"Mr. Buttigieg determined he could not run for both the Senate and the White House, according to one of the people familiar with his planning..... Mr. Buttigieg, who ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, was seen as the most prominent potential contender in next year’s marquee Senate contest.... But he also would have been vulnerable to 'carpetbagger' attacks, and was plainly aware of that risk. Mr. Buttigieg, a former mayor of South Bend, Ind., became a Michigan resident in 2022, moving to Traverse City, where he lives with his husband, Chasten, and their twin toddlers.... Term limits will preclude Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from running for a third time next year, and Mr. Buttigieg is not expected to pursue that office...."
From "Pete Buttigieg, a Possible 2028 Contender, Won’t Run for Senate in Michigan/The former transportation secretary, who moved to Michigan from Indiana in 2022, had been seen as the most prominent potential candidate in next year’s marquee contest" (NYT).
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107 comments:
Seriously? Fail upward more?
The difference between Mayor Pete and Sean Duffy as Transportation Secretaries is stark. Mayor Pete has demonstrated his executive ineptitude twice now. His skill is speaking, not doing.
LOL
What does Pete bring to the table? He ran for Prez in '20 and his BS didn't take him very far, then, in spite of the air time he received. What has improved in his portfolio, besides pictures of the Happy Moment in the hospital, with hubby, as if one of them just delivered, not to mention the 'chestfeeding' moments? I cannot think of a single accomplishment of his Sec Trans assignment, except shameful non-delivery at great taxpayer expense.
Yes, by all means, run for office again. Get some practice by running for the Senate, and don't worry - you'll still be available in '28.
last time, he might have carried iowa, I don't think he gets much past that,
He was the laziest Secretary of Transportation in living memory. By all means, Democrats, nominate him to run against JD Vance three years from now.
I'm all for Pete buttergig to run for POTUS. Hope the D's nominate him. The USA needs a family man in the white house.
why did he move to michigan then, their primary is lower in priority, but we've seen the Green Nude Eel, pass,
Such a nice boy.
jfgay
if they actually had reporters at the Times, they would ask these sorts of questions,
His nomination has been on rails since Biden gave him that half a billion dollar slush fund to dole out at his discretion to other Democrats. The only question is are there any Democrats out there with the will to go up against the DNC mafia?
His internal polling must have been abysmal.
Sorry, it was half a trillion in discretionary funding he was put in charge of. Kind of like Samantha Power being put in charge of doling out untold billions in USAID money without any oversight.
The nominee is someone who will be a willing obedient puppet to the corrupt mob-mafia who controls the Sewer Dems.
So other than being gay, what exactly are his qualifications? Worst Transportation Secretary ever? Failure as a small town mayor? Recently moved domicile because he was too well known as a loser in his hoime state?
Just an identity politics box checker. Yes, please Democrats, run him and the Kackler as a team. That would show us. Have them yell a lot and call us names. Sure fire winner.
Does Annie Leibovitz have to start following him like a Rolling Stone again or is it like passport photos and good for 10 years?
I think that his main qualification is that he has learned to speak multiple languages on YouTube, and I am betting that he speaks most of them about as well as my pool guy speaks English. I mean it seems like he speaks English until you try to discuss anything about the pool with him in English.
Who is the constituency for this candidacy? The Rainbow people? Over-credentialed halfwits produced by our university system? Purple-haired government employees?
What has he ever accomplished that makes him qualified to be president?
This guy was a mayor of a college town and then a bumbling Secretary of Transportation who's most known for taking a lengthy maternity leave without hardly anyone noticing and being overly concerned by racist bridges.
This candidacy is just another grift. He'll raise a bunch of campaign funds even though he's going nowhere and all the hangers-on will feed off of it before he drops out after Iowa.
We can hope. He will be like a gay Michael Dukakis. Remember the Dukakis tank photograph?
Democrats don't need successes - they need check boxes and loyalties.
He's Paris Hilton. Famous for being famous.
NO thanks. I want someone who actually works. He sucked as Mayor, he sucked as Transportation Secretary....but HE IS GAY!!! YAY!! The Progressives want the FIRST GAY President...but there are rumors we already had one..
He is fully as qualified as the hare-brained drunken whore the Democrats went with last time.
Delusions of relevance and electability. That's our boy Pete.
We all know the Democratic field is weak, but Buttigieg raises the question of whether there is any competence requirement at all to succeed in Democratic party politics.
Why Traverse City, I wonder. That's one damn cold, isolated place.
Pete can't win. This is all a money play. He'll do the thing like Bernie did with his spouse. The spouse is designated as an advertising agent and gets a commission on all the TV and radio spots. SCAM!
