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Bernie Sanders will never be president.
Last edited Mon Feb 1, 2016, 02:39 PM - Edit history (1)
If You’re Liberal and You Think Hillary Clinton Is Corrupt and Untrustworthy, You’re Rewarding 25 Years of GOP SmearsChez Pazienza January 31, 2016
Daily Banter
Bernie Sanders will never be president. Let’s just get that out of the way right now. He stands very little chance of pulling down the Democratic nomination and no chance at all of winning a general election. His rabid acolytes can argue with this all they want but they’ll be wrong for several inarguable reasons: because the “political revolution” Bernie Sanders needs to advance his campaign and agenda is pie-in-the-sky thinking that simply doesn’t occur in representative democracies like ours, where change always comes incrementally and our entire system is designed so it can’t be remade in one fell swoop; because he’s a one-note candidate who concerns himself with nothing other than his admittedly noble lifelong obsession with wealth inequality; because America isn’t evolved enough to elect an avowed socialist, democratic or otherwise, and it unfortunately won’t get near someone who openly eschews religion; and maybe most importantly because once the GOP considered Bernie a sworn enemy rather than the perfect foil it can use to destroy Hillary Clinton, it would eat him alive. Eat. Him. Alive.
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There are reasons you may choose not to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016, but one would hope they’re policy issues rather than problems with her personality — because the “personality” that’s been sold to the American electorate is largely manufactured, and not by Clinton herself (another facet of the smear: that she’s a phony). The reality is that Clinton was one of the most liberal members of the Senate during her time there, ranking within ten points of progressive messiah Bernie Sanders and her history as a crusader for progressive causes is precisely what so motivated the GOP to destroy her in the first place. As far as the right was concerned, Clinton stepped far over the line when she pushed for healthcare reform way back in 1993 and her activist past informed a future as a “difficult woman.” By the way, it hardly needs to be said but many of the conservative attacks on Clinton throughout the decades have been the product of rank sexism. Men rarely get labeled difficult or abrasive and their general likability isn’t often called into question. Those are all buzzwords employed specifically to knock empowered women down a peg. And Hillary Clinton has been subjected to them — and so much worse — her entire political career.
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thedailybanter.com/2016/01/hillary-gop-smears/
A great OP Ed piece, long but right on point.
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...are regularly on display right here on DU
and i'm sick of it! 
Can't get any clearer than that.
Hillary Clinton (Group) right above the reply title? It's in BOLD.
Choose to comment all you want, but in a protected group, show respect or leave.
Now back to your little echo chamber you go! Buh-bye.
Choose to comment all you want, but in a protected group, show respect or leave.
Now back to your little echo chamber you go! Buh-bye.
If I hear, "Hillary's Iraq war vote tells me all I need to know" one more time...
If You’re Liberal and You Think Hillary Clinton Is Corrupt and Untrustworthy, You’re Rewarding 25 Years of GOP Smears
It is just that clear and simple. 
It is just that clear and simple.
It depresses me to no end that these RW lies are touted on this site. 
