The guy’s name will do more for his losing than anything else he does. A senator can have that name, definitely a house rep, but no way is a president is going to be named Buttigieg.
It’s the middle school equivalent to cooties, which is exactly where we’re at with politics.
I think the election of a black guy named Barack Hussein Obama should have put to bed the conventional wisdom that a candidate can’t win unless he or she has a conventional “American-sounding” name.
I look forward to being proved wrong. Even more so, I would like Pete to be so successful, they replace Washington’s mug with Pete’s face on the dollar bill.
Then I can have a garage sale and say, “that’ll be 3 Butts” when someone want’s to buy my Obama Chia Pet.
If a majority of Americans can learn to pronounce names like “Daenerys Targaryen” and “Daario Naharis” then they shouldn’t have much trouble getting used to “Pete Buttigieg.”
At least he knows how silly (or hard to pronounce) his name is.
I prefer “Buddha Judge.” No special reason, just 2 words instead of 3.
This topic was automatically closed after 5 days. New replies are no longer allowed.
