2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Bernie Sanders would be EVISCERATED by the Republican attack machine in the general election. [View all]
Socialist Communist Socialist Communist Socialist Communist Taxes Taxes Taxes Taxes Taxes Massive Expansion of Government Massive Expansion of Government Massive Expansion of Government Turning Us Into Europe Turning Us Into Europe Turning Us Into Europe!!!!! It will be a BLOODBATH the likes we have never seen in American politics.
The American electorate will not accept a self declared European type socialist proposing such a large expansion of government. It simply will never fly, and anyone who wants to delude themselves into thinking otherwise is in fact living sheer delusion and has no concept of the American political tradition.
Hillary Clinton is already vetted and tested. There is no piece of slime they can throw at her that she hasn't already had thrown at her. Her plans are progressive but more detailed, realistic, and doable.
I don't hear Bernie saying a word about expanding small business in the private sector and increasing wages in the private sector where the vast number of jobs are actually created. Every solution seems to be a government solution.
Sanders has very limited foreign policy experience in an election where foreign policy will be front and center.
Look at Korbin in the UK. The Labor Party is in the TANK. They don't trust him on the economy nor on foreign policy.
I think what Bernie says about some of the fundamental problems is spot on, but the massive expansion of government proposals simply will not fly. He would be decimated in the general election.
I would like a Bernie supporter to please explain to me IN DETAIL how he will deal with this onslaught that would happen if he was nominated. How will he SPECIFICALLY sell his massive expansion of government, deal with the SOCIALISTCOMMUNIST night and day attacks that are coming, and why he doesn't say anything about increasing jobs and wages in the private sector where most job creation occurs? How will he be imagined as being Commander in Chief of the military and head of our foreign policy?
I love Bernie. Good heart and means well. Saying many things that need saying. But president of the U.S.? Just ain't gonna happen. Now, Secretary of Labor, I can see that.