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To: pepsionice
I think in their mind (at the conclusion of the 2019 debates)...Joe is the only viable candidate to run against Trump and win.

I don't know why they didn't go with Bernie. Bernie was the closest to Biden in terms of primary delegates, and the student Red Guard types were enthusiastic about him. Most of the rioters are commie Bernie-bots. It makes no sense to me to coalesce around the allegedly more moderate and senile Biden, especially as he has embraced all of Bernie's positions.

55 posted on 09/13/2020 8:24:44 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Does the left like anything about America?)
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To: Sans-Culotte

If you delivered Bernie as the candidate...you’d repeat the McCain situation where a quarter of Republicans hated McCain to such a degree that he could not win....Bernie isn’t exactly a guy that draws rank-and-file working-class Democrats.

Look back at the county-by-county voting patterns for past six elections. Bernie wasn’t going to carry in rural areas at all.


128 posted on 09/13/2020 9:04:48 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Sans-Culotte
Bernie is an outed Commie. RATs cannot be honest about their candidate or their plans. They would never win.

That's why Obie Wan Commie was successful. No record plus soaring rhetoric. Any politician running on the D brand/machine starts with 45%. Pull in some gullible independents and *bam* you're measuring the drapes in the WH.

RATs will vote for the brand. They just need to pull in some gullible indys with the "Do I look like a Commie?" schtick. Plus...you're voting for the first POC woman prez.

Joe was the best choice of a thin field.

140 posted on 09/13/2020 9:23:36 AM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Bernie was the closest to Biden in terms of primary delegates, and the student Red Guard types were enthusiastic about him. Most of the rioters are commie Bernie-bots. It makes no sense to me to coalesce around the allegedly more moderate and senile Biden, especially as he has embraced all of Bernie’s positions.

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Perhaps they ran the numbers.

Bernie lost some support for not being radical enough in public. I posit there aren’t enough committed B-bots left to make up the difference in the popular vote. Progs need the middle. Biden with Bernie’s platform and Kamala as back up was their solution.

Also, Bernie is easily characterized as crazy and he had a recent heart attack on the record. Biden’s aneurysms were both in the past.


217 posted on 09/13/2020 10:52:33 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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