That's the last paragraph of a post I wrote on September 12th, one of only 2 posts I've written during the 2023 presidential campaign that had the "Tim Scott" tag.
The other one was a September 28th post, published the morning after a GOP debate that I said I only watched for 3 minutes: "A moderator asked an absurdly long question about the auto strike, and then Tim Scott started talking and acted as though we were dumb to take something stupid he'd said literally. And I was gone."
And that's my answer to a question asked by rcocean in last night's open thread: "No post on Senator Tim Scott dropping out?"
What a terrible candidate! I was going to avert my eyes, but you asked.
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Tim Scott is not qualified to be VP. He’s the male Kamala.
Don’t bother trying to figure out where his votes go. There aren’t enough to measure.
This GOP primary is shaping up to be a race between a 91 indictments soon to be convicted serial criminal Trump and a bunch of no names who support bases are too small to measure, whose names ring no bell, and who were too timid to call out Trump's crimes when they had any voice.
I would think you would be more troubled by that creepy staged photograph of Buttigeig's partner posing in a hospital gown in a hospital bed with "his newborn," as if he just carried a baby to term and delivered it, with smiling Pete at his side like daddy.
That was sick. It was sick because of the way it erased the actual woman who carried that baby and had just given birth to that baby.
I have never seen a similar photograph of any heterosexual couple playing pretend delivery room media stunts like this. And then But give it took town many months of "paternity leave" at our expense?
So maybe Tim Scott is gay, maybe not. No conservative gets to make jokes about that, while Saturday Night Live does.
Maybe that doesn't bother you either.
But Tim Scott isn't degrading and erasing womanhood itself the way Buttigeig and his partner did with that photograph. Maybe he was a bad debater on the campaign stage. But so are lots of people. Being gay has nothing to do with that.
Buttigeig's decision to pose for that picture embodies who he is: a person who disembodies all female bodies. As a real woman, that is an offense I will not forget.
Why is any unmarried man assumed to be gay?
I have no idea if he is or is not.
Nor does anyone else here.
I don't care either.
John Henry
Nice guy. Good Senator. Awful national candidate. He's where he should be.
Just as Adam Schiff would not stand a chance in Florida or South Carolina or...Ohio, Tim Scott would not stand a chance in California or Washington or Wisconsin. Yikes...I just listed Wisconsin in the same boat as Washington and California. Congrats. You've made your way over to the far left.
Know this: It's a long climb back to civilization.
I wish that Article II included that anybody who served as a Senator was k ineligible from ever serving as President.
By all reports a very nice man with his heart in the right place. He’s no “Bootyjuice”, as Dementia Joe would say…
@Althouse, I don’t know. Tim Scott did a good job schooling Lester Holt on the macroeconomics of energy policy. I suppose that you are sufficiently affluent that you don’t need to worry about the economic literacy of a Presidential candidate, but not everyone is in that situation.
Or perhaps you’ve merely bought into lefty identity politics and believe that blacks and gays belong to the Democrats.
If he is gay - how is that anyone's business?
I missed the darn autocorrect of Buttigeig's name. I did not intend to call him what autocorrect called him.
Because, April, when one runs for President, every aspect of that candidates life becomes everybody's beeswax. That's like saying who's business is it that Kamala was tending to the Brown Willie?
Rich - name the crimes?
Speech crimes?
or what?
Every senator believes s/he should be president, so why should Tim Scott be different? One of the skills every senator has is the ability to mistake self-importance for leadership.
Tim Scott’s job in the race was to help Ron SeSantis by siphoning off some of the Nikki Haley vote in South Carolina. He dropped out because that’s a job that his backers think no longer needs doing.
He did not strike me as a good candidate for President, though there have certainly been a lot worse. Like our current occupant. Or his Vice-President.
Generally, senators do not make good Presidents, given the skill sets necessary for each job are significantly different. There are exceptions.
What Tina Trent said.
Transgender spectrum, unconventional unions, political congruence ("="), and ethical religions.
Biden's Spring, while Harris literally takes a knee... and the audacity of men... tors. Down by the seashore, the water is fine. We didn't start the climate change. It's always been dynamic, since the world's been churning.
Read the headline and first paragraph of this post and was fairly offended by its content. Then I read the original post - and the comments on it - and ended up with a different response. Being 68 and never married, I have heard many assumptions from people. White liberals who pride themselves on their 'gaydar' tend to be the most obnoxious about it.
I have no interest in Tim Scott's - or any other politicians' - sexual orientation. Makes them neither a saint or a savior in my view. I think Tim Scott is probably a good man but he made a terrible candidate. He should have dropped out.
