Tussi Gabbard she will be declaring next week  that she will run for the 2020 election. Any thoughts on her? I have not heard of her until now. I love how more women are up to the challenge. I have read that Kamal Harris is also thinking of running.Â
She gives me the creeps. Â Some of her positions may be progressive, but there's something about her that makes me very uneasy. She met with Assad, and is somewhat pro-Russia. Â I am really suspicious of her. Â Every time I see her on TV I get the worst feeling. She's bad news.Â
Lynn might be on to something. I don't think she should be given a free pass just because she is associated with Sanders and the progressive wing of the Democratic party. Her defining positions revolve around foreign policy, and she has described herself as "hawkish" when it comes to terrorism (as opposed to being "a dove" on regime change). She supported enhanced vetting procedures for asylum seekers from Syria and Iraq during the Obama years, which earned her the admiration of Steve Bannon. She is also friendly towards Narendra Modi, the Hindu nationalist prime minister of India who turned a blind eye towards pogroms of Muslim communities in Gujarat in the early 200os.Â
But just looking at the stage being set for the 2020 elections, I'm not sure her stated campaign focus of "war and peace" is going to stand out in an election cycle that will probably be defined by domestic economic issues. She may just end up being one more face among many contenders.
She makes me nervous because during one of the RV exercises, I saw a dark haired woman on the podium for the 2021 inauguration. I saw that some people were cheering, thinking things were finally going to change, but many were crying because they saw the woman as fake/a liar, who was going to further betray the country. At the time of the exercise I thought maybe it was Nikki Halley, but she looked like Tulsi Gabbard as well...
Tulsi is bad news. Been doing research. She's very pro Assad, Trump and anti-Gay. https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-conservative-media-and-the-far-right-love-tulsi-gabbard-for-president
I read about her anti-gay positions (which she has now retracted) and some other stuff after I posted my comments a few days ago. I also thought about the prediction that Laura refers to in her post. I'm telling you folks, she gives me a bad feeling. Can she be another Russian plant? Â I feel like she could be. Bluebelle, I hope you're right and she's just a meh. I fear she's something more.
My gut on her is she's an opportunist. I look for congruence in a person, an internal consistency. Â I see it in Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Barack Obama. I do not see it in Gabbard and I do not trust her.Â
Thank you, Jessi, Â for staring this important thread and for the rest of you for weighing in. I couldn't catch up to it until now, and am so glad you all jumped in. Â
I am also concerned about Tulsi. I think while some of her economic ones are ok, her social ones aren't.