Democratic Primaries
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This week, an organization that is the epitome of the political establishment the Center for American Progress (CAP) unleashed and promoted an online attack video against Bernie.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,723 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
empedocles
(15,751 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,723 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,723 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)Honest question. Did they? If true than Sanders is counter punching - not unusual behavior during a campaign season (nor are attack videos now that I think of it).
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
lapucelle
(18,351 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,344 posts)Legitimate? Sure, if it came from republicans
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
BlueFlorida
(1,532 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)They made a political ad attacking him? That warrants some backlash, no?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
BlueFlorida
(1,532 posts)I didn't know CAP was running for POTUS.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
mcar
(42,376 posts)Now some of his followers are smearing CAP.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
R B Garr
(16,985 posts)Establishment-is-out-to-get-me cynicism and fabrications. Yesterday, CNN did a segment about how he was going full out for Trump supporters. This is tiring and counter-productive to our party.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(145,619 posts)No one took sanders seriously and so he was not vetted. Vetting is important I amso glad that sanders is being vetted this cycle https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/28/why-bernie-sanders-has-an-uphill-climb-ahead/?utm_term=.1b4f90c2a717
Which is what we could say about the Sanders candidacy as a whole: Theres no way to know how its going to go. But hes got his work cut out for him.
See also https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/19/politics/bernie-sanders-2020-campaign-donald-trump/index.html?utm_source=twCNNp&utm_content=2019-02-20T14%3A52%3A07&utm_term=image&utm_medium=social%C2%A0
One of the secrets to Sanders' success in 2016 was that no one -- most especially Clinton -- thought he had any chance of going anywhere in the race. Clinton largely ignored him for the better part of 2015, allowing some problematic parts of Sanders' record for Democrats -- most notably his voting record on guns -- to go unnoticed. (When the race began to tighten, Clinton gently prodded Sanders on guns and health care.) Sanders, too, largely flew under the radar of investigative reporters for major news outlets who were busy looking into Clinton, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and others seen as more viable candidates. (That reality clearly benefited Donald Trump in the early days of the campaign, as well.)
Sanders will get no pass -- from either the media or his fellow candidates -- this time around. He is among the frontrunners -- and will be treated as such. His wife's time as president of Burlington College could well come up. And his opponents will do a deep dive into his nearly 30 years of votes as a member of the House and Senate. This is all very normal stuff in a campaign. But not for Sanders.
Now we can see how sanders reacts to being vetted
Link to tweet
It also raised questions as to whether the senator was ready for the scrutiny that would come from being a frontrunning candidate, after having run as an insurgent against an ideal foil, Hillary Clinton, in 2016.
When youre leading in the polls of president of your party you should expect investigative stories to hit at least once a week and to be attacked by your opponents every day, said Ben Labolt, who served as press secretary to Barack Obama during the 2012 campaign. An attack on something like ThinkProgress is the sign of a super-narrow-minded campaign that isnt actually thinking of how the election will be won... They have chosen an establishment force that no one outside of the Starbucks at 16th and K would recognize.
I am glad that sanders is being vetted
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,723 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
comradebillyboy
(10,176 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,723 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
pecosbob
(7,544 posts)Not committed to any particular candidate, but I found many of the opinions expressed there to be too supportive of debunked trickle down BS and the disfunctional status quo in general. To me they seem to represent the old-shool, behind closed doors, wheel and deal, Rahm Emanuel type of Democratic politics I abhor.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
shanny
(6,709 posts)Plus they are secretive about their donors...never a good sign.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
betsuni
(25,645 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,723 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
betsuni
(25,645 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,723 posts)Well Done, betsuni!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
betsuni
(25,645 posts)It's like the Democratic Party is everybody's enemy, it keeps getting repeated over and over and nobody does their homework.
The base is left thinking:
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
pnwmom
(108,996 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,723 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,723 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)didn't have some CAP folks on it
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden