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Whimsey

(236 posts)
14. Sanders will lose Hillary voters too.
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 03:21 PM
Apr 2016




My take is that Bernie is the Democratic Trump in the media. No one took him seriously, he promised to not go negative, and so his record was not vetted. Oh, and the democrats were worried about alienating his supporters.

My conclusion is that Bernie is like every other politician - says what works for him personally and does what works for him personally. He could care less about the democratic party because he his not a democratic and never has been. At least Nader did not pretend to be a democrat.

Bernie is all rhetoric but no implementation. It's easy to state your goals, but if you cannot back them up with real plans what good is it? Hillary is a policy wonk. She does not present ideas she does not think are achievable, and she presents ways to achieve them.

I will vote for Hillary and I will not vote for Sanders. He is not a democrat and I feel no obligation to. I have many long term democratic friends who feel the same way. We all who worked our way through the state university in the seventies, graduated when the economy was tanking, took out student loans, worked hard and saved, thus achieving upper middle class incomes, and now are characterized as the enemy by Bernie Sanders - who made his income in government no less! If republicans nominate a moderate, Bernie will lose worse than Hillary. And as distasteful as Trump behaves, we all know he really is a moderate at heart, if not a democrat. But Hillary would get the women's vote.

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