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.
Clearly Ben is afraid of Bernie. I am not and I hoep my fellow Republicans aren’t either. I want the Trump vs Bernie and come what may. I want that fight.
What’s the difference if we are undone by socialism or by deep state corruption? Cancer or heart disease.
The USA is coming undone. I’m not cheered up about Biden winning, though he’ll lose in November. I’m worried about November 2024.
The Dems had a “Come to Joseph” moment?
Wow. I thought Be was smarter. The biggest difference between Bernie and Biden(AND the rest) is he tells the truth. Democrats are ALL FAR LEFT. Bernie just admits and campaigns on it.
Republicans campaign as Conservative and govern like moderates. Democrats campaign as moderates and govern like radicals.
“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.”
Yeah sure Shapiro. Go back to sleep. It’s idiotic to pretend Biden or ANY dem candidate this year is any different from Bernie.
If you vote dem, you are 100% guaranteed that Dem president will immediately fill his/her administration with hard leftist democrats. Even Tusli.
The only difference in Biden and Bernie is minor cultural cues and norms. The policies will be identical.
There was no good choice from the Democratic Party for anyone who want the United States to have the system of government designed by our Framers. Think about dementia-ridden Joe in a debate with President Trump. Joe will have an epic fail. There is such a split in the Democratic Party that is really irreconcilable. This could be the beginning of a big split into the smaller old “Blue Dog” Democrats and the larger bat guano crazy Socialists.
Actually there is. Biden is an old, establishment, military-industrial complex war monger. Bernie is an isolationist.
Is Genesis going to remake their Land of Confusion Video is Biden gets Elected POTUS?
More crap.
Biden won where Hillary won last time. Sanders is winning where he did last time.
It’s not a surprise and doesn’t suggest any changes in coming to senses.
Sanders presents himself as a socialist and will govern like all socialists - strip the wealth of all the producers and make the US like Cuba and Bernie will be the new Fidel Castro.
It will suck to live under either, so we really want them to nuke each other in the run up to their convention and let Trump blow away the one that the Democrats pick.
Saw this on Facebook.
A socialist is someone who wants to take everything you have...except your job.
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.
Nope. Not a chance. The Bernie polling numbers were being deliberately inflated to scare the pants off the rank-and-file to vote him down, and to get them to embrace the senile crazy corrupt lying loser, uh, should I be more specific? Biden.
The Dems didn’t desert Bernie for any other reason than to avoid getting crushed on all levels in November. They still agree with him, and would support him and his policies if they thought they could win. All that they want is power.
A Bernie or Biden administration wouldn’t be any different. Because either one of them would “tragically” “pass away”, and the VP (The Dark Horse^H^H^H^H^HCow in a pantsuit) lands in the Oval Office like a side of beef.
“In 10 to 15 years you WILL get a President who is just like Bernie.”
I will be 75-80 yo by that time. You are probably right. We are in the apathy phase now, these kids are hell bent on dependency, so their kids will be in bondage. Perhaps their grandkids will start to climb out. I am not sure what to do besides try to stop it and hope everyone comes to their senses.
Objectively I see no difference between Sanders and Biden. Both liberal leftists.
| 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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Well said.
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