If that is indeed the case, I would like him to run there and turn KY purple (heck, his partner would be Rand, that’d be some interesting combination… 
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It’s no secret I’m no fan of the Vermont Senator, but it’s no secret either I would take the guy over the sleazy creepy corrupt revolting turtle (or his copies if he retires as he suggested a few years ago) any day of the week. Any. Day.
I was being facetious, simply making a point about Sanders’ ability to communicate in states where Democrats repeatedly fail to make any inroads.
Sanders? No, he would lose handily, and for the stupidest, most hateful reason- he’s Jewish. Former Louisville Mayor for life and Lt. Governor Jerry Abramson never ran for the governorship for that very reason, he’d get annihilated out in the counties. Look, we’re a state that wouldn’t sign on to casino gaming, while every surrounding state did, because folks were so worried about teh devils. We’re a state that still has dry counties. I’d almost like to see a Bernard Sanders run here, so that people in other parts of the country might finally understand just what the fuck we’re up against.
As a reporter down there on the scene, I’m sure you know more about the voters than I do, and anti-Semitism figures in election results in ways I’m sure many of us are near oblivious to.
All the same, I’m amazed at how far Sanders was able to get as a Jew on the national stage – perhaps because he’s so antithetical to the pejorative Jewish banker, money shark, urban landlord stereotypes?
Or maybe times are just beginning to change?
Yep, no irony here, the most popular Senator reduced to jousting with RW morons in the press while the least popular Senator wields enormous power single handedly dismantling the traditions of the Senate and undermining the will of American citizens every day. BRAVO!
The fact that his primary opponent has been the subject of a sustained smear campaign from the Media and Republicans going back to a time when most voters under forty were still in elementary school probably played at least a small role.
True that. But the size of the crowds he drew nationwide can’t be explained by anti-Clinton sentiment alone. No way can they be though, beyond that, it’s pointless to engage in a post-mortem of the primary. It’s over.
What I will say, though, is that having only two candidates in the serious running for candidacy is something I never want to see again. There needs to be a level playing field for Democratic candidates – not the lunacy of a zillion possibilities like the Republicans – but a primary where, at the very least, more than two people (one of whom wasn’t even considered a serious candidate by the party) are presented to the people for their choice.
He was running in a Democratic primary. I think it’s as simple as that. Democratic primaries bring out the most progressive among us and those happen to be the people least inclined to give a damn about someone’s religion. I have no doubt that for a number of reasons he’d have been crushed in a general election, especially in a red state, where suddenly his religion would become a much, much bigger deal than it ever would be in a Democratic primary. I mean, just look at the obsession with Obama’s faith. He went to a black church for 20 years, apparently, all in an attempt to hide his true Muslim faith.
The crazy bit was how they attacked him for the black church he went to while at the same time attacking him for being a Muslim.
Ya know, I hate to say it because it genuinely hurts to acknowledge it, but this election would have been a whole lot different if Beau Biden hadn’t died. Joe would’ve thrown his hat in the ring, I believe, and he would’ve been extremely competitive. I think he probably would’ve drowned Sanders out and it would’ve been a totally different primary and therefore a totally different general election. I think his death was a tipping point that changed the course of history.
Oh, and let me add a quick: FUCK YOU, CANCER.
Fair points. Not sure I agree 100% but you’re certainly not whistling dixie.
And I personally have no interest in arguing about what Sanders might have won or what he could win. I made an offhand comment to drive home the point that he can communicate, it seems, with voters the Democratic party has lost. I hope he continues to try and do that.
We know what that was really all about, but it remains mind boggling that such an obviously idiotic attack ever made it off the ground. It was like complaining that someone is tall in order to hide the fact they’re really short. Just crazy.
I guess my point is that I haven’t seen any evidence of that. I’ve seen evidence he connects with young people really well and the far left, but other than people saying he can attract voters Democrats have lost, I just don’t know what proof exists that it’s actually true.
Not with hopeless bigots and racists, no. Nobody can help with them.
But bread and butter issues Independents and disgruntled Democrats in the rust belt (and other places!) who don’t fall into category A above, I think he might could. We’ll find out.
I worked against him a couple of cycles ago. There are a lot of people in Kentucky who want him out, but he has virtually unlimited PAC money. We better come loaded for bear. I mean we need a really, really well financed opposition.
I think it had a bit to do with the college age young men who didn’t have a Ron Paul to root for and Rand wasn’t the rock star Bernie was so they went for the rock star promising free college.
No, there were a lot of working and middle class people in the mix. I live in New York City, which was Clinton land, but I hail from the more rural upstate area and that’s where my family still is and a lot of friends. They were all for Sanders, every Democrat I know up there (and some Obama Republicans too), and none of them were college age – or Bernie Bros.
In truth, I think at least a portion of the Bernie Bros narrative is a myth. Maybe more than we realize, considering the online anti-Sanders operation on Facebook during the primaries.
But who knows? It’s all water over the dam now anyway.
Yeah, you got me. Twice, because I took 15 seconds to read and reply to your comment.
So why on earth do Kentuckians keep voting for the racist and lying scum bag that is Mitch McConnell.
McConnell will leave a legacy as the most corrupted and worst Senate majority leader in our nation’s history. Mitch has done more to single handedly harm the middle class and working poor while making the robber barons even richer and more powerful.
I’m very lucky. My senators are Feinstein and Harris.