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Democrats Engage in Angry Shouting Match in Charleston, South Carolina

Posted on | February 26, 2020 | Comments Off on Democrats Engage in Angry Shouting Match in Charleston, South Carolina

 

The worst debate in the history of American politics:

The CBS News moderators came under fire on social media Tuesday as the Democratic presidential debate in South Carolina grew heated, with crosstalk often drowning them out.
Meghan McCain compared the debate’s atmosphere to the contentious discussions she faces on “The View,” saying, “these moderators need to get this under control.” . . .
Former Vice President Joe Biden in particular spoke over moderators attempting to cut him off on several occasions, insisting, “I am not out of time. You spoke over time, and I’m going to talk” and later asking, “Can we just speak up when we want to? Is that the idea?”
Later, as Biden attempted to break in again, moderator Gayle King quipped, “I promise, Mr. Vice President, we are going to get to you,” with Biden responding, “You keep promising me that, but you never get to me.”

Some commentators declared that Joe Biden had his strongest debate performance to date, but what I noticed was he kept shouting at the top of his lungs, as if being loud was whole point — aerobic shouting. Meanwhile, almost everyone directed their fire at Bernie Sanders, except Elizabeth Warren, who spent much of the night attacking Mike Bloomberg, who isn’t even on the ballot in South Carolina. Jim Geraghty might have explained that strategy best:

 

In general, the debate was a colossal waste of time, and time is the valuable commodity that Democrats can’t afford to waste now:

Time is running out for the Democratic Party and, by this time next week, it will probably be too late for them to turn back. More than a third of the delegates to their national convention will be chosen next Tuesday, when 14 states including California and Texas hold their primaries. One the one hand, this means that the party’s agonizing struggle over its 2020 presidential nomination may soon be effectively over. On the other hand, if Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders claims a decisive victory next Tuesday — which now seems likely — the “Anybody But Bernie” faction of the party will be pushed to increasingly desperate measures in their efforts to deny him the nomination. . . .

Read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.




 

Category: Bernie Sanders, Debates, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, South Carolina

In The Mailbox: 02.25.2020

Posted on | February 25, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: COVID-19 On An Air Canada Flight
EBL: Hunters – A Review
Twitchy:  SecEd Betsy DeVos Pwns AOC For Being A Flaming Hypocrite Over Public Charter Schools
Louder With Crowder: Lesbian YouTuber Announces She’s Leaving The Crazy Left In Awesome Rant

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #136 – The Hospitality Episode
American Conservative: Cuomo & The Urbanites Are Squeezing Rural NY To Death
American Greatness: Pete Buttigieg Encourages 9-Year-Old Boy To Come Out As Gay
American Thinker: The Rebranding Of Socialism As “Democratic Socialism”
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Plastics News
Babalu Blog: Miami To Sponsor Anti-Communism Concert
BattleSwarm: The Twitter Primary For February 2020
Cafe Hayek: On Comparative Advantage
Camp Of The Saints: Francis I, Long Marcher
CDR Salamander: Smart Power Doing Smart Things In Africa
Da Tech Guy: I Oppose Trump’s Commutation Of Blagojevich’s Sentence, also, Let’s Dump Recycling
Don Surber: Guns, Not Socialism, Are Why Mini-Mike Is Mad At Bernie
First Street Journal: Your Fault – Climate Change Could Be Catastrophic National Security Threat
The Geller Report: NC Muslima Attacks Air Marshal, Threatens To Stab Everyone On Plane, also, Iran’s Deputy Health Minister Tests Positive For Coronavirus After Regime Tells Everyone Not To Panic
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, CPAC Ahead
Hollywood In Toto: Seven Awkward Questions The Press Should Ask Mark Ruffalo, also, Weinstein’s Fall Remains A Stain On Entertainment Journalism
JustOneMinute: Late Night Corona Watch, also, Get Bernie
Legal Insurrection: 9th Circuit Upholds Trump Admin Rule Stripping Funding For Abortions, also, Biden In SC – “I’m A Democratic Candidate For The U.S. Senate”
Megan McArdle: #NeverTrumpers Are Giving Advice To #PleaseNotBernie Democrats. It Won’t Help.
The PanAm Post: No, Fidel Castro Didn’t Improve Education Or Health Care In Cuba
Power Line: How Dumb Are America’s College Students? also, Joe Biden Remembers
Shark Tank: Congressional Candidate Jessi Melton Wages “War On Porn”
Shot In The Dark: Let The Record Show
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Bernie Tax!
The Political Hat: Reproductive Freedom vs. Reproductive Justice
This Ain’t Hell: Michael Lee Langford – Not A Green Beret, also, How To Get Rid Of Trump
Victory Girls: Miami Plans Anti-Communism Concert In Response To Bernie’s Support Of Castro
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Judges Association Tells Members Meeting Wasn’t Called To Discuss Trump Intervention In Stone Sentencing
Weasel Zippers: Alveda King Praises President Trump In Black History Month Message, also, Biden’s Gaffe-Tastic Day In SC
Mark Steyn: The Warmographic Novelist Who Got #CO-Tooed, also, Beware Of The Meme

