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PDittie

(8,322 posts)
15. This strategy is reliant upon
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 11:46 AM
Feb 2016

Sanders people being herded onto the Clinton bandwagon after he is eliminated. The cudgel with which they will beat you is "SCOTUS".

No fence-mending; just guilt-tripping.

While Bush v. Gore was still winding its way to conclusion, Jim Hightower wrote that 308,000 registered Florida Democrats voted for George W. Bush in 2000 (and some people still blame Ralph Nader). Those Florida Dems -- 191,000 of whom were self-described "liberals" -- must not have gotten Barbra Streisand's memo that year.

Does repeating 2000's mistakes seem like the definition of insanity to you? Because it does to me.

The only rationale I can get to is that Clinton's 2016 PUMAs think they can recruit enough GOP voters who can't stand Trump to make up for what they will lose from the left wing of the Democratic Party. That seems like a very dangerous strategy to me.

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