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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/why-bernie-sanders-will-become-the-democratic-nominee_b_7685364.html
I seldom read Huffpo. And not just because President Obama named it the only “real” news source in 2009. I admit that I don’t read other gov't propaganda rags like Pravda, The People’s Daily, or the Pyongyang Plain Dealer. My issues with Huffpo go deeper than it's lack of important features like Powerball results, or sales circulars for Nerdstrom. I simply find Huffpo to be more disconnected from reality than even the most die-hard communist manifesto, or comic book.
Today Huffpo is predicting that Bernie “overlimit mastercard” Sanders will not only trounce Hillary in the primaries, but that he will also demolish any republican “to be named later”. This is territory – prediction of Sanders' premiership – that even Moscow and Beijing can't conceive of.
Well, to be fair, there ARE a lot of republicans (named already) in the race, and we don’t know which ones will be named later. Chris Christie jumped in on Friday, making no splash despite his enormous girth. And its rumored that that the Dylann Storm Roof’s dad (Elvis Storm Door) is going to announce this week.
But still, I’m not buying into the notion that Sanders will be taking the oath of office on January 2, 2017, receive the nobel peace prize 15 minutes later, then announce that same evening that all the US banks are closed and we are limited to $20 a day in ATM withdrawals. Partly my skepticism has to do with Huffpo’s reasoning on Sander’s path to the white house.
Huffpo’s exhibit A is the unexpected Obama presidency itself. But the last time I checked, Sanders wasn’t pulling a Rachel Dolezal, and claiming he had african roots. The only reason we have Obama in the white house is that 99.9% of blacks voted their race. Obama failed to get even 50% of the caucasian vote. Sorry Huffpo, that “[Unwelcome language removed] in the woodpile” theory isn’t going anywhere.
Next, Huffpo serves up Sander’s positions on issues like the Iraq war, gay marriage, and destroying our nation’s free market economy as reasons voters will flock to him. I am so NOT making this up. Read the effing link, LOL.
I have no doubt that Huffpo would be overjoyed if the election could be decided on past events, rather than todays’ issues. But I can’t imagine Sanders in a presidential debate with Walker, Rubio, or even JEB (heaven help us) and coming off like anything other than a bombastic, ignorant baboon. I admit, Sanders will sweep the vote among those who signed last week’s California petition to ban the American flag (“a symbol of oppression”). But unless the rest of the nation is high on medical marijuana on election day, Sanders name on the ballot on election is practically a guarantee of a republican presidency.
The only republican I’m positive Sanders can beat is Donald Trump. When you stack the Donald’s multiple mega-bankruptcies up against Sander’s being eye popping MasterCard debt, one might be forced to conclude that they’re both incompetent and evil. But that Trump has a greater immediate probability of launching a pre-emptive nuclear attack on Univision's headquarters.
So sorry, Huffpo. Obama may read your stuff daily. And he may actually believe that Iran isn’t [Unwelcome language removed] us on the nuke treaty. Or that $180,000 in national debt for every american family sets the bar too low. Or that we don't have enough illegal aliens hanging outside Home Depot for day work. But that doesn't the rest of then nation agrees.
The vast majority of people who graduated from high school, and don’t spend their days and nights smoking weed and playing videogames . . . these folks are NOT going to pull the lever for Sanders. He’s not even going to be the democratic party nominee.
I realize that I’m going on out on a limb here, but I believe it will be Cuomo. Hillary makes Cuomo look trustworthy, and Sanders makes Cuomo look like a Nobel Laureate in economics.
I’m just saying . . .