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AOC: Girl-Crush of the Bernie Bros

Posted on | February 25, 2020 | Comments Off on AOC: Girl-Crush of the Bernie Bros

 

New York Post columnist Miranda Devine argues that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “was [Bernie] Sanders’ secret weapon in Nevada, wooing the crucial Latino voters who propelled him to victory, and injecting much-needed ethnic, gender and age diversity into his campaign. Without her, he’s just another grouchy old lefty howling into the wind.”

Having a young Latina surrogate — too young to remember all the brutal Marxist-Leninist regimes for which the old lefty is so nostalgic — is helpful to the Sanders campaign. It certainly helps in states like Nevada and California where Latinos are now a majority of K-12 students. The fact that young people are the most enthusiastic supporters of the septuagenarian socialist is simply the triumph of hope over experience.

Selling obsolete economic fantasies to young people is the kind of scam with which no reputable person would wish to be associated, and Jonathan Chait is sounding the alarm about Bernie:

At the heart of Sanders’s campaign is a hard-core socialist vanguard which is indifferent to the Democratic Party except as a potential vessel for the Bernie revolution. Their calculation is perfectly rational. Even if Sanders is likely to lose, the small chance of success is worth the risk to a party they don’t care for to begin with. What is odd is watching rationalizations take hold among a much larger group of progressives who very much do care about denying Trump a second term, and who have explained away the risks of a Sanders nomination with a series of fallacies.
The first of those is a confusion over what it means to predict an outcome. “The truth is we are all clueless about what voters want or will accept,” argues conventional-wisdom-monger Jim VandeHei, in a signal of how deeply the anti-probabilistic fallacy has spread. It is true that there is uncertainty attached to every outcome. The talking heads who guarantee Sanders will lose are wrong — any nominee might win, and in a polarized electorate, both parties have a floor of support that gives even the most toxic candidate a fighting chance. In 2016, Trump was the most unpopular candidate in the history of polling, but he squeaked into office because everything broke just right for him. It could happen for Bernie, too.

Exactly. Intelligent liberals like Chait see the most likely scenario — Bernie leading Democrats into the wilderness, like Jeremy Corbyn did to Labour in the U.K. — while others are trying to argue that maybe Bernie can beat the odds the way Trump did in 2016. But the two big problems with that argument are that (a) a major reason Trump won was because Hillary represented the hated “establishment insiders,” and (b) Trump is an incumbent, running on a record of remarkable success. This doesn’t mean that Trump is a shoo-in for re-election in November, but it does mean that he is less vulnerable to a populist challenge.

There is a certain logic to the pro-Sanders argument: Trump won with right-wing populism, therefore Democrats should counter by running a left-wing populist. As logical as that seems, however, it neither expands the potential base of Democratic voters, nor does it address Trump’s real vulnerability, i.e., his brusque demeanor, which is offensive to the bourgeois sensibilities of the suburban middle class. What Democrats really needed in 2020 was a candidate who promised to restore the norms of respectable public discourse. Such a candidate would not necessarily be “moderate” in terms of policy, but he would speak in a calm and soothing way — polite and boring, the way nice politicians do.

