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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bernie Sanders' mass email yesterday: 'If I run' (full text) [View all]
Last edited Fri Dec 28, 2018, 06:32 PM - Edit history (3)
Let me take this opportunity to wish you a very happy holiday season and a wonderful new year.
Whenever I am asked about running for president in 2020, I answer that if I am the best candidate to beat Donald Trump, then I will probably run. That is the truth.
If that happens, the political, financial and media elite of this country will stop at nothing to defeat us. You know that. Weve lived through it together once before. Our ideas terrify them. So what they will do is try to divide us up with attacks some old, some new and our political opponents will spend obscene sums of money on ads to defeat us.
I just did not expect the attack ads to begin before I even made a decision. But they have
Right now, a group of Wall Street Democrats known as the Third Way is running ads in early primary states Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada calling me out by name and saying our ideas, like Medicare for all, are a path to defeat in 2020.
They not only want to discourage or defeat a Sanders candidacy, they want to make sure that the progressive agenda is not advanced by anyone. They want us to go back to their failed corporate approach which has led to a massive level of income and wealth inequality, a bloated military budget and a failure to address the crises of climate change, a broken criminal justice system and inhumane immigration policies.
Last time we ran, we made the financial elite pay a price for their attacks on our progressive agenda. It is just as important we do it again today:
Make a $3 donation to our campaign to help us fight back and send a message that we will NOT let the political and financial elite of this country buy this election and scare candidates from supporting a progressive agenda.
Our agenda terrifies the political and financial establishment of this country.
But the truth is, their agenda should terrify all of us.
Our ideas will lift people out of poverty, they will guarantee health care as a right for every man, woman and child, and they will make certain that every person in this country with the ability and the desire can get the education they need, regardless of the income of their family.
Ours is not a radical agenda. It's the agenda the American people want.
Their agenda, paid for by wealthy campaign contributors, has led to record levels of inequality, a health care system that costs more per capita than any other developed nation while leaving millions uninsured and underinsured, and grotesque amounts of student debt that rob many of our young people of their futures.
Theirs is the agenda that made Donald Trump possible. Ours is the agenda that will defeat him.
And thats why its so important progressives stand up to their attacks today:
Make a $3 donation to our campaign as a way of saying we will NOT let the political and financial elite scare candidates from supporting a progressive agenda. Make them pay a price for their attacks.
In 2016 we faced the kitchen sink. If we run again, you should expect no less. But the political revolution is stronger and larger than ever, and they will be no match for us if were in this fight together.
In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders
"Third Way" is the name of the group running an anti-Bernie ad.
Update: I dont agree with this ad by Third Way, but since people were curious, here it is:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DveCtd-U8AAPLMm?format=jpg&name=900x900
Update 2: If that link doesnt work for you, I got the image of the ad above from this tweet:
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Send me a link for this group...not familiar. i would remind you, we don't win without a big
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#9
Hopefully, this presidential cycle, we'll get back to our progressive roots...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#26
I agree. But they should consider the alternative. There are at least two children now in Trump's
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#248
Couldn't agree with you more about the court picks, especially the Supreme Court...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#251
Hey I promise you if Sen. Sanders becomes the nominee he will have by undying devotion and I will my
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#287
It is vital we win...last time was bad enough but this...a debacle. Perhaps the end of our
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#305
No linky forthcoming, is there? Just a phrase thrown around to smear... Democrats
Hekate
Dec 2018
#49
And disagreeing is an attack? I don't agree with much of Sen. Sanders beliefs.
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#207
Love 'em... used to trade my 3 Musketeers bars for Milky Way's at Halloween.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#296
I don't see that as an attack...and I don't see having a different viewpoint
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#204
I agree..with a public option for those who don't have good exchanges and for those who's states
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#284
I'd like to see a direct reference to the actual ads that are supposedly running.
George II
Dec 2018
#105
Me too, no luck. One wonders why anyone would be running ads in 2018 for caucuses...
George II
Dec 2018
#212
Using the usual divisive tactics for fund raising if you ask me...and it so bad for our efforts to
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#216
The question is, where are the attack ads that Sanders accused "Wall Street Democrats" of running?
George II
Dec 2018
#223
I would like to know who is advocating the stuff you were talking about because they suck.
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#288
Everyone needs a place at the bit tent or we all get crumbs-right you are!!!
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#238
Fine but Bernie claims to be the victim of "attack ads" from "Wall Street Democrats" in the email.
ucrdem
Dec 2018
#264
No question! And forget about reaching out to Rethugs for the sake of bi-partisonship...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#30
I would remind you that someone else advocates reaching out...to Trump voters.
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#211
I wouldn't support Lipinsky or Peterson in a primary as we could get Democrats who are pro-choice
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#249
The Nebraska guy had made it so women could not get an abortion using insurance while in state
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#282
"...to promote a progressive agenda that includes guaranteed health care for all Americans..."
