Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is not a household name, so I thought I would do a little research into her positions and how she plans to be the Democrat nominee that can defeat President Trump in 2020.

You may have seen her make her announcement in the middle of a Minneapolis park during a snow storm on February 10, 2019. A few hundred not-so-brave souls – they’re used to weather like that – were there to enthusiastically cheer her on while drinking hot chocolate and cider.

“It’s not the size of the crowd,” she says, “it’s the size of the fight in the crowd.” Often referred to as “Minnesota Nice,” Klobuchar talks of “community,” and refers to them as her family-friends and neighbors.

While jotting down some of her comments on just why she was running, I couldn’t help but wonder where she’s been the last two years and whether she knows her opposition.

“I will tell you what I think. I will focus on getting things done,” she said. What’s new? Trump was elected talking to people in plain English and followed through on his promises.

Though she didn’t mention the president by name, she accused him of “wallowing over what’s wrong, (without) marching inexorably toward what’s right,” That’s not the President Trump I know.

Again, without mentioning Trump’s name, she thought it was cute to refer to his “foreign policy by tweet.” Trump has done more for us around the world than Obama, Hillary and Kerry together.

She reeled off a typical liberal feel-good line: “I will heal the heart of democracy and renew our commitment to the common good,” after proclaiming “It’s time to take back our democracy.”

What a tired liberal line.

Boasting of her Midwestern roots, Klobuchar exclaimed, “This is the moment for the Midwest, we don’t want to be forgotten again in a national election.” Surely, was thinking of Hillary ignoring flyover country, because it was Trump who connected with the people of the Midwest and told them they would not be forgotten. And he has lived up to that.

Klobuchar is scheduled to appear in Iowa later this month, where she is barely known. Fifty-four percent of Iowa caucus goers never heard of her. She was the first choice of just three percent of Iowa Democrats. In the RealClear survey of 2020 hopefuls, she came in at 1.3 percent. John Norris, an Iowa-based Democrat strategist said, “I don’t know that coming from Minnesota gives her any advantage with Iowans.”

She says she has “no political machine, doesn’t come from money, but she has grit.” She’ll soon find it will take more than that. She also has no grassroots backing. And I understand that three people have already withdrawn from consideration to lead her campaign.

That could be because of her known temperament issues with extensive staff turnover. Some worry about that, but Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com believes that “without salacious details, it’s not the sort of scandal that voters are liable to care about all that much.”

Silver wrote that she “doesn’t have any obvious strategy to appeal to blacks, Hispanics and Asians which make up about 40 percent of the Dem primary electorate.

While some progressives say she lacks the kind of fire and bold ideas needed to bring about significant change and excite voters, Silver says she just “may be scrappier, blunter, more sarcastic and more emotive than people are expecting.”

Klobuchar claims to be a pragmatist, willing to work with Republicans, yet as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, she did her best to block the president’s nominees of Neil Gorsuch and Bret Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Evidence of her double standard position on sexual misconduct, I recall how she incessantly badgered Kavanaugh, but did not call for Sen. Al Franken to step down for his issues with women.

While announcing her intention to reinstate Obama’s Clean Power program, to revisit gas mileage standards for autos and trucks, and return to the Paris Accord on climate change, she quietly endorsed Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s wacko Green New Deal.

She has not shied away from the desire for the nation to adopt Universal Health Care, but has advocated letting people to buy into Medicare. She would also like to see the Medicare eligibility lowered to age 55.

She has also vowed to overturn Citizens United, which allows unions and corporations to spend unlimited sums on campaigns.

She wants to see all eligible voters, including those turning 18, to automatically be registered to vote.

Lastly, Klobuchar prefers to be called a “progressive,” but she’s a liberal through and through. “No matter what, I’ll lead from the heart,” she said in the snow storm.

“She’s got a lot of heart and compassion for others,” said Brenda Kivi of Minneapolis, who went on to point out that “There’s too much divisiveness right now, we need to bring people together.”

A nice thought, but Klobuchar and her Democrat colleagues have contributed greatly to it.

By now you should understand that all of the talk about her being a moderate centrist was just to make you believe that she isn’t one of those leftists, but she is.

ANOTHER UNINFORMED JOURNALIST – NBC’s Marianna Sotomayor, writing @MariannaNBCNews, proudly proclaimed, “For the first time in history there is more than one female politician running for president. Sen. Klobuchar became the fifth woman to announce today.”

Unfortunately, like most lazy journalists today, Sotomayor failed to do proper research. In 2016, three women, Hillary Clinton, Jill Stein and Carly Fiorina, ran for president. In 1972, Patsy Mink and Shirley Chisholm ran for president.

With little name recognition, Mink only received primary votes of any measure in Oregon and Maryland, and did not have her name submitted for Democrat nomination.

            May God bless the United States of America.