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In reply to the discussion: Sanders promoted false story on reporting Russian trolls [View all]McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)because how could he realize it? All Facebook "likes" look the same. Pretty sure Stein took the money knowing what she was doing. Pretty sure Sanders did not have a clue what was going on at the time and is absolutely shocked now. However, since many of us on the ground suspected that he was being groomed to be a potential third party splitter, he should have sensed it, too, meaning that he may not be smart enough or savvy enough about politics to be POTUS. Obama has smarts and savvy enough to spare. So does Clinton. In 2008, Clinton knew exactly when to pull the plug on her campaign and when and how to embrace Obama (by signing on as SOS) to avoid becoming a third party splitter.
So, the moral here should be Sanders was not smart/savvy enough to be president, not Sanders was not moral/pure enough to be president. Clinton was savvy/smart enough to be president, but all the president's men and women could not find a way out of the mess that McConnell, Putin, Ryan, FOX made because there was no precedent for dealing with something like that, just as there was no precedent for dealing with Pat Buchanan's Dirty Trick's campaign of 1972 until it actually happened.
You gotta hand it to Karl Rove. No college education,but he got away with stealing two elections. I think it is because he had the CIA(Bush Sr. loyalty) in his pocket. Never try to steal an election in this country unless you have the CIA in your pocket. Because the CIA knows everything you are up to.