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In reply to the discussion: Could John Kerry wind up an alternative candidate for President? [View all]Gothmog
(179,976 posts)34. Why don't you explain how Sanders would be viable in a general election debate
Sanders does not appear to be viable in a contest where the Kochs will be spending $887 million and the likely GOP nominee will be able to raise another billion dollars. This article had a very interesting quote about the role of super pacs in the upcoming election http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/03/bernie-sanders-grassroots-movement-gains-clinton-machine
Harvard University professor Lawrence Lessig, who founded a Super Pac to end Super Pacs, said Sanders renouncing Super Pacs is tantamount to bringing a knife to a gunfight.
I regret the fact the Bernie Sanders has embraced the idea that hes going to live life like the Vermont snow, as pure as he possibly can, while he runs for president, because it weakens his chances and hes an enormously important progressive voice, Lessig said.
I regret the fact the Bernie Sanders has embraced the idea that hes going to live life like the Vermont snow, as pure as he possibly can, while he runs for president, because it weakens his chances and hes an enormously important progressive voice, Lessig said.
President Obama was against super pacs in 2012 but had to use one to keep the race close. I do not like super pacs but any Democratic candidate who wants to be viable has to use a super pac, The super pacs associated with Clinton raised $24 million and so Clinton raised $70 this quarter.
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He never said he would have invaded had he been President - in fact, he said many many times that
karynnj
Sep 2015
#16
Why would we want someone that doesn't even try defend himself appropriately against swift boaters?
cascadiance
Sep 2015
#4
Why didn't a Democratic party defend him with even half the strength they showed
karynnj
Sep 2015
#19
Those are good questions too. But Kerry failed to really challenge that treatment...
cascadiance
Sep 2015
#32
I think the number one issue of ALL Americans, NOT just Democrats is corporate crony corruption...
cascadiance
Sep 2015
#37
Why in a democracy is it SAD to not want someone to be FORCED to engaged in corruption to be viable?
cascadiance
Sep 2015
#50
I feel like I am at a balloon festival today. Possible candidates floating all around me.
djean111
Sep 2015
#14
The anti-Hillary people will say he has a much "blood dripping from his hands" as Hillary...
brooklynite
Sep 2015
#26
I say, please, please, please let Kerry and Biden both join the race!
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Sep 2015
#27
If we're dipping into the former candidate political vault, I'd vastly prefer Gore
Blasphemer
Sep 2015
#29
Part of the problem is that the new corporatist leadership has kept out progressive options that age
cascadiance
Sep 2015
#52
No thanks. Kerry and especially Biden have even less plausible deniability of "being tricked" than
TheKentuckian
Sep 2015
#38
Shall we not start brokering conventions before the first primary has been had?
Betty Karlson
Sep 2015
#49