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Hillary's next brilliant campaign move: Getting DWS to attack Sanders for not being a true Democrat. (Original Post) mhatrw Apr 2016 OP
"Jane Sanders is nowhere near as hot as Bill is!" mhatrw Apr 2016 #1
Sanders is an Independent who became a Democrat when it could do something for him SFnomad Apr 2016 #2
Only right-wing Dems care about Bernie starting as an independent. Ken Burch Apr 2016 #4
You're wrong, because I'm not a right-wing Dem SFnomad Apr 2016 #7
the suites are the domain of the suits. Ken Burch Apr 2016 #10
bernie says why he is running as a dem - that's where the $$ is. so much for principles msongs Apr 2016 #5
lol Good one! Lordquinton Apr 2016 #12
The truth never goes out of style n/t SFnomad Apr 2016 #14
Going around begging rich people for handouts Bohemianwriter Apr 2016 #15
Re: She is entitled to it SFnomad Apr 2016 #16
Worked hard? Bohemianwriter Apr 2016 #17
"Bernie Sanders is not kosher!" mhatrw Apr 2016 #3
"that depends on how we kill him, sir" Ken Burch Apr 2016 #6
"Bruce Rappaport actually won 7 of the last 8 primaries!" mhatrw Apr 2016 #8
We saw one posted here today nadinbrzezinski Apr 2016 #9
"Bernie was actually born in Kenya, not Brooklyn!" mhatrw Apr 2016 #11
"Bernie gave Willie Horton his gun!" nt mhatrw Apr 2016 #13
 

SFnomad

(3,473 posts)
2. Sanders is an Independent who became a Democrat when it could do something for him
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 01:34 AM
Apr 2016

He doesn't help raise funds for other Democrats. He's more like a moocher than anything else.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
4. Only right-wing Dems care about Bernie starting as an independent.
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 01:37 AM
Apr 2016

What matters is that he stands up for the people against the rich.

You can stand with the streets, or the suites. You can't stand with both.

 

SFnomad

(3,473 posts)
7. You're wrong, because I'm not a right-wing Dem
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 01:41 AM
Apr 2016

I care about the Democratic Party up and down the line, not just one person.

And you probably meant suits ... the two words you wrote, streets and suites rhyme.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
10. the suites are the domain of the suits.
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 01:44 AM
Apr 2016

The streets are the domain of the people.

(the rhyme and alliteration were intentional).

And I care about the Democratic Party, too.

I want it to prosper at the polls and do things that matter when in power.

We can only do things that matter if we campaign and govern as the party of the majority...the people the other party vilifies, attacks, divides and lies to. We need to be the great party of those who would be powerless by themselves but could transform life by uniting.

Bernie is running because no other possible Democratic candidate this year was going to try to do that.

What matters is nominating someone who truly wants to bring that great majority together, giving the voiceless a voice, speaking the truths no one else will speak. That's what the Sanders campaign represents, and if it succeeds, it will bring into this party millions of people who should always have had a natural home here, but who have been driven away and made unwelcome for decades now, and who did nothing to deserve such treatment.

 

Bohemianwriter

(978 posts)
15. Going around begging rich people for handouts
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 07:52 AM
Apr 2016

for corporate democrats?

DNC and Hillary supporters have never complained about Bernie caucusing with the democrats OR the BLACK caucus.

But Hillary loyalists thinks that Hillary embodies the core values of the democratic party and the legacy of FDR.

She doesn't!

It's more like the establishment are moochers on Bernie and want to throw him and the party under the bus to get a corporatist selected to the WH as if she is entitled to it.

 

SFnomad

(3,473 posts)
16. Re: She is entitled to it
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 09:32 AM
Apr 2016

Senator Clinton is hardly entitled to anything. She has worked hard to earn the 2+ million more votes she has received over Sanders. But I guess it's easier for you to accept the sting of that by just saying that she seems "entitled".

 

Bohemianwriter

(978 posts)
17. Worked hard?
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 10:10 AM
Apr 2016

Right!
By going to fundraisers rather than spending time with the actual voters on election night!

She is using voters, whether they are minorities, they are only useful as props and voter base.

She has had media WITH her and an establishment not afraid to use Karl Rovian tactics.

If Bernie would have gotten HALF of the coverage Trump has gotten, or fair coverage, Bernie would be leading by double digits and you know it!

This election cycle really exposes how the corporate media and the party establishment have been screwing you over for decades! And so many voters are still blind as bats to see it!

Her "hard work" has been going through surrogates and dirty campaigning. From smearing Bernie's civil rights record and staining the legacy of other civil rights legens by pitting them against each other, commanding an UNDESERVED pledge from the African American caucus before going south....

Sorry. Hillary hasn't earned a single vote. Besides, I fail to see how so many Hillary supporters would want more Clintons in Office and blindly supports a "democrat" like DWS who has been campaigning AGAINST HER OWN PARTY when it has been expedient for herself.

I fail to see what attracts you to her foreign policy "experience" which basically covers the neocon agenda in overthrowing other governments and making more wars.
I fail to see the progressive values in that.
I fail to see how you think she was progressive when advocating crime laws that targetted minorities, using a dogwhistle to appeal to RW racists.
I fail to see how you think her taking money from Wall Street does not corrupt HER as if she is somehow morally above her republican colleagues who takes money from the same pool of donors.
Making speeches at 225 000 pop, praising criminal bankers as "misunderstood" (but too embarassed to show the transcripts to the public is NOT a reassuring trait) is NOT what i call "hard work"
She is doing an effort now to alienate millions of Bernie voters who came to the party on IDEALS and not personal/partisan loyalty. These are the voters the democrats lost when they went the 3rd way, and still expected their support at election, taking their votes for granted.

Her campaign and the corporate media has tried to paint Bernie Sanders as a white racist who don't like women, hates Israel and is a freeloading commie in bed with republican teabaggers who only wants "free stuff for white kids" and guns in the hands of mentally unstable gun nuts.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
9. We saw one posted here today
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 01:44 AM
Apr 2016

that quite frankly I expect to see more off.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1667094

Even if this one was hidden.

Oh and by the way, I also saw it in the very RW religious press in Israel.

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