SMC22307
Dec 2018
#227
I'll take votes for universal healthcare for all from anyone in any party...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#252
Universal coverage has been a core Democratic party platform goal since 1992.
lapucelle
Dec 2018
#303
Time for a change... even my former blue-dog Democrat grandfather realizes this.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#257
Nothing wrong with that!! Bernie attracts both Democrats AND Independents...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#32
It just amazes me... there are more Independents than either Democrats or Rethuglicans.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#43
But it seems BS is defining who is a True Democrat for the rest of us. I'm confused.
Hekate
Dec 2018
#50
And all of our Democratic candidates attract both Democrats and Independents, except that....
George II
Dec 2018
#161
Will Bernie finally release his tax returns for 2015-2019 at the very least?
BlueCaliDem
Dec 2018
#39
Certainly the "Big Tent" is big enough for Bernie; the alternative-an Ind. run-would be catastrophic
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#279
I find this very divisive and not one dime will I send him. No one is ever 'progressive'
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#7
Agree with you there... would love to see John Lewis throw his considerable hat into the ring!!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#266
I agree, Bernie should release at least his federal tax return, but only IF he decides to run...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#47
His people are already emailing presidential campaign fundraising letters. He's going to run.
BlueCaliDem
Dec 2018
#62
That's fine, but, we should at least wait til Bernie makes it official before
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#106
You win the internet for today. If Dems win the WH some independents dont have as loud
Eliot Rosewater
Dec 2018
#58
Would you like to wager a bet that he will run, no matter who else does?
Eliot Rosewater
Dec 2018
#59
Agree on Franken. Maybe if ONLY dedicated DEMOCRATS make noise about running, from the left
Eliot Rosewater
Dec 2018
#77
This is horrific. I appreciate so much about him yet he does garbage like this.
WeekiWater
Dec 2018
#16
More than once in that email (I got it yesterday and was appalled) he complains about others...
George II
Dec 2018
#102
Putin supported Stein's efforts because she undermined the Democratic Nominee. . . .
Maru Kitteh
Dec 2018
#195
I agree that Beto's votes - are we allowed to mention them? - are concerning...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#259
We need to stop posting emails promoting third-party candidates who attack Democrats
LongtimeAZDem
Dec 2018
#18
This is exacatly why Sanders will NOT be the Democratic nominee. He is too divisive, and people do
still_one
Dec 2018
#23
Nope, they do not all take corporate PAC money... they should be applauded.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#273
I checked into this a bit and other than the fact that moderates don't support Sanders
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#29
His voting record will be examined carefully as well as the continuous gaffes/tone-deaf statements.
emulatorloo
Dec 2018
#34
Someone asked for a link to "Third Way Democrats" in order to understand BS animus. Linky?
Hekate
Dec 2018
#33
Third Way Democrats, corporate Democrats, neoliberals...all cheap insults that
comradebillyboy
Dec 2018
#52
This article from Alternet exposes Bernie's smearing of Democrats as a dishonest 'branding strategy'
emulatorloo
Dec 2018
#70
That is a tweet not an ad. And it is accurate in that a guy who voted to gut the ACA
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#219
Tell me how in the FUCK can it be SO OBVIOUS to you, me and a few million others
Eliot Rosewater
Dec 2018
#67
We used to have to go to right wing sites to hear how Democrats want "free stuff"
Hassin Bin Sober
Dec 2018
#222
It's incredible... since when did basic human rights become a demand for "free stuff"?
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#277
Last time we ran, we made the financial elite pay a price for their attacks on our progressive agend
lunasun
Dec 2018
#48
Who does he refer to as the "financial elite"? Those who didn't vote for him I suspect. It is
still_one
Dec 2018
#60
At this point we Dems do not need this very sharp competition and intramural sniper shots.
empedocles
Dec 2018
#64
No past tense...he is referring to something that happened in 16 ...it could be losing the election
Demsrule86
Dec 2018
#220
Here is his admission he meant to divide the party and interfere with stuff
Eliot Rosewater
Dec 2018
#154
I think the "attacks on our progressive agenda" are the same as the "vilifying" ads.
betsuni
Dec 2018
#156
What does he mean in that email when he refers to the "financial elite", and what.....
George II
Dec 2018
#159
I think we do have a very promising pool of candidates, but until they start speaking as national...
aikoaiko
Dec 2018
#182
He's the Bob Dole of the Democratic Party - Except he's not a freakin' Democrat, of course.
Maru Kitteh
Dec 2018
#196
I would be happy to have a Democratic House and Senate with a Democratic Socialist administration.
Snotcicles
Dec 2018
#250
I support Bernie. Perhaps, after the debates, I'll choose someone else, but as of now ... nt
earthshine
Dec 2018
#291