PDittie
PDittie's JournalI believe there are only two things that stand in his way
One of them is not the questionable intelligence of the average voter.
1. He MUST begin to draw minority voters to his campaign and message. He cannot win the primary, much less the general, if Latino and African American voters don't peel away from Clinton. This is her greatest strength; they know her and love her. Hard rock to crack. He can't win the nomination without attracting minority voters. But even if that happens...
2. The party insiders/super delegates/elected officials must be driven back from rigging the game in her favor. Bernie has essentially no institutional support at this moment. And the institution is likely to harden against his bid as he gains additional traction.
The clearest example of this isn't what happened after McGovern was swamped in 1972, or even when Eugene McCarthy got silenced in '68. Go all the way back to when Henry Wallace was pushed out of the vice-presidency for Harry Truman in 1944, and hope history doesn't repeat itself.
I share your weariness
as posted at the beginning. And I was also an Edwards supporter. One of about 233 at my precinct convention (all the rest Obama or Clinton, with most of the Obama supporters young and new to the process, and some African Americans among the Hillary caucus who thought the country just wasn't ready for a black man to be president).
I thought Edwards was a man of decency, integrity, and who understood the plight of the middle class. Laughable now, yes? One out of three ain't a passing grade.
As time and the primary season passed, some Clinton supporters -- they called themselves PUMAs; see also here -- held a grudge, but I feel certain most of that melted away by November of 2016 (though this recent New Repub article takes exception with that premise). I can recall being at the Texas Democratic Party convention in May of 2008 on that Saturday afternoon when Hillary Clinton conceded the nomination to Obama. I saw grown men cry -- older white rural gimme-cap men in blue jean overalls.
The next day I saw some delegates wearing T-shirts that said "NObama" on the back.
So yeah, we Democrats have some mitigating to do with each other (especially in Texas, where we fight with each other over 40% of the statewide vote).
I think most of those are generalizations
in the extreme. But there's no point in quarreling about your impressions.
If you were here in 2008, you know that this is child daycare compared to that time. Democrats bicker with each other as a ritual and as a routine, in every election, right down to city dogcatcher. It's just what we do.
I don't think it's unhealthy. It might not be pleasant but it does seem to be the only way that the sausage gets ground, cased, and cooked.
+1
People who take offense to criticism of the president's policies by screaming 'racist' have completely worn out the trope.
The pictures in the OP are unflattering and insensitive -- all presidents are fair game for that -- but are not racist. if he had a bone through his nose or were eating fried chicken then I would agree that they are racist. But let's stop yelling racism every time somebody says something or posts a picture that doesn't exalt our Democratic president.
I might get to vote for Bernie in the Texas primary in March of 2016
I certainly hope so. I am hoping he goes on a long way past that... all the way to the White House.
I find the SCOTUS argument effective personally, but there are many who don't. One case in point would be the 250,000 registered Florida Democrats who voted for George W. Bush in 2000. Apparently they had more important reasons not to vote for Al Gore, or to vote for Bush, or maybe they were brain damaged and/or blahblahblah.
I suspect that low information voters who are undecided until the very end of the cycle make some impulsive, not well-thought-out decisions about who they are voting for. I doubt future potential Supreme Court appointees make their cut.
And I believe this is why the GOP uses so many dog whistles about black people and gay people, and yells about guns and God so much. Because they better understand the voting bloc that is motivated mostly by fear.
Well, thanks for the medical advice
Dr. Know-It-All, but I'm fully cognizant of Rachel's premise, long before she so expertly articulated it.
My point -- maybe you missed it, maybe you ignored it, doesn't matter -- is that people who say "Supreme Court" in voting for Hillary Clinton in the primary are the ones who are demonstrating early onset dementia. IMHO.
I hope you aren't one of those.
Exactly!
I grew weary of the SCOTUS excuse from Clintonites long, long ago. What makes them think Clinton's nominees are going to be better than Sanders'? Why, it's because Bernie isn't electable, doncha know.
So much you could do with this in song
Linda Ronstadt: OooooOOOOO fetus fetus
Janis Joplin: Cry, Fetus... Cry-ay-ay Fetus
Several artists: My fetus does the hanky-panky
Eartha Kitt: Santa Fetus
The Ronettes: Be my, be my fetus
Jackson Browne: She's got to be somebody's fetus
Johnny Winter: Fetus, please don't go. Fetus please don't go. Please don't go down to New Orleans, you know I love you so, fetus please don't go
Huey Lewis and the News: Doin' it all for my fetus
Leon Redbone: fetus, it's cold outside
Frank Sinatra; One for my fetus, and one more for the road
Tommy Edwards: My melancholy fetus
Vanilla Ice: Ice, Ice, Fetus
I'm going to start singing some of these anytime someone interchanges the word fetus with baby. It's the best demonstration of the hypocrisy of substituting one word for the other.
Upon retweet, someone actually tweeted back at me
"We celebrate Hana Meisel's birthday?"
My response was "You and Wikipedia got her birthday wrong".
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