Tuesday, February 18, 2020

"I'll take 'Things That Aren't Going to Happen' for $500, Alex"

The usually sensible Ann Althouse is in love with Amy Klobuchar, apparently, leading Althouse to make this bizarre pronouncement:
Unless Buttigieg, Warren, Klobuchar, and Biden get together and pick one of them to go forward, the answer is going to be Bloomberg.

Unless he's awful at that debate.

And won't Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, Klobuchar, and Biden all try to make him look awful?

I would advise Buttigieg, Warren, Klobuchar, and Biden to get together and pick one. But they need to do it soon. If I picture those 4 huddling and really trying to decide which of the 4 of them should take up the banner of moderate anti-Trumpism, I see the choice as Amy Klobuchar. She's the best age (59), she's female, and she's got a long record in the Senate. 
A long record of doing Small Things. But then Althouse immediately realizes why this will never happen:
But that's too sensible, isn't it? The Democrats are so keyed up to fight that they're not going to accept mere sensibleness.
Especially when "sensibleness" isn't particularly sensible. I do think a woman can be elected president in this country, but that woman will not be a Democrat.


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