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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has mad it official: he’s in for 2016. Pop Quiz: Who of the following has the best chance of becoming the next Democratic presidential nominee: 1) Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders; 2) Colonel Harland Sanders; 3) The actor who played the dead guy in Weekend At Bernie’s.
I don’t think he’ll get the nomination, but I do think he will have a great impact on the national debate.
Sanders actually understands immigration better than at least half the potential Republican nominees. That didn’t stop him from voting for the Gang Of Eight after some legislative kickbacks, but still…
He’ll nail down the demographic that’s been pining for Dennis Kucinich’s grandfather to run.
He’ll become the Ron Paul of the left.
Maybe his presence in the race will allow GOP candidates to finally call out Democrats’ ideology for what it is: socialism.
Listen to Mr Hart and Mr Mondale in the debate talking about jobs and entrepreneurship. These guys could be Mitt Romney. As I am fond of saying, today’s Dems are yesterday’s Commies, and yesterday’s Dems are today’s Republicans.
OMG — Gary Hart sounds like a Republican!
Take note fellas (and lady), you can’t be for entrepreneurs and win with Democrats (or in the General) in America. It’s been that way for a long time. The Left has effectively equated “entrepreneurs” with the “rich.”
No wonder Hart didn’t get away with monkey business.
Bernie will do what he’s always done, which is bang the wealth inequality drum slowly. Er, loudly, with a hammer paid for by taxpayers. Even though the data shows that the more public-sector spending goes up, median incomes stay the same. Captain WonderGenius seems to correlate increased taxation and spending as a way to address the hideous nature of inequality (even if, say, that inequality is actually earned, in that if I pick up a second job to earn more income, does that make the person next to me somehow less equal?).
Bernie’s never held a real job. He’s spent decades in the public sector telling people what they ought to do. When pressed, his inherent bitterness shines through, and he won’t have the same Magical Shield of Clinton Power to protect him from errant questioners. But he’ll generate interest because of the things he’s unafraid to say, no matter how horribly wrong and awful they are, and the press enjoys a free buffet to report on.
Otherwise all they’ll have is the Pantsuit of the Day memo to read back to their audiences from some obscure bus stop in the midwest, because it’s not like Hillary, Grand Dame of the People of the United States, actually wants to talk to anybody.