Bernie Sanders is not a nice politician, and the belief that a grumpy old socialist is the ideal candidate against Trump — well, this is an untested hypothesis. Now that Sanders had emerged as the front-runner, his Democratic rivals are ganging up against him:

Joe Biden’s campaign is airing a new digital ad in South Carolina accusing Bernie Sanders of trying to undermine Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection by threatening to primary him. Pete Buttigieg was on TV in South Carolina hitting Sanders over health care and Mike Bloomberg targeted Sanders’ past gun votes.
“When it comes to building on Barack Obama’s legacy, Bernie Sanders just can’t be trusted,” the Biden ad, first obtained by POLITICO, warns.
The fusillade targeting Sanders on the eve of a Democratic debate in the fourth early state of South Carolina marked the latest turn in a Democratic primary that now has a decisive frontrunner. Each of the candidates, competing for a fraction of the moderate vote, are attempting to blunt the Vermont senator’s momentum coming off a landslide win in Nevada. . . .
Bloomberg, who will not appear on a ballot in South Carolina, is attempting to slow Sanders’ surge as the billionaire businessman is poised to face his first test in Super Tuesday states.
Bloomberg unleashed his own 90-second video spot saying Sanders was elected to the House in 1990 with the support of the National Rifle Association.
Ominous music plays in the background and subtitles read: “Bernie voted with the NRA and opposed federal background checks.”
The ad cited Sanders’ opposition to a background check bill in the 1990s and votes in the early 2000s against allowing lawsuits against gun manufacturers, issues that aligned with the NRA’s stance.

It can be predicted that, just as last week’s Nevada debate turned into a gang beatdown on Bloomberg, tonight’s debate in South Carolina will become a gang beatdown on Bernie Sanders. The problem is that Sanders has a hard-core base — somewhere between 20% and 30% of Democratic primary voters — that will not abandon him for any reason.

So the seven Democrats on the debate stage, including billionaire Tom Steyer, are all competing for the same anti-Bernie vote. This will continue into next week’s Super Tuesday primaries and there is no good way this ends for Democrats. Either (a) Bernie gets the nomination, and faces a high probability of catastrophic defeat in November, or (b) Democrats somehow cheat Bernie out of the nomination, thereby alienating 20%-30% of their own party’s base.

The best hope for Democrats, honestly, is a global coronavirus pandemic.




 

Category: Bernie Sanders, Election

College Students Who Can’t Think

Posted on | February 25, 2020 | 2 Comments

Ed Driscoll calls attention to the latest campus appearance by Heather Mac Donald, who spoke at Colgate University ($72,585 a year, including room and board) where she was accosted by disruptive protesters.

Mac Donald, who has degrees from Yale, Cambridge and Stanford, was at Colgate to speak about her most recent book, The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture. It seems, however, that the protesters wanted to talk about rape. Mac Donald has written critically about the mythical “epidemic” of campus rape, pointing out the fraudulence of the claim that 1-in-5 female college students become victims of rape during their undergraduate years. This widely cited statistic is a wild exaggeration, based on misleading surveys (rather than actual reports of assaults), and simply will not withstand critical scrutiny. Attempts to speak factually about this issue, however, are rendered impossible by the emotional investment that activists have made in a certain set of assumptions about “rape culture.” Consider this scene at Colgate:

Perhaps the most tense moment of the evening took place when a woman took the mic to ask about campus rape culture . . .
“In 2008 you wrote an article called ‘The Campus Rape Myth’ where you decided to claim that rape could be attributed to ‘sluttish behavior’ and that it’s women’s fault for getting drunk,” the question began amid applause, cheers and moans of shock from the surrounding audience, mostly students dressed head to toe in black to protest the scholar’s visit and views.
“You also said in a 2019 interview with the Hoover Institution that ‘all college-aged women can avoid 100 percent of so-called campus rape,’” Mac Donald’s questioner continued in an impassioned tone before dropping her bombshell:
“As someone who has been assaulted on this campus, do you believe that I am at fault?!”

Of course, this heckler deliberately distorted Mac Donald’s argument, but the point is she plays the “My Experience” Card. Obviously, it’s absurd to expect Heather Mac Donald to know anything about this person’s experience, and thus demand that Mac Donald pass judgment on her case. This declaration — “I am a victim of assault” — is intended as a trump card, to silence dissent and end discussion.

THIS IS NOT HOW ARGUMENTS WORK.

A single personal anecdote does not refute a general statement.

What Heather Mac Donald is talking about is, first of all, the prevalence of rape — how often does it happen on college campuses? Her contention is that the “1-in-5” claim is a gross exaggeration, and this cannot be refuted by one person saying, “I am a victim of sexual assault.” Mac Donald’s second contention, made in her 2008 article “The Campus Rape Myth,” is that claims of an “epidemic” of sexual assault are rooted in a “booze-fueled hookup culture.” That is to say, in a climate where drunkenness and promiscuity are tolerated, many college girls will have sexual encounters that they subsequently regret. The collective sense of shame and resentment emerging from this “hookup culture” has been harnessed by activists to justify a variety of programs and policies, based on exaggerated claims about the prevalence of sexual assault on campus.

