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Given what we can now wager, this is going to be a fun four to eight years... (Original Post) Bread and Circus Oct 2015 OP
My thought, also. PADemD Oct 2015 #1
EVERY Democratic President has a target on his/her back! Metric System Oct 2015 #2
Some more than others. PADemD Oct 2015 #7
Like Bernie wouldn't be targeted from the day after the election AndreaCG Oct 2015 #9
Bernie isn't hated by the Republicans like the Clintons are. PADemD Oct 2015 #11
Yet AndreaCG Oct 2015 #12
Actually, conservatives like Bernie. PADemD Oct 2015 #13
Northeast conservatives differ from southern/Midwestern ones AndreaCG Oct 2015 #14
I agree. Destroying Republicans should be fun. JaneyVee Oct 2015 #3
I don't share your glee in destroying anyone but I do believe if we could create enough political... Bread and Circus Oct 2015 #4
Republicans represent a clear and present danger. JaneyVee Oct 2015 #5
We need someone who can move many to the left in order to tip the scale. Bread and Circus Oct 2015 #6
especially for the bankers, health insurance executives, and Pentagon Doctor_J Oct 2015 #8
I wish... Bread and Circus Oct 2015 #10

PADemD

(4,482 posts)
1. My thought, also.
Thu Oct 22, 2015, 05:45 PM
Oct 2015

Our country has so many problems that need to be addressed. We do not need to have our tax dollars and precious time wasted on Congressional witch hunts and/or impeachment for the next 4-8 years.

We do not need a President that starts from day one with a target on her back.

AndreaCG

(2,331 posts)
9. Like Bernie wouldn't be targeted from the day after the election
Thu Oct 22, 2015, 11:44 PM
Oct 2015

Should he win the presidency? That is the height of naïveté based on precedent.

AndreaCG

(2,331 posts)
12. Yet
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 12:43 AM
Oct 2015

If he wins the nomination you will see the pile on. Socialist/Communist, Anti-Semitism, ageism plus all the regular things they toss at ordinary democrats. You have to be very very naive to think he'll escape it. I won't even get into the disparity in campaign funds

PADemD

(4,482 posts)
13. Actually, conservatives like Bernie.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 03:52 AM
Oct 2015

Despite its reputation as a place filled with liberal hippies, Vermont, like most of rural northern New England, is home to a lot of conservatives.

Anyone running for statewide office there needs to win these conservatives' votes, and Bernie is great at doing that.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/why-surprising-numbers-republicans-have-been-voting-bernie-sanders-vermont

AndreaCG

(2,331 posts)
14. Northeast conservatives differ from southern/Midwestern ones
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 04:30 AM
Oct 2015

The latter have no problem voting against their economic self interest. I don't think you have the religious fanatics there for the most part either. And the NE republicans are a very small slice of the RW pie.

Bread and Circus

(9,454 posts)
4. I don't share your glee in destroying anyone but I do believe if we could create enough political...
Thu Oct 22, 2015, 06:28 PM
Oct 2015

will to move US foreign and domestic policy to the left that would be very fun.

My concern, shared by some, is that political warfare and entrenchment is not going to be healthy for the country.


Bread and Circus

(9,454 posts)
6. We need someone who can move many to the left in order to tip the scale.
Thu Oct 22, 2015, 06:38 PM
Oct 2015

The rabidness of the Right is a symptom of an uninformed and abused populace, not the disease.

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