2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThis is the absolute best thing that could have happened to Bernie
(Editors note: I am not offering primary support to any of the current candidates, I will vote for the nominee but none of them get me excited)
In Reality Bernie and MOm should have been doing stuff like this from the jump off. It's been clear since the debate schedule (hell, it has honestly been clear since DWS was put in charge of the DNC) that the DNC was no longer an arm of the party, but an arm of the Clinton machine. It is off putting and disgusting and has been all season.
Now as far as Bernie goes, policies and issues are great and awesome, but after 8 months stump speeches (sadly) get stale. He couldn't/wouldn't attack Clinton, which doesn't get him media airplay, because issues don't drive ratings. We can pretend that isn't reality, but we'd not be practicing honesty with ourselves.
Now Bernie has a boogyman to fight, and one that entrenches him as the anti-establishment choice in an election cycle that has been infatuated with anti-establishment upstarts. Bernie has been trying to be a wonk, and for the vast majority of the voting uninterested, that is boring.
Now people have reason to watch a Saturday debate. They want fireworks. Now the chance lies that they will get them. This lets Bernie start to taking up oxygen again, which is good, because his campaign has gotten stagnant. This is his best last chance to take a crisis and turn it into opportunity.
Are you not entertained?
grasswire
(50,130 posts)It has provided Bernie with a huuuuuge opportunity. A gift.
I'm laughing my ass off at DWS and Hillary's 1992-style campaign
daleanime
(17,796 posts)scared. Shit like this could easy destroy the democratic party.
Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)BlueCheese
(2,522 posts)When a party holds the White House, the president usually chooses the chair, as I understand it.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)If "The Party" is the DNC and the professional politicians things are hunky-dory,
If "The Party" is actually dependent on a unified voting base, things aren't so good. DWS has set the sharp end of a huge wedge that will rip the base apart.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)so what are your suggestions?
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Is a real boon for such an unprincipled campaign
achsadu
(41 posts)Bernie is gathering strength, not the other way around. Hillary is the weakest candidate the dems have in more than a generation; she's perceived as corrupt, dishonest and beholden to big money in and out of Wall St. If Bernie is forced to drop out, we lose. There's no way, indies are willing to go for Hill.
achsadu
OilemFirchen
(7,146 posts)Break into her psychiatrist's office?