"Socialist," Rat-Headed Carnival Barker, Dr. NutJob, and Crazy Ted won't be president.

[RBInMaine]

The American electorate will not vote in a self-declared socialist with a platform of an ENDLESS litany of government programs. The GOP would have a field day shouting "SELF-DECLARED SOCIALIST" from the rooftops night and day. Sanders would get DESTROYED with the GOP attacks over his self-declared socialism. Also, he and his supporters need to stop the hypocrisy of saying they are being "treated unfairly by the DNC" given that Sanders is not even a real Democrat. He is an independent who has trashed the Democratic Party time and again over the years and who has now opportunistically joined the party because he admittedly knows he would never have ANY hope in hell of winning the presidency at all without a party affiliation. He IS being treated fairly and he shouldn't have many complaints given his years of trashing the party. (Boy, the Dems looked REAL GOOD when he NEEDED them, right?) (Don't get me wrong. Bernie is a good man with very good intentions. But he can't and won't win the nomination.)

And forget the Rat-Headed Racist Ugly-As-Sin Carnival Barker who is Trump. He may well get the Crazy Party's nomination, but he ain't gonna win the general election.

Forget Crazy Ted Cruz. He's a nut.

And forget Doctor NutJob Carson.

The best hope for the GOP is probably Rubio or Kasich. All others are non-starters in the general election.

Hillary is the overwhelming favorite to win the Dem nomination and would be heavily favored in the general election.

[hobbit709]

1. It's one thing to count chickens before the eggs hatch

It's another thing entirely to count chickens before you even have a basket to put the eggs in.

[RBInMaine]

2. Explain how a self-declared socialist gets nominated and wins the AMERICAN general election?

Remember, Sanders is running in the U.S., not Europe.

[hobbit709]

5. Explain how an openly hobnobber with the 1% ACTUALLY represents the people?

[99Forever]

22. 1952 called.

Tailgunner Joe wants his pathetic Red Scare back.

[catnhatnh]

3. Another rerun????"

[emulatorloo]

4. Yes the majority of Americans hate Social Security, Medicare, Public Education

and the other myriad socialist programs.

[tecelote]

16. +1

Want to talk about socialist programs, look at corporate America... Hillary's world.

A lot of Republicans love socialism as it stands today. They bitch about food stamps but really food stamps are a gift to Walmart stockholders. Every dollar paid in food stamps is a dollar Walmart does not need to pay it's employees. The poor do not benefit, they work to sustain themselves. Stockholders benefit.

Endless war means endless profits. Our tax dollars are making war mongers rich while we are just creating more threats that demand more war.

The task is to show that all Americans deserve the benefits of our tax dollars, not just the wealthy and corporations.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. A really poorly formed essay.

Your first paragraph was supposed to be about how Sanders could not win the general election, but ends up in the middle veering off into how he is not a proper Democrat (he isn't, proper Democratic candidates are bought and paid for by Wall Street) and therefore can't win the nomination. That is really two separate themes and ought to be two separate paragraphs, or perhaps two separate horseshitty hit pieces on Sanders.

Look, I get it, you don't like social security, medicare, unemployment insurance, the affordable care act, OSHA, the FDA, the EPA, the SEC, etc. The very idea of comprehensive universal single payer healthcare gives you the hives. For you education should not be free, it should be expensive, very expensive, and should be a huge barrier to a truly egalitarian meritocracy. You're a modern corporate neoliberal post new deal reagan democrat, and Clinton is your horse in this race. Considering where you stand politically, it is clear who is the best candidate for you.

[Roy Ellefson]

27. !!!!

Excellent!!!!

[ms liberty]

29. Goddess, I could rec this a thousand times! n/t

[beam me up scottie]

7. I think this is #19 isn't it? Here's the list of Bernie the Socialist can't win ops:

Aug 23: The VERY serious challenges of the Sanders candidacy.

Sept 20: It is unlikely that either Sanders or Trump will win the nominations.

Sept 26: This country will absolutely NOT elect a self-described socialist. Sanders would be slaughtered.

Oct 4: Can Bernie supporters comprehend why someone would prefer Hillary over Bernie?

Oct 10: Why it is EXTREMELY unlikely that Sanders can win the nomination let alone the general election.

Oct 12: Sanders sealed his fate this weekend on Meet The Press.

Oct 15: Both Hillary and Bernie did well. Congrats to both. Hillary will most likely be the nominee.

Oct 17: Hillary Clinton is a brilliant super-qualified PROGRESSIVE candidate who will most likely win.

Oct 17: Hillary is WAY ahead in the national polls, and America isn't going to elect a "Socialist."

