Yes, but the other times the mistake at least results in an actual word. "Keepen" should immediately stand out as wrong to anyone who is literate.

You're right. Hitler only just barely came short of achieving that as well.

so unfortunate too, who would have ever thought the leader of the supreme master race was a deficient, trembling, loser manlet who couldn't manage to get through a day without using drugs

Cruz is pretty much despised by everyone though. His only real asset is that Beto is a liberal and 'Texas don't elect liberals'. Meanwhile Beto is running a pretty issue oriented campaign, but when he does hammer Cruz it's usually on him being more interested in becoming President than in representing his voters, which is a huge negative against Cruz.

Also hilarious is that Cruz tried to put him down by making fun of the fact that he has a Spanish nickname when he's a white dude (Beto's real name is Albert, which in Spanish is Alberto, hence the 'Beto', and it's a common nickname), when he himself has the opposite (Rafael - Ted). Kind of falls in the **** you can't make up camp.

Cruz does have the Ted Cruz Campaign Song though. Which everyone should listen to, it's pretty hilarious. Gotta give him chops for that.

Normally I'd agree, but Bernie would beat trump by a larger margin than anyone else, and that's too important this time to worry about his age.

Huge Beto fan, and been looking more into him. But as far as I understand one of his biggest campaign points is Cruz cares more about being president than caring for Texas. Which is a legit campaign point, but not sure you can turn around and run for president in 2020 if you beat Cruz when you were crushing Cruz for going for Prez so quick. But not like anything matters anymore when running.

Officially using my one time on Bernard Sanders

Ugh Sanders and Biden? Still? If those are the 2 best hopes, strap yourself in for 4 more years of President Trump.

Most racist post of all time award now moves to its rightful place on chillrob's mantle. Sorry, huehuecoyotl, no king reigns forever.

Surely there is someone in the party who can run who is less than 200 years old. What about Booker or Harris?

I don't want Booker at all. Harris might be okay.

Hmm, I didn't even think about what race that Trump supporter with poor spelling and grammar was. What race are you assuming?

Don't project your bad juju on me, literacy test boy.

Is this some sort of meta-joke that I am missing, commenting on how the politics forum mainly exists to call people racists?

Booker is black, telegenic, young, charismatic, and can deliver a rousing speech. Reminds me of another guy who managed to win 2 terms.

Meh...Booker does not have the charisma or once a generation speaking ability that Obama does. I'm not sure the whole "He's another Obama because he's young and black" argument really holds much weight.

Obama won because he was Obama. Selling Booker as Obama lite seems akin IMO to all the guys that came after Michael Jordan and were billed as the "next Jordan."

Booker is no Obama, but he doesn't have to be to defeat Donald Trump.

They're both great, but they don't really mobilize the voters like the Dems are going to need the 2020 candidate to do. A stage presence if you will. Trump has it in spades. Aside from Biden and Bernie, not many of the other frontrunners do.

Maybe this is why him losing might even give him a better shot.

Like, hey Texas wasn't ready for us, but America sure is!

That is pretty tough spin to make the case that losing in a bid for a Senate seat would be a springboard to the Presidency. He is going to be running against numerous sitting Senators and possibly a former Vice President.

Presidents don't come from the House; it hasn't happened since Garfield in 1880.

Yes, Trump won in 2016 without any public sector experience. But Trump also has an over the top personality that allowed him to monopolize television coverage. That wouldn't be the case with Beto.

KANDER 2020

I still don't get why people think he is charismatic. He comes off as so fake to me. Obama rarely did. If anyone has a link to one of these rousing speeches that showcases his charisma, I'd love to watch it.

I agree - Booker didn't exactly blow the roof off at the DNC, and doing just that is how Obama first entered the national spotlight iirc

You're 100% right, but at the end of the day I think if the party and the base gets behind him the lack of experience won't hurt him. the thing he has going for him is that he's a Kennedy-esque young progressive with good policy positions and that he can build a helluva coalition to take on Trump. A potential magic bullet could also be an endorsement from Bernie, if Sanders comes to the realization that he is too old and too left to win against Trump.

Tell you this much, I like him a lot better than any of the other names we talk about regularly (with the possible exception of Oprah). 2020 is a maybe the most important election in the history of the country, and going into it with someone like John Kerry from 2004 is not going to get the job done. It just can't be a cookie cutter Dem. The GOP has stacked the deck so badly that even going up against someone as monumentally horrible as Trump is still going to be an uphill slog, and so it's going to take a legit transformitve figure. I sure don't see too many like that in the Dem party right now. Does anyone else?

Exactly this, come back to Earth people.

I HOPE the dems nominate Tim Gunn, I THINK they'll nominate Ryan Seacrest.