In her 2008, Mac Donald easily debunked the “1-in-5” statistic, and she replicated that debunking in her appearance at Colgate:

“Let’s put that number in perspective,” she said. “… Our most violent city, Detroit, when you look at all four of the FBI’s violent index felonies — that includes murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery — all four of those combined gets you a violent felony rate of 2 percent. So 20 to 25 percent [of campus rape victims] is a catastrophe.”
She continued that such a “sexual holocaust,” if it were really going on, would prompt a stampede of women away from college campuses, yet the opposite is true, females are now the majority on them.

Exactly so. Feminists have fostered an irrational fear based on bogus statistics, claiming that rape is more common on university campuses than in America’s most crime-ridden inner cities. When the falsehood of these claims is demonstrated, activists respond with hysterical outbursts intended to silence the voices of truth-telling critics. No intelligent person could possibly believe that women are more endangered on the Colgate campus in tranquil Madison County, N.Y., than in the slums of Detroit, Baltimore, or St. Louis, and yet that is what the “1-in-5” statistic implies.

College students have lost the ability to think. The emotional protests at elite schools like Colgate show that students are incapable of weighing evidence and discerning between truth and fiction. Instead of making arguments based on facts and logic, students can only chant slogans and engage in fascist-style bullying tactics to silence opponents.

Given this proof that irrationality has become common on university campuses, is anyone surprised that Bernie Sanders gets his highest level of support among college students and recent graduates?




 

Category: Education

Rule 5 Monday: Annabella Sciorra

Posted on | February 24, 2020 | 2 Comments

– compiled by Wombat-socho

It seems somewhat appropriate to turn our spotlight on Annabella Sciorra, since she was one of the major witnesses against show biz rapist Harvey Weinstein. She’s probably best known for her role as Gloria Trillo on The Sopranos, but she’s also appeared in a whole slew of other movies & TV shows since her debut in True Love.

From American Crime.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #902, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Future Airliners Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Martha Washington, Babes For Bernie, Amie Harwick (RIP), Nevada Democrat Debate, The Waifs, Kaitlin Bennett, Annabella Sciorra, National Margarita Day, and Rio Carnival,

A View From The Beach: Back to the 80s with Erika Eleniak, The Beginning of the Dog Days, Fish Pic Friday – Queen Snapper, Delaware Posts Emergency Striper Regs, Maybe She Should Have Stuck With Drew, EPA Encourages Killing Deer, Virginians Reject Gun Control, Boob Freed at Sanders Rally, Muddy Monday and A ‘Special’ Palm Sunday

Proof Positive: Dorothy Lamour

Red Pilled Jew: Sun & Surf

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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In The Mailbox: 02.24.20

Posted on | February 24, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.24.20

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Chicago’s Recipe For More Crime
EBL: Harvey Weinstein Convicted Of Rape, also, Trump In India
Twitchy: Jennifer Rubin Shocked Her New Comrades Love Fidel & Hate AIPAC
Louder With Crowder: Latino Former Democrat Asks “Where Are All The Racists?” At Trump Rally
Vox Popoli: Prepping For Corona-chan, also, Negative Coattails

