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.
Tulsi has some really good positions, being for Medicare for All, Green New Deal etc. I do hope though that when it comes to voting, Progressives rally around one candidate so they don't split the vote.
She gives me the creeps. 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. I am really suspicious of her. Every time I see her on TV I get the worst feeling. She's bad news.
Lynn and Coyote, my "radar" about Tussi Gabbard is a huge "meh."
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? I feel like she could be. Bluebelle, I hope you're right and she's just a meh. I fear she's something more.
I’ve been reading more about Tulsi, too.... Yuck. It’s hard to believe she’s a Democrat. Throw in the fact that Steve Bannon likes her and this whole candidacy seems fishy. Will keep an eye on this.
My gut on her is she's an opportunist. I look for congruence in a person, an internal consistency. 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.
Thank you, Jessi, 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.
I am also concerned about Tulsi. I think while some of her economic ones are ok, her social ones aren't.