The Rise Of Bernie Sanders And The Panic Of Democratic Centrists

[UglyGreed]

"I think it is a recipe for disaster."


"You would be back to 1972 [if Bernie were nominated]," warned Bill Daley, President Barack Obama's former chief of staff and a Third Way board member, referencing the blowout Richard Nixon win that year. "It was not a happy time for Democrats. The guy has been a socialist his whole life and now decides he is a Democrat and therefore the Democratic Party has got to move to that extreme? I think it is a recipe for disaster."



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/third-way-presidential-campaign_563237f2e4b0c66bae5b4066

[bravenak]

1. I'm sorry but I see far more panic from Bernie's side.

The agitation is palpable.

[wyldwolf]

2. This 'everyone fears Bernie' brouhaha gets funnier by the day

[bravenak]

4. It does. Everybody is just sooooo scared. Yeah right.

[UglyGreed]

7. It from the think tank Third Way

not BernieBros or whatever catch phrase is used to label Mr Sanders' supporters.....

On Wednesday morning, the think tank Third Way held a briefing in which it warned candidates that they risked personal and broadly shared electoral harm if they echoed Sanders' populist message.

[wyldwolf]

10. Sam Stein is stating centrists are 'panicking.' He authored the OP's article

[UglyGreed]

11. One again here is the quote

You would be back to 1972 [if Bernie were nominated]," warned Bill Daley, President Barack Obama's former chief of staff and a Third Way board member, referencing the blowout Richard Nixon win that year. "It was not a happy time for Democrats. The guy has been a socialist his whole life and now decides he is a Democrat and therefore the Democratic Party has got to move to that extreme? I think it is a recipe for disaster."

[wyldwolf]

13. It's Sam Stein who characterizes that as 'panic.'

[UglyGreed]

15. 1972, Nixon

and blowout, Socialist on top of that...OK Stein read into too deeply.......

[UglyGreed]

3. I just posted the article

seems like some scary stuff, even for Halloween.

[bvf]

5. Uh huh.

[bravenak]

8. All over the place. Even here.

[bvf]

9. That's interesting.

[phantom power]

6. Good.

[AgingAmerican]

12. Hence all the strawman nonsense

[kenfrequed]

14. Oh really Daley?

Because one of the reasons Nixon won that year was because of a bunch of traitorous democrats decided they would throw weight and money to Nixon because they were really pissy about McGovern taking the nomination.