I know it would never happen, as Bernie is great in the Senate, but Harris Sanders as a ticket would be so freaking dope.
I will always love Bernie, but the role of VP really should go to someone younger…it’s basically an understudy position
I’m really pulling for Buttigieg or Kelly. I think I like Buttigieg just slightly better, but Kelly - Gabi, rather - pulls the rug out from under most who would try to make political hay out of the assassination attempt. A cynical take, I know, but keeping the white house matters. Kelly is also a fucking astronaut who looks like Mr Clean. It really makes an immediate mockery of any ‘strongman’ rhetoric coming from a geriatric sleaze ball and a paunchy tech douche who, admittedly has eyes that are limpid glistening pools framed in dusk.
Buttigieg being gay is unfortunately a huge strike against him because in the international community, the acceptance of gay folk is still not there. Many countries still have some very strict laws against being gay and that complicates things.
But man, that guy is a wolf. Watching him deal with hecklers or just debating someone, he’s just a straight up shark. He can smell the blood and wreck someone in one bite.
The international community doesn’t get to vote.
The bigger issue is that even Buttigieg doesn’t think that the American electorate is ready for a gay VP. It would be an especially big risk when the presidential candidate is not white and not male. The all-out racists and sexists are already going for Trump, but the swing voters demographic is going to contain a lot of people who are uneasy about a candidate who isn’t a straight, white, protestant man.
It seems to me like she’s going to have to “balance the ticket” with a conventional straight, white, protestant man with a conventional nuclear family.
Besides, as great at debates Buttigieg may be, he’s been pretty disappointing as secretary of transportation. On his watch there were plenty of airlines doing bad things, and trans getting derailed. There were opportunites for him to step in and do something, but largely he didn’t do much of anything.
The international community may not get a vote, but you also have to keep “how will he be perceived with other world leaders” in mind.
But I think you’re right, she kinda needs a straight white man to appeal to the broader audience
If we’re worried about the international community, simply having a woman in charge will offend a large part of the world.
But, IMO, as long as the secretary of state is a straight white man, you don’t have to worry too much unless you have to work with those leaders one-on-one.
Ehhhhh Queen Elizabeth II was plenty leader enough for them, but you might not be wrong.
