This Is Not My Kind of Democrat

Tulsi Gabbard appears on Hannity and criticizes the impeachment inquiry process by saying she doesn’t know what’s going on behind closed doors and that she wants transparency pic.twitter.com/au4Zyyhv0B

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) October 25, 2019

Just to follow up on my previous piece--if someone runs to Fox News to distinguish herself from the other Democrats by airing out Democratic Party laundry, she is clearly not my kind of Democrat, but what's more, if she shows up on Hannity echoing Republican talking points regarding the impeachment investigation?

No. Just no. Don't talk to me about her service or any factor that is supposed to make her a viable and interesting candidate--and shouldn't her fellow 2020 Dem candidates feel a little red-assed having tried to defend her? This is her game. She doesn't want the Democratic base. She knows what she's polling at. She's in it for something else, and frankly, I don't care what it is, it isn't good.

A little while ago, we got a kind of retraction of the mistake that Hillary Clinton was claiming that Gabbard was being groomed by the Russians, and she was actually saying it was the GOP grooming her for a third party run. That's a little harder to argue about once you see her spouting Republican talking points on Hannity, isn't it?

Also, FOX Business has a big old scoop that Wall Street is fixing to see her do a third party run. Wall Street--so I guess that's great news for the people who saw her as part of the real left, right?

I'm just saying, there might be Democrats who like the way she rips so-called "Establishment Democrats" like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, but seriously consider who she performing that dance for. She's doing it for conservative eyes, to make the left look fucked up. Our fuck-ups, they are real, but not the way she represents them to conservatives for her own benefit.

And yes, she's just doing what she was always going to do anyway, with or without Hillary Clinton having said so much as a word about it. It is what it is. All anyone can do is tell it on a mountain: she's not your kind of Democrat, either. She's no one's kind of Democrat. Because the bottom line for any real left person is beating Trump, not splitting votes. And spitting on some of our successful party leaders and bad-mouthing the impeachment inquiry like she doesn't have eyes to see Trump has done any wrong tells us a real story about what she actually is.