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In reply to the discussion: How come Hillary supporters can't present an argument for her? [View all]libdem4life
(13,877 posts)The third one is totally unnecessary and undeserved snark.
The forth one...rationalization? Logic. Facts. Haven't read too many of my posts, I take it. A billion dollars...look it up. 50-60 million people need to vote for President...easy to find that stat as well. Three, yes three, years without a day job while spending millions of dollars on The Campaign. All without evil corporate funds.
Forget the other huge issues needed for a real, live, national candidate. They pale in comparison. And we wonder why Elizabeth Warren, an intellectual economist hasn't figured that out? Getting her family ready to be invaded and vetted and photographed for the internet, while quitting her amazing work at work she is uniquely suited for and clearly loves ... racing out to be ridiculed by creepy political Tea Party hacks.... so running probably isn't even on her list. ( And if you're one of those that has let this fantasy behind, I apologize for the repeat.) Yet it would surely be to the loud cheers of the Fat Cat 1%ers? Can hear them now in their smoky backrooms...Run, Elizabeth, run. Please, in 2013. These are logical (mostly) facts, as I see it.
I hate it, kind of like I hate paying ridiculous house payments and utilities and food and communication, and newspapers and transportation and gas and .... I hate that probably 95% of my budgetary and discretionary income and even my savings goes to a corporation..some where. But I reliably err on the side of pragmatism and sign and send them the checks, anyway. I don't have to like it. Sometimes I don't even get to choose which corporation I send it to. Examples aside ???? How do we get there with any candidate? Where are the others who have it figured out? I actually think it's more fantasy than purity. And I don't just want a Progressive. I want a Left Liberal...JFK, Bobby type, RIP.
The last response is Clinton or Christie or Jeb or unnamed. If it didn't matter, I'd be with the stay at home group until Mr/Ms Perfection happen along and I wouldn't be posting on DU. Whatever. At this point, and Christie is a maybe and IMO highly doubtful, the other two can definitely raise the funds and put together the organization needed to make it to the Final Two.
Also, we know that the Republicans are in no way grousing about corporate donors. The IOUs are already being printed. In fact, no national candidate is...for kind of a practical reality AKA pragmatism. Why do you think candidates are not growing on trees like they used to...particularly in the Democratic Party? Where are they? And that's the rhetorical question du jour.
Now, about paragraphs 2 and 3 above ... comments?