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In reply to the discussion: Sanders Defends Decision to Speak at Vatican Amid NY Contest [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)seriously, this is a tremendous legitimating move by the Vatican: he's being recognized as a senior statesman and as important as Morales and the other leaders of countries invited; his ideas, his movement are what the beating heart of 1.3 billion members and believers across the planet feels it needs to hear: this is world-leader stuff
and of course it shows he's confident enough in his nationwide trendline to skip directly campaigning for 2 days

he's gonna go into the convention as the popular frontrunner with a mass movement unconditonally demanding change to politics and an irreversible end to the now-exposed corruption of the DNC, the ability to pull in indys by the millions, the ability to keep indys instead of making them sit home in droves and rally the Republicans to vote against her, with favorability ratings through the roof, with leads over the Republican 10-15 points better than Clinton's, no cumulative unforced errors, no indictments, no Panama Papers, no MCC/Foundation pay-to-play, no condemnation by Jimmy Carter, no protests by Hondurans after the NEXT murder there
he's the sure shot, she's the poison pill who'd be okay with losing the GE if it meant her faction now had absolute grip on the party--and since hers is the faction that's thrown election after election, it'd be on purpose
meanwhile Clinton has every thumb put on every scale for her, every lie said for her, every flack and flunky out to bail for her, every endorsement, every road cleared, every path smoothed, and all it does is turn people off more and more