The considerations I would have for someone prepared to run for the US House apparently have no meaning for the Trumpie Base. They don't even have meaning for Trump: Trump is stupid enough to evaluate his judicial candidates against an Ivy League standard of attending Harvard, Yale, Princeton and so forth.
But I was concerned when Ocasio-Cortez was introduced as "a former bartender." What would she bring to bear on understanding how the
Congress works? I was much relieved to see that she had finished her degree at Boston University. She is no light-weight. She will have the preparation necessary to stand on her own against the opposition and its duplicitous tactics.
This also says something about her character. Trump, on the other hand, wants to boast about his Penn-State Wharton-School pedigree. After observing him all these years, he didn't take much of it seriously. His reading and writing skills of today don't fit that pedigree -- or any reasonably educated person from so much as a state school.
He boasts about what he doesn't have; she barely mentions what she does have.
Guess Pelosi is not impressed with her either...maybe she is still pissed off about Crowley losing to her....
Pelosi
dismissed speculation in a news conference earlier Wednesday, saying Ocasio-Cortez's win should not be seen as a larger movement within the party at the national level.
"They made a choice in one district. So let’s not get yourself carried away as an expert on demographics and the rest of that," Pelosi said.
"Within the caucus or outside the caucus, we are ... again, we have an array of genders, generations, geography, and there is opinion in our caucus, and we’re proud of that," she added.
"The fact that in a very progressive district in New York it went more progressive than ... well,
Joe Crowley is a progressive, but she’s more left than
Joe Crowley, is about that district. It is not to be viewed as something that stands for anything else."