What If He Wins: Why Bernie Sanders Never Vetted His Own Campaign Platform

[MrWendel]

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/4/6/what-if-he-wins-why-bernie-sanders-never-vetted-his-own-campaign-platform

By Trevor LaFauci

Sometimes a single movie scene can perfectly encapsulate a real world event.

In 1972, Hollywood leading man Robert Redford starred in a Michael Ritchie film, titled The Candidate, which told the fictional story of California senatorial nominee Bill McKay. McKay, the son of a former governor, is recruited by election specialist Marvin Lucas (played by Peter Boyle) to challenge the popular incumbent Republican senator Crocker Jarmon in a race where McKay is expected to be the Democratic Party's sacrificial lamb. Since McKay seemingly has no shot at winning, Lucas gives him free reign to say whatever he wants on the campaign trail as a way to at least allow him the feeling of self-respect after what will assuredly be a landslide defeat. However, a funny thing happens: McKay begins to gain popularity by telling it how it is by bringing up such issues as racial inequality and social injustices. Eventually McKay wins over the state's powerful unions and is even endorsed by his father, an act seen as the tipping point in what had become a neck-and-neck race. McKay ends up winning the race and the last scene has him looking bewildered as he pulls Lucas aside and asks, point blank, "What do we do now?"

Bernie Sanders is a modern day Bill McKay.

Because like McKay, Sanders evidently has no idea what would happen should he be elected president. On April 1st, Sanders gave an interview to the editorial board of The New York Daily News, in what is widely being regarded as an unmitigated disaster for the Sanders campaign. The interview showcased Sanders to be a one-trick pony, stuck on talking points and having no real understanding of essential issues that he would be facing as our country's president and commander-in-chief. Sanders' lackluster performance was widely criticized by such media outlets as Mediate, Slate Magazine, The Atlantic, CNN, and USA Today who all lamented the fact that even with ten months of campaigning under his belt, Sanders was unable to answer even the simplest questions in regard to his very own campaign platform. The interview left many pundits wondering why Sanders had not been challenged this way in any previous debates or one-on-one interviews and how he was able to make it this far without having a basic understanding of how government functions.

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[Basic LA]

1. Nice call-back to a great movie.

I guess he'll keep yelling & waving his arms from the oval office. Actually, I don't see him as an administrator at all.

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. He simply becomes red-faced & indignant, and reporters move on. It's the same phenom we see.....

with Trump. They've both gotten a pass, because they alledgely "tell it like it is". Separate BS from his "passion & emotion", and you're left with an extremely empty suit. I can't believe he's managed to fake it for so long without serious vetting. You best believe that should he be allowed to head fake his way through to the GE, the press, aided by the Koch billions, will finally begin to do its job.
Hillary has gone very easy on him, and I understand the reasons why.