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Tulsi Gabbard Has a Sad

It rings hollow when the powers that be point out the obvious — that you are not viable — and the non-viable candidate starts crying foul.

Andrew Donaldson
7 min readAug 30, 2019
Photo by marcn via Wikimedia Commons

Successful presidential campaigns almost always have a catchy slogan.

“Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”

“54–40 or fight”

“A Fair Deal for All”

“Happy Days are Here Again”

“I Like Ike”

“Let’s Make America Great Again” (Reagan Version)

“Thousand Points of Light”

“Bridge to the 21st Century”

“Hope and Change”

“Make America Great Again” (Trump Version Slight Reprise)

“Exceeded 2% support in 26 national and early state polls, but only two of them are on the DNC’s ‘certified’ list”

That last one is real inspiring, ain’t it?

Such is the current situation Rep. Tulsi Gabbard finds herself in.

Let us pause to stipulate a couple of things here: The baseball team-sized primaries that just this week limited the next debate to 10 hasn’t done anyone any favors. The DNC, coming off a campaign in 2016 where they coronated Hillary Clinton years…

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Andrew Donaldson
Andrew Donaldson

Written by Andrew Donaldson

Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Veteran. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag on culture & politics, food writing @yonderandhome, Host @heardtellshow & other media

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