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    How utterly disgusting that Republicans and Democrats alike, along with a biased media, are politicizing the Coronavirus pandemic, disastrous stock market decline, national security, etc. for their own political agendas / self-interests – certainly not ours.

    What to believe anymore when on the one-hand Trump recklessly states not to worry, we have it under control and the other side declaring Trump has left us ill prepared and calling it the Trump virus.

    Hatred and divisiveness so perilous that we are willing to risk becoming a socialist state by those considering voting for an individual who has accomplished little in his political life and doesn’t seem to grasp the tyranny of socialism.

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    Amen – from one of an older generation!

    https://www.aei.org/op-eds/40-years-...es-a-comeback/

    The idea that a man who embraced communist tyrants could soon be elected president of the United States is stunning — and would have been unthinkable 40 years ago during the Winter Games in Lake Placid. So, spare us the outrage if some of the heroes of those 1980 Olympics want to “Keep America Great.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Amen – from one of an older generation!


    The idea that a man who embraced communist tyrants could soon be elected president of the United States is stunning — and would have been unthinkable 40 years ago during the Winter Games in Lake Placid. So, spare us the outrage if some of the heroes of those 1980 Olympics want to “Keep America Great.”
    During the 1970s, rather low-level Soviet expansionism and influence grew in Angola and Ethiopia.

    However, it was under the Carter administration that the Soviet aggression became bold.

    In 1979, the Soviets contrary to the understandings reached at the end of the Cuban Missle Crisis, placed a combat brigade in Cuba. More alarming that year, the Soviets, exploiting the chaos in Iran, staged a coup in Afghanistan, and with curious timing, followed it up with a full-scale invasion on Christmas Day.

    To many Americans, President Carter embarrassed himself and the nation when he told, as I recall, ABC News correspondent Barbara Walters in an interview on New Years Eve, 1979 that he was "shocked" that "President Brezhnev lied to me."

    Criminees, who woulda thunk it?

    America was at a low point at the end of 1979, and the 1980 "Miracle On Ice" was proudly weaponized as a unified cry of defiance against the dark forces of the Communist Soviet Union.

    To think that a Socialist is a viable candidate for President of the United States is surrealistic in my world.
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    It has become obvious even to Bernie Sanders that some of his supporters don’t want a revolution. They just want to beat Trump that bad!

    The more moderate Democratic presidential candidates have thrown their support to Biden. Sanders is left with the likes of the squad and other likeminded radicals. He is not even sure of Warren joining his team.

    Sanders is urging his supporters to dummy up on the revolution mantra because it offends not only his detractors, but members of his own party.

    Sanders, a Marxist, has never accomplished much in his early private life, as well as in his government service. He has promised ‘revolution’ until recently and his politics smack of anti-Americanism. The liberal mainstream media have been very kind to Mr. Sanders. His supporters should dig into his illustrious career.

    America is not buying Bernie’s socialism. And, that’s a good thing; IMHO!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    It has become obvious even to Bernie Sanders that some of his supporters don’t want a revolution. They just want to beat Trump that bad!

    The more moderate Democratic presidential candidates have thrown their support to Biden. Sanders is left with the likes of the squad and other likeminded radicals. He is not even sure of Warren joining his team.

    Sanders is urging his supporters to dummy up on the revolution mantra because it offends not only his detractors, but members of his own party.

    Sanders, a Marxist, has never accomplished much in his early private life, as well as in his government service. He has promised ‘revolution’ until recently and his politics smack of anti-Americanism. The liberal mainstream media have been very kind to Mr. Sanders. His supporters should dig into his illustrious career.

    America is not buying Bernie’s socialism. And, that’s a good thing; IMHO!
    Lee, I think it is too early to say Bernie is totally cooked.

    If you add the Warren vote to his in some key state, the returns would have reflected a different picture of Bernie.

    Although I have my doubts, I would not be surprised to see a Sanders-Warren primary campaign alliance with strong supportive cheer-leading from the whacko "Squad." That may or may not prove to be significant.

    Personally, with or without Warren, I would watch for a string of convulsive of Bernie "comebacks" (especially in the former industrial states), kind of like a replay of the Kennedy-Carter primary campaign in 1980.

    Kennedy lost Iowa, N.H., and the Southern primaries, only to come roaring back in New York and Connecticut.

