Charles P. Pierce on President Bernie
Bernie Sanders won't be president? No kidding, Bob. What was your first freaking clue? But, as I said, here's the thing. Chris Christie won't be president, either. Rand Paul won't be president, either. Nobody's out there in 2014 reminding their supporters that they'll have to come to their senses some day. There is nobody telling Martin O'Malley's supporters that they all should lay in some "READY FOR HILLARY" buttons against that inevitable day when the campaign craters. It is not a disqualifying flaw in a candidate two years before the election that the candidate is unlikely to win -- or, even, that the candidate is very unlikely to win -- because, if it were, nobody would be qualified to run. This is all understood, if rarely spoken, by the people who judge such things. But, so far, it's a standard that has been openly applied only to Bernie Sanders. (Jesus, there are reporters out there who still are seriously talking about bringing back Willard Romney.) Why is it that Bernie Sanders is only in this to "push the dialogue to the left," while Ted Cruz, who is a fking nut six ways to Sunday, is running because he has a "substantial constituency within the party"?
What is going on, I believe, is not an effort to marginalize Sanders but, rather, to marginalize what he's talking about, because making a presidential election purely about class is something we don't do any more. It really isn't funny that Sanders talks incessantly about "the middle class," because people who perceive themselves as middle class are finding themselves broken and sinking into poverty. Income inequality, and its pernicious effects on our people and our politics and our entire culture, is worth discussing, in detail, in a national election, and if Bernie Sanders wants to be monomaniacal on the subject, so what? Rudy Giuliani got months of great press as a potential president out of what Joe Biden famously called, "A noun, a verb, and 9/11." Nobody accused Giuliani of running merely to push the conversation to the right, or into drag, or whatever. I'm old enough to remember 1979, when the smart money thought Ronald Reagan a superannuated joke. Right now, the 2016 election is nothing more than a vague national conversation about what's important. If it's all the same to everybody, for the moment, I'll treat Bernie Sanders as a potential president the same way I'd treat Hillary Clinton or any of the others, thanks. It's fking September of 2014. Nothing else makes sense.
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You can see traces of it in pretty much any Sanders thread with more then 10 replies
to put his name on the ballot. They want a built in excuse. Not that they won't figure something else out.
What will be interesting to me is whether the BFEE will attack H. Clinton-Sachs. Depends if they think Jeb, the smarter son (I didn't say smart, but compared to Dim-Son, he is the smarter son and he is Babs favorite) is going to run. Who do the Koch Krime Family want?
You give me joy.
As worst-case scenarios go, that's a pretty darned good one.
Same reason I supported Kucinich in 2008.
Best case? President Bernie. Oh hell yeah. Unlikely, but I think it could be awesome.
w: truer words have never been spoken. IF
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When someone says "gonna take votes away" this is exactly what I hear them saying. And then I just hear buzzing until it fades away...
I wonder if horticultural oil would help, every three days for two weeks? Sure helped with Spider Mites, and I like them a lot better than third way phonies.
about what he's doing. What is Hillary doing? Oh, that's right...she's "going to make a decision in 2015." And Bernie is also talking issues that affect prit near all of us. I say get Don Draper on the Sanders account right after the midterms.
Seriously, Bernie's got my vote. With pleasure.
What about the classes below the middle????????? 
