As the GOP slowly destroyed itself Tuesday during the debate, at least one candidate managed to rise above the chaos: with a single email, Bernie Sanders proved he still has political positions superior to anyone who stood on the stage — not that it’s a particularly high bar to aim for.
Another Endless War
The central theme of the Republican Debate on Tuesday was the same one that the conservative party has run on for the last 8 years: Fear. Fear the immigrants; build a wall. Fear the terrorists; expand national security. Fear everyone who isn’t exactly like you.
Of course, not everyone on stage agreed with how precisely they should go about running around like chickens with their heads cut off. This led to some interesting moments that showed the very visible breaks in the GOP: Rubio versus Paul, Bush versus Trump, Christie versus Putin (I thought the GOP liked Putin?)
That we need boots on the ground was the one consistent position, taken by nearly everyone.
I say nearly everyone because the American public profoundly disagrees, and once again joining the American public in popular opinion is Bernie Sanders, who decided to use the chaos of the Republican debate to get in a few solid digs and remind America that these people are lunatics. He even managed to drop a fundraiser link and pick up a few bucks for his small-donor campaign.
.@BernieSanders fundraising off #GOPDebate halfway through pic.twitter.com/eVY2D1cnC1
— Emily Schultheis (@emilyrs) December 16, 2015
The email sent out by Sanders’s campaign said:
Dear Bernie Supporter —
If you’re watching tonight’s Republican presidential debate, you’ve heard a lot of talk about “carpet bombing” cities, sending men and women into another endless war, and completely closing our borders to women and children who have lost everything but the shirts on their backs.
In short, it was a debate designed to scare you into voting for candidates who want you to forget what this election is about.
For the Republicans, fear is all this election is about. Nothing else matters because that’s the only way to justify half of what was said on Tuesday. And as for the other half? Well, liars will be liars.
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Another way to win the GOP debate, and create dead silence in the room while it unfolded, would have been to ask the candidates if they were willing to make the “boots on the ground” their own. Or, as applicable, their children’s
Hillary should have been there asking war on women questions
….could use these for examples
Juanita Broaddrick (AR)- rape
Eileen Wellstone (Oxford) - rape
Elizabeth Ward Gracen - rape - quid pro quo, post incident intimidation
Regina Hopper Blakely - “forced himself on her, biting, bruising her”
Kathleen Willey (WH) - sexual assault, intimidations, threats
Sandra Allen James (DC) - sexual assault
22 Year Old 1972 (Yale) - sexual assault
Kathy Bradshaw (AK) - sexual assault
Cristy Zercher - unwelcomed sexual advance, intimidations
Paula Jones (AR) - unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
Carolyn Moffet -unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
1974 student at University of Arkansas - unwelcomed physical contact
1978-1980 - seven complaints per Arkansas state troopers
Monica Lewinsky - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Gennifer Flowers - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Dolly Kyle Browning - post incident character assault
Sally Perdue - post incident threats
Betty Dalton - rebuffed his advances, married to one of his supporters
Denise Reeder - apologetic note scanned
I believe we should allow the RINOs and Libs to be I charge of everything. All of it, everything. The faster to the reset button the better it is. Yank off that band aid, don’t slow pull it. Raise the welfare rate, heck double it. Triple minimum wage for everyone across the board. Excuse all college debt, flood the country with undocumented Americans, allow them to vote, no IDs required for anything, morning after pill, abortions on demand (make it a drive through, expedite), all drugs lawful and free at the nearest pharmacy, prostitution legal, take all the “Syrian” widows and orphans and all the military age men accompanying them in ( I mean proactively recruit them from international sources) and dump them into sanctuary cities.
Let’s get this started!!! I am tired of the “death by a thousand cuts”
the welfare rate goes down when min wage is high enough so the working poor aren’t in poverty… your preconceptions have all been proven wrong you are too ignorant or unwilling to look at the facts and see it -
we have about half the hourly min wage as most of Europe. Is that because Americans aren’t worth as much, airborne?
When the min wage is raised to say $15/hr the people who own the business can not pay that amount and still make a profit. So instead of paying two people $7.50/hr they pay one $15/hr and make them do double the work. One person is out of work now.
Then you have those who like their welfare so much that when they received a $15/hr paycheck they then realized it made them ineligible to receive certain state benefits. They made to much money. So they are trying to have their cake and eat it to. Make just enough to make the max they can at $15/hr and still not enough to get kicked off of benefits.
Of course you could go the way of McDonalds and just get rid of the cashiers all together and make a computerized ordering system. I am sure all the folks that USED to work there love the new min wage.
knock it off. your statement is crap.
All of it, some of it, none of it, which part is crap? The giving everything to everyone? The no repercussions or individual responsibility for life choices? The laissez faire attitude concerning national security? Which part was crap?
I’ll go with … all of it. Mainly because your rant is based on all the made up story-lines by the likes of Drudge, brietbart, Rush, Fox (so-called) News, and redstate
Absolutely nothing you said in this comment made any sense in the context of either history or present day reality, and we are all just a little bit dumber for having read any of it.
Why doesn’t it make any sense? I think everyone should have everything “free” and no one to be responsible for paying for anything. Heck, no one should be responsible for anything, your attitude, your behavior, your failings, your short comings, your financial income, your piss poor life decisions, of course then that means everyone will have to be the same. Because no one can make it on their own, can they?
“FROM each according to their ability, TO each according to their needs.”-K.Marx
Take from those that can or will and give to those that can’t or won’t. Great system.
So instead of even bothering to do any tiny amount of Google or YouTube research which would easily prove just how utterly wrong you are in your assessment of what Bernie stands on, you instead decide to double down on your earlier ill informed statements.
That’s the spirit buddy and very uber American of you. Keep up the good work.
I give two craps what Bernie says, he is never going to get the nomination, it is in Hillary’s purse and has been ever since Obama was elected.
Heck even Bernie knows that.
Wow, Bernie just got kicked off the team. Guess that makes me utterly wrong on that too.
Your 3rd says that McD or Walmart to “keep their profit margin” needs to spend more money on labor? That makes no sense.
If you have $100 profit margin and you change the payment of your employer from $10 to $20, how does that keep your profit margin? You are assuming they are going to spend it at your business and you will make the money back? That’s a bold assumption.