Pete can't win. This is all a money play. He'll do the thing like Bernie did with his spouse. The spouse is designated as an advertising agent and gets a commission on all the TV and radio spots. SCAM!
It’s teh ghey. What the hell is wrong with people?
Sarah Palin was about four times more qualified than this pitiful clown.
And when will Pete answer and take full responsibility for the DC helicopter-plane crash. The FAA has ancient equipment and there is a giant shortage of air traffic controllers. Those sixty plus deaths are squarely on the head of this incompetent.
And to be frank, there is no way in the world that the Blacks and Muslims would elect a homosexual.
Does "Gary Peters" even exist? Does he need to step down? Couldn't just about anybody show up on election or swearing in day and claim to be "Gary Peters"? Who would be able to tell the difference?
And what will happen to Chasten and the twins, when Pete realizes that the whole "gay" thing didn't take him as far as he had hoped?
Rahm Emanuel will take the lead with all his personal warmth and charm, just watch.
He was hot shit among the progressives I worked with in California when he ran in 2020. His only relevant qualification for them was that he is gay, that will be his big draw in 2028. The dems are the party of identity over qualifications.
God help us if this idiot wins any elective office.
Bless his heart!
Pete Buttigieg for Democratic nominee for President 2028?
Yes please.
Pete? Oh yeah the guy who lost to Kamala last time. LOL.
People will be sharing As Good As It Gets Don't come knocking.
Them grapes was sour anyway, huh, Petey?
Aggie said "What has improved in his portfolio, besides pictures of the Happy Moment in the hospital, with hubby, as if one of them just delivered,"
It's this image that pops into my head whenever I hear his name. That photo of him and his spouse sitting in a hospital bed as if they had just gone through childbirth themselves really ticked me off. The woman who risked her health to give those children life was completely erased.
It's interesting how public perceptions of a politician can congeal in a way that seems final. Pete B is a good example of that. Once you've become Harold Stassen, it's over.
If Trump World works out as planned, JD will have a cake walk in 2028.
"We all know the Democratic field is weak, but Buttigieg raises the question of whether there is any competence requirement at all to succeed in Democratic party politics."
Ha! Buttigieg was more competent at age three than Trump ever has been or will be. (Three years old being the age that Mary Trump says Trump has not evolved from.)
As a bonus, Buttigieg seems to be a person of integrity and concern for others, positive qualities utterly vacant from Trump's amoral character.
"Sarah Palin was about four times more qualified than this pitiful clown."
I agree. Palin was at least four times more qualified than Trump. (That is the pitiful clown you meant, yes?)
pot hole pete, crash land pete, east palestine pete, those word you are using,
Cook: "Three years old being the age that Mary Trump says Trump has not evolved from."
"You must always remember the President is about six." - British diplomat Cecil Spring-Rice, describing TR.
JSM
the guy who wanted to bring out blind air traffic controllers, lol
"What has he ever accomplished that makes him qualified to be president?"
A pertinent question regarding Trump, as well. He was a mediocre president last time--probably because he didn't really do much, and things mostly ran on the bureaucratic engines. This time, just two months in, Trump's doing things, and he's fucking it up beyond repair. He's worse than he was as a first timer...in the first eight weeks!
yes the Brits do seem to miss the point thoroughly,
TR did seem to absorb the Kipling ethos,
"God help us if this idiot wins any elective office."
Are you asking for god's help for the idiot currently in THE elective office? In two months he has cratered Wall Street and antagonized many of our longtime allies and neighbors. What will another month or two bring? Another half-year, (if we last that long)?
A pertinent question regarding Trump, as well.
Well.... maybe, except for all of the evidence. What's the price of eggs, Cookie? How about inflation rate, Cookie? What's the price of gas, Cookie? Who's initiating a peace process, Cookie?
Really now. You should try to do better, improvement is the only real path from your current sorry state. You're just wallowing in it now, buck up.
Buttplug for president???? Uh no."
A trenchant, considered, and mature assessment of qualifications???? Uh no.
This guy is a gay Beto. Has nothing to offer but believes his own press clippings. If he had been a Republican running against Trump he would be roadkill just like all other republicans have been. But in the democrat party he’s a star, cause he wears a boob prosthesis.
It's gonna be a long four years for Cookie.
"Robert Cook said...
"We all know the Democratic field is weak, but Buttigieg raises the question of whether there is any competence requirement at all to succeed in Democratic party politics."
Ha! Buttigieg was more competent at age three than Trump ever has been or will be. (Three years old being the age that Mary Trump says Trump has not evolved from.)
