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Cynthia Dill: Democrats need to cull the fringe – starting with Bernie Bros
The Portland Press-Herald ^ | February 26, 2017 | Cynthia Dill

Posted on 02/27/2017 1:10:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

You can put a progressive T-shirt on a pig, but it’s still a pig, not a donkey.

Sen. Bernie Sanders knows it – he’s from Vermont, after all – and he derided the boorish gang of sexist, aggressive bullies known as “Bernie Bros” who were hiding behind some of his presidential campaign signs last fall. “Look, we don’t want that crap,” Sanders said of the explicit misogyny demonstrated by people who purported to be his supporters.

Amen, Senator, and let us pray the newly elected Democratic National Committee chair doesn’t want that crap either. For electoral success in 2018 and beyond, the need for a big tent is obvious, but that doesn’t mean Democrats must give a hero’s welcome to any old pig who wanders in just because he’s sporting the right T-shirt.

And speaking of big: It’s strange, isn’t it, that President Trump’s “message” resonated with white women?

According to Vox, Hillary Clinton picked up 54 percent of women voters nationally in the 2016 election, compared with Trump’s mere 42 percent. But Trump outperformed Clinton among white women, winning 53 percent of voters in that demographic....

(Excerpt) Read more at pressherald.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: bernie; hillary; sanders; trump

1 posted on 02/27/2017 1:10:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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White female voters - were these guys even on your radar in November?


2 posted on 02/27/2017 1:12:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Cynthia Dill is a leading Hillary suck-up.


3 posted on 02/27/2017 1:15:15 PM PST by dirtboy
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So it would seem.


4 posted on 02/27/2017 1:17:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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https://www.google.com/search?q=cynthia+dill+hillary&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS719US719&oq=cynthia+dill+hillary&aqs=chrome..69i57.4144j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


5 posted on 02/27/2017 1:18:02 PM PST by dirtboy
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Cynthia Dill sounds kind of ..... Sour!


6 posted on 02/27/2017 1:46:18 PM PST by Col Freeper (Liberals: Devoted members of the "Church of the Eternally Offended".)
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"Democrats need to cull the fringe" - we just need to zoom in a bit closer to make sure we've not missed any Fringe elements..."


7 posted on 02/27/2017 3:14:55 PM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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Ms Dull is a white woman from the he wealthiest community in Maine.


8 posted on 02/27/2017 8:43:40 PM PST by Steven Scharf
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