2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)If you think Bernie can win the general election [View all]
Folks posting on this board proudly point to polls showing Bernie beating Trump in General Election by margins greater than Hillary, but they are forgetting one political truism.
The longer a person is politics, generally the higher their negatives. Clinton has been in the Republican cross hairs for years. She has already weathered the worst they could throw at her so she has little downside. Bernie Sanders, not so much
Unfortunately, if he becomes the nominee Sanders will receive a lot more attention from the press, and especially from the Republicans and their mudslinging followers. The attacks on Sanders will be brutal. Let me state clearly that I don't think any of this will be fair, put politics is a brutal game. I can see the Republicans, and especially their PACS put together by Koch brothers and others of that ilk, painting the self described socialist as far worst. He will be described as a communist who adopted his current political stances from reading the writings of Marks, Lenin and Trotsky. Such attacks will stick better than you think.
All you have to do is used google, to see what is coming Sander's way:
Bernie Sanders Lived Off Unemployment, Couldn't Get a Non-Government Job Bernie Sanders can only exist when being paid by taxpayers.
Excerpt: "We're told that "He read Marx, Lenin and Trotsky." Like them, he wasn't big on working. Marx lived off Engels. Sanders lived off Uncle Sam." and it gets worse.
Even a relatively complementary article in Politico: Bernie Sanders Has a Secret
contains the phrase: "He read Marx, Lenin and Trotsky"
No I am not implying that just because someone is well read that he is communist,far from it, but I won't be the one painting the picture. It could be very nasty:
From an article: THE REAL BERNIE SANDERS
"Far from being an "outsider", Sanders is a dyed-in-the-wool pro-Fed and pro-Israel Marxist from Ben & Jerry's commie-pinko-hippie Vermont. Sander's fake "populism" is that of the Jewish rabble-rouser on a soap box, a la Leon Trotsky (Russia), Emma Goldman (United States), Rosa Luxemburg (Germany) and Bela Kun (Hungary)."
You can dismiss this kind of horrific rhetoric as ridiculous if you choose. but do you think that the Kock brothers are above using it.
Again, I am not writing this to smear Bernie - I believe non of it - I am just pointing out the political sewage which will be directed at Sanders if he wins the nomination.