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In reply to the discussion: So Sanders is going back to running as an Indy for his senate seat. [View all]ollie10
(2,091 posts)90. The question he was asked was talking about future elections in general, not specific to 2020
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So Sanders is going back to running as an Indy for his senate seat. [View all]
Stinky The Clown
Oct 2017
OP
Ignore them. There is nothing for you to let go. You are discussing present tense.
stevenleser
Oct 2017
#184
Interesting try at reframing the debate with a red herring but I'm not biting.
stevenleser
Oct 2017
#192
There is nothing to let go. Sanders made a decision this week we don't like. nt
stevenleser
Oct 2017
#185
Hillary Only Had To Beat The FBI, Russia, Trump, And The Entire Billionaire Funded GOP
SeattlePop
Oct 2017
#65
She could have beaten all of them except the FBI. Actually, she did beat the FBI the first two times
StevieM
Oct 2017
#194
Further, I think the suppression hepled a hell of a lot too. So wan't just the FBI.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#197
Thank-you Irish, for the support and balance. I totally respect your position.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#223
Yes. The crime of the century. We do not know yet the full extent of the crime.
Irish_Dem
Oct 2017
#276
The propaganda was intense, unrelenting and targeted to both right and left.
Irish_Dem
Oct 2017
#327
Not at all equivalent. Hillary backed O enthusiastically, Sanders backed her reluctantly...
brush
Oct 2017
#256
Where we talking about the losers of the 2 primaries, Clinton and Sanders, or the pumas?
brush
Oct 2017
#264
Nader ran in the General Election as an independent, he never ran in the 2000 Primaries.....
George II
Oct 2017
#133
What's disingenuous? You're comparing a primary campaign to a general election campaign.
George II
Oct 2017
#269
He said he ran as a dam for media cover...so it because he needed something from us to
all american girl
Oct 2017
#306
Of course he ran as a dem for dem infrastructure. Who thought otherwise?!?!
Lucky Luciano
Oct 2017
#121
Not really. The donations were challenged in formal FEC investigative letters
R B Garr
Oct 2017
#100
And he also promised at that time to stay in the Democratic Party and broke that promise.
Demsrule86
Oct 2017
#283
3 or 4 different periods with FEC? Also, a 10 million donation I have not heard followup on.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#140
Well, I am disappointed and not surprised. We gave him the benefit he didn't want to split the vote
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#102
Significant and telling point. He had no respect or integrity when it came to the Democratic Party,
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#112
It's amazing how you see reactions to bad decisions and suggest even worse decisions.
stevenleser
Oct 2017
#188
No doubt you and other will send him money. But I don't think he can win a primary for many reasons
Demsrule86
Oct 2017
#157
Here is the thing. I thought maybe people might recognize the courts as our one last chance.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#176
You have ANY evidence that progressive democrats don't care about the courts?
hueymahl
Oct 2017
#181
Yes. I do. Anyone claiming to be progressive and writing Sanders name in or voting Stein made it
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#190
Pretty straight forward and an easy, really easy concept so I have to ask why your challenge.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#200
You could not be more wrong. You are the one that defines a "progressive" in a limited manner.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#204
No, I did not. Take it back. I ONLY stated those writing in Sanders or voting 3rd party or not
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#211
No...these folks are not any sort of the Democratic base...and I question their progressive
Demsrule86
Oct 2017
#267
First of all ....Democrats are progressive...the far far left and green riffraff are not the base
Demsrule86
Oct 2017
#266
You do not get the definition of strawman anymore than a small faction gets to own progressive.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#312
The progressive wing of the Democratic party contains folks generally left of the leadership
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#317
I only count a few that do not work on social reform and tell us to put it to the side.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#313
A handful. I have another. Sanders. He is not about progressing on liberal social ideas.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#316
You do not understand why I made my point in my posts? Because a small faction is taking
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#319
Clinton is very progressive as is Pelosi and others being bashed continually.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#322
I agree completely. And when I brought up courts on other sites the response was meh
Demsrule86
Oct 2017
#265
My favorite part is the little trick you pull when you follow Sanders' name with that of Stein.
LanternWaste
Oct 2017
#9
The intention is not to refight the primaries but to avoid a repeat of our 16 loss in 20.
Demsrule86
Oct 2017
#16
If you don't cherry pick your "reality," it's not hard at all to keep track. The Russian's
R B Garr
Oct 2017
#79
It was more than one things as you know...wouldn't like to see it happen in 20.
Demsrule86
Oct 2017
#154
I'm not familiar with the Independent Party platform. What are their stated principles?
Demit
Oct 2017
#62
I don't vote for independents if a Democrat is a available personally under any circumstance.
Demsrule86
Oct 2017
#159
The natural follow-up is: If one votes all "D," why is one not a regstered "D"?
