Every Republican and Trump supporter should be begging former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to run for president purely based on his ignorance of all things political.
In Atlanta on Monday, Schultz, who has yet to declare his candidacy as an independent, told a crowd of supporters that he was confounded at the criticism directed his way from Democrats.
“I’ve never thought I’d be criticized as much,” he said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “I didn’t think this would be a character assassination … I think the concerns the American people have are greater than the threat to the two-party system.”
Schultz, my baby boy, you’ve seen nothing so far. That he didn’t expect even the most predictable criticism, that he’s rich and wants to buy the election, says everything about his limited frame of reference in politics.
It’s more naive than his debut pre-campaign op-ed in USA Today, wherein Schultz rattled of the most trite, overused themes in every election ever.
“Imagine if our country were more united,” began Schultz, in earnest, if you can believe it. “If we were stronger, safer, more respected, fair, compassionate and prosperous.”
Wow, where is this man’s Nobel Prize?
That was back in January, and now he’s revealing himself to be even more ignorant than anyone thought.
He didn’t anticipate that Democrats would attack his candidacy?
This is the person who thinks he can beat President Trump, who at least anticipated he’d be scrutinized to some degree, even as no one could have foreseen the hostile reception he got from all of the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and the national news media.
In his first major political speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2011, Trump was as clear-eyed as Schultz is oblivious.
From Trump’s remarks: “During my lifetime, I’ve always been told that a person of great accomplishment and achievement cannot become a politician or run for political office because there are too many enemies, both very smart and not so smart, strewn along this highway to success. … [E]ven the most successful of them leave themselves open to great criticism from the many that they have beaten and those that have watched the battles. The fact is, this theory of a very successful person running for office is rarely tested because most successful people don’t want to be scrutinized or abused. … And this is why we don’t have the kind of people that we should have running for office.”
Yes, your character is assaulted when you run for office, especially by the party that has everything to lose by your running. Schultz is apparently taken aback by that fact.
That Schultz didn’t expect any of it before throwing himself into the field is all the more reason Republicans and Trump supporters should be pleading that he keep going. Democrats, though, have a lot to be afraid of.
