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Bernie Sanders

Proserpina

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11. The 1% are backing her; the "personal friends", meaning conspiring cronies

Reply to Old Codger (Reply #10)

Sat Jan 9, 2016, 12:25 PM

Jan 2016

and the "movers and shakers" meaning they move the media and shake down the suckers and use intimidation....threats about retaliation if Hillary by some miracle of machination acquires the WH in her own name...

Only the lowest-information, shallowest thinkers are buying into that "woman president" idea.

"W" cured people of such "magical thinking". WHO is elected, and who his/her friends are, matters.

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This is amusing [View all] Proserpina Jan 2016 OP

I am getting the feeling that the PP endorsement was supposed to change minds, and the djean111 Jan 2016 #1

The posting strategy, too. Make a thread about Bernie and/or his supporters, not the issues merrily Jan 2016 #3

Do you think even they believe that? I don't. merrily Jan 2016 #2

Does it matter what they believe as fact? Proserpina Jan 2016 #5

I suspect most of them aren't True DUers, actually. Wilms Jan 2016 #4

Then somebody is wasting a lot of money Proserpina Jan 2016 #6

minds/lost Hiraeth Jan 2016 #7

About that reality check sarge43 Jan 2016 #8

I agree, and it doesn't matter, either. You are a Democrat if you say you are Proserpina Jan 2016 #9

That gets to me, too. Fawke Em Jan 2016 #16

Desperation Old Codger Jan 2016 #10

The 1% are backing her; the "personal friends", meaning conspiring cronies Proserpina Jan 2016 #11

Maybe Old Codger Jan 2016 #13

We are in total agreement Proserpina Jan 2016 #14

It remains amazing to me how they just thought it was "in the bag". SoapBox Jan 2016 #12

Even if you like me have voted dem every time Robbins Jan 2016 #15

Same here with a couple of slight differences. Fawke Em Jan 2016 #17

cool Robbins Jan 2016 #18