As a bonus, Buttigieg seems to be a person of integrity and concern for others, positive qualities utterly vacant from Trump's amoral character."
He got run out of South Bend on a rail. Residents called him Pothole Pete because of the miserable conditions of the roads. The black population really didn't like him, mostly because he did zero for them.
And oh yeah, he cares so much. That's why he couldn't be bothered with the disasters in East Palestine, OH, Baltimore Harbor. The guy is a fuck up.
You care about Wall Street now, Cookie, that roulette wheel with an extra round of craps, the same allies that censure their citizens who are at war with the farmers, the truckers et al,
Jaq said...
“I think that his main qualification is that he has learned to speak multiple languages on YouTube, and I am betting that he speaks most of them about as well as my pool guy speaks English.”
My pool guy’s English is adequate. Occasionally he’ll throw out an invective in German or Southern Italian though.
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those paddle memes won't sell themselves,
All questions of competence and ideology aside, he simply can't win. His moment has passed. He's like a less experienced, less competent, Jeb Bush in 2016.
How do politicians (and more particularly, their donors) fail to recognize what is blindingly obvious to any LIV?
"In two months he has cratered Wall Street..."
One man's crater is another man's buying opportunity.
One doubts he could win a single primary, but these are the Democrats we are talking about it,
"Well.... maybe, except for all of the evidence. What's the price of eggs, Cookie? How about inflation rate, Cookie? What's the price of gas, Cookie? Who's initiating a peace process, Cookie."
Well, the increase in prices for eggs had to do with an avian flu that killed off more than 100 million egg-bearing birds in the last couple of years. As the bird flu subsides and more birds are surviving to bear eggs, the price of eggs subside. It has nothing to do with anything Trump has done, (just as the jump in egg prices had nothing to do with anything Biden did.)
As for the early signs of decreasing prices, that could be a good thing, but too early, if so, to be credited to Trump. But, it might not be a good sign: the lowering prices could be indications of deflation, a possible harbinger of a recession. Given the Trump-created cratering of Wall Street, it is too soon to be hanging garlands around Trump's shoulders for anything.
y'all may remember, that i kept saying that back in 2024 it was going to be Michelle O'Bama as President..
Here's an article at substack by Laura Ainsworth, "explaining" WHY that DIDN'T happen..
https://govmikehuckabee.substack.com/p/finally-is-this-the-real-reason-michelle?utm_source=multiple-personal-recommendations-email&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true
basic gist:
a piece from a little over a month ago in AMERICAN THINKER by Jerome Corsi that, if he’s right, explains it. The way he tells it, Michelle, not Kamala, actually was supposed to be the nominee.
..just under 30 minutes after post-debate Biden withdrew in a social media post on X, he posted again that after deciding “not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term,” he offered his “full support and endorsement for Kamala"..
so, the idea is that Biden threw a wrench by quickly endorsing Kammy, and since Biden’s action of positioning Kamala before Michelle was an “unpardonable offense,” Corsi explains, they weren’t going to help her win. They would let HER crash-and-burn this time.
The article Also talks about the voter fraud that DIDN'T happen this time (unlike my predictions)..
There's no link to the American Thinker article, which is too bad, 'cause it is the source, and probably better
Bootyplug is making a huge mistake.
As a Senator he could at least establish a record that might conceal his record of failure. He would also demonstrate that he can win a swing state.
Without a reset his ambition will exceed his grasp.
"'In two months he has cratered Wall Street...'
"One man's crater is another man's buying opportunity."
For the few with the funds (and experience) to make profitable investment decisions.
No he can't, I mean it's not Senator from Michigan does anything but damage see the Inflation Reduction Act, that shredded the value of the dollar, and grifted everyone,
By then we will be clamoring to fully reinstate DEI......
For Dems, Pete'd be the perfect backatcha for Trump.
the rocky mountain spike and drop, suggest the value of said basket of stocks is dubious in the first place,
"One man's crater is another man's buying opportunity."
"For the few with the funds..."
I guess you're agreeing with me. That was easy.
>"Run for the White House"<
Is there anyone - besides Butty and Chasten...and Cook - who can conceive of his having a serious chance?
If so, have they been drug-tested?
Apparently Cook can't spell "correction". Which the markets have been overdue for.
Hey, Cook! If you don’t know how to end italics (or much care to), perhaps you should stop using them.
Until a member of the Biden Administration can answer why they provided cover for Biden's poor faculties, I think it'll be difficult for them to succeed in a Primary. I think the next Democrat nominee will be a Governor.
