2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I like Sanders, really I do......BUT... [View all]RichVRichV
(885 posts)'He's an outsider, not a real Democrat.'
'First he was in it to drive the party left, now he wants to win.'
'He has a lot of great ideas and no way to pay for them.'
Sander's cant survive GOP negative attacks.'
'He has a child out of wedlock.'
'He can't win because he's a socialist.'
'He's too old.'
Now I'll waste my time responding to this tripe.
1) The big tent can apparently include ex Republicans, bur left leaning independents who have caucused with the Democrats need not apply. Simple fact is if he runs as a Democrat you attack him as an outsider. If he ran as an independent you'd attack him as a spoiler. So which is it?
2) This is an outright delusion of Hillary supporters. He has always been in it to win. He stated before he ran he would only declare if he felt he had the support to win. The op is just angry he's not playing by thier delusion.
3) He has already stated how to pay for free higher education in full. It's a proven model through out the world. We would actually save money with single payer. Again proven through out the world.
4) There's plenty to go after Hillary with (and I don't mean Benghazi, which is made up garbage). Bernie has a lot less baggage to attack. It's a lot harder to swift boat with social media truth checking everything now. Good luck to them. So far all the attacks on him have amounted to nothing.
5) Who cares. Tons of people have. That attack is a waste of time.
6) It's killing him so far. In fact he hasn't had any Republican support in Vermont as a self proclaimed socialist.
7) That's an attack on Hillary also, she's not much younger. The simple fact is different people become 'too old' at different rates. Look at RBG. And being young doesn't mean someone won't become debilitated or die.
The fact that you agree with the op doesn't change that it's a thinly veiled attack.