Posted on 12/26/2019 7:24:21 AM PST by Red Badger
Good.
Put socialism vs. freedom directly in the cross-hairs of a very visible debate in the forum of ideas where socialism and its sad history fails miserably and belongs on history’s ash heap (along with Bernie’s political career).
Regardless of what happens to Comrade Bernie in the primaries his voters are a huge bloc in the Democrat Party, and they will have a large say to what happens to them in 2020.
His turn to get the Seth Rich treatment?
[snip] Sanders is in second place in national polls, nearly 9 percentage points behind Joe Biden, according to the most recent RealClearPolitics average. He is second in Iowa and first in New Hampshire... Many moderate Democrats still dismiss Sanders' candidacy... "He can't win the nomination," said Matt Bennet, co-founder of the center-left group Third Way, adding that Sanders' uptick is simply him "bouncing around between his ceiling and his floor a little bit more than people had thought he would." ...[Even recalled loser] Former California Gov. Gray Davis stopped short of saying firm support for Medicare for All would be an impediment for Democrats in the primary, but suggested the risk for the nominee is significant. "Californians and Americans in general like options -- not mandates," he said. [/snip]
Bernie’s a commie ...
If you carefully read Article 2, it merely says “each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in Congress;...”
By tradition all states allow every candidate, including minor party candidates, to name a slate of Electors. When we vote for a candidate, we are actually voting for the slate of electors “pledged” to that candidate. The slate that gets the most votes elects that candidate for that particular state.
There is nothing in the Constitution to prevent all kinds of monkeying “in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct...” If you don’t think leftists can manipulate state legislatures to alter the mechanics of presidential elections to their own benefit, you don’t have enough fearful respect for them. They can and will try to do it.
Too soon to tell...Any of them could win...Which means one of them will lose twice...
Where have liberals begun to coalesce around a candidate? In the most liberal parts of Austin, TX, there seems to be only local Democrat yard signs. They likely would have gone with Beto had he stayed in the race.
That’s right; the ancestors of the Revolutionary Green Mountain Boys are die-hard socialists.
People in VT will never figure it out!
if Bernie Sanders become the official Democrat candidate for President that would usher in the end of the Democrat political party
Even though I make fun of Vermonters for enabling this buffoon. I have met a number who love him - its the usual suspects members of the Birkenstock granola arts crowd, teachers & academics. Here in WV there’s a lot of unionistas who still have Bernie 2016 stickers on their cars. I think Bernie could have beaten Trump in 2016. Both tap into a well of anger, Trump was unknown if not somewhat suspect. Bernie’s message of free stuff unfortunately resonates with many. Trump now has a positive record so he’s not the mystery package he once was but the “free stuff” message fools many.
Bernie is NOT going to be the Democrats nomination.
If we learned nothing else about the 2016 Democrat primaries it is that they are fake. Their nominations are selected in smoke filled rooms and then they rig the primaries and the debates so their chosen candidate wins. Although this year I think they are trying for a broker convention and they have a dark horse hidden away to bring out at the last minute.
Bernie Sanders is a communist. He may get the young and stupid vote but middle America is not ready for a communist.
Bernie is also an old white guy. The Democrat “base” is already crying the blues because a person of color is not going to be participating in the debate.
The bottom line is that the Democrat’s playbook (with identity politics) is not working for 2020 when each of their special interest groups know what they promised to the other groups.
Well...considering the DNC worked completely against him in 2016, and the head Deb Shultz was forced to resign, he’s hardly got a chance this year either as you can bet if he gets too close the DNC will do whatever it takes to knock him out of their favored choice.
1. Bernie isn’t corrupt.
2. Bernie isn’t corruptible (doesn’t seek money or sex)
3. He really actually believes the stuff he’s fighting for will help. His powerful beliefs sway MANY, especially young people who don’t understand how socialism doesn’t work because of human nature
4. He’s smart and has a sense of humor and enough modesty to not appear a lying ahole like everyone else
5. He has walked his walk his entire adult life. He doesn’t flip flop or pander.
His biggest problem is that the oligarchy hates him as much as trump because they can’t ”own” either guy. This makes it actually dangerous (to his life and health) for him to get close to the nom.
As Dick Clark was the ‘World’s Oldest Teenager’, Bernie Sanders is the “World’s Oldest Hippy’....................
Just a warning to the money people to get behind the fake Indian.
Trump got a lot of BERNIE votes in 2016.
as you can bet if he gets too close the DNC will do whatever it takes to knock him out
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