Give me the definition of 'delusional'.
Mayor Pete is way too much of a lightweight (politically) to be President. His tenure as Secretary of Transportation was mediocre and he was only a mayor a few years ago.
Like I said. All you have to do is mention,"Trump" and Robert loses his shit.
Insanity.
SIGN: On average market corrections of ten percent happen twice per year
Don't make me tap the sign...
“Tiny Dancer” Emanuel
Cookie,
You might want to try Preparation H for that extra serious butthurt of yours.
You can always count on Cook to come in on the side of the Wall Street fat cats when the working class starts getting uppity and asks for a better deal.
Hiring women for purposes of surrogacy and taking ownership of their babies, as practiced by rich people like the politician in question, is a violation of human rights and should be prohibited by statute (it is prohibited by the constitutional prohibition against slavery and the buying and selling of slaves, most prominent in the thirteenth amendment, but there need to be criminal laws in place to render that prohibition more than a dead letter). P.B. is not a good American.
Without using the word gay, list Pete's qualifications for POTUS.
Michigan elected "do nothing" Stabenow and "vote in lock step" Peters and just replaced Stabenow with Slotkin, another "vote in lock step" democrat. Bootygig may just win in our dumb-ass state. Never underestimate a state that allows Whitmer to achieve term-limited status.
I always thought that Pete was a DNC hack who along with Amy Klobishier served as stocking horses to ensure Bernie's defeat to elevate the figurehead Biden. He was rewarded with Secretary of transportation in which he had an unremarkable tenure in a failed administration.
Now he's changing his tune pivoting away from woke dei extremism and perhaps making a play for Jill and Johnny lunch bucket.
The Democrats have to do better than him.
"Hey, Cook! If you don’t know how to end italics (or much care to), perhaps you should stop using them."
Oh, I know how. Blogger has been malfunctioning sporadically recently.
Run, Pete, Run!
Underneath the slick exterior Buttigieg is a nasty little man. Put him under a little pressure it'll shine through.
The DOT Secretary, who was so bad, people knew who he was. It will be hard to overcome that basic truth. Will he want to use Biden's autopen if he and his partner acquire another baby, and he wants to take 12 weeks off (which he did despite a crippling shipping issue on the west coast).
Buttigieg running for president is a joke, right?
“Without using the word gay, list Pete's qualifications for POTUS.”
1. homosexual
2. mother
3. Indiana DIDN’T want him
4. likes travel
5. could pass for Alfred E. Neuman
6. can’t find his own ass with two hands and a map (top consideration for Democrats candidates)
“ Why Traverse City, I wonder. That's one damn cold, isolated place.”
I wonder why he did not move to Saugatuck instead. Has he become homophobic?
He could have become the Gay Bay State Obama, serve in the Senate from a blue midwestern state for six months and bam, right to the Oval.
The Lite bringer.
let's do a thought experiment for Robert. You have 37 fully grown male and female elephants in Mozambique. All 37 elephants have to arrive in Madison Wisconsin in 30 days. Well fed and healthy and they all have to arrive together. You can use any mode of transportation except the military.
Who would you trust to move all 37 elephants? Pete Buttigieg or Donald Trump?
Show your work.
I used to read that he’s fluent in Norwegian. Ok. So am I. Let’s hear it, Pete.
car·pet·bag·ger
[ˈkärpətˌbaɡər]
noun
informal
derogatory
a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.
BootyJudge doesn't have much game. He should have called Hillary Clinton for advice. She has game.
So instead of word salad we'll be getting tossed salad.
For one PB doesn't really live in Michigan except on paper and Michiganders are fully aware of this fact. The Democrat establishment could easily "grant" PB the senate nomination (IYKYK) but he really has no local popular support and Gay Democrats fundraising soirees in San Francisco or New York City don't count.bIt's probably the smart choice to sit the MI senate race out because he wouldn't win and it would just be an embarrassment to run for office here and lose. Mayor Pete should have rehomed himself in Massachusetts or California.
"A trenchant, considered, and mature assessment...".
a standard that the vast majority of your posts fail to meet....
It is amusing that Pete moved to Michigan as a pretty obvious ploy to run for Senator. But that's out. (How bad was the internal polling?).
I hope "Mayor Pete" does run for POTUS. I hope he garners TONS of campaign contributions over the next 3+ years. Identity politics is all he really offered and that's on a steep, downhill slope. His chance of being selected by the Democrats are laughably low - we've all seen him in inaction. But for POTUS? Odds are rapidly approaching zero.
Imagine day 1.
Hiring 1,000,000 Government workers.
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