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In reply to the discussion: Something for the Anti-Clinton Camp to Keep In Mind When You Feel Belittled [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I think we can do better than Hillary. She is the corporate candidate par excellence.
I have volunteered for Bernie Sanders.
I also like Elizabeth Warren.
I suspect that Warren will only run if Hillary Clinton blatantly goes toward the right and does not at least pay lip service to Elizabeth Warren's economic issues. Hillary Clinton will probably avoid that mistake.
But Hillary Clinton's campaign could crash and burn.
I note that she looks great and that her voice has improved since 2008, but she has quite a history to deal with. And the history of Bill Clinton's relationship with the bankers, with Citigroup, with Summers and Geithner and with the media and "free" trade -- will be hard for Hillary to explain if she has any challenge from the left.
Hillary Clinton will face a barrage of mostly unfair and unfounded criticism from the Republicans. She tends to take things personally (based on what I have seen in the past). Needs to do a lot of prayer and meditation if she is to withstand what is about to happen to her. No. It isn't fair. No. It isn't nice. But it is going to happen.
I repeat that I have volunteered for Bernie Sanders.
I think that Bernie Sanders has the selflessness and the innate fairness that will make him an even stronger candidate than Obama was. Bernie is fully himself, and that is his strength. He shouldn't change a hair and he should own every wrinkle and laugh at every joke about his appearance, Brooklyn accent, etc. And that is what he is doing.
I think that in spite of all the challenges he will face, Bernie is a guy that will grab America's heart. He has a kind of contagious way about him that makes you like him. He is unassuming. There isn't the slightest bit of conceit in his body or brain. He seems to be a bit of an absent-minded professor as we used to say, but he is always focused and in the moment. He has an extremely sharp mind and so many years of experience that he does not need a lot of handlers to tell him what to say. He will make mistakes but they will be honest mistakes that make him more appealing, make him seem all the more authentic to voters.
So I'm backing Bernie Sanders. I think he has a good chance to win the nomination.
If Hillary cannot win the nomination due to the fact that other potential candidates enter the field, then she will not be able to win the general election.
Neither Hillary nor any other potential candidate has anything to lose due to the presence of other primary candidates.