Why Suburbanites would show up for Amy Klobuchar

It takes a special kind of mother to raise a kid who kills it at Yale, takes a shot at being a stand-up comedian in New York City and is willing to serve up Tater Tot Hot Dish on the campaign trail while her mother runs for president.

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar’s daughter reminds us that success of strong and optimistic women begets further success.

Grit and sass is what I I saw in Klobuchar at a campaign stop in Portland, Maine on Saturday — and courage.

Amy Klobuchar is funny the old-fashioned way — clever and warm — and you’d hardly know she is 5’ 4” given the far-ranging and powerful message she delivers in a polished self-deprecating way.

She’s presidential.

Reece Witherspoon or Imelda Staunton would make a fine Amy Klobuchar in a Netflix series.

In real life Amy Klobuchar means business and I would trust her with my money and that’s why she will do well with voters from the suburbs, especially women.

I trust Klobuchar to be a prudent steward of the public purse — no free college for anyone getting a sports marketing degree, for instance — unlike Bernie Sanders who no doubt will raise taxes substantially and fail to deliver the government utopia he promises.

How could he? As a member of Congress he’s accomplished nothing of any weight legislatively. Other than almost beating Hillary Clinton what has he done?

I want action. There’s too much hot air.

That’s not to say that Sanders’ platitudes about social justice are not appreciated. What’s not to love about a Bernie barn-burner of a speech? In the old days we held up lit cigarette lighters.

But a publicly subsidized bureaucracy running everything like the post office? No thanks.

Women work harder, work more and get paid less than the guys in the neighborhood, generally speaking. We pay taxes and pay for groceries, mortgages, college and elder care with money leftover. It matters who is receiving our tax dollars and investing in government feel-good programs above and beyond compassionately meetings the needs of the general welfare of all the people.

Amy Klobuchar has passed so many bills through Congress that help ordinary Americans get ahead — 100 according to her — that her assertion of this impressive track record of accomplishment against all odds hasn’t apparently been thoroughly fact-checked by the main stream media. They don’t have time, maybe, or forgot how to research the passage of legislation.

This compared with Bernie Sanders getting seven bills passed in 30 years, two that named post offices, another setting March 4th as Vermont Bicentennial Day, and another rubbing stamping an intra-state compact?

Amy Klobuchar is flinty, empathetic, grounded in reality and laughs a lot. Her event started in Portland, Maine on a frigid day in February on time and she didn’t keep people waiting through boring introductions. No awkward questions from the audience. She’s got a record of accomplishment and a platform with real promise for improving the lives of families and businesses in America.

Everything you want in a president but don’t have.