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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf their litmus test for a president is someone they can sit and drink beer with, and
Trump is their pick, doesn't it make you wonder about the company they keep?
Rapists, Racists and faux-Christians. What mirror exists today that will help them see what they've become?

Wicked Blue
(8,047 posts)PeaceWave
(1,536 posts)The whole "vote for the guy you'd rather sit down and have a beer with" was concocted by Karl Rove in reference to George W. Bush. In typical GOP style though, this was a cynically illogical selling point - George W. Bush was a recovering alcoholic.
TwilightZone
(28,835 posts)And neither did W.
lame54
(38,085 posts)TwilightZone
(28,835 posts)Bartenders have said they think they served Donald some 30-odd years ago, but there doesn't seem to be much evidence that he's drinking now with the possible exception of swigging ketchup from the bottle when he's stressed and before he throws it across the room.
Besides, Trump has plenty of other addictions to take the place of alcohol, like drugs, sexual assault, and sex with women who aren't his wife.
There was a rather famous article written in the 1930s called "Dictators Don't Drink". Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini were known teetotalers.
Need more proof than that?
W was a born-ago doofus. Sobriety is often part of the deal.
We don't know 100% in either case, but I don't see a lot of reason not to take them at their word for the sake of irony.
lame54
(38,085 posts)TwilightZone
(28,835 posts)You clearly missed the joke.
People should really chill the fuck out once in a while and not take every, single thing so seriously.
Have a nice day.
lame54
(38,085 posts)You stick your umbrella into wheelchair spokes too?
no_hypocrisy
(51,958 posts)chilled white wine for being an elitist.
They'll find some superficial reason to attack her.
(BTW, I never understood why Shrub was labeled as the kind of President you'd drink beer with as supposedly he was/is a reformed alcoholic. And TSF also eschews alcohol. What kind of idiotic litmus test is this?)
TwilightZone
(28,835 posts)This is one of those times. I made a similar comment above about Trump and W not drinking. It was a litmus test that would never actually be tested, should the opportunity arise.
In fairness, it's kind of a catch-all phrase that basically means hang out, but it's more fun to point out the ridiculous of it when taken literally.
Baitball Blogger
(50,258 posts)BTW, someone who is truly objective about their selections (votes for both Republican and Democrats) was not happy about the Harris selection because she giggles too much. Omigod. She doesn't think Harris is serious enough.
I can't wait for them to see Harris's serious side. Just saying. Watching her prosecutorial side shine in some of those Congressional hearings left me giggling like a school girl.
lame54
(38,085 posts)And not get up for a bathroom break