Socialist!

In the American sense of the word, there is nothing “independent” about Vermont senator Bernie Sanders – an outspoken advocate of bigger government, higher taxes, and further income redistribution à la Obama. As an avowed Socialist, his collectivist views are anti-capitalist and antithetical to the American economic system. With 93 million able-bodied Americans looking for full-time employment – and uncounted by labor statistics – a politician with Mr. Sanders’s views is too radical to be elected, even by loopy Democrat standards. So why is such a wild card in the race for the 2016 Democratic nomination for president?

Make no mistake: he of the little "I" by his surname is nothing more than a shill for the Democratic Party. Indeed, he who regularly caucuses and votes with Democrats is a de facto Democrat. In truth, Mr. Sanders is running precisely because he is unelectable. His role in this kabuki theater is to happily serve the collective: to be a smiling, friendly place holder to populate the stage during debates and in the press. To this end, he has not and will not say anything truly controversial about Hillary Clinton, as any legitimate contender would. For example, the best Mr. Sanders can muster is milquetoast platitudes: “Hillary Clinton is a candidate, I am a candidate… The people in this country will make their choice.” The closest thing to a criticism thus far was calling Mrs. Clinton a “fence-sitter” on the trans-Pacific trade proposal. Mr. Sanders should know that fence-sitting – and going with the changing political winds – is the very epitome of Clintonian politics.

Mr. Sanders’s presence creates the illusion of a contest for the Democratic nomination – rather than a coronation – and makes Hillary Clinton appear more politically mainstream, and therefore more palatable to the general electorate. The payoff to Mr. Sanders is increased personal visibility in the political conversation and a wide platform to promote his anti-capitalist agenda.

On the other hand, with only three years of Senate experience under her belt, Mrs. Warren is savvy enough to know that the voters are unlikely to elect another third-year neophyte progressive senator to the White House. That's why she who claims to be "one thirty-second American Indian" will bide her time and cool her moccasin-adorned heels in the legislature.

Progressives like Warren and Socialists like Sanders are birds of a feather: both believe in the economic fantasy of "free” stuff – which is never really free, and is always paid for by someone else. Hence their policy of “free” tuition for students at public colleges and universities. With typical Democrat indifference, they operate in a fiscal twilight zone (where debt and deficit spending don’t matter) and resources just drop magically from the heavens to serve their dystopian designs. In essence, they demonize Paul (Wall Street) to justify stealing from him (class warfare) in order to pander for Paul’s vote. Everything for Democrats revolves around garnering numbers for re-election, for maintaining their own political power base. In this case, that is exactly Mr. Sanders’s underlying purpose: to get Hillary Clinton into the Oval Office.

What a Field the Democrats Have!

RUSH: What a field of potential presidential candidates the Democrats have. We've got Bernie Sanders, a socialist who fantasizes about women fantasizing about being gang raped. Well, that's what he did. I mean, he's fantasizing. He says that men fantasize about whatever while they're -- oh, it's a family show here. Can't even talk about what the Democrats do on a day-to-day basis on a family program, but that's what he says. He fantasizes about women fantasizing about being gang raped.

Can you imagine if a Republican said that, which I want to get into in a minute on this, because an interesting treatment of this by Charles Cooke at National Review who said (imitating Cooke), "Come on, he said it 30 years ago. He's an old codger now. Let's show the Democrats some class and let's not beat him up over this. Come on, everybody knows who old Bernie is. He's just a harmless old guy. And maybe in the process we can maybe get the Democrats to treat us nice." Honest to goodness, this is what he says. I kid you not. And Cooke's a smart guy, but it's just amazing to me.

So, anyway, here we have Bernie Sanders, a potential Democrat presidential candidate socialist, fantasizing about women fantasizing about being gang raped. We have Elizabeth Warren, a fake Indian socialist who got rich flipping foreclosed houses and then told everybody else not to do it. We have Hillary Clinton, a socialist who got rich off of a family charity and who knows whatever else. She has a husband who's been accused of rape.

Did you hear the latest of the Clinton Crime Family Foundation? Do you remember the model Petra Nemcova? Does the name ring a bell? She was in a tsunami somewhere, and she saved herself by grabbing onto a coconut palm frond, and she hung on for dear life while the tsunami wiped out everything. She felt so grateful that she did a fundraiser for something to do with tsunamis. Maybe more than that. It's just off the top of my head. But the point of it was that she scheduled this gigantic fundraiser tribute at one of the Cipriani restaurants in Manhattan, Cipriani 42.

She had all of these A-list celebrities and stars and so forth, and the coup de grace was Bill Clinton, who showed up, he was the featured speaker and won a lifetime award for compassion for people trapped in tsunamis or some such thing. 'Cause you remember he flew over there with Bush -- I guess it was 41 and 43. He flew over there. I remember he got great press because he gave Bush 41 the bed. He didn't need the bed 'cause there were other people around on the plane so all he needed was a seat.

He took 500 grand in payment from the tsunami charity from this model, Petra Nemcova, for getting a lifetime achievement award, $500,000 for a 20 minute speech. How many homes wherever the tsunami was could that 500 grand have rebuilt? Clinton takes the money and puts it in his charity or his foundation or his back pocket or what have you, and these people get away, to this day, with the label of compassionate and loving and understanding.

Well, that's the Democrat field. Oh, they got Joe Biden, who fantasizes about everything. And then, of course, the dark horse continues to be O'Malley, and there's a local newspaper column out of the Baltimore Sun really singing his praises today and cutting Hillary down to size in the process, just a local column. But I'm telling you, you're gonna have to keep your eye on O'Malley because at some point he is going to end up being more preferable to a lot of Democrats in the Hillary camp right now.

And there's something else I have been pointing out. I illustrated it yesterday with the assistance and aid of many, many sound bites. That there really is some unease with Hillary out there, particularly in the Drive-By Media. And many people have thought that I'm wrong about this. I'm still, 26 years and people think I'm wrong. What more can I do to prove that I'm not wrong?

Anyway, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, was the latest. Well, along comes Susan Page writing at USA Today telling all the other Drive-Bys and Drive-Byettes, don't sweat it, Hillary's not in any trouble. She's just fine. You don't need to worry about a thing.

Well, I'm telling you, when O'Malley shows up, he is just the exact opposite from Hillary in practically every way in terms of presentability, looks, attractiveness, and he's got the same ideological resume. He's as leftist as Obama is and as the Clintons are, so there's no loss if they go to O'Malley in that regard. I'm just telling you, keep a sharp eye out. I'm not predicting it yet, I just wouldn't be surprised.

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Friday, May 29, 2015

Sanders's charade

What a Field the Democrats Have!

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