California stands a very good chance of going Republican for the first time since Reagan. LINK
Posted on 12/27/2015 5:14:30 PM PST by VinL
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Sunday he thinks he can persuade supporters of Republican front-runner Donald Trump to back him in the 2016 race.
Mr. Sanders, an Independent senator from Vermont, said on CBS that his message about economic inequality can appeal to Trump backers who are angry about lower wages and job losses.
"Many of Trump's supporters are working class people and they are angry," Mr. Sanders said. "What Trump has done successfully, I would say, is take that anger, take that anxiety about terrorism and say to a lot of people in this country, look, the reason for our problems is because of Mexicans…or he says about the Muslims, they are all terrorists, and we got to keep them out of this country."
Mr. Sanders said he aims to sway working, and middle class Trump supporters that the Republicans policies are illsuited to placate their fears.
"We can make the case that if we really want to address the issues that people are concerned about, why the middle class is disappearing, massive income and wealth inequality in this country, that we need policies that bring us together, that take on the greed of Wall Street, the greed of corporate America, and create a middle class that works for all of us, rather than an economy that works just for a few," he said.
The broad national anxieties about the economy and the role of Washington,
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I think he meant proportionately.
Maybe even a college student would understand that.
Of course, in election years, these same Democrats turn around and pretend to be on the side of the working and middle class whites who they blame for everything that's evil and not "progressive" enough the rest of the time. By the 1980's, most of the white working and middle classes were voting Republican, and they haven't looked back. Nor will they look back when a crazy old man runs to them with a banner of "Democratic Socialism."
Which isn't to say that today's Republican Party establishment is a good fit either, hence the appeal of Perot, Trump, etc.
Tea Baggers for Sanders is more like it.
Bernie: Being a communist, idiot and political parasite is no way to go through life.
Old commies never die, they just look and smell that way!
The Democrats marxist love triangle: Hillary, Bernie and Martin. Each trying to out-commie the other.
It is like the crazies in an insane asylum having the Napoleons versus the Adolphs versus the King Georges as to who is the real leader of the zoo.
Which Grampa?
Do you take Trump supporters to task when they post something not positive about Cruz?
I'd probably vote for Cruz, but that's a moot point. The RNC won't allow Cruz to be the nominee in a brokered convention, and furthermore, the establishment vote will consolidate around a single candidate (probably Rubio at this point) fairly early on as low single digit candidates start to drop out. So, a more realistic scenario is a 3-way race of Hillary, Rubio, and Trump. Who would you vote for then?
There are some people who are so anti-establishment that they would vote for Trump over Clinton or Sanders over a Bush. Some of them understand that Trump and Sanders' are worlds apart politically, and some just have an incoherent ideology.
That's certainly possible. Also, people have learned not to believe that politicians will do or can do all the things they say they want to do.
Once upon a time, opponents could say, "Look at what Goldwater (or McGovern) wants to do. How can we elect him?"
Nowadays, the assumption is that Sanders or Trump or Cruz won't be able to do much of what they say they'll do, but that "we" need somebody in there pushing against "them," if only to keep "them" from getting everything they want.
BTW, there's something of a precedent for this in history. Some Goldwater kids ended up supporting RFK or Gene McCarthty four years later. One of them is running for president now, I think.
You are entirely correct, my good FRiend, that Mister Trump will run as an Indie. It is his goal to derail the GOP, one strongly suspects.
I will vote for the GOP nom.
Indy pres candidates always, always lose.
Always-- (ask former, and still-embarrassed Perot supporters).
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Burning Sandals needs a lobotomy then a piano dropped on him
A choice between Hillary and someone like Jeb or Christie is no choice at all as far as I'm concerned. Rubio would probably be marginally better than Hillary, but I'd still have a hard time bringing myself to vote for Mr. Gang of Eight if there's a third party alternative.
ask former, and still-embarrassed Perot supporters)
I'm a former Perot supporter, and I'm not at all embarrassed by it. The Republican party should be embarrassed for nominating crappy candidates like Bush and Dole, neither of whose policies would have been substantively different from Clinton's. If they had nominated halfway decent candidates rather than Democrats Lite, I wouldn't have supported Perot to begin with.
Once Hillary beats Bernie in the rigged Dem primary, many of the Sanders supporters will go to Trump. They hate Hillary and the rigged political system. This is the year of the outsider.
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