Posted on 04/30/2019 1:15:41 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Joe Biden’s long-awaited announcement that he is running for President—in a highly produced video with a distracting piano soundtrack—officially knocked Bernie Sanders out of first place in the Democratic field. That’s a relief for a lot of establishment Dems, who have spent the last several weeks ramping up the hits on Bernie, as it has become increasingly clear that the plainspoken Democratic Socialist from Vermont has a credible shot at becoming the Democrats’ nominee in 2020.
Sanders’s socialism is scary for an establishment that worries a lot about electability. More than that, his populist attacks on Wall Street, corporations, and the military-industrial complex, are a genuine threat to the most powerful interests in the country.
Much of the opposition research on Sanders is familiar from the Hillary/Bernie primary in 2016: Bernie the Sandinista supporter, the serial monogamist, the author of some embarrassing but not really reprehensible statements supporting sexual liberation. But in recent weeks these tidbits have been appearing again in news stories across the country, as writers in The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and ThinkProgress work on taking Bernie down a peg.
Eric Alterman led the charge in a March 28 Nation piece headlined “The Liberal Case Against Bernie Sanders.” Alterman argues that Sanders is the wrong candidate to try to beat Trump, enumerating positions like Sanders’s support for the Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the 1980s, and his criticism of U.S. support for a murderous rightwing military regime there. Alterman is quick to note that he doesn’t actually disagree with Sanders on such matters, but he nonetheless paints the candidate in lurid pinkish tones, suggesting that mainstream America is not ready to for his socialist views.
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I think they lost 3 to 5 percent of votes they need on either side of the coin.
Going too far left or not far left enough.
And yes I pulled those percentages out of my a@@ :)
I wonder if this website really exists when I’m not on it.
I think there’s some kind of theory about that kind of thing :)
Didn’t Hillary knock Bernie off of front runner status until people actually started voting also? Kind of like when Hillary blew out DJT until people actually started voting.
For criminy sake, Bernie isn’t even a Democrat. He has declared himself an Independent who caucuses with the Dems. Don’t you have to be a member of a Party in order to be their nominee for president?
Some surveys have shown that a percentage of Bernie supporters will vote for Trump if they feel Bernie was denied the nomination again by the DNC.
The best part will be when President Trump garners the most popular vote and all those state who threw away their citizens franchise to give their electoral votes to CA and NY will be in complete meltdown.
A year ago the demonicrat party proclaimed they would not allow Bernie to run as a D again, now he is, go figure.
That’s ok, communist Bernie needs another lake front home, or apartment in Manhattan. He will glady allow the DNC to buy him off again.
The guy is nefarious.
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