Beto’s collapse is Complete.

And.

Dems are lining up behind Sanders and Biden now. What a mess.

They hate him.

#neverbernie

Wow. We have a Beto troll.

Paid or unpaid?

....

Poor thing.

It’s gonna be Bernie.

[R8] No, it's not going to be Bernie because the DNC changed the rules so that he, as an independent, can't jump into the Democratic primaries without actually being a Democrat. He shouldn't have been allowed to do so in 2016. Disruptive old commie.

The Far Left is going fuck things up so that the Dems' most electable candidate won't have a chance. Why, why, why? Only a centrist can win.

Wow, Beto must be scaring the shit out of someone if they're starting the smear already

[quote] Wow, Beto must be scaring the shit out of someone if they're starting the smear already

Guess who he scared? The BernBots and Bernie himself. Yes, the grand ole shit stirrer with big ideas and no legislative record to back it up is at it again.

I doubt he and the inevitable third party nitwits and their supporters (looking at YOU Susie Sarandon) won't have the Kremlin inspired impact thay had in 2016, but it's still important to call them out before they get any traction

[quote] No, it's not going to be Bernie because the DNC changed the rules so that he, as an independent, can't jump into the Democratic primaries without actually being a Democrat.

As long as he changes to being a Democrat before seeking the nomination he can jump into the primaries. You’re an idiot who can’t read the fine print. It will be Sanders.

Sanders is nowhere near as bad as Trump but his followers are every bit as damaging and ridiculous as Trumps, though they are not as stupid.

Ahh...nuance

Until Democrats learn to stop eating their own, Republicans will keep winning.

We never learn.

A lot of us hate Bernie Sanders for the mean-spirited and ill-timed campaign he ran last time. We know that Trump is not afraid of Sanders and we will do anything we can to prevent this blinkered hunch back from running again.

[R13] You are fucking rude.

Considering there is no party registration in Vermont, he can't register as a Democrat. Here's the real plot twist: We don't have partisan registration here in IL so neither Barack nor Michelle are registered Democrats either. The whole "has to be a Democrat" thing is such a non-issue. You vote for delegates to go to a convention to nominate, and you vote for Electors to go to your state capitol to elect. So long as the delegates and Electors meet the requirements of each state (some are required to be registered Dems, others don't have the option) ANYONE can be nominated and elected President for ANY party.

Almost every post in this thread is done by the same troll. Block and watch it disappear.

R11 Writing about his VOTING RECORD is a "smear?" Jesus.

Thanks for the input, Boris.

Maybe Sherrod Brown will step in and build enough momentum to unite the anti-Sanders and anti-Biden blocs.

I like Warren, but her numbers are lousy.

R22: Brown would win over the Sanders contingent, especially if Sanders passes on running. His economic focus aligns well with the Sanders support base.

If he survives this, he comes out stronger.

I think Bernie represented a last gasp of phony 1960's-style idealism for aging Baby Boomers who've long since become the establishment but still want to make noises about sticking it to "The Man." What's so maddening about it is that it doesn't matter to them that Bernie's pie-in-the-sky horseshit is unrealistic and unworkable. As someone upthread pointed out, the old fossil has been kicking around the Senate for decades but has no substantive legislation to show for it. He drones on about the "big banks" (a convenient target) yet where is the "Sanders Bill" that reformed the banking industry? Governing means more than spouting amorphous ideals - it's about crafting smart legislation and persuading others that its the best course of action. As a New Englander I recoil that Vermonters would buy this carpetbagger's stale box of tricks - delivered in an absurd Brooklyn accent.

This is also true of Elizabeth Warren. Obama appointed her to run that consumer protection office but she did absolutely nothing with it beyond harassing some small businesses and feather (insert Pocahontas joke) her resume. She's just as awful as Bernie. Big talk but nothing to show for it.

Maintaining Democracy is hard.

Yevgeny and Ludmilla work extra hard this week. Propaganda story in Guardian and left website. We will consider raise of 10 roubles.

R25: Hi Troll. Everything you stated is false. Sanders entered the House of Representatives in 1990, 4 years later the Nazi Republicans took the majority and held it until 2006. So his entire post-sophomore career in the House was in the minority party. He went to the Senate in 2006, where 60 votes is required to move any legislation.

Liz Warren was appointed but never confirmed to the CFPB so never ran the agency she helped to create. She then ran for Senate instead.

This has been another episode of truth-telling and troll spanking. Do not cross me again.

[quote]This is also true of Elizabeth Warren. Obama appointed her to run that consumer protection office but she did absolutely nothing with it beyond harassing some small businesses and feather (insert Pocahontas joke) her resume. She's just as awful as Bernie. Big talk but nothing to show for it.

Richard Corday was the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Warren never ran it.

I'm from Massachusetts. Warren is going nowhere. Understandably: she was a professor: she likes to lecture people.

People don't like to be lectured to - it's that simple. I voted for her because it's an imperfect world: her opponent was worse than her. But against a truly awful (and in Massachusetts, a totally un-electable) opponent she got a lower percentage of votes (60.4%) in an overwhelmingly Democrat state than did the Republican candidate for governor, Charlie Baker, who got 66.8% of the votes in his race. When a sitting Democratic Senator up for re-election garners almost six and half percentage points less than a sitting Republican governor in his race for re-election in a state with an overwhelming electoral advantage for Democrats, there's a problem.

She is not electable nationally.

R30: The personal popularity of Baker is what contributed to his major win. More Democrats voted for Warren and Baker than Republicans did for Baker and Warren. A larger Democratic cross-over to one race based on personal popularity will produce results such as this.

It's so interesting, to see how these takedown jobs unfold. An article here and there by partisans, and then the press overall picks it up. I'm sure Politico and the Times will start negative Beto coverage soon.

It's a crucible. If he makes it out intact, he'll win the nomination. I love him.

BTW, if he's "intact" down there, I love him even more. Something tells me he is...

Yes, we need to "examine" Beto's voting record, but of course ignore the context that he's from a solid Dem district that still relies heavily on the military and oil/gas industries, and ran for Senate in a solid red state. Doesn't matter because no true progressive....

But when we examine Sanders' very not-progressive record on guns, criminal justice, and foreign policy we need NUANCE! because even though Bernie is in a safe blue state and will never not be reelected he has to remember that his constituents love guns and hate crime and terrorists.

R30 How about as a VP running mate?

R34 wins. thread closed.