    (Old Geezers like Lee and myself will remember that the Courier-Express ran a "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline the Sunday before the New York Primary which suggested that Kennedy faced "Armageddon" on Primary Day.)

    After Carter seemingly manipulated the Iranian situation on Primary morning April 1, the President won Kansas and Wisconsin, but Kennedy quickly answered with victories in Pennsylvania, Vermont and Michigan.

    That ping-ponging continued right through the June 3, 1980 "Super Tuesday" which proved indecisive. Carter won Western and Southern/Border States, but Kennedy captured California and New Jersey.

    If the delegate lead going into the convention is close between Sanders and Biden, the Super Delegates will be mindful that unlike 1980, they are not considering a cleaver, although incompetent President Carter, but a bumbling, fumbling, weirdo, potentially scandal-plagued former Vice President Biden.

    Under those circumstances, I still look toward some form of a brokered convention driven by undertones of a Clinton influence.

    Just my post-"Super THURSDAY" perspective.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mark blazejewski View Post
    Lee, I think it is too early to say Bernie is totally cooked.

    If you add the Warren vote to his in some key state, the returns would have reflected a different picture of Bernie.

    Although I have my doubts, I would not be surprised to see a Sanders-Warren primary campaign alliance with strong supportive cheer-leading from the whacko "Squad." That may or may not prove to be significant.

    Personally, with or without Warren, I would watch for a string of convulsive of Bernie "comebacks" (especially in the former industrial states), kind of like a replay of the Kennedy-Carter primary campaign in 1980.

    Kennedy lost Iowa, N.H., and the Southern primaries, only to come roaring back in New York and Connecticut.

    (Old Geezers like Lee and myself will remember that the Courier-Express ran a "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline the Sunday before the New York Primary which suggested that Kennedy faced "Armageddon" on Primary Day.)

    After Carter seemingly manipulated the Iranian situation on Primary morning April 1, the President won Kansas and Wisconsin, but Kennedy quickly answered with victories in Pennsylvania, Vermont and Michigan.

    That ping-ponging continued right through the June 3, 1980 "Super Tuesday" which proved indecisive. Carter won Western and Southern/Border States, but Kennedy captured California and New Jersey.

    If the delegate lead going into the convention is close between Sanders and Biden, the Super Delegates will be mindful that unlike 1980, they are not considering a cleaver, although incompetent President Carter, but a bumbling, fumbling, weirdo, potentially scandal-plagued former Vice President Biden.

    Under those circumstances, I still look toward some form of a brokered convention driven by undertones of a Clinton influence.

    Just my post-"Super THURSDAY" perspective.
    I do not underestimate Sanders' chance against Biden in the primary; especially now that Warren has announced she is leaving the race and the possibility exists that she may join forces with Bernie. If that were to happen, it is my opinion that if Sanders became the nominee it would be bad for the Democratic Party and good for Trump.

    Yes, there are voters out there that hate Trump and will vote for anyone but him. However, there are people like me that also loathe Sanders, even within his own party, and will not vote for him. The Democrats I hang with tell me they will stay home if it's Sanders– not that it matters in liberal, Sanctuary City, blue-state New York.

    The biased, liberal mainstream media have given Sanders a soft ride. In the election campaign, Trump will expose Bernie for the Marxist he is, his dysfunctional private and public life history.

    America is not ready for a Bernie Sanders socialist.

    Imagine that, all we are left with is 3 old white guys to choose from! The two Democrats who have been living off the political system near their entire lives and the other supposedly a liar who can't walk and chew gum at the same time. The **** has yet to hit the fan!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    I do not underestimate Sanders' chance against Biden in the primary; especially now that Warren has announced she is leaving the race and the possibility exists that she may join forces with Bernie.
    It will help Sanders, much like Jerry Brown's withdrawal in April of 1980 helped Teddy Kennedy in the later primaries, especially in California. But also, like Kennedy, that anticipated withdrawal and endorsement will most probably be too little, too late to give him the necessary majority of the delegates.


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    * If that were to happen, it is my opinion that if Sanders became the nominee it would be bad for the Democratic Party and good for Trump.
    It is at this point that I believe that the Sanders candidacy and the 1980 Kennedy run depart commonality.

