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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lol the Federalist.

By the way, who funds the Federalist?  Does anybody here know?[/quote]

BTW, all of it is sourced by other than the federalist. Much of it is on camera and in interviews. Still gonna deny what he is?[/quote]

I’m not a Bernie supporter but I don’t buy your desire to create hysteria about him.  I don’t hold people accountable for things they said 30 years ago.[/quote]

People are held accountable for anything they said - until they are able to explain how they have changed since then.

Look, Bernie is 78. 30 years ago he was 48, a fully grown and functional man. Not a 20 year old college idiot enamored with socialist revolutions in failed communist regimes. One can forgive the latter, but not so easily the former. I do not say Bernie can't have changed his minds as he learned more about the realities of the regimes he praised and their orthodoxies but as far as I can tell he hasn't done that.

Why this is relevant is that because if he's the nominee, the Republican hit machine is going to slam him so hard on everything he's said and done 30 years ago. And they will be justified in doing so. Until Bernie explains and also explains how he's changed from the past. That's why the Democratic leadership are very concerned about Bernie wining the nomination. It doesn't matter what today's polling show - anyone is beating Trump. But when it's a real choice between two candidates, not a hypothetical match up between "any functional person versus Donald Trump," it's a very different story.

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There is not a single candidate right now that the “Republican Hit Machine” won’t slam.

I don’t think Bernie is the best candidate but I think it’s entirely possible that he could beat Trump at his own game.  He doesn’t have to apologize or explain his past.  Has Trump done that?  Apologies are for losers, that’s the lesson of 2016.[/quote]

He has very unsound policy ideas. He's an old-school marxist. That's not going to work here. EVER.[/quote]

And Trump’s policies and corruption work?  I don’t think so.

As Michael once said on the office: “I don’t have to win, I just have to beat YOU.”[/quote]

Bernie has strong similarities to Jeremy Corbyn in the UK, both are cut from very similar molds, the 1960s communist revolutionaries who never really grew up. Corbyn got destroyed in the British General Election, the worst showing for Labour since the 1930s. And the analysis of the former Labour voters who switched to voting for the Tories made clear that Corbyn himself was the big problem. The reasons given were what you'd expect: weird, promising lots of free things but who's going to pay for it, skeptical and even directly hostile to his decades' long support and refusal to condemn the failed communist regimes. A lot of similarities to Sanders. Just be warned. [/quote]

Isn’t Corbin also a huge racist who said all kinds of horrible things not 30 years ago, but recently?

Also, Sanders seems more genuine and that matters.  He is not just promising “free stuff.”  I think he understands that it is hard for middle class people in America and that resonates.  Someone like Buttigieg or Biden seem fairly milquetoast or out of touch in comparison..  Again, I don’t particularly think Sanders is the best, but I’m not terribly worried if he does get the nomination.[/quote]

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