Posted on 09/19/2016 12:12:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
To hear the big media tell it, the Republicans are angry, split and spoiling for a fight with each other. This is not altogether bad. Democrats and cats have fought for years and the result is more cats and more Democrats. Maybe it will work for Republicans. If Hillary Clinton, plagued by persistent health issues, decides that leaving the field is the better part of inevitability, if not valor, the Democrats will see how divided they are.
Bernard Sanders and his millennials would no doubt consider Hillary’s unlikely withdrawal as heaven-sent (if they actually believed there was anybody in heaven). Mr. Sanders is a proud socialist and campaigned as one. The fact that he did as well as he did is testimony to how far the Democratic Party has moved to the left.
Hillary has promised to govern in ways the faithful will cheer, or at least some of them, but she and the old party establishment that rallied behind her know better than most that theirs is no longer the party of Roosevelt, Kennedy or even Bill Clinton. It has morphed before their very eyes into a European-style free-stuff socialist party, with hints of admiration for state control of just about everything that moves.
If Mrs. Clinton were actually to abandon ship before November, her replacement would be named not by the new Democratic Party base, with its affection for Bernie, but by the Democratic National Committee, whose members, though considerably left of most Americans, are nevertheless regarded by Mr. Sanders and his fans as unreconstructed capitalists, compliant tools of the rich ruling class...
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I guarantee you that Trump is going to make a play for the Democrat base just like Ronald Reagan did. Reagan was famously quoted as saying “I didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me.” I can imagine Trump making that pitch in the closing weeks of the campaign.
The Democratic party bet the farm on 800 Clinton donors, who if Trump wins should have audited by the IRS. Sanders was essentially tied with Clinton and those leftists were disenfranchised. Bernie had the nomination stolen from him and people are pissed off. I don’t think Lizzy Warren can save them.
If I was Trump, I would be subliminally hinting at this while going about his business. Keep those Bernie backers away from Clinton.
Note to Trump: The only way you lose this election is to accept any GOP establishment endorsements. DO NOT LISTEN TO RINCE. His comments to those that didn’t support you is a way to tie you to the establishment. Don’t fall for it and don’t openly accept it. You got this far without it and not one establishment candidate can help you over the top.
The wisdom of the ancients in Aesop's 'The Farmer and the Snake'
A farmer takes pity on a frozen snake and brings it home. Thawed, the snake reverts to character and bites all.
The wicked show no thanks.
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