Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Pete, what were you thinking? [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,659 posts)All this knee-jerking over a comment or a sound bite or a tweet that can be easily taken out of context, inflated, misinterpreted, trollified and generally blown up into something it isn't, doesn't make sense. All of the candidates are going to produce gaffes or things that can be made to look like gaffes, and all of them will say something that some of us disagree with. But if you're all OMG, he's off my list now!!! because of one remark, pretty soon you won't have a list at all.
The trolls will be out there, throwing these little sound bites out for people to fight over. I'm not deciding anything on the basis of that kind of bullshit I'm waiting until everyone is in and have had their chances to debate, get interviewed, get vetted and release their tax returns. I want to see the big picture. I want to know that they will fight for the Democratic agenda as a whole and I don't care about minutiae. Most of all I want to feel confident that they can beat Trump.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden