Posted on 02/04/2020 10:04:24 PM PST by Mount Athos
Democratic donors and party insiders are warning that large swaths of their voters could stay home — or even defect to Trump — if Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders snags the nomination.
An insider working with Mike Bloomberg’s campaign agreed: “I think that there is a very real ‘Never Bernie’ sentiment amongst both the donor class and moderate, centrist Democrats. ”
Among insiders there is near-universal belief that Sanders’ card carrying socialist credentials could create enormous problems with suburban and older voters — both of whom tend to be wealthier than the general population. While millennials are evenly split between socialism or capitalism, only 39 percent of Generation Xers and 32 percent of Baby Boomers held favorable views of “socialism,” according to a November 2019 Gallup poll.
“For Democrats to win, the election must be a referendum on Trump and not a debate about socialism,” Michael Kempner, a longtime Democratic donor who has cut checks for Biden and Buttigieg, told The Post. “The vast majority of Democrats and the nation do not believe in socialism.”
News also emerged Friday of DNC members privately discussing rules to prevent a Sanders nomination at the Democratic convention, according to Politico.
Brazile herself famously leaked debate questions to Hillary Clinton in an effort to tilt the scales in her favor against Sanders in 2016.
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DNC operatives openly cheating against bernie again, just like they did when Donna Brazile secretly gave debate questions in advance to Hillary... one of the most shockingly unethical events in American political history
Funny.
If these supposed “never Bernie Sanders” Democrats actually existed in any significant numbers...wouldn’t Bernie have had to drop out like Harris and Castro and Irish Bob and Sparticus?
I do believe so.
Here’s to hoping that Bernie is the communist RAT’s nominee!!!
The POTUS will wipe the floor with him.
I think that if Bernie wins, some Dems will vote for President Trump.
I think that if Bernie loses, some Dems will vote for President Trump.
Maybe there are some democrats that love America.
voters could stay home — or even defect to Trump,,,
I hope they stay home. That way they don’t vote for the rats down ballot.
If Sanders was sincere, he’d be running third party. Maybe he still will do so.
The DNC isn’t going to get off as cheap this time. Don’t be surprised when Bernie suddenly has a new Dacha on Martha’s Vineyard. Maybe a new G8 too.
I’m surprised that the Democrats don’t let Bernie run with this and get trumped in November which would then let the party elders clean house of its socialists and communists to reset for the midterms and 2024.
I'll be dipped in luke warm canal water if I've seen or known of any in the last few years...
They don't seem to see the worth of this Constitution thing. That makes them mortal enemies.
I think this Never Bernie brigade is really the Never Biden operation in disguise
They hate Bernie but they covet his voters which would help substantially in the down ticket Dem races. Otherwise they could argue that he is actually not a real Democrat as he officially an Independent and there-fore not a real Democrat in good standing with the party. They could use this in a favorable court to simply have Bernie removed from the race or at least have him barred from using the Democrat moniker and using Democrat resources from which to run his race. He has always run as an independent so the Dems could claim that they want true Dems and not an ersatz one who puts the disguise on every 4 years.
They could force him out so that he has to go third party but that would take his voter support with him which is about some score of millions at this point.
The Dem’s are a Balkanized loose confederacy of ideologies and internecine squabbling minority and extremist interest groups always ready to fly apart at the seams. They are a vision of the “10 toes of clay and iron mixed” from Daniel’s prophecy and Bernie and his comrades appear to be the stone from heaven that would crush into and scatter as dust the Democrat party as it functions now.
#8. I’d be worried when Bernie suddenly has a modernized T-72 tank at Martha’s Vineyard.
The trouble with Bernie is that he is an honest Socialist - a true believer.
The trouble with Bernie is that he is an honest Socialist - a true believer.
I’ll vote for Bernie.
No such thing as a Democrat that loves America, trust me. I used to be a Democrat. I saw all those harpies in white again. The Klan wore white and the Democrats created the Klan. My wife and I have taken to calling AOC and her crowd in white “The Klan’’.
Some day Bernie will bang his shoe on the podium and pledge, We Will Bury You
If the Dims will just check their 401(k) statements, they’ll know who to vote for.
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