Posted on 07/02/2015 9:12:52 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Hillary Clinton and her campaign cronies saw something frightening yesterday: a fired-up crowd of ten thousand people in Madison, Wisconsin, packing the Veterans Memorial Coliseum to the rafters in support of a candidate best known as Not Hillary. The previously fairly obscure Senator Bernie Sanders is drawing the same kind of enthusiasm that Eugene McCarthy sparked in 1968 when he drive an even more inevitable nominee from the Democratic ticket, incumbent President Lyndon Johnson.
It is clear that the progressive base of the Democratic Party is fed up with Hillary Clinton, the cozy-with-Wall-Street party insider who parlayed political connections into a nine-figure fortune after leaving the White House “dead broke.” In fact, the big news the Clinton Campaign intended to tout on the day of Sanders’s triumph brought home the point: her campaign has managed to raise $45 million.
To the left-wing core of the Democratic Party, the message is a clear contrast: Hillary has the money, and Bernie has the people.
Does anyone in the Hillary campaign think they can draw ten thousand wildly enthusiastic supporters to cheer, stomp, and call out her name in an orgy of political thrills? I suspect they are considering the question this morning, thinking that out of 16 million or so people in the Greater New York Area, perhaps ten thousand is not an insurmountable number. In Greater Madison, with a population of 568,593 in the 2010 Census, it is certainly an impossibility.
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These are the exact same people who were out there heckling Scott Walker, and who occupied the State Capitol, defecating and urinating in the corners, and generally behaving in the very worst “Occupy Wall Street” manner. You know them by whom they applaud, and Herself, Madame Benghazi, the Cold & Joyless, is by default placed in the same bracket, in their minds, as Scott Walker.
I believe 70% of the American public could not give you a remotely passable definition of “socialism.” That is why they don’t recognize it when they see it on the ballot.
Of the 30% who could give you a passable definition, at least half of them (or roughly 15% of the population) would tell you it’s what they want for America.
Think about what that means.
We’ve heard the Democrat talkers say that Trump is great news for the Democrats. Bernie is even greater for the Republicans, wouldn’t you say?
However, I think Hillary will sink without any outside help.
Yep
Hillary has more baggage than LAX : )
>> They did in 2008 and 2012 so I’m not so sure about that.
If you remember, Obama ran as a conservative Democrat in 2008 and 2012, running an ambiguous campaign of promises. He never once RAN AS a socialist. We knew what he was from the beginning, but the low-info voter never did their research.
Bernie is unabashedly socialist.
Yes, that too. No doubt, it is easy to get a receptive communist crowd in Madison.
Lenin had his Trotsky....
See comment 22.
I teach the High School Sunday school class at church. Soviet Communism disappeared ten years or more before they were born. They are not being taught about Marx and his progeny in school, and have not been for at least a generation.
The rest of America has simply forgotten.
they might be socialists ... but THAT IS an impressive crowd ... Hillary must be secretly scared to death ...
Dueling Commies. We should get them some banjos.
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. The dems have moved WAY left of Hillary’s positions and Sanders’ positions are (and have been) WAY left. It’s possible that he’s interpreting it as his time to make a serious run. We know The media will not go after him in a serious enough way to throw him off his message.
The world has gone just crazy enough where he could pull it off.
Can you imagine a Presidential debate between Sanders and Cruz?
This is all part of the Plan. The demonRATS want to lose so that the republicans will be blamed when the global collapse comes right after the election.
” it is easy to get a receptive communist crowd in Madison.”
Conservatives tiptoe when walking by the campus....
Won’t work....
Bernie would give his banjo to charity, and Hillary would resume her faux southern accent.
It is more like the genuine commie beAting the phony commie.
That’s how I see it.
Anybody who doesn’t vote for Hillary is an extreme woman hating misogynist
I disagree. IMO-People voted for the first black president-Who ran as a moderate with some conservative traits, (based soley on what O said during his campaigns-not what he's actually done as POTUS.)
One thing I respect about Bernie is that he's up front about being a Socialist. He doesn't try to trick people by pretending to to be for what he doesn't actually believe in.
This is where the Democrat Party stands today. They left Hillary behind on their right flank a decade ago. The frightening part is that they’ve dragged the whole country in that direction with them.
It is clear that the progressive base of the Democratic Party is fed up with Hillary Clinton, the cozy-with-Wall-Street party insider who parlayed political connections into a nine-figure fortune after leaving the White House “dead broke.” In fact, the big news the Clinton Campaign intended to tout on the day of Sanders’s triumph brought home the point: her campaign has managed to raise $45 million. To the left-wing core of the Democratic Party, the message is a clear contrast: Hillary has the money, and Bernie has the people.
Hillaryous!
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