{"id":31727,"date":"2018-08-11T17:03:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T17:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31727"},"modified":"2018-08-11T17:03:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T17:03:30","slug":"wanting-a-presidential-candidate-with-policy-chops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31727","title":{"rendered":"Wanting a presidential candidate with policy chops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I just watched a snippet of Michael Avenatti delivering a sort of campaign stump speech to some listeners in Iowa.<\/p>\n

The high-profile lawyer is considering<\/em> a run for the presidency. His only claim to fame\/notoriety to date has been that he represents Stormy Daniels, the porn star who says she and the future president, Donald Trump, had a fling in a hotel room back in 2006 — and that the president paid her $130,000 to keep quiet about it.<\/p>\n

Avenatti is her mouthpiece. He also is a blowhard, a celebrity who’s trying to parlay his celebrity status into something that requires a lot more of those who seek high public office.<\/p>\n

Does that remind you of anyone else? Of course it does!<\/p>\n

I’m a bit old-fashioned. I want presidents to have some public service experience. I want them to demonstrate a commitment to the public. I want them to be well-versed, well-spoken and well-educated on policy and on the nuance of government. I do not want some showboat to prance onto the political stage and bellow, “Vote for me because I am not a politician!”<\/p>\n

The 2020 election will feature, more than likely, a large field of Democratic candidates, the size of which of might rival the number of 2016 Republican candidates who sought to succeed Barack Obama as president.<\/p>\n

Given the electoral success that Donald Trump experienced in 2016, I am pretty certain that the opening-day field of Democratic contenders will include its fair share of carnival barkers, goofballs and unqualified showboats.<\/p>\n

That is how I consider Michael Avenatti, who well might be a great lawyer, but who is about as qualified to serve as president as the guy who’s in the office now. Which is to say he is patently unqualified.<\/em><\/p>\n

My hope is that Democrats can produce a newcomer, someone who isn’t much of a presence at this moment on the political horizon.<\/p>\n

That all said, I hope Avenatti sticks to lawyering and clears the field for candidates who actually know what they would do were they to get elected president.<\/p>\n\n

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