By Tiana Lowe | Washington Examiner
(Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are published for discussion purposes only.)
Multiple conservatives floated an excellent idea in the past week: Kyrsten Sinema, they independently note, would be an incredibly compelling running mate, especially for Joe Biden.
The Arizona senator, a young Gen Xer at age 43, would bring much-needed youth to a ticket that, if successful, would give us the oldest president in our nation’s history. She’s a moderate who wouldn’t alienate swing state voters, and she’s already demonstrated raw political prowess that a Biden presidency could cultivate. If Biden actually did step down after a single term of a boring presidency, Sinema would be poised to replace him.
But more importantly, she would drive the Left crazy.
Sinema is a bisexual woman, which the Left loves. But if the smear campaign against 2020 contender Pete Buttigieg has proven anything, it’s that the Left reviles queer candidates who step a single toe out of line with the intersectional agenda. Buttigieg is an out and proud gay man who parades his husband on the campaign trail, yet from the New Republic to BuzzFeed, the intersectional Left can’t stop smearing Buttigieg for being the wrong kind of gay man: the kind who cares about all sorts of evil, right-wing things such as faith, family, and fairness.
