Did you know this?
Courtesy of The Atlantic:
Bernie Sanders got so close to running a primary challenge to President Barack Obama that Senator Harry Reid had to intervene to stop him.
It took Reid two conversations over the summer of 2011 to get Sanders to scrap the idea, according to multiple people who remember the incident, which has not been previously reported.
That summer, Sanders privately discussed a potential primary challenge to Obama with several people, including Patrick Leahy, his fellow Vermont senator. Leahy, alarmed, warned Jim Messina, Obama’s presidential reelection-campaign manager. Obama’s campaign team was “absolutely panicked” by Leahy’s report, Messina told me, since “every president who has gotten a real primary has lost a general [election].”
David Plouffe, another Obama strategist, confirmed Messina’s account, as did another person familiar with what happened. (A spokesman for Leahy did not comment when asked several times about his role in the incident.)
Messina called Reid, then the Senate majority leader, who had built a strong relationship with Sanders but was also fiercely defensive of Obama. What could you be thinking? Reid asked Sanders, according to multiple people who remember the conversations. You need to stop.
I think it is important to remember that Bernie Sanders has been railing against those in power for his entire life.
We may applaud him when he is going after the Republicans, but we cannot forget that he has also aggressively gone after the Democrats as well.
Bernie Sanders is a rabble-rouser and bomb-thrower not a deal maker, and believing that he is capable of compromise in order to get difficult policies enacted is really an act of faith based on wishful thinking and not an examination of his time in the Senate.
Having said that if in fact, Sanders is our nominee, then we need to support him one hundred percent.
Which is exactly what Barack Obama intends to do as well:
“Obama will campaign his heart out for whoever the nominee is, and that includes Senator Sanders.”
However for those who are expecting an easy victory for Sanders in the general I think you are about to learn a terrible lesson.
I also would not expect the revolution that has been long promised by the Sanders campaign if he does win.
Washington does not respond well to revolutionaries and he may find himself isolated and completely ineffective for four years, and then easily defeated in 2024.
I hope I am wrong, I really do, but working with the evidence before me I do not see much reason for hope.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bernie-sanders-essay/
#RacistRapist2020
Sorry but Bernie will not be “ my” candidate ever. I will not be bullied into voting for any misogynistic pig, deadbeat Dad like him.
Plus his presidency would be a complete flop because he has no ability to get along with anyone.
I’m done with Bernie and his Bros. Some of his proposals look good on paper but his personality is such that I don’t see him being able to do the work to get governmenting done. The Bros have proved to be as childish and the toddler in the WH.
A former Republican strategist on MSNBC said that Trump wants to run against Bernie Sanders because the Republicans have a bunch of dirt on Sanders (but he did not say what the dirt was). Additionally, the Republicans in “open primary” states, like South Carolina, are encouraging Republican voters to vote for Sanders, not Biden, to give Trump an advantage. More Republican dirty tricks!
https://www.newyorker.com/news/campaign-chronicles/the-party-raiders-of-south-carolina
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/02/18/cnns_john_avlon_trump_and_republicans_are_setting_a_trap_for_democrats_by_boosting_bernie_sanders.html
Of course they have dirt on him.
But it’s all well known but somehow the Bernie bro’s have this “ purity test” for every other candidate except him.
I was glad Warren called Bloomberg our last night on his misogyny but I don’t quite understand why she didn’t also call out Bernie? Even when after the last election and campaign workers reported being treated horribly because they were women Bernie couldn’t have cared less by his half hearted, disinterested semi apology. And even that seemed to sound like a “ boys will be boys” excuse more than anything else.
The former Republican strategist that appeared on MSNBC (sorry can’t remember his name but he is a Never Trumper now), said there is a bunch of dirt on Sanders and that Sanders is the worst candidate the Democrats can nominate. I want to know what is the dirt he’s talking about other than more misogyny by Sanders and the Bernie Bros. The 3 houses he owns and the fact that he’s a millionaire can’t be all the Republican’s have on Sanders. Does anybody know what the dirt may be? Or is it all a bunch of bullshit?
Didn’t his wife steal money from the college she was working for ?
Here you go……
ChuckTodd did not ask one question.” Of course he didn’t.
https://www.independentsentinel.com/audit-shows-jane-sanders-spent-burlington-college-ruined/
It can’t be worse than fucking his underaged daughter. Does he have a daughter?
Yes Jane defrauded a whole college leaving students part way through with no degrees and their money gone, but Jane walked away with a pocketful of money
“The Jetsons” Jane His Wife. given greenback, takes the wallet.
Cue Chopsticks background music.
lol. Keep splitting the ticket and chastising all potential allies into enemies! You go girls lol!
“Washington does not respond well to revolutionaries and he may find himself isolated and completely ineffective for four years, and then easily defeated in 2024.”
“I hope I am wrong, I really do, but working with the evidence before me I do not see much reason for hope.”
C’mon, Gryphen. Donald Trump has created a one man revolution and steamrollered right over Washington in 3 short years, and he did it by spreading hate while at the same time enriching himself. So you’re saying someone else can’t come along and take over Washington by giving power back to the American people, while giving us hope, and tying to lift up all of us? I think that giving the people back their country that was stolen by multinational corporations, the rich and powerful, and our “sold to the highest bidder” politicians could catch on like wildfire, but you seem to think it’s fool’s errand to even bothering trying, and that we should all just accept the status quo.
People sink to the bottom because it requires no effort. In an age of effortless internet instantaneousness, down is the only way.
You don’t get this at ALL, do you, 11:20 am.
You’ll see soon enough.
Chillax, Max.
Bernie Sanders is one of the laziest men in America. As president he will be quite happy to do the pointing, spitting and yelling and let everyone else do the work. It’s what he has been doing for decades. All they have to do is put his name on all their fabulous bills and he will be happy to take all the credit.
Back from the Iron Dog, I was shocked to see Todd Palin, I thought he would still be partying after unloading Sarah but he’s going better than he has in years so maybe he has no need to drink any more.