WinkyDink
Oct 2017
#26
Who cares? It's how he votes that counts with me. Plus, he's one of the most popular politicians
jalan48
Oct 2017
#31
He made it quite clear that the sanctions bill was unacceptable because it included new sanctions
Voltaire2
Oct 2017
#250
I would like to ask BS (heh) just 1 question: Exactly with what part of the Democratic Platform do
WinkyDink
Oct 2017
#24
Yep. And he will get re-elected with no problem. And he will continue to caucus with the Dems.
phleshdef
Oct 2017
#28
To that I will add, Democrats, Progressives, Socialists, Independents, Democratic Progressives,
Wwcd
Oct 2017
#52
Oh, he must've meant in 2020. To that I say "dream on". We've seen that movie before.
brush
Oct 2017
#43
The question he was asked was talking about future elections in general, not specific to 2020
ollie10
Oct 2017
#90
Fortunately, the Democrats of Vermont have more sense than the bash-Bernie brigade on DU
Jim Lane
Oct 2017
#57
Ah, back to the JPR talking points, complete with the intellectual observations
R B Garr
Oct 2017
#82
I would like to see a Howard Dean or other top Vermont Dem in that Dem primary.
Blue_true
Oct 2017
#272
Howard Dean is one of those Vermonters who have more sense than the Bernie-bashers
Jim Lane
Oct 2017
#286
Thanks for such detailed links to counter mine and prove your position there George
LiberalLovinLug
Oct 2017
#137
Those detailed links were just speculative regarding an election that didn't occur.
George II
Oct 2017
#139
Exactly. The Trump people had oppo research & campaign points ready to go on Sanders.
Demit
Oct 2017
#150
Gee, I wonder if those Sanders supporters who refused to vote for Hillary in the General Election,
still_one
Oct 2017
#145
By the sounds of some in here I'd wager he'd get that treatment from even DU members
LiberalLovinLug
Oct 2017
#238
Capitulated isn't quite what was done. While he did endorse the Democratic nominee, it was
still_one
Oct 2017
#248
If Sen. Sanders became the candidate somehow. There would have been hell to pay so
Demsrule86
Oct 2017
#158
Many Of The People I Know Who Voted For Trump Would Have Voted For Bernie They Said
SeattlePop
Oct 2017
#166
They said "they didn't like any candidate", but they still voted for the racist, sexist, bigot? I
still_one
Oct 2017
#249
I don't buy that. I just don't Trump is not like Bernie...most of that sort voted the Russian
Demsrule86
Oct 2017
#281
Unless they are union guys...who voted for Trump for the trade stuff which Trump lied through his
Demsrule86
Oct 2017
#297
"He isn't a friend of the Democratic party or at least not until he starts acting like it"
LiberalLovinLug
Oct 2017
#86
Its only all about Bernie when you and others locked in your mindset write about him
LiberalLovinLug
Oct 2017
#296
Me, too. Damn good thing our Democrats in our Democratic Party are solid progressives. Right?
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#178
"Of course I am a Democrat and running for the Democratic nomination." -Bernie Sanders, Feb. 2016
ashtonelijah
Oct 2017
#78
I'm not asking anyone to support Bernie, but there is a lesson to be learned from him
Tobin S.
Oct 2017
#84
So the 200,000 or more Democratic voters in each of those states who were unable to vote on the day
Ford_Prefect
Oct 2017
#85
He had his re-election campaign committee, as an independent, up and running....
George II
Oct 2017
#88
Bernie has an allegiance to an ideology. Not The Democratic Party. n/t
SleeplessinSoCal
Oct 2017
#95
i agree with this comment you made.... i agree with all you said. "was at best tepid"
trueblue2007
Oct 2017
#148
I heard Tom Hartman say Sen. Sanders should become a Democrat last week...couldn't
Demsrule86
Oct 2017
#161
well its an interesting position that a few dems are taking on this. It is an interesting question
JCanete
Oct 2017
#164
No, Trump is an international joke. Just about all the other countries out there have had idiot
stevenleser
Oct 2017
#221
He would be far more influential WITH the party if he were IN the party
Stinky The Clown
Oct 2017
#189
almost like you wished he ran in -General Election- as a I to really split the GE vote. Hillary wou
Sunlei
Oct 2017
#205
If Sanders ran in GE as an Independent, he would have been a spoiler & taken votes from Hillary.
Sunlei
Oct 2017
#259
You'll need to change the constitution to get rid of the Electoral College, then.
Gore1FL
Oct 2017
#270
I changed my post because I misunderstood yours. IMO, I 'm amazed at Sanders energy level.
Sunlei
Oct 2017
#273
Their campaigns even worked together for several days after primary. They worked WELL
Sunlei
Oct 2017
#279
The Russians attacks on our democracy, Republicans who colluded, the presidents 'deals' with any
Sunlei
Oct 2017
#280
DU has always and probably always will support politicians like Bernie Sanders.
aikoaiko
Oct 2017
#307