MODERATES? WHO NEEDS MODERATES?

Advice falls on deaf ears

Former President Jimmy Carter had a little advice for his fellow Democrats in the last two months before the mid-term elections — appeal to independents and “middle of the road” voters. But if the gaggle of talking heads on far-left MSNBC is any indication, they’d just as soon he keep his opinions to himself.

A “Morning Joe” panel used the former Georgia governor’s words and took up the parlor game of determining potential 2020 presidential candidates, ones who would appeal to the “middle of the road,” someone who would be “fairly moderate, almost conservative,” politically between Carter and former President Bill Clinton.

Of course, neither former leader was “fairly moderate, almost conservative,” but the panel came up with Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and Colorado Sen. Michael Bennett. Liberal Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles and former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu were thrown in, then former liberal Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.

Realizing all those names were non-starters, show co-host Mika Brzezinski tried, “Kamala Harris,” the extreme left junior senator from California who had an embarrassing showing in the recent hearing for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh. At the co-host’s suggestion, the panel began laughing at the thought of Harris being moderate. “I’d like her to be,” Brzezinski tried.

One panelist said, “I like her a lot, but she’s not quite in that category.” Another, perhaps not realizing what he was saying, opined: “You’ve got to be able to put someone out there for the Democrats who actually knows how real people live. It can’t be a senator.”