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And He's Not Even a Real Democrat
There are many reasons Hillary lost to
Donald Trump. Foremost was that she is a lousy campaigner, a great
leader and policy wonk, but a lousy campaigner who ran a lousy
campaign. Helping her lose was Sen. Bernie Sanders (I. Vt) who
just whined and whined before and after the campaign for the
nomination and who did the very minimum to help elect Ms. Clinton.
Sanders is famous for claiming he was
treated unfairly, when in fact he was treated more than fairly. Not
even a Democrat, he was allowed to compete for the nomination.
Claiming mistreatment by the party he never acknowledged that Ms.
Clinton got more votes. Arguing that delegates were not allocated
fairly he neglected to mention that he got many delegates from
caucuses, the least democratic part of the nomination process and
that when some of those caucus states also held elections, he lost.
Now he is back crowing and braying
about universal health care, Medicare for all. He brags about the
co-sponsors, 16 Senators which of course means that 84 Senators did
not co-sponsor his legislation. He has a solution for which there is
not currently a problem, most folks in America are happily or sort of
happily covered by employer sponsored plans. He has no way to pay
for his plan and the transition would be a mess equal to the problems
of Irma and Harvey magnified. His plan leaves in place the fee for
service system that causes American health care costs to be the
highest in the developed world.
Bernie also promised a free lunch on
education, free college for all. That too was a political disaster,
not too massive a disaster only because no one took him seriously. Sen. Sanders
is just part of the 'government can give everyone free stuff,
unlimited free stuff' crowd' that voters hate. And his wife may well be indicted. His emergence on
health care may well be the only thing that could cause Dems to lose
in 2018 and 2020. If he runs for President again, count on it.
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