Vivek for Ohio

[Mik]

Man, his website is long on promises and utterly devoid of policy.

[jon-nyc]

I think a lot of his admirers would call him an empty suit if he was their boss's boss.

[Horace]

A random person's boss's boss would have a vanishingly small likelihood of being as objectively successful as Mr Ramaswamy.

[jon-nyc]

True but somewhat irrelevant. My comment is fundamentally about Vivek himself, not about boss's bosses.

[Mik]

I don't think he's an empty suit at all. he's a very smart, accomplished guy and driven. My concern is he first ran for president, then wanted Vance's Senate seat, didn't get either one so now he wants to be governor. It has the appearance that all he wants is a springboard to higher office. He hath a lean and hungry look.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc I am very sure Mr Ramaswamy can understand the details of a business well enough to impress his report's reports that he knows what he is talking about at the ground level of his business. That means he wouldn't come off as an empty suit. You don't like his politics, so he emerges in your mind in any number of negative, dismissible framings. That's how your mind operates with people you hate. That only says something about how you think, nothing else.

[Doctor Phibes]

I think he's an annoying gobshite.

Analyse that.

[Horace]

Totally reasonable to consider him an annoying whatever, after his behavior in the primary debates. He was objectively an annoying whatever.

[Mik]

Sure, I do too. But since that description applies to 90 percent of pols Wed do well to stick to substance.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in Vivek for Ohio:

Sure, I do too. But since that description applies to 90 percent of pols Wed do well to stick to substance.

I felt that he transcended the normal boundaries of political society in his outpourings which were, as you might say, embued with a very sticky substance.