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HoosierRadical

(390 posts)
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 09:33 PM Mar 2016

Democrats must face the reality of Hillary's unelectability or face doomsday.

Please read this article over at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/bernie-sanders-defeat-donald-trump-_b_9467074.html

Some excerpts;

To say that the majority of Americans have an unfavorable view of Clinton isn’t hyperbole; it’s backed up by poll numbers. I’ve been criticized for being unfair to Clinton, but my analysis is always backed up by various facts, including the fact 67% of Americans according to Quinnipiac find Hillary Clinton “not honest and trustworthy.”

Yes, the same polls that bolstered Clinton’s inevitability are also the same polls that show Bernie Sanders is the superior Democratic nominee in November.

However, if Hillary Clinton becomes nominee, America is looking at a Trump presidency. Trump will make the FBI investigation, and its legal consequences, a primary focus of every debate. He’ll be relentless, and the GOP attack machine will make Clinton’s trustworthiness issues, negative favorability ratings, and previous scandals the basis of their campaign. The polls show that Americans in aggregate don’t trust Hillary Clinton, and while voters don’t trust Donald Trump either, his brand is based upon arrogance.

Certain people like Trump because he’s arrogant, and once he tones down his rhetoric and behavior to become more palatable to voters in a general election, his donations to Clinton’s foundation and Senate runs will be a liability for Democrats. He can claim that he bribed Clinton, and that he bribed other Democrats, and he’ll be able to present himself as the only presidential candidate not linked to an FBI investigation.

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Democrats must face the reality of Hillary's unelectability or face doomsday. (Original Post) HoosierRadical Mar 2016 OP
HA Goodman? 72DejaVu Mar 2016 #1
You know he's right, you better hope HoosierRadical Mar 2016 #6
The next time he's right 72DejaVu Mar 2016 #8
HA Goodman has never been right about anything. NuclearDem Mar 2016 #15
Oh shit son, that's an epic type of fail right there. giftedgirl77 Mar 2016 #26
DOOMSdays, I tell you. !!! seabeyond Mar 2016 #2
Good gawd! It's another "HA I'm a loser" post leftofcool Mar 2016 #3
So what's the answer? spyker29 Mar 2016 #4
Nominate Senator Sanders HoosierRadical Mar 2016 #10
Oh BULLSHIT! Hillary is a MUCH stronger in the GE. Bernie would get SMASHED as the self declared RBInMaine Mar 2016 #13
As oppose to being indicted? HoosierRadical Mar 2016 #19
When you're in a bind whip out the RW talking points. giftedgirl77 Mar 2016 #28
It's not going to be an issue in the general...all the repubs give talk to the same organizations nt anotherproletariat Mar 2016 #36
you are living in the past grasswire Mar 2016 #29
FUD! Dr Hobbitstein Mar 2016 #5
Y'all keep making this dumb argument, and people keep voting for Hillary alcibiades_mystery Mar 2016 #7
If Bernie doesn't secure the nomination, the party will lose HoosierRadical Mar 2016 #16
If you don't send me an inch of fifties in one hour, a tidal wave will devour your house. Squinch Mar 2016 #23
..... LexVegas Mar 2016 #9
Doomsday a comin I tells ya! rjsquirrel Mar 2016 #11
If Hillary is such a loser wtf does that make Codeine Mar 2016 #12
Hillary is corporate hack who will be destroyed by one of her HoosierRadical Mar 2016 #17
Is that like Obama cutting social security & invading Syria giftedgirl77 Mar 2016 #31
well, she will likely face impeachment before she did all those things. grasswire Mar 2016 #32
HA HA HA Goodman! NuclearDem Mar 2016 #14
HA Goodman: "my analysis is always backed up by various facts" DanTex Mar 2016 #18
Stage 2 grossproffit Mar 2016 #20
Blah, blah, blah. Squinch Mar 2016 #21
Doomsday... one_voice Mar 2016 #22
DC supervillains are notoriously partisan Codeine Mar 2016 #25
. PeaceNikki Mar 2016 #24
Even though Skinner was very clear, some see fit to defy him. Trust Buster Mar 2016 #27
Sanders is even more unelectable. Hoyt Mar 2016 #30
This is just sad now. griffi94 Mar 2016 #33
Clap louder for the Indictment Fairy! nt geek tragedy Mar 2016 #34
You can tell when BSS are getting desperate redstateblues Mar 2016 #35
It looks to me at this time Sanders can't even carry Democrats how is doc03 Mar 2016 #37
If electability were not an issue for Hillary, I wouldn't be supporting Bernie. Major Hogwash Mar 2016 #38

