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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders is too extreme for America [View all]lewebley3
(3,412 posts)77. The rest of time he was just a big talker: Let other people carry water
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Different person, different personality, different communicator, different time.
TryLogic
Dec 2015
#56
No: he was not right for most American's: like Sander left winger is not right
lewebley3
Dec 2015
#76
Tricky Dick dedicated his life to help Women? He was a pro Gay rights and pro minority
randys1
Jan 2016
#176
A Different Time Today... Different Result! Watch Iowa And NH... fer Starters...
CorporatistNation
Dec 2015
#96
So millions of new voters wont show up specifically to elect our first Woman prez?
randys1
Jan 2016
#177
Sanders gave no supporting speeches to the Dem party until he want to run for President
lewebley3
Jan 2016
#154
And should Hillary win, she will be greeted with rose petals and chocolates by the repubs
corkhead
Dec 2015
#119
Name calling again without any depth of reasoning beyond that again... Desperation shows!!!
cascadiance
Dec 2015
#62
Rich socialist term is an oxymoron, which appears to reflect your FLAWED thinking....
cascadiance
Dec 2015
#97
You just showed that you really don't understand the real meaning of socialism...
cascadiance
Dec 2015
#149
If they do, then what is about it that they will vote against in your opinion...
cascadiance
Jan 2016
#159
Desperate BS which is WRONG! Polls show Bernie does better in the General Election...
cascadiance
Dec 2015
#150
A loyal Dem (a TRADITIONAL values Dem) would embrace many aspects of socialist philosophy...
cascadiance
Dec 2015
#148
Neither Mondale nor Dukakis were left liberals. That's a smear with no basis in reality.
hedda_foil
Dec 2015
#14
Stuff and nonsense. Bill won in '92 with far less than a majority because Perot siphoned votes ...
hedda_foil
Dec 2015
#111
No. That was a Gingrich meme. It had nothing to do with Dems and Dem leaners
hedda_foil
Dec 2015
#139
The polite term for the type of behavior in which you are indulging is propaganda.
hedda_foil
Dec 2015
#145
I like Dukakis, but he had little "fire in the belly"--certainly Bernie has a lot of that fire!
Akamai
Dec 2015
#54
And the media so ignored Kucinich, most Americans have STILL never heard of him.
Fuddnik
Dec 2015
#20
Bernie's policies are actually down the middle. Only Bill Oreily calls it far left
litlbilly
Dec 2015
#7
Bernie's best laugh line was calling Ike a 'Socialist'. I'm sure even Ike
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2015
#10
We never had an African American elected either! And we need a Progressive like Sanders.
Duval
Dec 2015
#36
FDR was NOT a 'far-left liberal'. In 1932, he ran as a moderate. Actually, 'far-left
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2015
#9
People want change. If the Republican nominee promises change and our nominee promises status quo,
Attorney in Texas
Dec 2015
#11
Exactly! Rightwing populism beats centrist establishment corporatism but loses to real progressive
Attorney in Texas
Dec 2015
#30
This was obvious at work with Rubio's comments on H-1B in the Republican debate...
cascadiance
Dec 2015
#64
Imagine if the Democrats actually supported policies like this instead of branding itself
Feeling the Bern
Dec 2015
#23
Did "Progressive Change Institute" ask the same likely 2016 voters the same or similar questions...
George II
Dec 2015
#29
There are a couple (at least) like that on DU, I wouldn't hide them if you paid me. n/t
A Simple Game
Dec 2015
#44
Too extreme for the same old same old, not for saving our Democracy from the 1% .
orpupilofnature57
Dec 2015
#82
He's so extreme, there's a media black-out re Bernie so nobody will be hurt by him...
polichick
Dec 2015
#88
You obviously are not old enough to remember that we used to have a program of "almost free" college
newthinking
Dec 2015
#118
The sales tax on Wall Street transactions that are sometime thousands per second are supported
DhhD
Dec 2015
#125
You do know that the collective college debt recently became larger than collective credit card debt
cascadiance
Jan 2016
#172
No, he's not too extreme for America. He's just not a Democrat and is only one now that he needs...
Hekate
Jan 2016
#156
Correction. He's one now because we don't have instant runoff voting to avoid the RIGGED system...
cascadiance
Jan 2016
#173