I told people 2 years ago that Hillary Clinton would be our next president. I still think that. Though I am not a religious person, I do believe in a creator, and I don’t believe that our creator would allow a Trump presidency.
But enough of the gospel according to Detroit Lewis.
I voted for Bernie Sanders. I like him. I like his ideas. But as I told his supporters, he is unelectable. There has been proof over the past year that the DNC was working against him. It is no surprise.
I learned a long time ago what the established parties do to the best candidates. I watched them destroy the rising star of the party, Howard Dean. I still think if Dean would have become the nominee, he would have been president. He was transformative, progressive, passionate, smart and powerful. I sat thru the ‘meet-ups’ with state organizer, Ben Hanten. We were proud of him, and the glimmer of hope he showed to supporters. But the right-wing media and the corporate influenced Democratic party wasn’t going to have it. They crushed him.
But they didn’t just screw him once, after his successful 50 state strategy, they threw him away again.
I was actually surprised that he spoke tonight at the DNC. He looked good, and it still hurts as a ‘Deaniac’ that we wasted such a great opportunity. But I learned the hard way about the national machine, and how the ‘great ones’ get away. That is why I am so passionate about local government, here we can make changes, even when credit card company money may get in the way, our voices have influence and our actions are noticed. Not so much on the national stage, or even in the houses of congress or our state house. Just look at what the state Democratic party did to Joe Lowe. Another wasted opportunity.
I still think Hillary will make a ‘good’ president and I am happy a woman will be in charge for once. But she is no Dean or Sanders, and that is unfortunate. But she is strong and smart, something very absent in the GW Bush years.
Keep speaking out on the streets of Sioux Falls, where you can make a difference. Sanders and Dean will be fine and Trump will go back to being the ass munch he has always been.
I am not that confident that Hillary is going to win, I hope you are right. In fact, if I was a betting man. I would put my money on Trump. Given all of the obnoxious things that Trump has said and done over the past few months, and the fact that he is still even and in some cases ahead of Hillary in the polls now, is very disturbing and telling. Even Nate Silver of 538.com has increased Trump’s chances of winning from 19 to 57 percent in just the last six weeks.
Radio jockey and MSNBC contributor, Michael Smerconish, said something today, which I have been pondering myself and to hear a established political commentator mention it makes it even more realistic and chilling for me, and that is that Smerconish spoke of a possible reverse “Bradley Effect” with the 2016 presidential race where some or many white voters who plan to vote for Trump are not willing to admit it to the pollsters, which would explain why in so many polls there has been a large undecided group. And the movement of more voters towards Trump with the most recent polls perhaps speaks to a growing public easing of some of these voters tolerances for the Trump candidacy. Add also the fact, that Trump’s unfavorables are 70%, while Hillary’s are 55%, then that means that 25 to 33% of his known support comes from voters who view him unfavorable because he polls around 40 to 45%, while Hillary gets nil from those who view her unfavorable because her polling numbers seem to hover around 45%. So, this latter fact appears to further prove the existence of a reverse “Bradley Effect” or an “embarrassment vote for Trump,” and I am afraid it is only going to continue to trend for Trump given Silver’s growing acknowledgement of Trumps chances of winning in the fall.
As to the shameful DNC debacle concerning their emails and their biases in favor of Clinton. They most definitely are examples of the party leadership acting as though they know best and Dean and Lowe are definitely good examples of the party establishment preventing what should have been….. and could have won. The elitist attitude of some within the party is definitely something which must continue to be challenged and eventually beaten if we are to be the party of the people or the party of the Greek derivative “Demos.”
Chris Matthew, today, after President Carter’s video speech to the convention, mentioned how Carter like Kennedy and Obama were all examples of Democratic presidential candidates winning their party’s nomination without the initial acquiescence of the party establishment. But then I got to thinking that not only did those three win, but that McGovern’s nomination in ’72 was actually the only non-establishment Democratic nomination which lost later in the fall in modern times. That the track record of non establishment nominees was 3 to 1 in winning in the fall, while the track record of establishment nominees since JFK was merely 3 to 6 (LBJ’s win and Bill Clinton’s two wins versus HHH, Carter ’80, Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry losses).
So perhaps it is time the Democratic establishment got on board with the Democratic voters and worked to help identify and nominate the real Democrat for president and not their own self ordained choices. And, although, in the past, the Clintons may have been two of the three establishment nominations to win, that that alone does not guarantee anything close to a victory now for Hillary Clinton. Especially, when you consider the current trending mood of the country is change as demonstrated by the non establishment successes of Sanders and Trump in the past few months and not with the status quo of a Hillary Clinton. Whose nomination was greatly dependent upon the reliance on “Palace Guard” establishment style super delegates to garner her party’s nomination.
I’m coming around for Hilary. It’s time for a woman president. She’s got Bill for special advice. She forgave him for not having sex with Lewinski. Not many would but she kept her family together. She’s made lots of mistakes but it’s given her experience. Sanders I like but he’s to old. The presidency ages someone. He’d never finish one term.
Trumps scares me. I don’t want his trigger finger on the nukes. He uses childish name calling. He’s not well accepted internationally because of his bullying and bigotry. His comment about John McCain being a prisoner of war is unforgivable.
(I still think Hillary will make a ‘good’ president and I am happy a woman will be in charge for once.) Even if she’s a serial killer? Oh the delusion! Shillary will have us drinking out of the toilet bowl in no time! Of course Trump’s policies will make us stay at his Grand Plaza hotels 4 times a year and give us a dollar for ever $100 we spend………… The left and the right don’t care about the meat in between! If there was anytime for a second coming “NOW WOULD BE THE TIME”!