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Originally Posted by 2OutsNoProb
There are rumors floating around that Cory is gay. It shouldn't matter one iota to anyone with a functioning brain cell, but regardless, it's nothing but innuendo anyway.
Heinrich is an interesting guy.
Not really sure why Kamala would have "zero" chance in the general election. Is there any Hillary voter anywhere who'd switch from her to Trump? Hell, the fact that she's a woman of color alone probably flips Michigan to her, given that the reason HRC lost it was depressed turnout on the D side, mostly from minorities. It's not like Trump managed some massive groundswell of support there; his raw vote total (2.279m) was LESS than GWB got (2.314m) in a losing effort in 2004.
I agree it shouldn't matter if Cory Booker is gay or not, but if people with functioning brains determined who became President, Trump wouldn't have gotten elected. I think it matters a lot, but I don't think it's insurmountable.
As for Kamala: She has basically zero chance for a number of reasons. First of all, she's not a particularly good politician. She's kind of stilted and scripted as a speaker, which is exactly the sort of thing people hate - people want authenticity, and she doesn't project that.
As far as getting elected to the Senate, she got elected in a state that Democrats always win where she was the overwhelming favorite of the Democratic establishment. Her opponent was Loretta Sanchez, who probably set the all time record for fewest functioning brain cells in a Senate candidate and was way out of her league in running for Senate. Loretta struggled to raise funds and made a number of unforced errors on the campaign, so in my opinion it wasn't an impressive win at all.
So to summarize, she's gotten to the Senate by being connected behind the scenes in a heavily blue state, being seen as an effective attorney general, and by essentially being anointed by the DnC establishment (kind of like how Hillary got elected in New York, except substitute AG for First Lady.)
Now, as to why she's unelectable in a Presidential election: Besides being a poor retail politician, she is both a minority and a woman. The country isn't nearly as progressive as you might like to think that it is - I think there are an awful lot of people who voted for Hillary (a white woman) who wouldn't vote for Kamala (a minority woman.) I don't like saying that, but I think you have to look at the world for how it actually is and now how you might wish it to be.
But most importantly (and this is what precludes any possibility of her ever being elected President): She was Willie Brown's mistress (a married black man who was the former mayor of SF). Willie Brown allegedly did a lot of favors for her over the years to help her advance her political career, and even if there is no fire there, there is more than enough smoke for the Republicans to torpedo her campaign. Watch "Get Me Roger Stone" on Netflix - this is the sort of adversary that you have to deal with if you want to become President of the United States, and there's no way she could ever overcome that.
So, I hate to say it, but my argument for why she has zero chance is basically as follows: 1.) She's not as impressive of a candidate as the Left thinks she is, 2.) America is a racist and sexist place, and 3.) The affair with Willie Brown is a fatal flaw that she will never be able to overcome.