I will say this about Tulsi...

[Drunken Irishman]

She never went after Biden. She never tweeted anything negative about him or attacked him on the debate stage. Even when he was the original front-runner. I always found that interesting.

[mikelgb]

1. Biden / Gabbard 2020?

[LanternWaste]

2. What specifically leads you to infer that from OP?

Bias... or some other excuse?

[mikelgb]

6. no inferences, just a 'what do you think?' n/t

[LanternWaste]

11. Thus, yours was wholly irrelevant to the OP?

[mikelgb]

14. I feel like you are reacting to my flair and nothing else.

good day

[Polybius]

3. If he were to announce that, I'd switch to Biden right now

She would be a great pick IMO.

[FM123]

7. Question:

do you think that if she were Biden's veep candidate other Bernie supporters such as yourself would go along with Biden more willingly?

[Polybius]

8. I think Bernie supporters would mostly love him picking Tulsi

The problem is that Biden supporters would hate that idea, as she's not very popular with them. So the solution is to pick a VP that both sides accept. To me the only pick that would unite us both would be Warren. It would be a great compromise pick for both sides.

[FM123]

10. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing your view....

[nolawarlock]

20. All the Bernie supporters I've seen online and especially at JPR ...

… have been utterly vicious to her for this endorsement. The sexism and religious bigotry was awful at JPR.

[lagomorph777]

12. Oh, come on! Her positions are opposite to Bernie's!

I won't say what else I think of her - TOS violation.

[Polybius]

13. Her policies of non-intervention are very similar

I'm sticking with Bernie, no doubt. But his path is very remote.

[lagomorph777]

15. Yeah

But Biden needs our votes (he has mine for sure in the GE). He will be smart to reach out to progressives.

[nolawarlock]

21. Define progressives ...

… people who care about progressive policies or the hordes of Berners who hurled all sorts of hate at Tulsi today?

[showblue22]

23. Isn't Bernie the only progressive?

Who is progressive besides Bernie? I'm interested in which politicians Bernie supporters find are progressive.

[lagomorph777]

25. I'm not diving into the mosh pit, but there are plenty of progressives in Congress and state/local

Elizabeth Warren, Maxine Waters, and thousands of others. It's not impossible to throw a bone to the most motivated 36% of your party's base.

[showblue22]

30. I see a lot of Bernie supporters saying EW is not progressive.

Most motivated?


They not motivated to vote apparently.

[lagomorph777]

31. "People are saying..."

Come on. We know there are lots of trolls out there posing as crazy Bernie supporters.

[showblue22]

32. Well, I'm glad you think EW is progressive.

Because she is.

[lagomorph777]

34. That's because I'm an actual person, not sitting in a St. Petersburg boiler room.

We know Putin has been trying to divide us, and also putting out trolls to "support" Bernie. I think that either (A) those trolls are clumsy, or (B) they are actually trying to make Bernie look bad. Either way, Bernie told them to go to hell, and told Putin to knock it off. Not that Putin cares.

[showblue22]

22. No one is good enough or as good...

as Bernie except maybe Nina Turner, right?

[Bucky]

16. That would piss too many people off

Sorry, no. She picked a feud with Hillary Clinton. I'm no Clinton supporter, in fact I'm usually quite critical of Hillary Clinton. By Gabberd went out of her way to get in a fight with Clinton. That's bad politics. Plus her associations with Modi and with Assad show just bad judgement

[ucrdem]

24. I can see an argument for that.

She's a young POC with military background and won 2 delegates, which is 2 more than Harris. But I think she's still single and that might be a dealbreaker.

[lagomorph777]

26. Still single? Biden isn't Pence - he doesn't have to live by Mother's rules.

[ucrdem]

28. LOL

TBH I think the Assad thing is the dealbreaker. She wasn't on my radar much before last summer, so I'm just going by how she performed in the debates, but there seems to be a lot of earlier baggage. So it probably won't be Tulsi.

[lagomorph777]

29. Tulsi would be BEYOND a serious mistake.

Putin's nose under the tent.

How do you suppose a nobody from Hawaii with no support, kept her campaign going til the bitter end?

[ucrdem]

33. Do I detect a touch of Biden-envy?

[lagomorph777]

35. Huh? Are you saying Tulsi is Biden - or something...?

No, can't say I envy Biden. Assuming he wins the nomination (most likely) and the election (much harder, given Putin, COVID, and Trump's Russiapublican rigging machine, plus Bernie's stronger general election message), he will have one giant mess to clean up.

[Demsrule86]

4. I defended Tulsi and took abuse...she is a Democrat and the posts about her were awful...don' t

know how they were not hidden.

[Turin_C3PO]

5. I noticed she never went after Biden OR Bernie.

Maybe she was hedging her bets because she knew one of them would gain the nomination? Angling for VP perhaps?

[progressoid]

9. She did it on Fox news last week...

[Bucky]

17. Thank you

We are a big tent party, and she's welcome in the tent, but I don't think she's qualified for ringmaster

[Drunken Irishman]

19. I don't think she really attacked Biden there.

[Cha]

18. Yeah, weird.

[guillaumeb]

27. Whatever inspired her to run,

she obviously expected to have far more support than she received.