HoosierRadical

(390 posts)
6. You know he's right, you better hope
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 09:40 PM
Mar 2016

Bernie secures the nomination, because Hillary will be defeated in the general.

 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
15. HA Goodman has never been right about anything.
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 09:50 PM
Mar 2016

The moron predicted Clinton would come in third in Iowa and Bernie would sweep the South.

 

RBInMaine

(13,570 posts)
13. Oh BULLSHIT! Hillary is a MUCH stronger in the GE. Bernie would get SMASHED as the self declared
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 09:46 PM
Mar 2016

socialist he claims to be. Wait until the billion dollars worth of ads saying "SOCIALIST COMMUNIST MASSIVE TAX AND SPENDER." They'd eat Bernie's ass for breakfast.

HoosierRadical

(390 posts)
19. As oppose to being indicted?
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 10:03 PM
Mar 2016

Or having the infamous transcripts of her Goldman Sachs speeches (do you really think Ted Cruz doesn't have access to those transcripts?) Not to mention questionable donations to the Clinton foundation. Aren't you sick of the corporatists within the party?

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
29. you are living in the past
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 10:49 PM
Mar 2016

Polling shows that a majority of people are no longer afraid of the designation "socialist."

That era is over. Yeah, Trump may scare the people who already support him, but no votes will be lost for Bernie by that attack.

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
7. Y'all keep making this dumb argument, and people keep voting for Hillary
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 09:41 PM
Mar 2016

The argument is utter fail. Nobody's buying it.

HoosierRadical

(390 posts)
16. If Bernie doesn't secure the nomination, the party will lose
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 09:53 PM
Mar 2016

I'm just glad that the upcoming states have the opportunity to right the ship.

Squinch

(50,949 posts)
23. If you don't send me an inch of fifties in one hour, a tidal wave will devour your house.
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 10:33 PM
Mar 2016

This is kind of fun!

 

Codeine

(25,586 posts)
12. If Hillary is such a loser wtf does that make
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 09:45 PM
Mar 2016

the guy she's currently using to mop the electoral floor?

"You're a horrible candidate! Please stop beating us by three hundred and fifty delegates!"

HoosierRadical

(390 posts)
17. Hillary is corporate hack who will be destroyed by one of her
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 09:59 PM
Mar 2016

most obnoxious donors in the fall, if the party doesn't wise up. And let's say, she did manage to pull out a victory (highly doubtful, especially after she is indicted) I guarantee you she will get the US involve in another war, she will cut social security, and bend over backwards to get along with the GOP. She is not a fighter, unless it is for herself.

 

giftedgirl77

(4,713 posts)
31. Is that like Obama cutting social security & invading Syria
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 10:50 PM
Mar 2016

because those epic disasters never happened either? Ooh maybe she'll cut social security while eating baby Jesus, that would just seal the deal right there.

doc03

(35,328 posts)
37. It looks to me at this time Sanders can't even carry Democrats how is
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 11:15 PM
Mar 2016

he going to win the general election?

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
38. If electability were not an issue for Hillary, I wouldn't be supporting Bernie.
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 11:56 PM
Mar 2016

Or, to put it more simply, I have faced that reality.

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