2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumImagine for a moment if Hillary had won the WA state caucus
And bernie won the primary
People would seriously become unhinged
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)JSup
(740 posts)...I would certainly be disappointed in 'my' team.
I don't like rules, unwritten or otherwise, changing in the middle of the 'game'.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)It's part of the process. But I agree with you, we have to unify the party and the Bernie folks would become unhinged if that happened. It's not worth it. We have to unify to defeat NAZI Trump.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Boy... that would be... interesting.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)The caucus system sucks I don't care who wins it. Obama won it in 2008 and I was there.
It stinks.
The primary ballots went out to every registered voter in this state,
Im sure it pulled in more people than a meeting in a school gym at 1030 am on a Saturday morning for 3 hours.
Hot overcrowded and badly run.
Ballots run like glass.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)I wonder if Skinner is actually happy about this influx of diruptive elements. It's possible that it may help his preferred candidate - and perhaps not even that, but at the same time it is likely to hurt his life's work beyond recovery.
merrily
(45,251 posts)As they say in sitcoms, "I don't know him like that."
But, the Brockolis/Brockettes are not coming for us. They're here. At least, a lot of them are. Some of them have been here for years. Some since October and some since May 2. So, I finally changed my sig line. Resistance is futile. May as well welcome them. Embrace the false flags ops.
http://jackpineradicals.org/showthread.php?11573-The-Sit-Down-and-Shut-Up-Award-and-Other-Realities&p=71850#post71850
Be one with Winston Smith. You know you want to.
Jack Bone
(2,023 posts)She's as strong of a candidate as Mondale was in '84.
tried & true Democrats LOVE her....AND that's about it.
merrily
(45,251 posts)was he just not exciting?
He said he knew he lost the day Reagan made the crack about his opponent's inexperience. If true, you'd think he (Mondale) would have tried anything to correct course.
The best part is that he's still being cited as having been too liberal to win. Comedy gold, yet people still fall for it.
Jack Bone
(2,023 posts)it looks very much like today. even though there was a firebrand challenger there that had the needed energy to defeat Reagan...in Sen. Hart, but the party stuck w/ the known quantity that represented the past.
just remembering...I guess.
merrily
(45,251 posts)However, the Party stopped him, then claimed that Carter lost because he had been damaged by a primary battle. LOL! Carter was damaged long before the primary battle by Night Line, people waiting on long lines to gas up their cars, etc. And he lost because of those things and because Reagan was such a well known and charismatic candidate. However, the primary challenge story has been used ever since to pretend a primary challenge to an incumbent is a sacrilege.
And now, they're even treating their non-incumbent picks as incumbents, so people entering a primary are considered "challengers" as opposed to just another primary candidate. Meanwhile, Mondale's loss was used as an excuse to introduce super delegates, which the right of the Party had been trying to do for years anyway. Bash liberals; reduce intra-party democracy. Two recurrent themes in the Democratic Party for a long, long time.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)the press to prove it, so they did?
It's the lying and arrogance that always gets them....