Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) came in distant second to Joe Biden’s in Saturday’s South Carolina primary.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1294123
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1294123
Although we don’t know who they voted for, it would be interesting to know how many Republicans voted in the Democratic primary.
(Since they couldn’t vote in any down-ticket GOP primaries if they voted in the Democratic Presidential primary, I suspect few Republicans actually made the switch.)
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We all know who they voted for.
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Without apologies to any bernie bros here I’ll hope that this is the beginning of the end for him.
It’s time for vanity and empty words to float away in the end, we need to get down to the serious business of taking out trump. Not that Joe is the best answer but his chances are better than the ego.
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Quoted from the author of this article.
“Going into South Carolina, Sanders was showing strength, having won New Hampshire and Nevada decisively”
Sanders did not “win New Hampshire decisively”.
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Hopefully Democrats have woken up and decided to select a Democrat to represent Democrats in the presidential run.
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Funny, this is exactly what people from the Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and Bernie camps were all saying after their respective wins/overperforming in the other contest.
Don’t get arrogant. Actually learn something from the past few weeks
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What is it you wish me to learn grasshopper?
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To never, ever make assumptions. There are still no guarantees. Get complacent at your own risk and don’t come crying to me if Biden’s Super Tuesday performance isn’t up to snuff
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You know it’s different people voting in each state primary, right? It’s not a big mass of people changing their minds in unison.
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Yah. I’m seventy five, retired military officer, degrees from Cal…funny I never figured any of this out 
Thanks for your guidance pee wee.
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Another thing I’ve learned: the old tend to be the most resistant to admitting their fuckups.
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What I’ve learned, having been there, is that wisdom is wasted on the young.
Amazing isn’t it? I hope that you never stop learning.
There is so much in front of you unless you are run over by a Prius while fondling your cell phone.
These things happen junior.
Buh bye now…
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And you’ve decided to stop learning because you’re encased in bubble wrap made of generational privilege. I’ve gained plenty of wisdom. None of it from old, arrogant men like you.
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You probably stopped learning when you sucked your thumbnail off. Bless your heart.
You’re boring.
And now Ignored.
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Why is Tulsi Gabbard still running?
Is she trying to garner all the cult-raised vote to herself on a shoestring budget?
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What I’ve learned from the last few weeks is that there are folks who are desperate.
Desperate to rid ourselves of Donald Trump.
Desperate to obtain medical coverage for everyone.
Desperate to eliminate the outrageous debt of their college educations.
Desperate to raise the minimum wage.
I understand that desperation.
I’d like Medicare for All, but only if we can elect enough people into the House, the Senate, and the White House to ensure that we will be able to pass all the financial/tax legislation to do it. I don’t want pie-in-the-sky numbers. I want real economists to write down exactly how it can be accomplished without placing an outrageous burden on my back, on the backs of our children, and on the backs of future generations. Something more than what the folks at PERI have done. I want something that is thoroughly peer-reviewed and generally accepted by a host of top-flight economists.
The same holds true for promises of college loan debt erasure. And since I recently put my own children through college and left them with very minimal debt, if others are compensated in order to reduce their debt, I want to be compensated for my expenditures towards my children’s college education as well, because I’m certainly not retiring early. Otherwise all the talk about reducing the cost of education and taking the cost of education off the back of the middle class is hot air.
The cold hard fact is that all of these promises pale in comparison to my number one need, and nothing, and I mean NOTHING, will sway my vote more than the absolute demand to remove Trump from power before he can replace another justice on the Supreme Court. Because if that son of a bitch is reelected, America is dead. Period. End of debate.
It would be an added bonus to see the total disintegration of what is currently referred to as the Republican party. May something better rise from the ashes.
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There it is.
All that matters, thank you!
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Then don’t get fucking arrogant. Don’t let yourself get into the trap of believing your candidate is a shoe-in. Seeing Biden’s camp engage in that same complacent arrogance shows he and his ilk have learned fucking NOTHING over these past few weeks. As I said before, don’t come crying to anyone if you’re forced to relearn that lesson painfully. Which is a pattern I’ve noticed with the middle-aged
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Then don’t get fucking arrogant.
Stop projecting and look in the mirror.
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