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Wrongthink Edition, also, Gay Marriage – It Was Always About The Children
American Conservative: Russiagate II – Return Of The Low-Information Zombies
American Greatness: The Counter-Coup Has Begun, also, #NeverSanders?
American Power: Blacks Flee Chicago
American Thinker: Sexualization, Pornography, & Grooming In The Schools, also, No Bernie, Denmark Is Not A Socialist Utopia
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Nicaragua’s Murderous Socialist Dictator Endorses Bernie Sanders, also, Sanders Claims Not Everything About Cuba’s Communist Regime Is Bad
BattleSwarm: Nevada – Bernie First, Biden Second, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Cafe Hayek: Thinking Soundly About Trade, also, Data: Mark Perry v. Oren Cass
Camp Of The Saints: Losers Or Losers – Which One Shall I Be Today?
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, Sir John, You Should Have Copyrighted That Nuke COA
Da Tech Guy: Why Donald Trump Courts Black Americans, also, Report From Louisiana – Tragedy At Mardi Gras
Don Surber: Record Number Of Republicans Enter House Races, also, DC Press Ignorant Of How Government Should Run
First Street Journal: Surprise! National Security Wiretap System Is A Mess
The Geller Report: Democrats Want Florida Mayor To Resign For Calling Ilhan Omar “anti-Semitic Socialist”, also, “Macho Man” Plays As Trump Enters Stadium Packed With 110,000 Trump-Loving Indians Wearing Trump Hats
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, The Sombrero Galaxy In Infrared
Hollywood In Toto: Adam Carolla To Torch Woke Culture, Trump Derangement In New Book, also, Here’s Why We Need To See Tarantino’s Star Trek Movie
JustOneMinute: Dark Matter Impacts Rotary Cooling Device
Legal Insurrection: President Trump Receives Grand Welcome In India, also, Sweden’s Social Democrats Find Sanders Too Far Left
Megan McArdle: The Berniemobile Is Filling Up With Realist-Idealists, Revolutionaries, & Bandwagoners
Power Line: Soleimani’s Assassination Leaves Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Reeling, also, American Ingrate – Ilhan Omar
Shark Tank: Mucarsel-Powell Denounces Sanders’ Support Of Castro
Shot In The Dark: Triple Down
STUMP: A Look at CT Teacher Pensions – Cash Flow Projections
The Political Hat: 2020 Election In One Clip
This Ain’t Hell: California Sheriff Complies With ICE Jail Record Subpoenas, also, Swalwell Suggests Russian Support For Sanders May Implicate Trump
Victory Girls: Bernie Sanders Praises Castro On 60 Minutes
Volokh Conspiracy: “Veteran” 9th Circus Judges Complain About New 9th Circuit Judges
Weasel Zippers: Former Bill Clinton Advisor Says Bloomberg & Hillary Scheming To Make Her Democratic Nominee, also, Joy Reid, Chris Matthews Mock Trump Supporters As Racists Who Revolted Against “Smart” People
Mark Steyn: La Grande Illusion, also, Bye Bye Blackbird

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Incest in Missouri: 11-Year-Old Girl Gives Birth to Her 17-Year-Old Brother’s Son

Posted on | February 24, 2020 | Comments Off on Incest in Missouri: 11-Year-Old Girl Gives Birth to Her 17-Year-Old Brother’s Son

Must be some backwoods Ozark hillbillies:

An 11-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by her brother gave birth at home, and now he and their parents are facing criminal charges.
The girl gave birth to a boy in a bathtub in St. Charles, Missouri, according to a probable cause statement.
Her biological brother, who is 17, was charged last week with incest, statutory rape and statutory sodomy of a person younger than 12, while her parents were charged with child endangerment. Police say the girl’s parents did not provide medical care to their daughter after she gave birth.
NBC News is not naming the girl’s parents or brother because it would identify the victim.
Police started investigating on Feb. 11 after the girl’s parents brought a baby boy to a hospital. The baby still had the umbilical cord and placenta attached and a body temperature of 90 degrees, according to a probable cause statement.
The girl’s father initially claimed the baby was his and had been dropped off on their porch by an ex-girlfriend.
He later told investigators his daughter had given birth to the boy and that his son was the father, a probable cause statement states. The girl’s parents claimed they were not aware she was pregnant or that she was allegedly being sexually assaulted by her brother, according to the statement.

While NBC News did not name the suspects, local news did:

Norvin Leonidas Lopez-Cante was charged with statutory rape, statutory sodomy and incest after police said he admitted to having sex with an 11-year-old family member about 100 times.
Police started investigating after Lopez-Cante’s father, Francisco Javier Gonzalez-Lopez, brought an infant to St. Joseph Hospital on Tuesday. Gonzalez-Lopez told police someone dropped the infant off on his front porch. Charging documents said the baby still had the umbilical cord and placenta attached and had a body temperature of just 90 degrees.
Police interviewed Gonzalez-Lopez at his home two days later, where he told police the father of the child was his son, Lopez-Cante, and the mother was Lopez-Cante’s 11-year-old relative.
Gonzalez-Lopez said he did not know the girl was pregnant or that Lopez-Cante was raping her until she gave birth to the child in their bathtub.
After police read Lopez-Cante his Miranda rights, he told police he had sex with the girl about 100 times but did not know she was pregnant. He said he did not know when he first had sex with her but said it happened about twice a week.
Lopez-Cante was charged with first-degree statutory rape, statutory sodomy and incest. His bond was set at $25,000, cash-only.
Gonzalez-Lopez was charged with endangering the welfare of a child for his role in the incident. His bond was set at $10,000, cash only.

