Posted on 02/24/2020 9:10:57 AM PST by Hojczyk
IS THERE A DEMOCRAT WHO CAN STOP BERNIE SANDERS? I think there might be, but he probably will choose not to.
Suppose Barack Obama endorsed his former VP for president. The endorsement would probably carry Joe Biden to victory in South Carolina and position him for a solid showing on Super Tuesday.
Suppose Obama endorsed Pete Buttigieg, the gay Obama. Biden, who is campaigning on the fact that he was Obama’s number two, would be finished. Buttigieg would suddenly be able to capture more than de minimis support among African Americans.
In either scenario, Bernie Sanders might show up at the convention with a plurality of the delegates. But the candidate endorsed by Obama would probably have enough support to be a plausible nominee at a brokered convention. Obama would take a lead role in the brokering.
However, the former president has shown no inclination to endorse a candidate in this race. I very much doubt that he will endorse one now. I have heard no talk about him doing so.
Why wouldn’t Obama move to stop Sanders now that it’s clear that the Vermont socialist is the frontrunner? One reason is that, ideologically, Obama probably has more in common with Sanders’s socialism than with Biden’s traditional liberalism.
In any case, Obama may see socialism as the emerging Democrat ideology and Biden’s liberalism as tired and outdated. The last thing Obama wants to do is to stand on “the wrong side of history.”
One can imagine a scenario in which Sanders is crushed this year, and battered Democrats turn to Michelle Obama to rescue the party in 2024. I don’t know whether the Obamas imagine such a scenario, but if they do, they have no incentive to stop Sanders this year.
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Biden, but only if all others drop out before Super Tuesday. Warren the same thing.
Unless I’m wrong, didn’t Obama already endorse Bloomie?
HILLARY!
It’s still her turn
They can’t stop him. And he can’t stop Trump. God is good
I’ve heard that Mark David Chapman is a Democrat...
Dittoes. Hillary.
See tagline.
LOL
Finally, the demoncRats agenda will be voted on once and for all.
Why? Go, Bernie! :)
Only he he starts spouting that he has dirt on Hilary.
Hillary will stop him. His heart that is.
That is either redundant or damning with faint praise. Maybe both!
She can buy Bernie another house again!
> Unless I’m wrong, didn’t Obama already endorse Bloomie? <
Obama did NOT endorse Bloomberg. But Bloomberg has been running some extremely deceptive ads that make it look like there was an endorsement.
I don’t know why Obama doesn’t file a complaint about this - unless Obama secretly wants Bloomberg to get the nomination.
Obama wants anybody but Bernie, not because he disagrees with any of Bernie’s positions, but because Bernie isn’t hiding his socialism like Obama did.
HILLARY CLINTON/MICHELLE OBAMA 2020
Not going to happen. Obama has been hiding in the background working with Elizabeth Warren. I look to her staying in the race waiting on a VP spot.
Don’t know any dimbulbcRATs who can, but the Trumpster will make mince meat of the ill-educated and quite stupid never had a real ob little shmooo.
I also see Warren as the VP choice. She would be one health issue for Bernie away from the presidency.
It might in the long run benefit the Democratic Party to nominate Bernie and have him loose big time in 2020. This could purge the radical socialist element of the party and move it back toward the middle. However, there mare virtually no moderates left in the Democratic Party and the socialists likely now have a strangle hold on the party.
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