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Hillary's Hitwoman – Sen.Claire McCaskill:
McCaskill's mission is to keep telling us Bernie can't get elected and is a "socialist". This is her second outing that I know of, and is as sad as the first.
“Too liberal” and an “extreme message” – when Bernie veers quite near some of the most effective and principled (and smart) Dems in history.
Bernie ain’t that extreme. McCaskill ain’t that effective. Hillary ain’t that smart to keep attacking someone who is right in line with most Americans on many issues.
And I can't help but wonder if they asked our Dear Michael to go and attack Bernie.
The 538 blog reports today that the Bernie surge is over. Sorry 'bout that, for all you ultra-liberals who can't understand the similarity between McGovern in 1972 and Sanders in 2016.
The 538 blog wrote:
So after performing their best statistical analysis, all they can really predict is that Sanders will have to reach out to voters he hasn't already won over. Ummmm, isn't that what the pre-primary election season is supposed to be about? Reports of his demise are premature, CHB.
or not…
Poll: Bernie Sanders surges ahead of Hillary Clinton in N.H., 44-37
Very nice but remember that probably no state looks less like America than N. H. Next to no minorities for starters.
That's kind of why BlackLivesMatters went after Bernie Sanders. He represents a state (much like NH is demographically) which means he's never had to deal with racial/ethnic issues. ("Ethnic issues" in VT and NH means French Canadians).
Same thing with Bernie's position on gun control. He represents a rural state where gun control is defined as hitting your target. He's never has to jump when Michael Bloomberg tells him to.
OTOH, You-Know-Who is probably livid with this newest poll coming out. She's have PTSD re-living that night in January '08 when she finished third in Iowa.
Keep in mind though, the pollster here is considered suspect by those in the know, NH is thought to be Bernie's very best chance to rack up some good numbers in terms of individual states, and the poll includes the undeclared Joe Biden, drawing heavily from Clinton. Therefore, I wouldn't infer too much based upon this poll's results.
Bernie's still in it, to be sure, but I'd say his prospects aren't particularly good long term.
McGovern probably had a broader base of support in the Democratic Party compared to Bernie.
And he got creamed. But I 'm not happy at all about HRC. I never understood her as a feminist icon. Take away her married name and where would she be?
A Margaret Thatcher from the other side of the spectrum, she's not. Thatcher's husband was a political nobody. She got to be Prime Minister entirely under her own power. If HRC gets to be President it will be by the old fashioned Eva Peron route. I don't care how many times Bill, the Rhodes Scholar, says she's the smart one. She's parlayed sticking with the right guy and trading tolerance of serial infidelity humiliations for power into a run for first woman President and I resent the hell out of it.
Bill may owe her something for all she went through. I don't. He may have promised her if she stuck with him she'd be Co-President, not just First Lady, and her turn at the real thing would be soon enough. I didn't. She was never elected anything until she became the Senator of a state she'd never lived in as her very first elected position. Tell me how that would work if she'd been Hillary Smith. Her sense of entitlement is stunning.
Somewhat related to Colorado.
And, delusional.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-10/the-30-year-old-trick-that-s-going-to-keep-america-s-coal-alive
Read the entire open letter supporting the Iran deal and parade of retired General and Admiral signatories here.The letter is concise enough and the signatories more than impressive. Also hardly likely to be soft squishy libruls:
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/world/read-an-open-letter-from-retired-generals-and-admirals-on-the-iran-nuclear-deal/1689/
But you know, that's facts and informed opinion. DOA at demagogues who cut their teeth on climate change denial.
Let's hope Bennet likes facty stuff better than Schumer does.