Posted on 01/16/2016 8:26:42 AM PST by mandaladon
As the Republican presidential contenders ratchet up their uncivil war —the carnival debates, the Twitter shootouts, the talk of third-party challenges and a brokered convention — the dominant political headline is the crisis in the GOP.
But look more closely: The Republican Party isn't the only one in trouble. The real identity crisis may be the one in the party in which none of this was supposed to happen—the party with a well-financed, brand-name candidate who suddenly finds her coronation interrupted by a 74-year-old socialist with a Brooklyn accent as thick as Junior’s Cheesecake.
That’s not the script anyone predicted for the Democrats when Bernie Sanders announced his long-shot challenge to Hillary Clinton last year. Few could have expected to see Sanders in the lead this close to the New Hampshire primary, or surging in Iowa, even besting Clinton’s support among younger women voters in some polls. But that reality has forced the party establishment to deal with an unwelcome prospect: As the Republicans energetically recast their pitch to disaffected Americans, it’s mainstream Democrats who are grappling with the more severe deficit of fresh messages, and new ideas.
Twenty-four years ago, Bill Clinton ran for president as a new kind of centrist Democrat, offering a “New Covenant†that emphasized both individual opportunity and collective responsibility, and promised an emphatic end to “the brain-dead politics of the past.†He won and repositioned his party for success for years to come.
But today’s America is a different country than it was when the first candidate Clinton urged voters not to stop thinking about tomorrow. Tomorrow is here, with an even more beleaguered middle class, less economic security, vastly greater racial and ethnic diversity and a world in which global economic interdependence and the threat of global terrorism
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It isn’t that Bernie is strong, it is that Hillary is extremely weak. And the Democrats are now a communist party.
Twenty-four years ago, Bill Clinton ran for president as a new kind of centrist Democrat
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Back in those days there was a group called the Democrat Leadership Council that was supposed to be the more centrist elements of the party. Today’s Democrat party has gone full tilt leftist. They are indistinguishable from the CPUSA..
There are no centrist Democrats anymore, the last of the pretenders were washed out as a result of Obamacare’s passage.
Meaning, if she bows out, they give her immunity from prosecution via presidential pardon.
Biden and Liawatha together would re energize the insane rat base, and in their minds might fool us all once again.
*removes tinfoil hat*
The Democrats don’t have to run a good candidate or a good campaign.
They just get the Republicans to fight amongst themselves and then they don’t vote.
Barack Obama was a horrible candidate in 2012. He even had a record of completely failing as President.
Yet, he won.
Hillaryous
Greater poverty, more economic inequality ( which naturally results from pushing millions more people out of work and into poverty) — and mass- scale insecurity -—— all deliberate / predictable results of eight years of obsma&Comrades’ policies ———
“Look for Joe Biden to enter the race...”
This is STILL quite possible, and I can think of several ways that it can happen.
It’s too late for Biden to get in...
“Twenty-four years ago, Bill Clinton ran for president as a new kind of centrist Democrat, offering a “New Covenant†that emphasized both individual opportunity and collective responsibility, and promised an emphatic end to “the brain-dead politics of the past.†He won and repositioned his party for success for years to come.”
I’m so tired of that old chestnut. It wasn’t true then and it certainly isn’t true now. Bill Clinton’s only political virtue was he threw away a losing hand after Gingrich became Speaker. Period. Had that not happened he would have let his wife take the country hard Left.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see the rats try to insert a completely unvetted candidate into their primary. Is there a rule against it?
This would prove that the whole rat primary is a charade that was intended to go through the motions, satisfying what the Clintons see as another unnecessary process in the US system. It was all just a hassle before we gave Hillary what she deserved all along.
Yes... See my tagline.
Maybe Hillary will cry in New Hampshire...
What is your basis for that?
The hard core democrat dependent base won’t care... dems could run a mass murderer and rapist - and the folks at the bottom of the dem party would vote for him. “Got a ‘D’ by his name? OK OK I’ll pull the lever”..
But other democrats - - people with jobs and families - and young people with college degrees AND some dignity - will bail. They have limits. They’ll be ours...
Remember, a party convention is like the electoral college for the party. If Obama manages to get her thighness indicted a week before the convention, what are those delegates going to do? One possibility is, the party will do a bait and switch in a smoke-filled back room, appeal to party unity, and put Biden forward at the convention itself, even though he was never on a single ballot.
These group aren't stupid.
They won't be impressed with a party that ‘gives’ them the vote then takes it back if they make the wrong choice: the wrong' choice is 'anti-elite Bernie. Clinton was the Establishment choice and she's being rejected.
An 'anti-elite revolution' going on - and it's happening in both parties. Biden's an establishment elite. He doesn't have a chance. He'd do worse than Hillary.
On the other hand Biden would get the votes of all the DC movers and shakers... every political elite would see it as a 'sure thing'... he would go down with style...
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