Eugene Robinson: Bernie Sanders’ Run Is No Fairy Tale

[99th_Monkey]

Bernie Sanders’ Run Is No Fairy Tale
By Eugene Robinson * Jan 15, 2016 * TruthDig.com

If you thought the political landscape couldn’t be more unsettled, think again. In the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders is surging. Hillary Clinton now faces not a coronation, not a cakewalk, but a contest—one she could lose.

Has there ever been a worse election to be an establishment candidate? Certainly not in my lifetime. When a pitchfork-populist billionaire is leading one party’s race and a self-described socialist is rapidly gaining ground in the other, I think it’s safe to say we’re somewhere we haven’t been before.

For much of the past year, Clinton led Sanders in national polls by more than 20 points. Now, according to the Real Clear Politics average, her lead has shrunk to less than nine points—and the most recent survey, a CBS/New York Times poll released this week, showed just a seven-point gap.

State polls should make Clinton even more nervous. Her once-comfortable lead over Sanders in Iowa is now just four points, pretty much a toss-up. And in New Hampshire, Sanders—a longtime senator from next-door Vermont—leads Clinton by six points. It is within the realm of possibility that the presumptive Democratic nominee could lose both of the first two states. Then what?

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/bernie_sanders_run_is_no_fairy_tale_20160115

[Betty Karlson]

1. Thanks for the link. eom

[lewebley3]

5. No Sanders run is a fraud

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. ...

[PatrynXX]

9. I think their grammar went somewhere else too.

Took me 3 tries to read it. So does the person mean no run is a fraud as in Bernies run is real or ahem if your gonna attack someone , attack it right with punctuation somewhere. Especially when the OP has it going something akin to Bernie's run is no fairy tail. Like Bernie didn't expect to make it this far. Someone who doesn't expect to make it is no fraud.

[pangaia]

14. LOL!!

My reactions to every post, exactly.

[Marty McGraw]

10. a possible remedy

for the HRC camp woes

[ljm2002]

13. Well you are actually correct...

...when you say that "No Sanders run is a fraud". That is true: Every Sanders run has been open and above-board and anything but fraudulent.

[pangaia]

15. Good one.

[Left Coast2020]

17. Whatever you're smoking it's not good for you.

[lewebley3]

21. Sanders health Care bill was reject 9 times by the Senate

[Voice for Peace]

18. Eats shoots and leaves?

[INdemo]

20. So just like that its a fraud.

No details, no facts just your opinion.
Right? Wow you should go a very long way with that.

[Douglas Carpenter]

2. knr

[Live and Learn]

3. K&R nt

[Duval]

4. K&R.

[Le Taz Hot]

6. This is what I keep saying.

We have NEVER, in my 60 years on this earth, never seen an election season like this. It's why the so-called "experts" have been wrong right on down the line. They've been wrong EVERY TIME.

I've no idea how this is going to all shake out. The only thing I know is that as hard as Bernie supporters have been working on his behalf, we have to double, then triple our efforts. No one, NOT ONE of the "experts" saw this coming and, unbelievably, they're still pushing the meme that "in the end, Hillary will be the nominee." That's not at all a certainty at this point and Bernie supports have to keep at it. Remember, NO ONE thought we'd get anywhere near this far. We've been doin' it so far, there's no reason to believe we cant' keep doin' it.

[appalachiablue]

8. Stagnant corporate parasite packs of pundits. They'll be extinct soon without serious reform. Lol.

K & R Thank you Eugene Robinson, one of the best and most honest.

[Populist_Prole]

11. That's a mouthful

"Stagnant corporate parasite packs of pundits"

But I like it!

It's really a dual gift: We get a "real" populist, and 'Talking Heads Inc" are utterly discredited.

[appalachiablue]

16. Stagnant packs of corporate parasite pundits. (pickled!) There, a slight adjustment.

And as said, those prolific Talking Heads better shape up or they'll soon be 'headless hordes in hovels...'

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. All of the pundits claimed 08 was going to be between Hillary and Rudy....

It doesn't matter how wrong they are, they get to keep their jobs.

[sorechasm]

19. Eugene Robinson is schooling his fellow journalists

Good for him:

Instead, we should start by looking at Sanders and his message. All along, his campaign has enjoyed less media coverage than it deserves. I believe many journalists accepted the conventional wisdom that he is too unpolished and too far to the left to win the nomination—despite evidence that substantial numbers of Democrats disagree.

It is clear that the MSM has been unleashed. He calls out Hillary's latest truth-stretching:

Come on, be real. Sanders doesn’t want to eliminate government health programs, he wants to combine them all into one comprehensive system. A more honest line of attack might be that Sanders has yet to spell out how he would pay for universal health care—or, for that matter, get it through a hostile Congress.

Some journalists like him are clearly tired of being shills for the MSM.

[dreamnightwind]

22. K & R

Eugene is one of the better members of the MSM, glad to see him shining a little much-deserved attention Bernie's way. Maybe some of his colleagues will also step up.