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NoLabelsUnityAmerica20 Has Its Candidate!

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A CEO presidential candidate is a really bad idea. Fortunately, if Howard Schultz decides to run for the Democratic nomination he’ll do about as well as Lincoln Chafee:

WELL, I DON’T WANT TO TALK IN THE HYPOTHETICAL ABOUT WHETHER — WHAT I WOULD DO IF I WAS PRESIDENT. BUT LET ME TRY TO SAY THIS IN MY OWN WAY. I THINK THE GREATEST THREAT DOMESTICALLY TO THE COUNTRY IS THIS $21 TRILLION DEBT HANGING OVER THE CLOUD OF AMERICA AND FUTURE GENERATIONS. AND THE FACT INTEREST RATES ARE GOING UP, WE’RE GOING TO BE PAYING CLOSE TO OVER $400 BILLION IN INTEREST EXPENSE, WHICH I THINK IS THE NUMBER ONE OR NUMBER TWO ISSUE IN TERMS OF FEDERAL EXPENSE TO THE COUNTRY. THE ONLY WAY WE’RE GOING TO GET OUT OF THAT IS WE’VE GOT TO GROW THE ECONOMY IN MY VIEW, 4% OR GREATER AND THEN WE HAVE TO GO AFTER ENTITLEMENTS. AND AGAIN, THIS IS WHERE POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AND THE POLITICAL CLASS IS NOT FACING THE TRUTH AND NOT FACING REALITY. AND THIS IS ABOUT LEADERSHIP. THIS IS ABOUT GETTING PEOPLE TOGETHER IN A ROOM AND TALKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY IS ON A COLLISON COURSE WITH TIME BECAUSE WE MUST ADDRESS THIS. IT’S NOT ABOUT REDISTRIBUTION, IT’S ABOUT FACING THESE HARD TRUTHS AND DEALING WITH SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS SO THAT WE CAN PUT THE COUNTRY IN A POSITION WHERE IT’S NOT ABOUT TRADE WARS AND IT’S NOT ABOUT CHINA, IT’S NOT ABOUT BUILDING A WALL, IT IS ABOUT GETTING OUR HOUSE IN ORDER AND DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN. AND I’VE SAID THIS BEFORE, ABOUT WALKING IN THE SHOES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR THEM, RIGHT.

Another one of these guys:

  • Cutting Medicare and Social Security to pay down the national debt is a political idea that is not only bad but has zero mass constituency.  One thing you can say about Trump is that he understands what many of the nation’s elites (and the political reporters who fawn over them) don’t. Walking in the shoes of the American people is exactly what they’re not doing. (As Paul says, anyone who calls for raising the Social Security retirement age should be required to spend a minimum of five years tarring roofs in Phoenix in the summer and Bismarck in the winter.)
  • These guys always think that GETTING PEOPLE TOGETHER IN A ROOM can solve everything.
  • Another related thing that distinguishes the Pain Caucus is their conviction that their self-serving ideology isn’t ideological.
  • It’s also impressive that he’s using the arbitrary growth target that turned Jeb! Bush’s 2016 campaign into such a juggernaut.

I almost hope he runs — it would be a useful exercise for him to see what ordinary voters think about his ideas.

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