2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A candidate that gets "damaged" by a primary run has no business anywhere near the GE. [View all]BainsBane
(55,147 posts)You've worked hard to insulate yourself from any information on this subject. She talked about his voting record on guns, and for that Bernie was outraged. He actually believed his own voting record was off limit for discussion. Truly astounding.
She didn't talk about his campaign finance violations, his public statements about Daniel Ortega or Fidel Castro, how he lived prior to being Mayor of Burlington, and reams of other things dug up about him. http://www.newsweek.com/myths-cost-democrats-presidential-election-521044 http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/5/19/this-ends-now-the-bernie-sanders-opposition-research-the-media-refuses-to-release#mobileNav
Your quip about "Third Way" op/ed pieces refutes the entire point of the OP. It doesn't matter if the opp research comes from the Third Way, the GOP, or Democratic party investigators. It's dirt and it can be used to take down a candidate, and that is precisely what it would have done if Bernie ever made it to the general election. The GOP compiled an enormous file, discussed in the link above. And contentless posts about the information coming from the "Third Way" would have have done absolutely nothing to protect him in a general election. Your own reaction proves how utterly unprepared Sanders was to face the GOP.
That you continue to talk about "Third Way" while we face a fascist government about to enter the White House shows how absolutely unaware you are of what is happening in this country and how little concern you have for citizenry who are being attacked, killed, and terrorized everyday by White Supremacists.
And as usual, the charges of "third way" contain no discussion of policy or what it actually means. It's an empty buzzword that bears absolutely no relation to the 2016 election and even less to the current political situation.
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So you keep waging war on the ghosts of the 1990s Third Way. The rest of us are organizing to oppose fascism.
Your empty posts illustrates how committed you are to doing absolutely nothing about that. We are facing the rise of the equivalent of Hitler in this country, and you are focused on irrelevancies. So much for revolutionaries.