Bernie's Vagueness Dooming His Campaign

[MrWendel]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/26/1491653/-Bernie-s-Vagueness-Dooming-His-Campaign

By claudsam

People may not believe this, but I was an undecided Democratic voter until earlier this month. I watched both Hillary and Bernie — and their campaigns — with a singular focus on who I think has the best chance to win in November.

I concluded that Bernie, while inspiring young voters, independents, and disaffected liberals, just doesn’t have what it takes to win. Everything I’ve seen over the last three weeks from him and his supporters only reinforces my views.

And in the last few days, I’ve realized something new about Bernie that always bothered me, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Bernie is inspiring and has offered big ideas, but is almost insultingly vague in both the policy details and in the politics. And that vagueness juxtaposed against his big broad ideas is not a winning combination.

Let me start with this basic point: If Bernie were to win the White House, he would be the most liberal elected official in the entire Federal Government. This would be unprecedented. Never before in U.S. history has the most liberal or the most conservative elected official of the Federal Government been President. And this point alone makes it exceedingly hard for me to see how he would get anything done — even getting his cabinet confirmed would be a gigantic fight with a Congress far to his right.

So, this question of how would he actually govern is a very important question, one he has not come close to answering.

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[yallerdawg]

1. It's working for Trump.

Maybe it's the level of competition!

There's no Hillary over there!

[Cha]

2. That's not all. Thank you MrWendel!

[jsmirman]

3. I feel insulted - after 8 years of having my intelligence insulted by W

I'm not up for that kind of friendly fire. To my eye - there's just nothing honest about this approach.