2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Well with TPP released...Bernie wins this one hands down! [View all]mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)because he embarassed Obama. I seriously have a problem with this kind of thinking, because it makes any arguments they put forward unreliable and untrustworthy. When a democrat supports the TPP, any arguments they make against a Republican trade issue are hypocritical. Then, it's harder for other democrats to make a case. With spying, it's even worse. If a republican supports it, it hard to argue against them.
More generally, it's harder to make a case that democrats are, in general, a better choice when big-D Democrats defend crappy policies because a democrat did them. People can rightly claim that there are no differences between the parties. Yeah, we can point out that there are differences, but on some very important matters, there aren't.