Posted on 06/25/2015 2:38:09 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
According to PBS, Bernie Sanders is "gaining against Clinton in early polls." Salon's Bill Curry believes "Hillary Clinton is going lose," primarily because millions of voters longing for a truly progressive candidate will nominate Sanders. POLITICO explained recently that Early-state polls hint at a Bernie Sanders surge, a headline that was unthinkable only several months earlier. Yahoo's Meredith Shiner calls Sanders a "progressive social media star and pragmatic legislator" and states that "Sanders also has a much more substantial legislative history" than any GOP challenger. In Iowa, 1,100 people packed a gym to hear Bernie Sanders speak in May.
In contrast, Team Hillary had an intimate business roundtable discussion with five "ordinary" Iowans. The only problem was that according to The Washington Post, "All five were selected to attend her events." In fact, Clinton's "staged roundtables" were attended by a total of 13 Iowans, picked by either the campaign or the host.
Therefore, a paradigm shift has taken place. Many Iowans drove 50 miles to hear Sanders speak in Des Moines, primarily because Bernie Sanders has surpassed Clinton as the ideal choice for Democratic nominee. Regarding electability, Sanders has also surpassed Clinton as the realistic choice for Democratic nominee in the minds of many voters, because as one Salon piece illustrates, Hillary "just doesn't get it."
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Bush vs Obama more likely. Why would SCOTUS stop Obama from running again?
Awesome. This generation’s George McGovern, another darling of the ultra-libs, which describes the majority of the Dimocrats these days.
People are glad to see Hilary being eclipsed.
But this speaks volumes about the present day democrat party
Bernie Sanders is not only a socialist he looks and sounds mentally challenged. And the modern day democrat base wants him to be President.
I’m for Bernie over H!.
Bernie is too “pro gun” for liberals, of course he still has plenty of time to “evolve” on the issue.
Ding, ding, ding ... We have a winner !
I have been saying this all along, after all who do you think has been leaking all of the negative press about Hitlery anyway ?
More like nobody vs obama. There isn’t going to be a 2016 election. What do you think all the bull$#!+ of the last week is laying the groundwork for? obama is going nowhere....mark my words!......red
Hillary isn’t bat-sh*t crazy enough for democrats?
I would gladly vote for someone like George McGovern.
McGovern was at least somewhat skeptical of unions.
During World War II, he flew 35 combat missions as a B-24 bomber pilot in Europe, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross.
After leaving Congress, McGovern bought a Connecticut inn. He failed to make it work. He wrote in The Wall Street Journal, “In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of such a business ... I also wish that during the years I was in public office, I had had this firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day.”
In a couple of April 1972 speeches, he seemed to second Barry Goldwater’s 1968 remark to aide Karl Hess that “When the histories are written, I’ll bet that the Old Right and the New Left are put down as having a lot in common and that the people in the middle will be the enemy.”
“[M]ost Americans see the establishment center as an empty, decaying void that commands neither their confidence nor their love,” McGovern asserted a campaign speech. “It is the establishment center that has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster—a terrible cancer eating away the soul of the nation. … It was not the American worker who designed the Vietnam war or our military machine. It was the establishment wise men, the academicians of the center. As Walter Lippmann once observed, ‘There is nothing worse than a belligerent professor.’”
The law means what this administration says it means, and if it says Obama can be President-for-life then that’s that
Thats impossible.
Every Dem I talk to explains to me that Democrats are NOT Socialists/Communists, and that I need to stop listening to talk radio.
The fact is, Hillary could easily pull back into the lead if she simply declares now that as President, she will se up concentration camps and rid the country of EVIl capitalists.
But she is probably saving that for later...
‘Cruz vs Sanders. Reagan vs. Carter. Just sayin.’
I’d REALLY like to agree but this is a different country than 1980.
This Nation, in many regions, has dramatically drifted into hardcore state sponsored collectivist.
Never underestimate one’s enemy....
Now if only Hillary will become this generation’s Muskie.
well hearys anyway. democrats have no minds.
It is probably written in the health care law or the secret trade deal.
“Why would SCOTUS stop Obama from running again?”
They wouldn’t. The 9 political hacks in black muumuus have demonstrated that no rock will remain unturned in their quest to jam progressivism down our throats.
Unfortunately, we voted for it.
Funny thing is that Obama doesn’t have to “run “ again. All he needs is 270 Electoral College votes and those can be granted without a “General” election. I know, scary, right?
And he doesn't just get to just ignore the 22nd Amendment. Things will get ugly, Jade Helm or not. Don't assume American soldiers will simply follow orders to gun all of us down.
Ted will get arrested for elder abuse in the debates.
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