Posted on 03/05/2020 9:14:14 AM PST by Kaslin
On Super Tuesday, the Democratic Party came to its senses -- at least, to a point.
Through the first three primaries, Democratic voters seemed sanguine about the possibility of a lifelong communist fellow traveler taking their presidential nomination. Conventional wisdom -- including, I admit, my own -- suggested that Sen. Bernie Sanders', I-Vt., early primary victories had put former Vice President Joe Biden on the road to ruin. After all, no presidential candidate of the last several election cycles has won after declaring a firewall, from Rudy Giuliani's Florida firewall in 2008 to Hillary Clinton's 2016 blue wall.
But something happened on the way to a Sanders nomination: Democratic voters realized that Bernie Sanders is Bernie Sanders.
It began in South Carolina, where Biden skunked Sanders, outpacing the poll numbers by leaps and bounds. Late-deciding voters simply turned away from Sanders in droves. The same held true on Super Tuesday, when voters across the country ran from Sanders -- and from Michael Bloomberg, who acted as a backup choice to Biden and became superfluous the moment Biden showed signs of life in South Carolina. Biden's victories across the South weren't unexpected. His victories in Minnesota, Maine and Massachusetts certainly were.
Biden didn't suddenly reinvigorate his campaign because he became a better campaigner -- the day before Super Tuesday, he called Super Tuesday "Super Thursday" and quoted the Declaration of Independence with this immortal formulation: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: All men and women created by the -- go -- you know -- you know the thing!"
Usually, such gaffes are not the sign of a campaign on the upswing.
But for Biden, none of that mattered. That's because once Sanders moved from being the outsider crazy uncle who shouts at clouds to the front-runner, Democratic voters truly had to assess his credentials. Years of media running cover for Sanders made Sanders vulnerable to revelations about his record; the first time Sanders was asked to his face about his lake house was when Michael Bloomberg asked him in a public debate. And Sanders, being a man out of time -- that time being 1930s City College of New York -- proved unwilling to moderate his extreme views. Instead, he doubled down on his tut-tutting of communist repression, his hatred of Israel and his desire to quash the greatest functioning economy in world history.
And Democrats turned away. Some Democrats were unwilling to stake their 2020 hopes on a Marxist near octogenarian; more were simply unwilling to hand the party over to a Noam Chomsky on foreign policy and a Eugene Debs on domestic policy. Most Democrats still like the United States.
And that's excellent news for the country. A Sanders nomination would have meant, practically speaking, half the country rallying around the agenda of a man who once declared he hoped to nationalize every major industry in the United States, a man who has spent decades praising nearly every communist dictatorship on the planet, a man who seethes with disdain for American history and founding principles. Instead, Democrats will rally around the banner that is anti-President Donald Trump -- but Biden isn't an anti-American communist, and his nomination won't mean the deepening of Sanders' vile worldview.
Republicans and Democrats should both celebrate Sanders' precipitous fall. It means that perhaps we still have something in common after all: opposition to a radical philosophy that sees America as a nefarious force in the world and sees constitutional principles as oppressive hierarchical dominance.
Because the demented elderly are fun to watch when their finger is on the nuclear button?
Yes, i feel much better knowing a life long corrupt politician will be the dim nom for President
Making Dementia Great Again?
Ben, you child, there isn’t a lick of difference between Biden and Sanders!!! They BOTH WANT TO CONTROL US!!!! TAKING OUR GUNS, MONEY and LIBERTY!!!
This is good news. The more people hear from Sanders and his followers, the more they realize just how off their rockers these people are. Not to mention Bidens doddering putting people off and the split that will occur when Bernie Bros lose it in Milwaukee.
Because it’s better for the country to have a communist running who denies being a communist than it is having a communist running who admits being a communist?
I guess I’m stupid.
That doesn’t seem better to me.
But that’s why I don’t get paid the big bucks to write articles explaining to Americans why we’re all better with Biden.
Yes, great... who wants an open socialist when we can have a closet socialist instead?
Ben Shapiro secretly likes Biden better than Trump.
> there isn’t a lick of difference between Biden and Sanders <
And that’s why I kind of respect Sanders. He is honest about his agenda. He wants to go full commie, and he’ll tell you all about it.
Biden also wants an all-powerful nanny state. Just like Bernie does. But Biden hides his agenda behind a toothy smile and an aw-shucks attitude.
In 10 to 15 years you WILL get a President who is just like Bernie.
All demographic trends are running in that direction.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: All men and women created by the — go — you know — you know the thing!”
Rush had a good point about this. Being a Democrat he could not even SAY God, or a reference to a ‘creator’.
that is how far left they are now.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.
And listening to Kirk yesterday on the mark Levin program I think I have to agree with his perspective that what America does not need is six months of someone trying to justify communism
Biden is just another Clinton
There’s really not a shade of difference between them other than I don’t think Biden is nearly as evil as Clinton
They are both complete utter corrupt lifetime politicians
A Biden Administration and a Bernie Administration would not look much different at all. They would both have the same people working for them.
Oh just wait for all of the dopes here to complain endlessly about how the media is covering up for Biden.
“Gal-dangit the press is ignoring it!!!!!”
After all that is said, it still does not banish the notion that Biden is a crook who sells the favors of office to benefit family and self.
Fortunately, Presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison et al were not so ignorant of the Source and Constitutional framework for the rights of citizens as the current Democrat candidates seem to be.
“A Biden Administration and a Bernie Administration would not look much different at all. They would both have the same people working for them.”
Agreed with one exception. I don’t think Bernie would name Hunter Biden as his ambassador to Ukraine. There’s still more gold for the Bidens to mine in that part of the world.
Obama was every bit as Commie as Bernie and so was Warren, Beto and Buttgag (maybe some of the others too). Bernie was the only one dumba$$ enough to say it out loud . . . repeatedly.
Until the Rat party takes the initiative to purge its ranks of the Marxist and puts up a “Not Welcome” sign to exclude them, I consider them a Marxism-driven party. That means they are a subversive organization hell-bent on the destruction of the Constitution, our nation and way of life.
It is not better for Joe Biden to be in the lead, or for Burnie Sanders to somehow regain it.
Neither one legitimately represents Middle America, or any vestige of the Great American Experiment, being as they are, both a dead end. This “democracy” of which they speak so highly is a phantom, a chimera so monstrous it would be unrecognizable to the Greeks, who invented the concept.
One man, one vote, one way, one time. Once the Maximum Leader is declared, no more of this controversy or politicking around, this is all going to be for the Good of the People.
No matter how much it hurts.
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