Pete Buttigieg Turns The Tables And Hits Trump Hard On Moral Leadership

[babylonsister]

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https://www.politicususa.com/2019/05/04/pete-buttigieg-moral-leadership.html

Posted on Sat, May 4th, 2019 by Jason Easley
Pete Buttigieg Turns The Tables And Hits Trump Hard On Moral Leadership


Pete Buttigieg used a traditionally conservative argument about moral leadership to turn the tables on the GOP.

Buttigieg said on Saturday Night Politics with Donny Deutsch, “I do agree that there’s a need for us to recognize that a big part of leadership is just calling forth what’s best in us, and right now we’ve got leadership that draws out the worst in us, draws out the absolute worst in supporters and opponents sometimes, and we need something different, we need a different way. And this is traditionally more of a conservative thing to say, but that moral leadership really matters, character really matters. And I think we need to hold our president to a very high standard and want to put forward a case that each of us competing for that job ought to be looked at in those terms.”

Video @ link~

Republicans have been mockingly suggesting that Democrats can’t run on just saying that Trump is a bad man, but the point that Pete Buttigieg made is not that Trump is bad, but that America needs moral leadership out of the presidency, and the nation can do better. The United States needs a president who will use the office to unify instead of divide.

The argument that Pete Buttigieg made should sound familiar. It is one that Republicans made during the 2000 election when George W. Bush ran for president. Moral leadership will likely be one of the significant undercurrents of the 2020 election. It is Trump’s biggest weakness. A majority of Americans are already suffering from Trump fatigue, and the argument that it is time for sunshine to break through Trump’s dark cloud of scandal, hate and division should not be underestimated by the pundit class in 2020.

[keithbvadu2]

1. For Bill Clinton, the GOP mantra was "character matters". They've obviously gotten over that.

For Bill Clinton, the GOP mantra was "character matters".

They've obviously gotten over that.

[barbtries]

4. yeah, and it worked for Clinton.

republican characters are not good guys. rabid hypocrites with twisted priorities who don't even give a shit about democracy let alone the american people.

[SKKY]

11. Yea, and they used to care about budget deficits as well...

[barbtries]

2. since when?

i've known since nixon at least that conservatives were the ends justify the means, feed the rich and starve the poor party. as far as appealing to republican voters, the only ones we'll get are the ones that pay some attention and extricate themselves from the cult - in other words, trump will turn them off before we'll ever get them turned on. so why this sideways swipe at liberals?

[crazytown]

7. AFAIK Nixon did run on morality -

end the lawlessness, end the chaos, end the drugs, end the war.

[barbtries]

8. no he didn't.

i was alive then and didn't recall it so i looked up his campaign brochures.

http://www.4president.org/brochures/1968/nixon1968brochure.htm


http://www.4president.org/brochures/1972/nixon1972brochure.htm

[crazytown]

10. Um

Winning the peace = ending the war
Rising Crime = end of lawlessness
Progress with order = end of chaos
Respect for America - more morality
Gov Spending - Boilerplate GOP

Nixon was the author of ‘The War on Drugs’
I don’t know to what extent he ran on it in 1968.

I was only referring to his first campaign.
He compared his traditional values to the counterculture?
Surely that is correct?

[CanonRay]

3. I like this as an overiding theme

Steal the Evangicals thunder out from under them.

[Sugarcoated]

5. ...AND Kerry

I'll never forget, the day after the second debate Cheney's wife at a rally saying "John Kerry isn't a good man, no, he is not a good man". Now we know their self righteous judgment of Democrat's character and morals was bullshit. Always knew it was.

[mcar]

9. Kick