Sherrod Brown Thinks We're Looking For A No-Can-Do President-- He's Wrong

I didn't bother writing a Worst Democraps Who Want To Be President post about one of the very worst Democraps trying to run, New Dem multimillionaire John Delaney. That's because he's not really a threat to anyone any more. He sold his Maryland House seat to David Trone and then moved to Iowa about a year ago. He isn't gaining any traction. He rarely breaks 1% in the polls. He's a joke candidate and I spent enough time writing about how horrible he is when he was in Congress.

This is John Delaney, although he loves to say: "People have a hard time labeling me. Some of the things they hear me talking about are on the total progressive or liberal end of the spectrum, and in other ways I'm kind of a solutions-oriented moderate who wants to get things done," snidely implying-- the way Hillary did-- that progressives don't get things done.

Fact of the matter is, centrists like Delaney (and Status Quo Joe Biden), sit around with their fingers up their asses when it's time for action to get the big and important things done. It was the progressive movement, not the centrists, who fought for and passed Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, free public education, corporate regulations, union rights, women's suffrage, emancipation of the slaves, the Bill of Rights (which politicians like Delaney and Biden bitterly opposed) and... even independence from Great Britain. "Moderates" and centrists have had plenty of time to fix this (below). Why haven't they? Really, why?

So... where does that leave Sherrod Brown, the fella in the video up at the top of the page? I don't think he has the character to be a good president. He's not terrible and in many ways he has even been excellent from time to time on one thing or another-- particularly trade and labor. Worst Democraps Who Want To Be President? No, not at all. I just don't trust him to do the right thing as president-- #3 of Chris Hayes' diktat:

Yesterday he was on CNN's State of the Union and, once again, he defined himself as one of the "that's too hard to do" crowd. The time for Medicare-For-All is now. 70% of the American public backs it. But it's too difficult for Sherrod Brown? Sherrod Brown should stay in the Senate and debate and get nowhere near the presidency (and that includes the #2 spot). If the debate was over the Bill of Rights, Brown would be suggesting we just do 3 or 4 amendments and that 10 are way too many and we'll never get it through and it's going to cause people "angst and anguish." He's just the wrong guy as a person-- who sometimes backs good policy but... just watch that video. Do you want that stumbling fool in the White House? And he sounds like a Republican when he backs himself into a rhetorical corner.

This is CNN's tweet about the show. But make the effort to read those comments under it. Sherrod Brown For President is DOA.