Posted on 02/02/2020 2:44:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
After claiming they'd cleaned up their act, the Democratic National Committee has done it again: Rigged its own nominating process to keep Bernie Sanders off the Democratic ticket for president. They did that in the last election, putting a thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders, and after that ugly behavior got out, they took great pains to assure would never happen again.
But here we are, with this report from Politico:
The Democratic National Committee is drastically revising its criteria to participate in primary debates after New Hampshire, doubling the polling threshold and eliminating the individual donor requirement, which could pave the way for former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg to make the stage beginning in mid-February.
Candidates will need to earn at least 10 percent in four polls released from Jan. 15 to Feb. 18, or 12 percent in two polls conducted in Nevada or South Carolina, in order to participate in the Feb. 19 debate in Las Vegas. Any candidate who earns at least one delegate to the national convention in either the Iowa caucuses or New Hampshire primary will also qualify for the Nevada debate.
What a coincidence, it comes just as Bernie Sanders is surging in the polls and looks set to secure the Democratic nomination. Democrats have been murmuring to the press for about a week about how that reality scares them. Now we see that they've taking action, putting Bloomberg out front to the voters, as Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg crater, hoping that new-face Bloomberg might just do the trick...
Fine and dandy, except that the Bernie-ites can see exactly what's going on...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“To now change the rules in the middle of the game to accommodate Mike Bloomberg, who is trying to buy his way into the Democratic nomination, is wrong,” Jeff Weaver, a senior adviser to Sanders, told POLITICO as the rules were being announced.
Bernie needs to form his own party
Wrong. Fir sure. But undoubtably a very profitable sale.
The other night the King of all time hypocrites Michael Moore was literally screaming about this and screaming why all the candidate were white now. LOL LOL! Please God, let this cancer of a party be divided up a million ways so none of them are ever elected into office again. I think Bloomberg just may do it
They are going to install Bloomberg to be the nominee with a younger VP palatable to the lunatics. He’s a money tree and Joe is seizing up. They do not want Bernie at establishment central.
If Bernie is the nominee he will effectively own the party driving it into the wilderness.
Every way they look they are screwed.
I don’t know why he doesn’t run as a Communist, that’s what he is. We do have a Communist party here in the USA.
As my 11th-grade “Problems of American Democracy” teacher used to write on the blackboard, “Money walks, talks, and does the Big Apple.”
Cry me a river....
Sanders is NOT EVEN A DEMOCRAT!
The DNC cannot win either way. If he is the nominee they lose and potentially lose congressional seats for good measure.
If he is “cheated” out of being the nominee in any way, many of his supporters stay home or vote Trump (ironic).
Let me help the DNC out. They should just disqualify anyone whose last name begins with an “S”. Presto! The Bernie Sanders problem goes away.
Any yes, I know what everyone is thinking. This would also disqualify Star Trek’s William Shatner. But Shatner was born in Canada. So he’s ineligible anyway.
A friend of mine is a Democrap in New York city, runs in those circles of all the big donors, and she tells me they are all absolutely freakin out about Bernie. He’s too radical even for them! I told her good, tell them to all vote for Trump then.
The Guardian has an anti-Sanders article by Maryland’s governor.
Karl Marx beat him to the punch. Besides. Bank Fraud Bernie is, always has been and forever will be a SLACKER of the highest order.
Who do you think that Maynard G. Krebs was modeled after?
With HQ in a Moscow suburb.
> I don’t know why he doesn’t run as a Communist <
Bernie’s too smart for that. He knows that “communist” still has a negative connotation for many people. I think he should form a new organization. And it’s name should emphasize the class warfare that Bernie loves.
How about the “Committee On Making Monied Individuals Extinct”?
Or COMMIE for short.
So does anyone think the Bern will run as a third party when the DNC boots him?
It depends on how angry he is and how badly he wants to be a dictator before he dies.
Further proof that there is a UniParty with a majority wing and a minority wing
Tulsi needs to come out and sue the DNC for descrimination.
Bernie does not seem to be upset the DNC is sticking it to him again.
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