Well, they’re making me crazy. What are they doing?! Don’t they want to win the White House next year? I’ve never seen a more disjointed bunch of ambitious ne’er-do-wells before in my life! Yes, that's an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms ...like many of these candidates! Aren’t they watching the news ...aren’t they watching themselves on TV? Well, I am, and the rest of America is too!
Seeing them stumble over each other trying to explain themselves and why they should be President of the United States is becoming an otherworldly experience. Lost in translation. What’s going on around here? ...Who are these people? I’m starting to feel like Richard Dreyfus in ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind‘ https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=close+encounters+of+the+third+kind+....who+are+you+peopel+you+tube
Who’s in charge around here?!
DNC Chairman, Tom Perez, needs to realize he is not the ‘Master of Ceremonies’ in some public forum entertainment venue. The debates are a dog and pony show circus. He needs to offer some focused direction and organize the candidates into a cohesive group force and beat the Republicans and Trump in 2020 and take America back from these tyrants before it’s too late. Before they all cancel each other out leaving Trump as the clean-up hitter.
But all I’m seeing and hearing so far from the 20+ Democratic candidates are the same rhetorical arguments over and over again on their signature issues all while trying to pick off their front runner, Joe Biden, over things like ‘personal space’, ‘touching’, ‘political correctness‘ ...and the flap over his ‘segregation‘ issues with Cory Booker only helps to detract from the important issues and the should-be Democratic mandate to take back the White House.
The Democrats need to circle the wagons and take a tip from the Republicans who have rallied around their President and supported him. Watching heartfelt candidates like Booker explain how their main objective is not to beat Donald Trump but to ‘serve America’ is like listening to Wallace Hartley’s band as the Titanic goes down.
This is the big league, Democrats, none bigger. Nobody wants to hear these choir boys and girls talking about honesty and integrity and their green and good intentions. It’s showtime baby, and America wants a good show not a testimony meeting.
Recently, political activist Bill Maher, on his HBO show ‘Real Time With Bill Maher’, suggested, half joking but mostly serious, that Oprah Winfrey was the only person in America who could go toe-to-toe with Donald Trump and beat him in 2020. Maher’s opinion of the 2020 Democratic candidate wannabe field was similar to mine, they’re sinking their own ship! He cited Oprah’s appeal to both men and women voters, and also her celebrity. Yes, celebrity. This is show business, baby!
Maher has been an outspoken critic of Trump for years, in fact Trump filed a $5 million lawsuit against Maher in 2013 for suggesting Trump was descended from an orangutan. Here’s the story, it’s pretty funny and definitely worth watching and considering (it’s HBO so there is one harmless ‘F-Bomb’, just a warning) ...https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=trump+sues+bill ...kind of says it all, doesn’t it?
But Maher is right. The field of 2020 Democratic candidates is weak. No winners there. They are wasting their time and America’s future as they climb over one another preaching ‘truth, justice and the American way’ to a media infused society that just wants their cake and eat it too. An American president is a celebrity by default, but charisma is the main character trait required to get the votes. And charisma can come in many forms ranging from a subtle Jimmy Stewart-type introvert to a bombastic over-the-top Teddy Roosevelt character. JFK was right in the middle and probably the best example of both. None of the current candidates has this critical personality component.
So, is the formula to become president simply: Charisma plus Celebrity times (Personality + IQ + Doctrine) minus Visual Appearance divided by Nielsen Ratings = Electability? Well, if so than maybe Oprah has a shot. I actually wrote an op-ed last year suggesting that Oprah would be a good candidate. ‘The Oprah Opera’ https://www.idahostatejournal.com/opinion/columns/the-oprah-opera/article_1d5c6f5b-6744-5bc5-aa72-1333e60f7a87.html
All kidding and some seriousness aside, the Dems need o get their collective head screwed on straight and focus on beating Trump and electing a great president and leader. That’s Job #1. Job #2 is all up hill from there. I’d like to see less talking and social rhetoric and more action and doing ...Infrastructure, Health Care, Education, Climate, Jobs ...more of the tangible things that take actual work and money. It’s easy to hide behind rhetoric from the bully pulpit, but let’s see if we can fix a bridge.
Enough already, with the narcissistic political decisions and ‘optics’. Although the decision to 'stand-down' the military retaliation regarding Iran’s shooting down of a U.S. unmanned aircraft was a wise choice by ‘Fox News’ ...whoever, Trump’s credit for the almost ‘disproportionate’ response that would have killed Iranians was based on his own poll ratings and nothing more. Who knows what transpired during those final minutes? And that's the problem. So, Trump is now his own hero again.
Enough! Impeach him or vote him out, or both.
Democrats ...the ball is in your court.
John Kushma is a communication consultant and lives in Logan, Utah.
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