You Think It's Hard to Run Against a Woman, Bernie Sanders? Try Running as One.

[comradebillyboy]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/you-think-its-hard-to-run-against-a-women-bernie-sanders-try-running-as-one?ref=home

Turns out Joe Biden isn’t the only presidential candidate making tone-deaf comments guaranteed to provoke key Democratic constituencies. Enter Bernie Sanders, who postulated Friday that Elizabeth Warren is gaining on him in part because "there are a certain number of people who would like to see a woman elected.” The idea that Americans—even progressive Democrats—are so eager for the coming matriarchy that it’s an obstacle for a man like Bernie is laughable, and demonstrably false.

According to a Morning Consult poll, Bernie supporters overwhelmingly break for Biden as their second choice. Somehow the woman with whom the Democratic-Socialist senator is ideologically closest loses his voters to the most conservative candidate in the field. Twenty-six percent of Berniecrats told an Emerson poll earlier this year that they would even choose Trump in a general election. Meanwhile, Warren still has to fight to win over voters who should be her natural base: women who say they like her, but worry that she can’t win. This self-fulfilling prophecy was captured in an opinion survey this month conducted by Ipsos for The Daily Beast, which showed that while 74 percent of Democrats and independents say that they are personally comfortable with a female president, just 33 percent say that their spouses and neighbors would be. That means every man in the field has a de facto leg-up by virtue of being male.

Running for president while female is a disadvantage, plain and simple. Suggesting otherwise makes Bernie sound like any other white man complaining about supposedly being passed over for a “diversity hire.”

[Vegas Roller]

1. K&R

Senator BS releases various memes like this:
"We want a woman POTUS but not this woman."


Then there is a whole cadre of BS supporters who call women choosing a woman candidate as "vagina voters." This is extremely condescending to women which has been Senator BS's mindset as shown in his life from his essays to his attacks against female opponents.

[Autumn]

2. It's ironic that the media and others use a fact as stated by a politician as a cudgel.

"there are a certain number of people who would like to see a woman elected.” That's the truth. The media and a few are using the electability bullshit to keep the women candidates poll numbers down because "she can’t win".

[TwilightZone]

5. It's dismissive.

The insinuation is that they're only supporting her because she's a woman.

It's not any more complicated than that. This also isn't the first time he's made similarly dismissive comments.

[Autumn]

6. It's however you take it. If you dislike the person saying it your going to find fault with

the way it's said. To you it's dismissive, I like facts and what he said It implies nothing more than fact. "there are a certain number of people who would like to see a woman elected.” If you can prove differently please do so.

Even the author let this fact slip out in their anti-Bernie piece

Warren still has to fight to win over voters who should be her natural base: women who say they like her, but worry that she can’t win. This self-fulfilling prophecy was captured in an opinion survey this month conducted by Ipsos for The Daily Beast, which showed that while 74 percent of Democrats and independents say that they are personally comfortable with a female president, just 33 percent say that their spouses and neighbors would be. That means every man in the field has a de facto leg-up by virtue of being male.

[cwydro]

3. BS. Tone deaf is a mild word for him.

I can’t say what I really want to say.

[Me.]

4. Poor Millionaire Bernie

living the life and still complaining. Maybe he should read "The Princess Who Wouldn't Smile"

[MrsCoffee]

7. At this point he sounds like a professional victim.

Everyone is out to get Bernie.

It couldn't possibly be that people are tired of his attack dog style.

[Merlot]

8. I mentioned to someone that I was considering Warren

His first words: "I hate that woman"

Okay. Not sure why this person who is a democrat is so vehamintly against one of our top-tier and rising candidats. Given that no follow-up regarding parts of her policy he disagreed with was forthcoming, I can only imagine one reason for the dislike.

Another person I talked to supports one of the other candidats but fears that because his candidate is a "white guy" he won't get much of a chance.

They probably have no idea how sexist they sound.

[George II]

9. I'm not crazy about Warren, but it certainly isn't because she's a woman. Too bad some...

...have to point out that he/she isn't going to support a candidate happens to be a woman.

[JI7]

12. resentful men

[betsuni]

10. K&R

[JI7]

11. maybe it's the fact that Warren actually answers questions about her own proposals

and he is unable to