Posted on 02/23/2016 7:03:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
With Donald Trump looking increasingly likely to actually be the Republican nominee for President, it's long past time for the Democrats to start working on a pragmatic strategy to defeat him. Months of complacent, wishful insistences that Trump will disappear have proven false, and with a firm commanding lead in polls and several major primary victories, predictions are increasingly favoring Trump to win the nomination. If Democrats honestly believe, as they say they do, that Trump poses a serious threat to the wellbeing of the country and the lives of minority citizens, that means doing everything possible to keep him out of office. To do that will require them to very quickly unite around a single goal, albeit a counterintuitive one: they must make absolutely sure that Bernie Sanders is the Democratic nominee for President.
The electability question should be at the center of the Democratic primary. After all, elections are about winning, and high-minded liberal principles mean nothing if one has no chance of actually triumphing in a general election. Hillary Clinton has been right to emphasize that the pragmatic achievement of goals should be the central concern of a presidential candidate, and that Bernie Sanders's supporters often behave as if this is immaterial....
(Excerpt) Read more at currentaffairs.org ...
No one hates women more than other women. Hillary has very shallow support, even among women. A majority of women are pro-choice. A large percentage of young women would be shocked at how Hillary took the abuse of her husband and would not back her when they found out.
I think it is a Republican year which is why it would be great to have Cruz as the nominee. He is by far the most right wing and already shows he is beating Hillary. That being said I think Trump beats her also.
“Now imagine the rhetoric of lifetime communist who never built anything but wants to make everything free
vs a guy who wants to be Americaâs Daddy Warbucks
Not even close”
I don’t know. Don’t underestimate the “free stuff” vote. The US is fast become a nation of takers, and when the takers can vote themselves a life of leisure at no cost to them, that candidate is going to be hard to beat. I hope you are right, but after watching BJ Clinton get elected twice, and the present squatter in the white hut get elected TWICE, I don’t doubt anything.
The only thing that could have made *that* message clearer is if the card were the Ace of Spades.
As it is, I want *this* to go viral: To prevent cheating, in the future, the "ties" will be settled by Hillary and Bernie meeting in person and naked mud wrestling playing "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock" best two out of three.
‘A large percentage of young women would be shocked at how Hillary’ defended abusers. Good point. I hope you are correct. Winning the womens’ votes seems to be a primary objective for the future president.
Comments? Bwahahahahahah!! The DEMs are monnbats, if they think Sanders can beat Trump. The communist kiddos don’t outnumber the old farts, yet.
“Comments?”
Just that we keep seeing articles like the one you just posted, namely that the Democrats are terrified of Trump and don’t seem to be too concerned about beating any of the other Republican candidates.
Salon is going crazy attacking Hillary and promoting Sanders because of Trump.
Trump could beat FDR if they dug him up. This notion that a businessman who wants to fix Washington cannot beat a Communist or a felon is ridiculous.
Until Sanders replaces Hillary, there won’t be any really accurate polls as to how anyone on our side would do against him. Just as a lot of Jeb’s base seems to have started trickling Trump’s way instead of towards Rubio (whodathunk), I would suspect that dynamics will take some “adjusting” id Hillary is knocked out of it. Sanders may sound benign (and sometimes confused) but there is lots of potential ammo if one is willing to expend it at the risk of upsetting the leeches ...
I understand that, but a dynamic 48 year old candidate giving big speeches is different than a 75 year old crotchety Vermonter. My assumption is, whether it is Trump or Rubio (or Cruz for that matter), they are going to make a pretty strong case that Vermont-style socialism isn’t a winning strategy. Bernie has an audience, but it’s limited.
I expect many Sanders voters may vote for Trump if they perceive the Fix was in all along
They won’t vote for Trump...but they may be stupid enough to not vote at all, effectively letting an opposing Trump vote stand uncontested...
Trump is the only GOP candidate who would lose to Hillary, so Iâd say that if Trump is the GOP candidate, the Demsâ only hope is to run Bernie.
If Trump would lose to Hilary, why is the Dem’s ‘only hope’
Bernie...?
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