If you don't have anything to do during primary season next year, you might give a thought to supporting Tulsi. She'll be running into the winds, between her support for religious liberty and her tangling with more powerful Democratic leaders. She's not likely to win, but she might force a debate among them that would be helpful; and if she did happen to win, her support for Assad aside, she served honorably in the military and has shown at least some deference to historic American principles.
When it comes to Democrats running for President next year, we could do worse.
I'd support her nomination. I'm still likely to vote for the Republican candidate.
ReplyDeleteEric Hines
I thought this was somewhat connected
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/jeremymclellan/status/1083444252091338753?s=21
The 'support of religious liberty' thing was an inoculation against the fact that she's a Hindu.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe it's just to distinguish her in the field, since she's running against potentially many others with better name recognition and more power/access to donors.
ReplyDeleteBut maybe she means it, and maybe her being Hindu will encourage her to defend the principle. And in any case, we know that at least a number of her opponents are committed to the opposite principle.
I think this article by Alexandra DeSanctis is also related to that issue
ReplyDeleteIn any case, she's a pretty far-left candidate. Should be interesting to watch the herd of (D) candidates grow and then watch some get slaughtered, eh?
ReplyDeleteAnd now she appears to have... evolved...on certain matters.
ReplyDeleteEric Hines