The
Demise of the Presidential Wannabes
This column originally began during the 1996 Presidential Election. The 2020 Fraud will be the seventh presidential
cycle this commentator will be commenting on.
And during that time, this commentator has noticed a few things about
the people who would wish to be the next President of the United States.
First, there always seem to be a lot of wannabes. But not all of them will make a go of
it. There will always be some names that
would be floated about as to who “should” run but would then decide not to. If there are a lot, the air-fluffed,
ego-driven media will throw tantrums about there being “too many”. They will characterize the field as being
absolutely mobbed by a nameless and faceless horde.
The air-fluffed, ego-driven media love a horserace. They want to be the ones to quickly define the
contest as being one versus the other and carry that narrative all the way
through to the November elections. It makes
for great theater, especially if they’re the ones that create the horserace.
In early 2008, the media wanted the election to be a “New York Subway”
race between Senator Hillary Clinton and the cheap Italian thug Rudy Giuliani. They were the ones that continually hyped it
up early in the race. They kept on pairing
Clinton and Giuliani in their fantasy political polls and speculated endlessly
on who would prevail. No other candidates
counted in their minds.
Unfortunately, they didn’t get that.
Instead, it was between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain. The upstart “hope and change” guy versus the
entitled “it’s my turn” establishment, and two people that nobody in the media
ever thought had a chance save for Oprah Winfrey.
Eight years later, it was a mob for the GOP and the handful of Democratic
wannabes. And, again, the media wanted
it to be Clinton and anyone not named Donald Trump. We all know how that turned out.
So here we are again, 2020, and a whole mob for the Democrats and... just
the orange-skinned narcissist who is now the President. I would say there are few others running against
the narcissist, however the bosses of the party that used to be the GOP have
pretty much ruled that there are no other challengers to him, going so far as
to outright cancelling primaries and caucuses.
And now, as of March of 2020, we go from a mob to... three wannabes. Two old white guys and a woman. All the other diverse faces, races, and genders
have gone by the wayside thanks to the early primaries and caucuses.
Yes, I said three wannabes for the Democrats right now, even though you
won’t hear too much of the one remaining female wannabe named Congresswoman Tulsi
Gabbard. And that is a shame, because
for all the screaming and bitching from the media about the “lack of diversity”,
they’re saying almost nothing about the one woman left in the running (as of this column’s posting).
So... what happened?
Simple: reality happened.
This is a case where you have too many people running and nothing about
them really stands out. All of that
diversity, different races, genders, ethnicity, and the only thing about them
is they don’t like the narcissist in the White House to stay there one more
year never mind four.
The success of Barack Obama in 2008 came because he was relative novice
going up against the presumed entitled candidate in Hillary Clinton and he had
a lot of people who saw something in that and pushed for it even as the Democratic
Party kept on trying to shut him down in favor of their girl Hillary. And then, when he got the nomination, he had
the luck of going up against yet another entitled candidate in John McCain in
November. That’s not something that
could be repeated this time around because there were simply too many “relative
unknowns” in the running and an entitled candidate whose campaign was pretty
much written off by people even before a vote was cast. Everyone was trying to be another Barack
Obama, and not only were they not him, but there were too many of them in the
running for there to be anyone unique.
Also, there were two billionaires in the running. One was Tom Steyer, whose strength was
working behind the scenes. The other was
former New York City Mayor and businessman Mike Bloomberg, who came in late and
then spent a half-a-billion on campaign commercials for the later primaries and
caucuses. A half-a-billion dollars, and
all he won was the American Samoa.
Now contrast that with former Vice President Joe Biden, who had almost no
budget for campaigning or commercials because
everyone wrote him off, and yet now, after “Super Tuesday”, he’s the man to
beat. People voted for him because of his
name recognition and the fact that he’s establishment through-and-through.
So it’s not just a matter of money or diversity, it’s a matter of
recognition.
Bernie Sanders is another perpetual candidate in a crowd of relative
neophytes that gained traction because people know who he is and what he stands
for. I’ve
talked about him in my column four years ago and understands who he is and
the appeal of his movement. Quite
simply, he’s too good for the Democratic Party.
He exposes them as being complicit.
That’s why the media has been hyping him and fearmongering him. Be afraid, they say. Be afraid of the man whose policies would not
get past even an all-blue Congress!
And that brings us back to the woman you’re not hearing about...
Congresswoman Gabbard. If I would
venture a guess why you’re not hearing too much about her in the media, this
commentator would suspect it is because her name is not Hillary Rodham Clinton,
the one female that members of the media really wanted to have elected. It’s like they’re saying: “Joe is in the running, Bernie is in
the running, Hillary is not running, screw it, let’s pick one of the other two.”
Let’s get brutally honest here... the reason why a lot of wannabe candidates
don’t have a shot is because they pretty much do themselves in even before a
single primary or caucus starts.
Sometimes there are too many people.
Sometimes people come in too late for voters to notice. Sometimes they just don’t stand out. And sometimes the establishment and the
air-fluffed ego-driven media simply do not want them in the running.
This is precisely why I refer to every election, every campaign season (and goddamn the fact that there is one every year
now) as a fraud, a fiasco, a hoax, a con-job, and a screw-job. Because it really is. And this is also part of the reason why we
have a corrupt orange-skinned malignant narcissist in the White House
today. Someone who campaigned on saying
it’s a “rigged system” even as he was taking advantage of it and is still working
today to keep it rigged so he can stay in office.
And yet... if you want this to change, you need to do the one thing a lot
of you don’t want to do. Vote. Not just in November, but in every primary or
caucus, and not just for the big races, but also for the local and state ones
too. You just saw a whole bunch of
people who wanted to be President drop away.
Any one of them could have been “your guy” or “your girl” if you put
your vote behind them. Don’t like what
you see? If your state allows it, then write
someone else in, even if it’s yourself.
That becomes a public record and lets people know we don’t like our choices.
Just be thankful you have choices.
A certain orange-skinned narcissist would
rather you didn’t.
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