From “The Pen” (People’s email network) Today at 7:15 AM (edited)
The Beltway pundits remain condescending and dismissive, which is all the more reason why we need to keep cranking up the people power, to continue to raise the visibility of Bernie Sanders, as he continues to rise in the polls.This week on Meet The Press, they trotted out the big guns, so-called “senior” campaign advisers to pre-emptively and forcefully declare that Donald Trump was NOT going to be the Republican nominee. Chuck Todd has been wrong so many times already, we suppose he needed some faux authoritative reinforcement.
But the bottom line is that Republican voters love demagogues, the more nonsensical the better. And it galls the usual tired right wing
political hacks that Trump is a better demagogue than any of the rest of them.
As we understand it, Senator Sessions help draft Trump’s radical immigrant eviction proposals. It’s nothing any of the rest of them could not have said, but Trump beat them to it. Like we said, in the going off the deep end department, Trump is outdoing them at their own game, and we remain persuaded he will in fact be the ultimate Republican nominee.
In the meantime, on the Democratic side, the speculation in the political media has reached hyperventilation level on the possibility of a Biden presidential candidacy. This would not be happening if
1) Sanders was not running so strongly, which they want to try to go back to ignoring, and
1) Clinton was not failing so profoundly to connect with voters
Simply stated, the corporate Democrats are starting to panic.
Clinton has been determined in her refusal to even take a position on EITHER the Trans Pacific Partnership or the Keystone XL Pipeline, on the grounds that because she dealt with these issues as Secretary of State, somehow her tongue is bound to be tied.
Well, we’re sorry, Mrs. Clinton. You are running for president again now, and you need to take a position on the big issues, not just triangulate non-positions. Ed Schultz, who has strongly confronted the TPP, as have we, did a strong piece on this recently. And now Comcast has yanked his show. Connection? You tell us.
We see the endlessly overblown email server flap as an opportunistic scandal, which the Clinton candidacy has not shaken only because it is a weak candidacy incapable of generating its own positive breaking news.
And as for Biden, we have no particular bone to pick with him, precisely because it is not clear he actually has a position on anything at all. If the corporate Democrats want to generate zero excitement a year from November, he’s their guy, sorry to say. He might lose more states that Dukakis, if such a thing were possible.
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(I like the part about demagogues.)
What people want
Ah, Biden. He’s run and lost so many times before. Remember when he had to drop out due to plagiarism in 1988?
Well, he might steal some votes from Clinton supporters. Not sure why the party would want him to do that. He won’t peel off any Sanders supporters, and Elizabeth Warren is now in danger of looking like a back-stabbing, selfish, phony. I hope for her sake and own political future she tells Biden to take a hike.
To my eye, regular people of the country are clearly most interested in Sanders or Trump. That is, they are looking for a candidate:
– that seems unable to be bought (not controlled by others)
– that says what they believe (not carefully crafted by teams)
– that has experience accomplishing what they set out to do (rather than just give sound bites and photo ops)
Sanders and Trump couldn’t be more different, but they both have versions of the above qualities, and that is appealing to voters this time around.
And, the lack of those qualities is why Biden wouldn’t win, yet again.
Beau
I also can’t help thinking that Biden is feeding off all the sympathetic media about his son’s death. Biden is a political animal, after all.