(February 24, 2019 at 12:40 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
Will you do me a favor, give me some credit. This really is not about Bernie the individual, this is strictly strategy on my part. I promise I will support him in the general if he gets the nomination. I PROMISE.
But even if I voted for him in the primaries, and even if he gets the nomination, his problem will still be the bitter pill of Hillary supporters, whom also stupidly and wrongfully AS SUPPORTERS vilified him.
So you also have to think about whom he would put on his ticket, that will bring the party together as VP. I do honestly think that Hillary made a huge mistake not putting Bernie on her ticket. So again, even if he gets nominated, how does he unify the party and draw in swing voters without risking a repeat of 2016?
Our primary goal as a nation is to get the orange turd out of office. That is the most important goal right now.
As far as I know, Hillary had two names on her short short-list. Tim Kaine and Sherrod Brown. Word is that she didn't pick Brown because the Republican governor of Ohio would have filled Brown's senate seat with a Republican. That's unfortunate, because Brown probably would have been enough to push her over the top.
You don't have to worry about what Hillary supporters are going to do if Bernie gets the nom. Bernie's supporters from the socio-economic left are people who figure they can survive four more years of Trump if another damn New Dem gets the nod. Hillary supporters don't have that sort of sand.
You keep talking about unifying the party. We aren't unified. We are fighting, and we are going to keep fighting. That's the reality. Stop looking for someone to surrender to.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
