Love Was Not Enough to Save Marianne Williamson's Candidacy

[brooklynite]

Daily Beast

“Reports of the end of my campaign have been drastically exaggerated today,” Marianne Williamson tweeted after laying off her entire campaign staff—as one does when one is ending one’s campaign. But not Marianne—Marianne insists that she is not ending her campaign just because she’s fired all her staff.

And maybe you don’t need staff for “a moral and spiritual awakening in the country.” I mean, that sounds a little bit like something one might need staff for, but let’s not forget that Marianne occupies a spiritual plane, a place where one does not need the normal human accoutrements that weigh down regular mortal candidates.

And for someone who is running to “fundamentally change the patterns of our political dysfunction,” her campaign had contained a fair amount of dysfunction, not including the time she direct-messaged my mom on Twitter to complain about me. “I understand your daughter is young and doesn't know better,” Marianne wrote, “but given your own career and the fact that we've met, I would have thought you'd at least be open to a non-corporate political voice in the mix.”

But I am not here to dredge up residual bitterness. I am not using my platform to say that even though I know she was complaining about me, I sort of liked being called young, because let’s be honest, I’m 41, which is not young.

[Jim Riggins]

1. thank you

Too bad she won't stick around longer for the laughs. She seems nice enough, just a tad odd, especially her views on immunizations. Thanks for the funny article.

[gopiscrap]

9. welcome to DU

[rampartc]

2. she sold a few books

and if she wants to be ambassador to someplace nice, maybe Nepal, our president should appoint her.

[crazytown]

3. The Vatican

[mitch96]

4. Yup, she can take her course in miracles with her. That would go over bigly......... nt

[TidalWave46]

6. "If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too." Bernie Sanders

[Mike Nelson]

5. If it's a "spiritual awakening in the country,"

... how about a spiritual staff, meaning a staff of spirits? I'd be much cheaper!

[TidalWave46]

7. I really liked her candidacy and she spoke very very well for us.

She was running on one of the best and most robust platforms. She was king of letting it all hang out with her platform before Yang was. That is not a shot at Yang. Just the opposite. Both he and Williamson "put it in writing" for all to see.

[Polly Hennessey]

8. Good grief, go away.

The Hollywood celebrities miss you.