Looks like “Mayor Pete” aka Alfred E. Neuman Buttigieg has quickly learned the game of Democrat flip-flop. After praising both touchy, feely Biden and socialist Bernie Sanders, Buttigieg is now bashing the two old farts. The Democrat clown debates in a couple of weeks may not just be anti-Trump TV. Some, who are low in the polls and desperate like Alfred E. Buttigieg may actually attack Biden and Sanders.
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Appearing on CBS News’ Face the Nation, Buttigieg, both an Afghanistan War veteran and naval reservist, hit Biden for his support of the Iraq War.
“I certainly think that vote was a mistake and I have a different view on that conflict,” he said per The Hill, later adding that he “opposed [it] as a student and continue[s] to think it was a terrible idea.”
Buttigieg also took aim at Sanders, whom he once wrote about in a high school essay, praising him as courageous for referring to himself as a “Socialist.” The Indiana Democrat said the time has come for Sanders to step aside so a new generation may lead.
“It’s not unusual, in a moment like this, to admire somebody and also find yourself competing with them,” he told host Margaret Brennan. “But I have a different approach. I have a somewhat different message and I represent a very different messenger.”
“The values that make us Democrats shouldn’t change,” he added. “We’ve got to find a different vocabulary around them. We’ve got to find a way to communicate, in terms of real-world impact, what it means to go with a progressive direction, rather than stay on this drift that we have right now in Washington.”