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(51,408 posts)
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 01:52 PM Oct 24

Some of us are hoping for Kentucky Andy Beshear to be the 2028 nominee. He will be a guest at Bill Maher

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Some of us are hoping for Kentucky Andy Beshear to be the 2028 nominee. He will be a guest at Bill Maher (Original Post) question everything Oct 24 OP
Decent guy, but may be another centrist Democrats which is NOT what we need! Chasstev365 Oct 24 #1
Some of us think that the only way to win is with a centrist. Neither Warren nor Sanders would have won question everything Oct 24 #2
Biden wasn't really a centrist. Elessar Zappa Oct 27 #4
++ Extra thanx for the gem Truman quote. I like Beshear but Pritzker is tops. appalachiablue Oct 24 #3
maybe good for VP pstokely Oct 29 #5

Chasstev365

(6,757 posts)
1. Decent guy, but may be another centrist Democrats which is NOT what we need!
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 02:10 PM
Oct 24

I'd rather have JB Pritzker; a fighter who is not afraid of standing up for the working class and not afraid of Republican attacks.

Also, like FDR and the Kennedy's, he is weathy, but not a schill for his class and like FDR and LBJ, he believes the government can do good things for American citizens.

In my lifetime, moderate Democratic presidents have not worked out as well as I hoped.


Harry Truman said it well:

Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time.”

Democrats need to go back to their roots, especially after the Trump' era atrocities.

question everything

(51,408 posts)
2. Some of us think that the only way to win is with a centrist. Neither Warren nor Sanders would have won
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 02:35 PM
Oct 24

it was centrist Biden who did and who is considered by many to be the best President that we had.

And while very much previous century, Democratic Southern governors won.

Elessar Zappa

(16,385 posts)
4. Biden wasn't really a centrist.
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 07:56 PM
Oct 27

He was earlier in his career but as President, he was pretty progressive.

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