Meghan McCain Corners Howard Schultz With A Great Point

I don’t really know of anyone who wants former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to run for president.

I love our country, and I am seriously considering running for president as a centrist independent.

— Howard Schultz (@HowardSchultz) January 28, 2019

This moment is like no other. Our two parties are more divided than ever. Let’s discuss how we can come together to create opportunities for more people. #ReimagineUS https://t.co/9UY46OTO0I

— Howard Schultz (@HowardSchultz) January 28, 2019

So yeah. He’d run as an independent.

“In order to run as a Democrat today, you have to fall in line with free Medicare for everybody—free—free college for everybody, a free job for everybody,”@HowardSchultz tells us why he would run as an Independent in 2020. “We can’t afford to do it free” https://t.co/PCMHBZ9q65 pic.twitter.com/dOAYaeVAVp

— The View (@TheView) January 29, 2019

I’m glad he realizes that money doesn’t grow on trees, but he’s forgetting that he’s still SUPER LIB on so many issues– abortion being one of them. He doesn’t think that’s a problem, though.

“Did you support Brett Kavanaugh?” Meghan McCain asked.

“I would have not,” Schultz replied.”

“You already lost me. I’m really pro-life,” McCain said. “Which lane are you going in?”

“This is the problem,” Schultz said. “We should be able to disagree on those kinds of issues and yet come together on what’s most important for the country.”

Um…no. That’s a HUGE determining issue for a lot of Americans. It’s not a “petty” issue that we can overlook. If you’re not pro-life, I can’t support you.

“But being conservative and my conservative pro-life values are very important to me,” McCain argued. “You’re trying to win over, I assume, a lot of Republicans, and there are just some issues we won’t meet on the middle on.”

Bingo.

McCain argued against trying to dislodge the two-party system that’s been in place since Reconstruction. She said it would just serve to help President Donald Trump’s reelection, which Schultz claims to want to stop.

“If you can live with the hypothetical situation that you get Trump reelected, that’s fine, but no one seems terribly convinced that this is a possible—” she said.

“You’re putting words in my mouth,” he retorted. “I won’t live with President Trump being reelected because that’s not going to happen.”

Schultz concluded by saying abortion and “cultural issues” are not important compared to fiscal issues.

Wrong. You are WRONG, Howard.

“I think the most important thing facing the country right now is not the issue of abortion or the cultural issues that divide us,” he said. “The most important thing facing the country right now is answering the question in the affirmative and that is: Do we believe that our children and our grandchildren are going to have a better life than we do? And most Americans believe that is not the case, and that is unacceptable to me. So I want to do everything I can to restore a sense of financial security and a real belief in the promise of the country.”

He’s totally missing it. There’s no way America is going to buy what he’s selling.

h/t Free Beacon