What interested me about the comments on the original post was the number of active, long-term posters Ann has that count themselves among the never married. In a 'couples world', I sometimes feel a bit alone. It was interesting to read the stories.
I did hear the phrase 'confirmed bachelor' but never thought it related to being gay. My Dad, along with some co-workers, were transferred as a group to another state. One had never married. He was a highly respected engineer but had some physical challenges due to an extremely early birth. He ate every meal out so my Mom made sure he got a home cooked meal at least once a month throughout my childhood.
He was the kind of warm, friendly, optimistic candidate that is supposed to appeal to centrist Nice People like Professor Althouse--see how well that worked!
Scott is a smart guy and a pretty good Senator. I had hoped he would immediately endorse DeSantis but by waiting he probably makes his eventual choice meaningless.
On the idea that saying something dumb and inadequately defending it is a defining characteristic: doesn't seem to bother the Nice People too much when Biden does it nonstop for several years, but I guess standards are different for old uncle Joe.
Thank you for writing this post!
Its too bad Scott dropped out, because he would have been the first Black Man to lose to Trump in 2024.
I get the impression that Senator Scott just says what he's supposed to say by his handlers or Big Donors. All his views are conventional GOPe, Big Donor. The Neo-con warmongering, the spport for defense spending and big business, the attacks on antisemitism, etc. The only time he seems genuine is when he discussed racial matters.
He always struck me as out of his depth.
So long, guy.
The secretary of trans/portation is not gay, he's dower. That said, NOW that we have dispensed, aborted, by Choice, our "burdens"... Posterity, the selective inclusion of couples and couplets is inequitable and exclusive. #NoJudgment #NoLabels #Albinophobia #Diversity #BinaryBigotry
Bye-ku for Tim:
It does not matter
Whether you are black or gay:
Republican bad!
I don't really understand why some of these candidates ever run (it is a perennial question in both parties)- I am guessing there is some professional benefit they accrue by doing so, but candidates like Tim Scott, Chris Crisycreme, etc. aren't ever contenders of any kind, and at best simply divide up the not-Trump vote in the primaries. Either Haley or DeSantis needs to drop out before Iowa if the not-Trump faction really does want to defeat Trump in the primaries (which is still possible in my opinion). The only way to beat Trump in the primaries is for the race to be heads-up before Iowa.
Let me see if I got this straight. Are both of SC's senators gay? The poofter state?
Tina Trent: Thank you for that 6:09 broadside on Althouse—she completely deserved that. Will she reply? Crickets. There is no way for her to reply.
One of the many disastrous consequences of Bill Clinton's election is that it gave hope to every ego-driven nobody politician who could say to himself, "Hey, if Bill Clinton, a mediocre governor of a nowhere state can beat GHWB, I have a chance too."
Now we have all the dwarves clogging up the works.
On hopeful days I imagine South Carolina’s confirmed-bachelor senators happy in each other’s company. On less hopeful days I fear they’re like the doomed lovers in Hot Chocolate’s “Brother Louie” (American version by the Stories).
Tim was black as the night, Lindsay was whiter than white . . .
"If he is gay..."
Good one, AA : )
He's a really nice guy. Too nice, I think.
I can't see him threatening to cut somebody's balls off if they don't vote the right way.
He's no LBJ...
"Buttigeig's decision to pose for that picture embodies who he is: a person who disembodies all female bodies. As a real woman, that is an offense I will not forget."
Don't forget the classic, 'drive a gas-guzzling SUV miles to work only to stop a few blocks away, unload a bicycle from the back, and make it look like you're cycling to the office, all the while looking like Dukakis with your goofy helmet.
But it's all in the service of Gaia, so it's peachy.
Thank God he will never be POTUS...
Earnest Prole,
"... Lindsay was white as a sheet..."
I have no idea if he is or is not.
Nor does anyone else here.
I don't care either.
Retributive change and leverage. Besides, transgender is trendy, and none more than homosexual bands.
Is Buttigeig the guy with the male companion and a rent-a-womb woman the mother of his child... twins? Feminism is religiously Pro-Choice.
West TX Intermediate Crude said...
One of the many disastrous consequences of Bill Clinton's election is that it gave hope to every ego-driven nobody politician who could say to himself, "Hey, if Bill Clinton, a mediocre governor of a nowhere state can beat GHWB, I have a chance too."
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Long ago, when he was still funny, Dave Letterman expressed that sentiment when he said:
"In America, even a swollen-faced Hillbilly can become President."
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