 

Apparently, they didn’t already have enough incest in Missouri, so they decided to import the Gonzalez-Lopez/Lopez-Cante clan to fill the quota.

My apology to Ozark hillbillies unfairly impugned.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)




 

Category: Crime, Missouri

Bernie Praises Castro, Snubs AIPAC

Posted on | February 24, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

On 60 Minutes, the new front-runner’s mask slips:

Self-proclaimed democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, in an interview that aired Sunday night, heaped praise on some of the policies instituted in Cuba by the late Communist dictator Fidel Castro.
“We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba — but you know, it’s unfair to simply say everything is bad,” Sanders, the frontrunner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, told Anderson Cooper on CBS’s “60 Minutes.”
The Vermont senator highlighted a literacy program that Castro implemented after he seized power from Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
“When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?” Sanders asked.
It’s not the first time Sanders has expressed his support for policies championed by Castro, who stepped down in 2011 and died in 2016.
In a resurfaced video from the 1980s that aired on “60 Minutes,” Sanders explained why the Cuban people didn’t help the United States overthrow Castro.
“He educated their kids, gave them health care, totally transformed the society, you know,” Sanders says in the clip.

Bernie’s supporters will certainly point out that major media never bothered asking him tough questions until he appeared poised to win the nomination. As long as he was just a senator running as the token left-wing opponent of the “moderate” Democrat front-runner, network news operations weren’t going to go very deep into the oppo-research files. Now that the establishment is in disarray? It’s a whole new game.

Meanwhile, Bernie is pandering to the Left’s anti-Israel grassroots:

The pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) issued a blistering statement Sunday night slamming Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont for claiming the organization gives a platform for “bigotry.”
Mr. Sanders announced on Twitter that he would be keeping in tradition by not attending AIPAC’s annual conference this year, writing that the Palestinian people deserve “peace and security” just like the Israelis.
“I remain concerned about the platform AIPAC provides for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights,” the senator tweeted. “For that reason I will not attend their conference. As president, I will support the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians and do everything possible to bring peace and security to the region.”
AIPAC responded to Mr. Sanders in a tweeted statement, calling his attacks “shameful” and touting the group’s diversity.
“Senator Sanders has never attended our conference and that is evident from his outrageous comment,” AIPAC said. “In fact, many of his own Senate and House Democratic colleagues and leaders speak from our platform to the over 18,000 Americans from widely diverse backgrounds — Democrats, Republicans, Jews, Christians. African Americans, Hispanic Americans, progressives, veterans, students, members of the LGBTQ+ community — who participate in the conference to proclaim their support for the U.S.-Israel relationship.
“By engaging in such an odious attack on the mainstream, bipartisan American political event, Senator Sanders is insulting his very own colleagues and the millions of Americans who stand with Israel. Truly shameful,” the group concluded.

Do you see how this hurts Democrats? They have spent four years claiming that Trump is Hitler, supported by “alt-right” Jew-haters, but now Democrats are going to nominate Bernie Sanders, who disses Israel in the name of “Palestinian rights,” so that Trump — who moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and strongly backs Netanyahu’s government — actually has the high ground on this issue. Why should Jews vote Democrat, when their nominee is sucking up to Palestinian terrorists?

Time is running out for “moderate” Democrats:

Eight days remain until the crucial “Super Tuesday” primaries, and the unmistakable momentum of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has the Democratic Party establishment quaking in fear. Longtime Clinton adviser James Carville went off on potential Sanders voters on MSNBC Saturday when it became clear Sanders had scored a crushing victory in the Nevada caucus. “If you want to vote for Bernie Sanders because you feel good about his program, you don’t like the banks on Wall Street or you don’t like pharmaceuticals, that’s legitimate, I understand that,” Carville said. “If you’re voting for him because you think he’ll win the election, politically, you’re a fool. And that’s just a fact. It’s no denying it, there’s so much political science, so much research on this that it is not even a debatable question.”
At a campaign rally Sunday in Houston, Sanders predicted that he would not only win next week’s Texas primary but that he would also defeat President Donald Trump in the Lone Star State in November. This was a bold boast, considering that no Democratic presidential candidate has won Texas since 1976, and that Trump beat Hillary Clinton by an 800,000-vote margin in the state four years ago.
While Bernie’s fans cheered his confident prediction of November victory, establishment Democrats and their media allies were struggling to accept the more sobering near-term reality that “moderate” candidates are unlikely to stop Sanders from winning the nomination. . . .

Read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.




 

Category: Bernie Sanders
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