2016 Postmortem

Matariki

(18,775 posts) Wed Mar 9, 2016, 01:16 PM Mar 2016

Hillary’s inevitability lie

Hillary’s inevitability lie: Why the media and party elites are rushing to nominate the weakest candidate

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/08/hillarys_inevitability_lie_why_the_media_and_party_elites_are_rushing_to_nominate_the_weakest_candidate/

The nation may be divided but at least its pundits speak as one. They all say Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are killing the competition. Pundits love to issue death certificates. On Super Tuesday they sounded like the coroner of Munchkin Land. (He’s not only merely dead, but really most sincerely dead!) They’re wrong. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Kasich and especially Bernie Sanders are all alive and kicking. It ain’t over yet; not by a long shot.

If Clinton and Trump win their conventions, it’ll be the first time both parties nominated their weakest candidate. Trump is the one Republican almost any Democrat can beat; Hillary the one Democrat Trump can beat. The response of the party establishments is instructive. Republicans engage in a mad scramble to stop Trump while Democrats do all they can to help Hillary seal the deal.

Fear of Trump unites Republican elites as nothing but hatred for Obama ever did; Senate leadership with House rank and file; libertarians with militarists and supply siders; the Kochs with Karl Rove. A few of the phonier evangelicals defected to Trump but most, like the pope, know a fake Christian when they see one. All the factions now join the RNC, Fox News and every corporate lobbyist in town in a late, frantic effort to turn the tide. On Tuesday, Trump routed them all.

Democratic elites are just as united in opposing Bernie Sanders: members of Congress, gay and abortion rights lobbies, African-American leaders, most of labor and many of the same corporate lobbyists battling Trump. Sanders is a reformer and an honest, decent man. Trump is a louche, lying fascist with the impulse control of a hyperactive four-year-old. Yet Trump, not Sanders, is laying waste his party. Are Democrats simply more skilled in the art of suppression? If so, who knew?

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Hillary’s inevitability lie (Original Post) Matariki Mar 2016 OP

Sanders is a reformer and an honest, decent man. djean111 Mar 2016 #1

the DNC needed someone to tow the Corporate line Ferd Berfel Mar 2016 #8

I'm for Bernie but nothing wrong with Hillary rgoop Mar 2016 #2

It's a good, in depth article. I hope people read it. Matariki Mar 2016 #3

Can we please be honest with ourselves? gcomeau Mar 2016 #4

it won't be the Sanders fans that'll give us Trump: she riles up Republicans, bores Dems, and MisterP Mar 2016 #5

Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2016 #7

I hate to say it but Rubio is dead nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #6

djean111

(14,255 posts)

1. Sanders is a reformer and an honest, decent man.

Reply to Matariki (Original post)

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 01:22 PM

Mar 2016

Not, evidently, what the Democratic Party is looking for.

Oh, and if anyone is still caught up in that gender stuff, just substitute "human being" for "man". Still works just fine.

Ferd Berfel

(3,687 posts)

8. the DNC needed someone to tow the Corporate line

Reply to djean111 (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 02:51 PM

Mar 2016

They made their choice

rgoop

(76 posts)

2. I'm for Bernie but nothing wrong with Hillary

Reply to Matariki (Original post)

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 01:22 PM

Mar 2016

So far Hillary has more votes. We'll see if Bernie can catch her. It won't be easy but it's possible.
Our focus once the primaries are over must be in defeating Trump and if Hillary and Bernie fans do not come together there will be a president Trump which should frighten anybody.

Matariki

(18,775 posts)

3. It's a good, in depth article. I hope people read it.

Reply to rgoop (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 01:25 PM

Mar 2016

gcomeau

(5,764 posts)

4. Can we please be honest with ourselves?

Reply to rgoop (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 01:41 PM

Mar 2016

We are supposed to be the reality based party here.

Clinton is miles superior to any GOP alternative, but there is plenty wrong with Hillary, as the article details at length.

And we can talk about Hillary and Bernie fans coming together here all day long, Independents aren't a big part of this forum and a large chunk of them being drawn in by Bernie will turn around and walk right back out if Clinton is the nominee. She is the personification of the Democratic Party choosing the status quo and there is a reason they are Independents in the first place. Which is what drives Sanders consistently better general election match-up polling.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)

5. it won't be the Sanders fans that'll give us Trump: she riles up Republicans, bores Dems, and

Reply to rgoop (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 02:14 PM

Mar 2016

disgusts indeps

also check my sigline ...

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nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)

6. I hate to say it but Rubio is dead

Reply to Matariki (Original post)

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 02:19 PM

Mar 2016

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