Putin and Assad will just run proxy campaigns for her.
ISIS will run a proxy campaign for her opponents.
I've never gotten why her Syria trip is trashed as a bad move.
If ISIS (or any other rebels) win, she can play Obama vs. Iraq while pointing at the resulting disaster AND paint herself as a realist on foreign policy.
If Assad wins she can say convincingly that he was better than the people he was fighting, play the realist and "I was right" cards. (Extra points here if disgruntled Islamic radicals pull off a major terror attack on the West/US in the meantime.)
If it's still going on, she can point out that she would have ended the conflict long ago if she were in charge.
Among anyone at all likely to vote for her, there is no downside.
When has a candidate who has not even been a Governor or a Senator won the Democratic nomination? It has not happened in more than a 100 years - From FDR to Truman to JFK to LBJ to Carter to Clinton to Obama, they were all Governors or Senators!
Has Gabbard done anything to even show interest? She is busy trying to keep her seat in Congress where she faces an assault from Neera Tanden & the Clinton hacks! Maizie Hirono is running for re-election for Senate in 2018 which means no seat will be vacant by 2024 (at the earliest).
Gabbard is only 36. And given her age, even if she decides to run for POTUS, 2028 election may be the earliest possible for her (And she may never run !)
Exactly. It's very unlikely she'll even run anyway, but people keep touting her here which causes the backlash.
Good observation.
And for the record, no member of either party has gone straight from the House to the White House except Rutherford B. Hayes.
