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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders just melted away a 30-point Hillary Clinton lead in a new poll [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)Should, by some miracle, Bernie win the primaries AND the G.E., we'll have a Carter presidency redux: a one-term president who can't get anything done and who, inadvertently, harmed the Democratic Party brand - something President Obama has worked hard to change, and has.
For Sanders, that's not such a big deal. Remember, he's always been proud to NOT be a Democrat.
He'll be able to crow that he went from doing nothing until he was 40 years old and ended with becoming the 45th president of the United States, take his $200k lifetime income and all the perks that come with it, and say to the world, "Well, I was never a Democrat to begin with - and you all knew that - so why the teeth gnashing now?" I want to make sure he'll never be able to do that.
Remember these words spoken by your candidate:
It would be hypocritical of me to run as a Democrat because of the things I have said about the party.
Yes, Senator Sanders, it would be.