Posted on 02/12/2020 10:31:51 AM PST by rktman
As the results of the Democratic New Hampshire primary rolled in Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, NBC claimed that the supposed “moderate lane” of the liberal field was getting “a little wider,” while wondering how voters could “coalesce” around alleged “centrist” candidates and prevent socialist Senator Bernie Sanders from getting the Democratic nomination.
During a brief prime time special report Tuesday night on the election results, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd observed: “And the combined total of [Pete] Buttigieg and [Amy] Klobuchar tells you that Bernie Sanders, while winning here, has got a long way to go to build a coalition to win this nomination.” Nightly News anchor Lester Holt concluded: “The moderate lane appears a little wider tonight.”
Moments earlier, Todd laughably attempted to cite evidence of Senator Klobuchar’s moderation: “Among those we asked, ‘Do you want the next president to return to Barack Obama’s policies or change to more liberal policies?,’ Amy Kobuchar won essentially the Barack Obama vote....she won the, ‘Let’s go back to the Obama policies.’” As if Barack Obama was somehow a “moderate” Democrat.
The “moderate” Klobuchar actually wants to radically expand abortion and has expressed interest in packing the Supreme Court with left-wing judges.
On Wednesday’s Today show, co-host Savannah Guthrie fretted to political analyst and former Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill: “Claire, I think it’s fair to say you’re – you represent the centrist left. So assuming that’s the case, what does your lane of the party do here?” The anchor continued: “How do you decide, ‘Okay, we need one standard-bearer here or it’s going to be Bernie Sanders’?”
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I don’t think they have anything to worry about. Many democrats will vote for whoever the party demands they vote for. Just like the gal at the Iowa caucus who didn’t know Butwiggle was gay most don’t have a clue who they are voting for.
I see a brokered convention emerging like Godzilla from the sea. This ain't a-gonna be pretty.
Leftist controlled corporate media is about to launch a scorched earth campaign on Bernie Sanders.
Dims ceased being centrist in 1968.
““And the combined total of [Pete] Buttigieg and [Amy] Klobuchar tells you” about as much as the combined total of Buttigieg and Sanders tells you ...
Could Romney run as a Rat?
It’s not unprecedented, Wendell Wilkie was a life-long Dem who somehow was the GOP nominee in 1940.
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