2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Hillary people got over it in '08 and voted for Obama. [View all]DFW
(59,684 posts)Rove and Cheney had Citizens United in their sights when they nominated Roberts and Alito to the Supreme Court. We just didn't see it coming. Cheney had to have known that there was no way a Democrat would lose the presidency in 2008. That's why they finally let McCain have his nomination, and let him sink with Palin--something they never would have done had they seen a chance to keep the White House. Angle and O'Donnell were just testing to see how deep the cesspool was, and the answer was pretty deep, though not THAT deep.
On here, no matter HOW many good points Sanders brings up, his positives get obscured in anger-filled barrages of clichés containing obligatory Fox-like numbing repetition of "corporate, oligarch, 1%, warmongering, annointed one" etc. etc. Remind me again--repeating that stuff 250 times a day makes Bernie the better candidate..how? When Roger Ailes first started Fox "News," and was asked if he would provide objective reporting, he answered, maybe more candidly than he intended, "we have an agenda." In other words, NO. I want to hear what Bernie has got going for him. I know the domestic agenda, sorta, but as an ex-pat, there are other issues he has not addressed. Hillary and O'Malley haven't addressed them either, which is why you can still color me undecided. There are some of us who think the world does not end at Cape Hatteras or the western shore of Kaua'i. "I won't ever vote for Hillary because, #875" comes no closer to addressing that matter than does a chart of last month's regional championship matches of 43 Man Squamish.