Nov 5: FDR was the establishment. Truman was the establishment. JFK was the establishment.

Nov 7: A self-declared NON DEMOCRAT and Socialist will not win the nomination.

Nov 10: Hillary Clinton is the OVERWHELMING favorite in the party and will win the nomination handily.

Nov 15: Hillary will be the nominee. Bernie is a nice guy, but he's a self-declared socialist so he's DONE.

Nov 16: Hillary 63% Bernie 29%. And all the lamenting in the world won't change those numbers.

Nov 23: The attacks on Hillary around here are getting as old as the crust on Paul LePage's underwear.

Nov 25: All the anti-Hillary diarrhea in the world isn't going to change a single mind. Time for a new tune.

Nov 30: So many anti-Hillary rants. Such a galactic waste of time and energy.

Dec 17: The story of Sanders will be he was a good man who meant well but couldn't win.



Carry on.

[hobbit709]

8. Think he'll make it an even two dozen by New Year's?

[beam me up scottie]

10. He's been slacking this month so probably not.

[R B Garr]

9. That s actually kind of scary how much you

put into keeping track of this poster.

[beam me up scottie]

11. That search function is EVIL I tells ya! Better go tell someone before...

[R B Garr]

12. Yes, I'm sure it just jumps into your hand and plots

away.

From August you've festered over this?? Wow. It's not really all that earth shattering, is it?

[beam me up scottie]

15. It DID! How did you know? You must be sigh-kick!

[R B Garr]

17. So if their opinion hasn't changed since August,

why is it so earth shattering they have the same opinion in December, almost January. You don't ration your posts, so why should someone else.

[beam me up scottie]

19. TWEEEEEEEEEET! Straw man! No one said anything about rationing posts!

I actually think it's hilarious, it's like cold war propaganda.

Or 5 O'Clock Charlie.

[daleanime]

26. Well, we are kind aware....

That the poster hates certain words.

And the search function is fun and eas.....I mean EVIL!

Sorry about that, I don't know what came over me.

[daleanime]

13. Boy, you are just bound and determined....

to run me out of the party.

[Katashi_itto]

14. What prose, what scintillating and profound thought. Spoken like a model Hillary supporter!

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I can always expect brilliant writing like this when reading something from the Hillary camp.

[sadoldgirl]

18. Well, it is certainly nuts to count

out Cruz. He has been very smart about Trump,
and he is very "adaptable" or if you wish to call
it differently: He can evolve very well to his
audience.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

20. I'm worried about Hillary

Hillary is less likely to defeat republicans.
Turnout will be lower for her

[Half-Century Man]

21. You do understand the cold war is over and with it the anti-socialist propaganda?

Do you know that "Socialism" came into being because it was based on the United States. Our Constitution is a socialist document, and our continued existence is an ongoing socialist "proof of concept".

Socialism isn't designed as a counter to capitalism, but monarchy. You have heard of the Declaration of Independence? It is a socialistic expulsion of a ruling class who based their authority to rule on the divine right of kings (remember the De Vinci Code? That "shocker" wasn't unknown to European royalty).
The divine right of kings to rule has metamorphosed into the sublime right of money to rule. It remains a situation of "Nobility" riding on the backs of "peasants". The only difference it who the nobility prays to.

[Moral Compass]

23. Thus Spake Zarathustra

Might want to take a pill.

This is a stream of consciousness riff of unsupported assertions.

I am left secure in the knowledge that you are FOR Hillary and AGAINST Bernie.

[SDJay]

24. I'm Really Tired

of a litany of government programs designed to protect the corporations from their own losses at the expense of the individuals who actually pay more than their share of taxes already. Seems to me that's basically socialism for corporations. Guess what? That's what's been happening for a long time now, and it isn't working.

I don't know the poster who put up the OP, but in my experience the people who constantly scream, "SOCIALIST" or "SOCIALISM" really don't know what it means. It was used early on in Obama's presidency by the same people who claimed to support the CONSTITUTION but obviously had no freaking idea what was in it when you asked them even one question.

Point is, if it's Hillary that's the nominee, great. We should all want her to win. If it's somehow Sanders, I don't think screaming 'socialist' is going to have any negative effect on his electoral totals whatsoever. Ignorant arguments are easy to debunk, and Sanders has been effectively debunking this one for a long time.

[Vattel]

25. Wow, Clinton or Rubio. Inspiring.

They both support the crazy NFZ idea in Syria. I guess we get reckless foreign policy no matter what.

[libdem4life]

28. As my Grandmother used to say, "Well, aren't you just precious."

[PowerToThePeople]

30. Upset that your pizza has not arrived?

Just slow delivery with primary season going.