    There is no question that in 1980, the Democrat Party would have liked to have resurrected the fading memories of Camelot with the nomination of the perceived invisible Kennedy, in order to rid itself of the intrusive, incompetent Carter.

    Unexpectedly, Carter was invigorated with popular support arising out of the early days of the Iranian Hostage Crisis, his Rose Garden strategy, and Kennedy's bumbling interview with Roger Mudd, along with additional missteps regarding American foreign policy.

    Suddenly, Carter looked, in the world of Democrat politics, strong and competent.

    With that unforeseen turn, the Democrats were content to watch Carter paint Kennedy as a left-wing nut job, and let the two candidates have at it, secure in the belief that either candidate could easily defeat the maniac Reagan. I believe the Democrat Convention would have nominated either man.

    But Sanders is an undisguised Socialist/Marxist, not even a registered Democrat, and in my opinion, does not hold Kennedy's stature. Therefore, unless he comes into the convention with a tamper-proof majority, the Democrat Party simply will not nominate him.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Imagine that, all we are left with is 3 old white guys to choose from! The two Democrats who have been living off the political system near their entire lives and the other supposedly a liar who can't walk and chew gum at the same time. The **** has yet to hit the fan!
    I am not going to talk about the orange giant, but speculate, perhaps "Out Of The Box," about the two Left-wing tax leeches and how their candidacies may be affecting the Democrat Party.

    As I observed on post #1597, absent a miracle yielding Sanders a tamper-proof majority, he will never be nominated by the Democrat Party, just my opinion.

    Biden may be nominated without or without a decisive majority, because, if absent a viable alternative, next to Stalin, even Khrushchev looked good.

    But I just wonder if Biden was temporarily propped-up in light of Bloomberg's Hindenburg imitation, and if Crazy Uncle Joe is just the perceived temporary custodian of the Democrat Party's 2020 Standard?

    Consider this:

    If Bernie Sanders takes his cause all the way to the Convention, the primary and pre-convention period will constantly expose Biden's weaknesses and the Party's divisions. Again, that would be a replay of the bitter 1980 Kennedy-Carter contest.

    However, even if Bernie plays nice in the sandbox, Biden himself is beyond mistake-prone; he is a walking gaffe, and the dismissive jokes aside, the Democrats know that he looks frail and perhaps mentally challenged. That is not a snicker, but an empathetic observation.

    Personally I am open to the possibility that the Democrat muckety-mucks may have already concluded in March of 2020, what they did not conclude until the nominating Convention in New York in August, 1980: Both Kennedy and Carter were seriously flawed, and that a silver bullet remedy was needed.

    In 1980, I heard directly from some Lancaster Democrats who were present at the Convention, who suggested that about a so-called "Open Convention" was serious indeed, and was advanced in order to permit the voting to go beyond the first ballot. Had that been accomplished, it may have been possible to trot-out a perceived strong, unifying candidate, such as Secretary of State Muskie.

    But, in 1980, the "Open Convention" talk was forlorn fantasy; the train had already left the station.

    Perhaps this year, that conclusion has already been reached, and equally, serious operational planning is underway for a brokered convention with the Clinton, Obama, and maybe even the "Never Trump" forces scheming in the background?

    Simply put, I would not be shocked that in 2020, the quadrennial brokered convention talk becomes reality.
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    Bernie Sanders wants to abolish the Electoral College and its state electoral votes, and favors direct popular vote as the determinant in Presidential elections.

    In the primary election process, delegates serve as the victory determinant, and may be considered that process' equivalent of the electoral vote.

    I wonder how Sanders feels about that procedural change today?...



    POPULAR VOTE TO DATE:

    BIDEN: 4,921,782--- (35.54%)


    SANDERS: 4,016,248--- (29.00%)




    DELEGATE COUNT:


    BIDEN: 681--- (17.11%)


    SANDERS: 608--- (15.28%)
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    Bernie will be ripped off the exact same way Hillary did it last time.

    Super Delegates are bought and sold by Tom Perez and the DNC !

    DemControllers will tell their committees how to vote - they will in turn give the local marching orders and the Dog and Pony show continues.
    #Dems play musical chairs + patronage and nepotism = entitlement !

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4248 View Post
    bernie will be ripped off the exact same way hillary did it last time.

    super delegates are bought and sold by tom perez and the dnc !

