WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please donate to keep ReaderRant online to serve political discussion and its members. (Blue Ridge Photography pays the bills for RR).
Current Topics
2024 Election Forum
by perotista - 03/16/25 12:02 PM
Trump 2.0
by pdx rick - 03/16/25 02:19 AM
Who's Online Now
0 members (), 5 guests, and 0 robots.
Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Newest Members
Agnostic Politico, Jems, robertjohn, BlackCat13th, ruggedman
6,305 Registered Users
Popular Topics(Views)
10,261,134 my own book page
5,051,299 We shall overcome
4,251,055 Campaign 2016
3,856,701 Trump's Trumpet
3,055,892 3 word story game
Top Posters
pdx rick 47,431
Scoutgal 27,583
Phil Hoskins 21,134
Greger 19,831
Towanda 19,391
Top Likes Received (30 Days)
Irked 1
Forum Statistics
Forums59
Topics17,128
Posts314,548
Members6,305
Most Online294
Dec 6th, 2017
Today's Birthdays
There are no members with birthdays on this day.
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Rate Thread
Page 4 of 5 1 2 3 4 5
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 19,831
Likes: 180
Carpal Tunnel
Offline
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 19,831
Likes: 180
Nothing wrong with "moderates". I consider myself a moderate socialist.
Social democracy is fine...but democratic socialism might be a step too far...


Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,210
Likes: 3
C
enthusiast
Offline
enthusiast
C
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,210
Likes: 3

Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,210
Likes: 3
C
enthusiast
Offline
enthusiast
C
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,210
Likes: 3
Huh....?!




Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 19,831
Likes: 180
Carpal Tunnel
Offline
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 19,831
Likes: 180
I don't think there can be any question that the DNC and Clinton operatives are working hard to de-rail the Sanders candidacy.

What's interesting though is that they are working together. Clinton, who lost in 2008 and again in 2016 appears unable to bow out gracefully. If she can't BE the president then she wants control of who gets to RUN for president.

It's an ideology thing. I think Hillary Clinton should be the president right now. I think she would have been a fabulous president. But that's an alternate universe...we have Trump instead. Clinton was the easy way to transition into Scandinavian style social democracy.

We gotta do it the hard way now. If Clinton can't help, she needs to get out of the way. If the DNC fights the will of the voters too hard then they will lose again just like in 2016.

If the voters want a more moderate candidate fair and square then the time has not yet arrived for the transition.


Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 19,831
Likes: 180
Carpal Tunnel
Offline
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 19,831
Likes: 180
[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]


Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 5,028
Likes: 98
J
jgw Offline
old hand
Offline
old hand
J
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 5,028
Likes: 98
If the Dems are doing what you say they are doing then they are doing a really piss poor job! That is unfortunate as I believe that Bernie cannot win against Trump. I am sure I have said this before but the Republicans will destroy Bernie. Remember, they did that to another presidential candidate and he was a genuine war hero!

Bernie just has too much baggage and his plan to force large companies, or any company that trades stock to give 20% of their worth to "the workers" is simply insane. That is, as far as I can tell one of the greatest job killing efforts anybody could have thought of! There are also other problems but that one sticks out for me. What I find completely strange is that the media, in its infinite wisdom has yet to even mention that one. All that being said Bernie has also turned into a serious eater of other candidates with inunendo, sly, and sometimes a bit silly. He just may have the capacity to lose all on his own. He, not unlike Trump, is making sure of his base and I am not convinced they are enough to let him win.

Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,210
Likes: 3
C
enthusiast
Offline
enthusiast
C
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,210
Likes: 3
Originally Posted by jgw
If the Dems are doing what you say they are doing then they are doing a really piss poor job! That is unfortunate as I believe that Bernie cannot win against Trump. I am sure I have said this before but the Republicans will destroy Bernie. Remember, they did that to another presidential candidate and he was a genuine war hero!

Bernie just has too much baggage and his plan to force large companies, or any company that trades stock to give 20% of their worth to "the workers" is simply insane. That is, as far as I can tell one of the greatest job killing efforts anybody could have thought of! There are also other problems but that one sticks out for me. What I find completely strange is that the media, in its infinite wisdom has yet to even mention that one. All that being said Bernie has also turned into a serious eater of other candidates with inunendo, sly, and sometimes a bit silly. He just may have the capacity to lose all on his own. He, not unlike Trump, is making sure of his base and I am not convinced they are enough to let him win.

“Prediction: if Sanders somehow manages to win the primary, a majority of the centrist pundits screaming “vote blue no matter who” at Bernie supporters right now will help amplify smear campaigns against him and undermine his campaign against Trump.”

The author of this quote was to conservative. They’ve already started before he’s even won the nomination.

Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,210
Likes: 3
C
enthusiast
Offline
enthusiast
C
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,210
Likes: 3
Pete (Guaido) Buttegieg’s former campaign organizer has been hired by the Nevada Democratic Party as their ‘Vote Protection Director’.

My guess will be more hijinks in most every state. Those democracy loving Dems...
Anyone know if Nevada has paper backup?

Joined: Dec 2019
Posts: 483
C
newbie
Offline
newbie
C
Joined: Dec 2019
Posts: 483
Originally Posted by Hamish Howl
Originally Posted by jgw
This is, obviously, yet another example of the Democrats screwing it up bigtime. This morning it started out with a simple program problem and easily fixed. Now its become a serious coding problem. No telling where its going to go from there.

Its often said; "Democrats have a real talent for screwing it up". This can add a little humor but the outcome is slightly different. Every time they do something stupid, like this, voters have got to be wondering whether they should be in charge of gov. This time, for me, its a really important election to get rid of a bullying and budding American King. My hope is that they will think things through before having at it. Anybody with half a brain knows that before you install a new program you test the hell out of it. We are now told that their testing was putting it into operating 2 hours before use! <sigh>

America: Living proof of the Peter Principle.


Yup. Reason #2,947 why I don't think we should give these idiots power over any other parts of our lives.

Joined: Dec 2019
Posts: 483
C
newbie
Offline
newbie
C
Joined: Dec 2019
Posts: 483
Originally Posted by jgw
If the Dems are doing what you say they are doing then they are doing a really piss poor job! That is unfortunate as I believe that Bernie cannot win against Trump. I am sure I have said this before but the Republicans will destroy Bernie. Remember, they did that to another presidential candidate and he was a genuine war hero!

Bernie just has too much baggage and his plan to force large companies, or any company that trades stock to give 20% of their worth to "the workers" is simply insane. That is, as far as I can tell one of the greatest job killing efforts anybody could have thought of! There are also other problems but that one sticks out for me. What I find completely strange is that the media, in its infinite wisdom has yet to even mention that one. All that being said Bernie has also turned into a serious eater of other candidates with inunendo, sly, and sometimes a bit silly. He just may have the capacity to lose all on his own. He, not unlike Trump, is making sure of his base and I am not convinced they are enough to let him win.

As a Conservative worried about the long-term trajectory of both the Democratic Party and the Country (though not in that order)....


...please, nominate Bernie Sanders. Should he lose to Trump, the damage he will do to the far-left wing within the Democrat Party will discredit them. Should he win, the damage he will do (though he will fail to achieve his ends - thank you, Founders) to the country could have similar impacts as Wilson did, a century before. A new Coolidge administration sounds wonderful.

Page 4 of 5 1 2 3 4 5

Moderated by  Doug Thompson, Greger, NW Ponderer 

Link Copied to Clipboard
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.5