Oh, my. The Wall Street Journal says, "It’s time to take Bernie Sanders seriously."

[antigop]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/taking-sanders-seriously-1453248572

It’s time to take Bernie Sanders seriously. The Vermont Senator is leading in Iowa and New Hampshire and in Sunday’s debate he sounded for the first time like a candidate who thinks he can win. He still isn’t the favorite against the Clinton machine, but it’s no longer impossible to imagine the 74-year-old socialist as the Democratic nominee.

Note to WSJ: He's a DEMOCRATIC socialist.

[emulatorloo]

1. Rupert Murdoch's WSJ takes Bernie seriously now? fascinating!

Thanks for posting! Kick and Rec.

[Thenewire]

4. Of course they will

They want him to get the nomination since it is the republicans best chance at winning the presidency. I'm so sick of people thinking that Sanders is in any way electable, he is just as removed from reality as Trump and very one dimensional. If Sanders gets the nomination we will all pay the consequences of his failures.

[antigop]

5. add +1 to the "Bernie is unelectable" meme counter. nt

[daleanime]

6. One-Wrong.

Two-Much better to just give up? Not going to happen.

[Robbins]

12. sorry but your wrong if you think that

The entire GOP playbook is to run against clinton.

How electable is clinton if she is having problems with one you call unelectable.

Clinton has plenty of GE number problems.

[valerief]

13. You are SOOOOO dismissive of his VP choice. Or did you forget about that? nt

[chervilant]

15. Wow...

Senator Sanders polls better than HRC against EVERY Republican. I'm so sick of people thinking that Sanders is in any way UNELECTABLE!

Well, durn. I surmise from your hilariously incorrect post that HRC's supporters are getting a wee bit nervous.

[Gene Debs]

16. I distinctly remember both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama being

loudly declared "unelectable."

And precisely what "failures" of Sanders' are you referring to?

This post seems so crazy I almost wonder if it was posted from a wildlife refuge in Oregon.

[Armstead]

35. LOL -- Good line.

[Douglas Carpenter]

43. +1000 -- when they start sounding that disconnected from reality - I do wonder

[hueymahl]

17. Hate to confuse you with facts . . .

Sanders Beats Trump by 15 in latest WSJ/NBC poll:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/295919133/NBC-WSJ-January-Poll

[padfun]

18. You sound like you work at one of those

Republican phone banks. Or now days, a internet room where they pay to roam the forums and give misleading information.

And I'll bet we hear from more and more of these hot rooms. Looking at post counts can be revealing as well.

[Still In Wisconsin]

19. Right, because Pantsuit is trouncing all the Republicans in one-on-one polling matchups.

Oh, wait, she isn't.

[leftcoastmountains]

24. You are wrong.

But as they say time will tell. Hillary has no coattails. People will follow Bernie. They will not follow Hillary.

[floriduck]

25. Actually, it's the GOP's only chance

of preventing Hill from getting the presidency since none of their candidates has a chance in hell.

[Geronimoe]

27. Failures?

Do you mean like Bill Clinton's deregulation of banking and free trade agreements, or Hillary's support for Iraq War?

[NorthCarolina]

28. Polling shows Bernie trouncing Trump, but you know that.

I'm sure that you also know your comments lack merit. Wouldn't it be best to simply go with the truth of why you despise Sanders? I suspect you can't because it would expose your true allegiance, the political philosophy you truly adhere too which you know to be far to the right of what the party base stands for.

[artislife]

30. Drink!

Everytime someone says Bernie is unelectable an imp gets new horns.

[asuhornets]

32. I agree completely..

He just a politician like everyone else. One-dimensional is his middle name. ASk him a question about ISIS-he talks about the economy-which is not a bad thing, But that was not the question. If he does become the the Democratic nominee and he won't , the republicans are going to turn him into a cartoon character. -he is not even a Democrat.

[Armstead]

34. I am so sick of hearing people say Obama is in anyway electable. (2008)

[wendylaroux]

36. now don't get sick,you poor thing! ,stranger things

have happened.ya know,like more US citizens finally waking up and
realizing there is a candidate who actually GIVES A SHIT.