    Demcontrollers will tell their committees how to vote - they will in turn give the local marching orders and the dog and pony show continues.
    Agree 4248.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 4248 View Post
    Bernie will be ripped off the exact same way Hillary did it last time.

    Super Delegates are bought and sold by Tom Perez and the DNC !

    DemControllers will tell their committees how to vote - they will in turn give the local marching orders and the Dog and Pony show continues.
    Whatever it takes to prevent Marxist Bernie from being the Democratic Party presidential nominee is fine with me.

    Bernie is for the primary candidate nomination based on vote plurality – so he now says.

    Warren is laying back and wants an offer that suits her best interests. Bernie is a hard man to like and has some bizarre proposals. She may lay back hoping for a brokered convention and being nominated.

    As the left declare ‘anyone but Trump’, others counter ‘anyone but Bernie’.

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    On post #1595 I speculated...

    Quote Originally Posted by mark blazejewski View Post
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    Under those circumstances, I still look toward some form of a brokered convention driven by undertones of a Clinton influence.

    Just my post-"Super THURSDAY" perspective.


    On post #1598 I mused...


    Quote Originally Posted by mark blazejewski View Post
    But I just wonder if Biden was temporarily propped-up in light of Bloomberg's Hindenburg imitation, and if Crazy Uncle Joe is just the perceived temporary custodian of the Democrat Party's 2020 Standard?...

    Personally I am open to the possibility that the Democrat muckety-mucks may have already concluded in March of 2020, what they did not conclude until the nominating Convention in New York in August, 1980...both... were seriously flawed, and that a silver bullet remedy was needed...

    Perhaps this year, that conclusion has already been reached, and equally, serious operational planning is underway for a brokered convention with the Clinton, Obama, and maybe even the "Never Trump" forces scheming in the background?

    Simply put, I would not be shocked that in 2020, the quadrennial brokered convention talk becomes reality.
    Today in the New York Post, Michael Goodwin writes:

    Democrats’ hunt for Trump slayer may lead to Hillary Clinton comeback: Goodwin

    By Michael Goodwin

    March 7, 2020 | 9:49pm



    Now that the once-sprawling field of Democrats seeking the presidency has become a two-man race, many in the party are breathing a sigh of relief. All the more so because Joe Biden is the clear front-runner and the dreaded Bernie Sanders looks to be fading.

    So it’s all set. Biden will be the nominee and give the party a solid chance of scoring a November trifecta: beating President Trump, taking the Senate and holding the House.

    Count me as skeptical. Instead of a smooth ride, it’s more likely that the Dems’ desperate search for a Trump slayer will hit more turbulence and an alternative to Biden still could be necessary.

    Guess what — one just happens to be waiting in the wings, hoping for an invitation. Before you laugh at the prospect of a Hillary Clinton comeback, consider the too-weird twists and turns of Biden’s campaign.

    The widespread belief that the former veep is ready and able to go the distance strikes me as wishful thinking at best. It is suspect because it is so sudden and reflects a complete reversal of the sentiment about him less than two weeks ago.

    After he finished fourth in Iowa, fifth in New Hampshire and a distant second in Nevada, the consensus was that unless Biden won big in the Feb. 29 South Carolina primary, he was toast.

    (SEE ALSO

    Hillary Clinton on being vice president: 'Never say never')

    The political obituaries were already written and blamed his demise largely on the notion that his party had left him behind. Then there were his brain freezes and frequent bouts of oddball references, as in “make sure you have the record player on at night.” The kindest commentaries held that old Joe had lost a step.

    Then came the South Carolina blowout. With the strong backing of black voters, Biden racked up nearly half the total vote and joyously declared, “We’re alive!”

    He beat six rivals and the all-important expectations of a more narrow win. This was manna from heaven for a party frightened by the prospect of a Sanders nomination and instantly the word went out for the also-rans to circle the wagons around Biden. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg obeyed while Tom Steyer simply withdrew.

    Three days later, Biden again beat expectations by winning 10 of 14 Super Tuesday states against Sanders, Michael Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren.

    Now the pressure to unite led Bloomberg to quit after just one day on the ballot and turn his lavishly funded campaign into a Biden super PAC. When Warren quit without making an endorsement, Sanders was a weakened, lone opponent. The cranky commie sympathizer probably can’t stage a comeback, but Biden is capable of blowing his chances all by himself.

