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In reply to the discussion: Here's why I don't think Bernie will run in 2020-and a way of making sure he doesn't. [View all]
onetexan
(13,913 posts)36. Those of us who don't buy into bernie's pipedream message, that's who
We don't want a man whose only a Dem when it's convenient for him.
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Here's why I don't think Bernie will run in 2020-and a way of making sure he doesn't. [View all]
Ken Burch
Nov 2017
OP
you'd be right not to be. I get the feeling people supporting Sanders/Warren are white uber left who
GeneMcM
Nov 2017
#42
It's not like we'd have won the Wisconsin Senate race if only we'd gone with a bland centrist.
Ken Burch
Nov 2017
#74
so therefor that means that milions and millions of people will despite all evidence to the contrary
GeneMcM
Nov 2017
#66
At what point did everybody decide that POC are to the right of white leftists?
Ken Burch
Nov 2017
#73
First of all I do not think Bernie will run in 2020, but not because of the "age factor" as the OP
still_one
Nov 2017
#53
I never saw his ego jumping around as much as you just stated? He never said he will be my
juxtaposed
Nov 2017
#5
He wasn't running to keep Hillary out and it's not his fault that we got Trump.
Ken Burch
Nov 2017
#6
That he did...he implored his supporters but the simple fact is he stayed in the race too long.
Kirk Lover
Nov 2017
#25
Yes I can and I did at the time. He should of gotten out when it stopped being viable...and he
Kirk Lover
Nov 2017
#34
It's pretty obvious. Take a look at recent threads about the independent.
liquid diamond
Nov 2017
#40
Bernie is plenty popular among Democrats. That's why I want to know who we is.
aikoaiko
Nov 2017
#50
Exactly...he is popular in some quarters...but I think less and less with Democrats based on some
Demsrule86
Nov 2017
#45
I think it'll depend on who else is running & that person's stance on issues as a populist candidate
InAbLuEsTaTe
Nov 2017
#67
He did not change his registration. He couldn't. Vermont doesn't have partisan registration. (n/t)
Jim Lane
Nov 2017
#13
He did go back to being an independent...you can belong to a party regardless of registration
Demsrule86
Nov 2017
#47
It feels like we cave (and I don't disagree with most of his message) or else...
Demsrule86
Nov 2017
#48
I am pretty sure that Bernie will run again. Biden is also a possible candidate, although a little
StevieM
Nov 2017
#23
Oh so we adopt his ideas that were not sufficient for him to win a nomination and he doesn't run...
Demsrule86
Nov 2017
#44
He will run. Your insistence that he won't just shows how little you know him
lunamagica
Nov 2017
#55