be better at running the federal government and, unlike Warren and Sanders, doesn’t appear to be running for office to slay dragons.

  • CuriousOnlooker Link

    My prediction, you can eliminate any of the Senators from the Democratic nomination. The fact they will be in DC for 6 days a week for the next 4-8 weeks instead of campaigning will hurt them badly.

    I could see Klobuchar being nominated for Vice President by Biden — but Biden has to make some tough calls with his running mate pick if he gets that far.

  • TarsTarkas Link

    Klobuchar was hands up for every lunatic proposal made at the various debates. Maybe that was a tactical move and she doesn’t believe in them, but then that makes her look like a lying coward. If she was a front runner her positions and and her office etiquette would currently be attacked as viciously as Bernie is being attacked.

    Warren isn’t as much of a coward, she’s simply a liar and an embellisher and a flip-flopper. We’ve already got one in office now and the economy’s doing well for a majority; why vote for someone who effectively promises to tank it for our own good and the planet’s?

    IMO if Biden is dragged to the finish line of the Democratic demolition derby, he’ll pick a black woman as VP. Maybe Stacey Abrams or Michelle Obama. Effectively trying to give the US another eight years of Obama. Maybe that will shift some black votes away from Trump. I don’t think many will. I don’t think a lot of black men will vote for a black woman for president.

  • IMO if Biden is dragged to the finish line of the Democratic demolition derby, he’ll pick a black woman as VP. Maybe Stacey Abrams or Michelle Obama.

    I agree that will be the calculus. Other possibilities include Kamala Harris or even Lori Lightfoot.

  • jan Link

    I agree that will be the calculus. Other possibilities include Kamala Harris or even Lori Lightfoot.

    Identity politics rides again for the democrats!

  • Andy Link

    Given Biden’s age, his VP choice will be more important than usual.

  • The same is even more true of Bernie Sanders. Not only is he older than Biden but his mother died at 46 and his father at 57. Translation: there isn’t much evidence he’s genetically predisposed to longevity.

  • TarsTarkas Link

    Unless something changes drastically picking a black woman for VP is Democratic virtue-signalling. Like Mondale picking Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 for VP. As there wasn’t a chance in hell Mondale was going to beat Reagan and everyone knew it, the Democratic poobahs weren’t concerned that an inexperienced female (3X House Rep) would be a heartbeat away from the Presidency, because they knew it wouldn’t happen.

  • steve Link

    Pence and Palin were clearly identity politics nominees. The GOOP is always in denial about its own identity politics.

    Steve

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