2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSanders' campaign to be what some critics have long considered it to be: a farce...
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.
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/4/6/what-if-he-wins-why-bernie-sanders-never-vetted-his-own-campaign-platform
Bingo! This article is a must read, imho.
LexVegas
(6,067 posts)Dawgs
(14,755 posts)dchill
(38,497 posts)There you go.
JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Banned DUer's blog is always good for a laugh.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)It's pathetic really - why can't Hillary and her supporters talk about what she's going to do instead of coming up with these outrageous lies about Bernie?
Advice for you: when a candidate's dishonesty rating is in the gutter, this sort of thing DOES NOT WORK.
Z_California
(650 posts)But pointing out that HRC has taken millions from banks and big oil is some sort of smear?
I just can't believe the disgusting hypocrisy of HRC supporters.
Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)Rob H.
(5,351 posts)Banned troll says what?
immoderate
(20,885 posts)--imm
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)polly7
(20,582 posts)(corrected that for you )
Little Star
(17,055 posts)If you're not to afraid to read it. He's only been a member of the Democratic Party since 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders
Before that we were never good enough for him until he found strong desire to achieve the presidency.