    His revival can’t erase the memory of the sad failure he was just two weeks ago, nor are the cognitive issues suddenly resolved by a winning streak.

    Put it this way: Which Joe Biden will we see from now on? Does the new, improved version have the stamina and mental health to go all the way? Or will the long summer and the attacks from Trump on him and his family break him?

    It is noteworthy that his wife, Jill Biden, seems to be by his side far more often. The image is that of a nurse or mediator between him and the world.


    Questions about whether he is capable of being president can’t be avoided. That should force the party to quietly consider others who could be called upon at the July convention to take the nomination if Biden reverts.

    Otherwise, Sanders would get the crown, and I don’t believe Dem leaders will let that happen. They realize he would be an Electoral College disaster and cost them their gravy train of power, patronage and donors.

    But who are the alternatives? All the supposed moderates — Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Bloomberg — were thoroughly rejected by primary voters. The prickly Warren finished third in her home state.

    All of which leaves Clinton as the best backup plan. She’s hardly my cup of tea but for all her problems, including doubts about her physical stamina, she is a fundraising machine, has a true following and could hit the ground running.

    And, in case you hadn’t noticed, she’s advertising her availability.

    It’s surely no coincidence that “Hillary” was released Friday, during the height of the primary season. The sweetheart documentary, complete with broad promotion, stories, reviews and interviews with her, is a massive and slick selling job.

    Once again and always, she is selling herself. The fact that she and Bill Clinton cooperated make it certain the streaming Hulu project will add nothing new that would damage her. The four-hour biopic seems to be just another of her airbrushed memoirs, albeit one you can watch.

    This makeover, according to reviews, tries to inject dashes of glamour and cultural gravitas about feminism into what is essentially a loser’s story.

    While it’s impossible to miss the rollout and her glee in using the film and interviews to stick knives into Trump and Sanders, it’s also impossible to miss the timing.

    (SEE ALSO

    Clinton says Lewinsky affair was to 'manage my anxieties'
    All the party has to do is call. Her bag is packed.)

    Indeed, Clinton would have to be dead not to dream of a miracle, one that would give her the victory fate has twice denied her. Her platform writes itself.

    She didn’t really lose the 2016 election. Trump colluded with the Russians to deprive her of her civil right to be president. Anything else is just a Republican talking point and part of the vast right-wing conspiracy.

    Or maybe you’re a deplorable?

    You’re with her, or a misogynist.

    Oh, what fun. Merely to imagine doing all that again leads me to wish the very best of health to Joe Biden.

    Fallout from FBI’s ‘political’ problem

    With the coronavirus panic and the roller-coaster stock market grabbing headlines, other important news gets little attention. A prime example is yet another report detailing breakdowns in the FBI.

    This one, from the Justice Department’s inspector general, focuses on “lapses” in cases involving domestic terrorism.

    The report cited at least six attacks where the FBI had investigated those involved beforehand but dropped the ball. They included the Boston Marathon bombers and the shooter in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

    Just a hunch, but perhaps the FBI would do a better job of protecting Americans from the real bad guys if it kept its nose out of politics.
    https://nypost.com/2020/03/07/democr...eback-goodwin/

    Just sayin'.
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    The People Who See Bernie Sanders as Their Only Hope

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elect...cid=spartandhp

    With the related health expense of the coronavirus virus pandemic, employment concerns, the stock market tanking, the moderate left dumping on him, overall public anxiety, will Bernie supporters continue to believe his ‘free stuff’ agenda has a chance in hell of gaining him victory? Are they naïve in thinking this is a reality in today's health / financial climate and that he is qualified to be the leader in today's mess?

    We shall see tonight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
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    We shall see tonight.
    On the Sunday before the 1980 New York Primary, the Courier Express ran a headline which received national attention: "NY May Spell Armageddon For Ted."

    This story may be the 2020 equivalent of that headline for Bernie Sanders in the Michigan Primary tonight:

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bid...-michigan-poll

    If Sanders pulls out a surprise win, the ping pong template I described early may be valid; if not, Biden will win, and then the real scrutiny of Biden will begin.

    The high-profile Clinton public exposure remains very curious.
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