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Debating Bernie Sanders 'is like wrestling smoke'
Sky News Australia (Via YouTube) ^ | 2/26/20 | Staff

Posted on 02/26/2020 2:50:26 AM PST by Its All Over Except ...

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To: Its All Over Except ...

How do you debate Bernie?

Will the live equally with the poor?
Will the poor be given menial tasks according to each one’s ability to be doing something helpful and or productive?
Will you force everyone into small efficiency quarters to live?


21 posted on 02/26/2020 4:26:39 AM PST by Jumper
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Pin him on his record (or lack thereof) and that of those he admires. Quotes about his admiration of Cuba, Iran, and the Sandanistas, for starters. While mayor, he donated supplies to the Sandanistas while they were carrying out ethnic cleansing against the local native population. That gotta Bern!
22 posted on 02/26/2020 4:31:36 AM PST by Missouri gal
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To: Jumper

Come on, folks—let us talk about real debating tactics.

The way you debate a lefty is you follow the Alinsky rule:

Make them live up to their own book of rules.

You focus on the lifetstyle.

Green New Deal—lets talk about your three homes and private jets you fly on. How many cars do you have?

Corruption—lets talk about Jane defrauding People’s Bank.

Tax the Wealthy?—Let’s talk about what jobs you have produced. What wealth you have created. (Bernie has been a leech on society every day of his life.)

Make it personal. Keep it personal.

It is a _person_ who is elected President, not a policy.

Scorched Earth, people. If you are not winning, you are losing.


23 posted on 02/26/2020 4:48:47 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: Candor7
Somehow, the image of Burnie paddling a canoe just cannot come into focus.
HALLELUJAH! I'M A BUM - Harry MAC McClintock
24 posted on 02/26/2020 4:50:45 AM PST by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: cgbg

You nailed it!

Just thinking about how all those fine socialists/commies didn’t have toilet paper or clean tap water.... Imagining and then explaining Cuba, VN, Cambodia, VN after the takeover, China; the USSR, etc.


25 posted on 02/26/2020 5:19:12 AM PST by Jumper
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Someone can defend the murder Castro; and not be instantly out of the contest. Scary how dumbed down the populace is.


26 posted on 02/26/2020 5:23:08 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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To: Jumper

It has to be personal.

All true Commies have multiple houses, servants, limos etc.

They are leeches on society.

They want to make everybody else their slave.

They want to be the feudal lord.

They are hateful, nasty people.

In a debate all you have to do is make them show it on the stage.

Policy? fuggedaboutit

Bernie is a crazy mean old man—and a hypocrite.

_That_ is the message.


27 posted on 02/26/2020 5:25:23 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: cgbg

Grabbing pu$$ie$ are bad, Sanders rape fantasies are better!


28 posted on 02/26/2020 5:52:01 AM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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At this point there is so much bad blood between Bernie and Bloomie that I’ve become convinced that the loser is going to stage a third-party run.

All good for our side.


29 posted on 02/26/2020 5:58:59 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: cgbg

I think at this point Trump has a detailed playbook on how to get under ANYBODY’S skin.


30 posted on 02/26/2020 6:00:32 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Call Bernie a Commie.

When he denies it, ask him what’s wrong with Communism.
If he says bad things about it, ask him why he honeymooned in the USSR.

If he doesn’t say bad things about it, say, “So that’s why you honeymooned in the USSR!”

Go from there.


31 posted on 02/26/2020 6:09:08 AM PST by ebshumidors
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When you debate smoke you go "logical conclusion mode" (Other Dems can't because they will be exposed as well) of belittling promises and make that smoke morph into a tangible liability for the voter.

Unfortunately voters who are immune to this are gibsmedats looking for a taxpayer/defict funded raise and those imprisoned by emotional buffoonery such as a lot of females and white knighting soy boys.
32 posted on 02/26/2020 6:09:59 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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Sanders will lose in a landslide, I’m convinced once the onion is peeled back he falters hugely.


33 posted on 02/26/2020 6:11:19 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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Sanders will lose in a landslide

I agree. Sanders biggest problem is that he was born about 20 years too soon. With all demographic trends I expect that by 2032 he'd be the one winning in a landslide.


34 posted on 02/26/2020 6:39:39 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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It seems that people are always saying that the demographics against the United States and freedom and yet we are still here with Trump as President. In 12 years those young people are screaming for socialism will have families and be in the middle class themselves. That is the strength of the United States, it’s middle class.


35 posted on 02/26/2020 9:28:29 AM PST by fortheDeclaration
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To: Buckeye McFrog

With all demographic trends I expect that by 2032 he’d be the one winning in a landslide.


Fortunately hindsight is 2020!

Go Trump!!!!!


36 posted on 02/26/2020 10:48:48 AM PST by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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To: Its All Over Except ...
Whatever a socialist tries to tell you, “society” and “government” are two different things - near opposites in fact (Thomas Paine, Common Sense).

Thus, cynicism toward both society and government would be incoherent. What is coherent - and what explains socialism - is cynicism towards society and naiveté towards government.

The opposite position might be thought to be naiveté towards society and cynicism towards government, but that is a caricature of what we think of as capitalism - in fact, it is what the coiner of the term “capitalism” (Karl Marx) invented the word to function as a straw man for.

Conservatives eschew cynicism and naiveté.

The conservative opposition of "cynicism towards society and naiveté towards government” is, rather, skepticism towards both society and government.

My tagline:
Socialism is cynicism directed towards society

and - correspondingly -

naivete towards government.

37 posted on 02/26/2020 12:32:14 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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Bernie doesn’t debate. He just throws up straw men for thr useful idiots to buy into.


38 posted on 02/26/2020 12:37:20 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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Trump commercial on Bernie:
Show Bernie in a strait jacket rambling on and on about how great socialism and communism are.
Then show the misery of socialism and communism.


39 posted on 02/26/2020 3:36:02 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: V K Lee

Hey VK, you have better taste than I do in music.

But these a$$hats who just want a free dole at the expence of the rest of us need to be ridiculed. They need to set their sights a little higher i life.

Meanwhile, eat lots of Miso soup with tofu and soba. Its really good for your system as you likely know.


40 posted on 02/27/2020 4:41:43 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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