GO FOR BERNIE

[Motown_Johnny]

40. Then why does he do better in the one v one polls than Hillary?

Hillary is the un-electable one.

She is a terrible candidate who panics every time things go bad. Besides that, she just has so much baggage it can't be overcome.

On top of that, her favorable numbers are so horribly upside down that those numbers in themselves prove that she is a long shot to win the GE, at best.

[Thenewire]

42. I'm not about to repeat this to everyone else who is making the same false assumption.

But those polls are absolutely meaningless. They would still be meaningless if Clinton was ahead of every republican by 20+ points.

[Ferd Berfel]

44. BS - the Reich has 20 years of opposition research on Hillary - They can t wait to use it

Did you miss the sub title of the article?

The socialist beats Trump by 15 points in one recent survey

and not just in 1 survey in almost ALL surveys!

[Fawke Em]

47. Sanders gets cross-over votes, Clinton does not.

Therefore, your post is incorrect.

Sanders is popular with Independents and a handful of Republicans.

Few Independents and NO Republicans will vote for Clinton.

If he's the nominee, he wins. If she is, the Republicans win.

[awake]

2. I am surprised they didn't call him a "communist"

[FlatBaroque]

3. gotta keep your powder dry. They're waiting for the GE

[libdem4life]

45. Claire McCaskil went there...no problem for her.

[book_worm]

7. Which means the attacks by the corporate media will soon begin

No more ignoring, but much more attacking.

[appal_jack]

8. Bring-'em

I'd much rather exert energy defending principles of populism, true democracy, justice, and equity than get mired down in further Clinton scandals and bait-and-switch corporatism.

-app

[asuhornets]

33. Clinton scandals...

You mean the Clinton scandals perpetuated by the repugs and right-wing media?

[appal_jack]

38. No matter how much you wish it away...

...the last genuine news story on the private e-mail server has not yet been written. Do you really want that hanging over our election right now? Do you pretend to know what was and was not on that private server? How about ties to Wall Street, speaking fees from HMO's & banks, many possible instances of quid pro quo between the then Secretary of State and foreign donors to the Clinton Foundation?

And that's just scratching the surface of the most plausible and presently-visible problems.

The history of the Clintons is a history replete with scandals, and the ire of the right wing is only one small root of that larger tree.

-app

[asuhornets]

39. Oh Plzz..

You sound like Fox News and Donald Trump rolled up into one. Hillary testified for 11 hours and nothing was found. And no I don't care about Wall Street and speaking fees. And who cares about the ire of the right wing. You sound scared. Hillary will eat any republican for lunch in a debate. And personally I think she is holding back on Bernie Sanders. She knows and so do I - he will never be president.

[nolabels]

10. Yea, but should we worry about it, seriously?

[emulatorloo]

11. WSJ/Fox media first. Then other outlets will pick it up as they are scared of being called 'biased'

[DUbeornot2be]

20. Bring it...

...on!

Bernie has been massing his troops at the border...

[Eric J in MN]

9. In Iowa, Clinton leads by 4 points in the Real Clear Politics average.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/ia/iowa_democratic_presidential_caucus-3195.html

[corkhead]

22. she had more than a 3 point lead over Obama at RCL with just 10 days left before the '08 Iowa Caucus

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/ia/iowa_democratic_caucus-208.html

[retrowire]

14. here it comes

brace yourselves. we're going to have to counter every crock of shit they pull.

[corkhead]

21. Attention 1%ers! We rabble have been roused

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. Hehe.

[Half-Century Man]

26. Pitchfork and Torch are ready

Where's the drawbridge?

[wendylaroux]

37. Oooh,good one!

[Jack Rabbit]

29. The WSJ editors are a bunch of Johnnies-come-lately

We've been taking Bernie's campaign seriously for months.

[SoapBox]

31. "Note to WSJ: He's a DEMOCRATIC socialist."

Isn't it pathetic that they can't even get this correct?

I think half of it is intensional and the other half is just because the are stupid fucks.

[rladdi]

41. The one huge issue is that Sanders will start the debate all over again for the

Health care bill, giving the Republicans the opportunity to trash it for good. Bernie has major changes he wants to do on the HCB.

[libdem4life]

46. Let's hear it for the Pitchfork Voters!!