Southern Fried Sanctimony

[radical noodle]

So in last Thursday's debate in Brooklyn, Bernie Sanders dismissed Hillary Clinton's lead in both votes and delegates by saying, "Secretary Clinton cleaned our clock in the Deep South, no question about it. We got murdered there. That is the most conservative part of this great country. That's the fact. But you know what, we're out of the Deep South now. And we're moving up."

Sanders has previously waved off the region by saying the Southern primaries "distort reality" and claimed he didn't try compete there when he actually did.

Memo to the Bernie Sanders campaign: You know who actually achieved a revolution in this country? Black Southerners. You know, the people voting for Hillary by 6 to 1 margins in the southern primaries. As the political handicapper Nate Silver put it last week at FiveThirtyEight, Clinton is winning the states that most look like the Democratic Party. "In fact, these states are among the most demographically representative of the diverse Obama coalition that Clinton or Sanders will have to rely on in November," Silver wrote.

More at:
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/laura-chapin/articles/2016-04-18/why-hillary-clinton-trumps-bernie-sanders-in-the-south-and-everywhere?google_editors_picks=true

[SharonClark]

1. Thanks for sharing this excellent article

the author says Hillary is the better candidate. But we knew that!

[lucca18]

2. Good article!

I did not like the way Bernie Sanders dismissed the South. His rationalization leaves a lot to be desired.
What a great disappointment Sanders turned out to be.
I have lost all respect for him!

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. Thank you.

[Her Sister]

4. Bernie Sanders' dismissal of the South shows why Hillary Clinton's a better candidate.

Bernie Sanders' dismissal of the South shows why Hillary Clinton's a better candidate.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/laura-chapin/articles/2016-04-18/why-hillary-clinton-trumps-bernie-sanders-in-the-south-and-everywhere?google_editors_picks=true

Speaking as a born and raised Southerner (Texas and Tennessee) I can testify that there is a history in the region of counting some votes more than others. And it's no more appropriate, or less offensive, now than then. And the idea of doing so is also a godawful message to send to all the Democrats in the South, black and white – that they're not worth bothering with and should be written off. There are a lot of Democrats in Southern states that are working their hearts out against tough odds and, in some cases, succeeding.

Deep South Democrats just elected a governor in Louisiana, John bel Edwards. He has already announced he will expand Medicaid to help that state's poorest citizens and he's overturning the anti-LGBT executive orders of his predecessor, Bobby Jindal. This is why electing imperfect, even conservative, Democrats in the South matters

Powerful! This should be a teachable moment!

Wow! Thanks for sharing this!

[brer cat]

5. Propane Jane is a jewel!

Propane Jane ‎@docrocktex26

We don't have time for your purity bullshit down here, we need Democratic Party funding to beat back Jim Crow and wire hanger abortions.
2:36 PM - 17 Apr 2016

[radical noodle]

9. That was one of my favorite parts of the article

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. #FeelTheBurnSanders

[LiberalFighter]

6. Yet Sanders wants independents, Republicans and other non-Democrats to vote in Democratic primaries

At least the Democrats in the southern states were Democrats.

[Thinkingabout]

7. These same states was Democratic for many years, hopefully we will return to blue, we just

have to overlook a bad analogy by Sanders, another bad decision.

[mcar]

8. K&R

[Cha]

10. "But the Sanders' dismissal also reveals the most irritating aspect of his entire campaign and

indeed his entire career. It's not the issues, it's the sanctimony."


This Week
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@HillaryClinton responds to Sanders' claim that her wins have been mostly in the "deep South." #ThisWeek
4:32 AM - 17 Apr 2016
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Bernie Sanders, while falling to the left of the dial, is as flawed and at times politically compromised as any other candidate. His unwillingness to apologize to the Sandy Hook families after voting to give gun manufacturers a liability exemption is particularly unpleasant. He's also voted to support a trillion-dollar Pentagon boondoggle, the F-35 stealth fighter plane being built in Vermont by Lockheed Martin, making his railing against Hillary's Iraq votes (for which she has apologized) somewhat lacking in sincerity.

Hillary's not perfect. But unlike Sanders, she doesn't pretend to be. And that's what it takes to elect Democrats in the South, to the White House and elsewhere – not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/laura-chapin/articles/2016-04-18/why-hillary-clinton-trumps-bernie-sanders-in-the-south-and-everywhere?google_editors_picks=true

Brilliant, radical noodle! Thank you! I've loved Propane Jane's Tweets from the Obama Diary.. didn't know she was in Texas.

[radical noodle]

11. You're welcome!

[Cha]

12. So much great information!

Kind I like!