Ready The Clown Car: The First Batch of Democrats Are Ready To Announce Their 2020 Bids

Yep. This is a campaign, which is a competition for votes among the candidates. In a field as large as this one, there is overlap between the natural constituencies of certain candidates. Between no two candidates is this overlap more apparent than between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

The voters have a choice for who to vote for when they go to the caucuses in Iowa, three weeks from today. These 'scripts' appear to be designed to define and clarify that choice, especially for those voters most likely to be open to voting for Bernie Sanders. This is about as gentle as you can be while still engaging in the task at hand.

Competition between these two was inevitable. Right now, Sanders appears to be in the stronger position and it does not feel like Warren is going to be able to respond effectively, even to these relatively benign tactics. But if she has a move to make, now is definitely the time to make it.

 

There was a lot of talk about this Corey Booker being a national caliber candidate, largely because of his "Identity politics" credentials, going back to his initial election to the Senate. It is encouraging to see many people are demanding more from some of these people than just their skin color and that sort of thing.

Corey Booker is not that guy. He is not cut from the right cloth to be a serious candidate for President. Not now and not 20 years from now. Hopefully this effort puts an end to these sorts of aspirations by him once and for all.

 

Well, we will see if he tries again. Even if he does, it is hard to see it going anywhere. He is a bit strange and does not seem to have "It," whatever that is.

It is not me that stops my political analysis at the color of a person's skin. In fact, I do not start there, stop there or care about that very much at all. But most people who associate with the Democrat left clearly do. But without that aspect of his candidacy, what was it that made his candidacy interesting or in any way compelling - to really anyone?

For example, Joe Biden was the VP and has been around for 40 years or whatever. Sanders is sincere, passionate and is consistent in his promotion of socialism. Warren is an academic that likes to take cracks at wall street and who is currently promoting medicare for all. Bloomberg is richer than Cresus. Buttigieg is gay and a smooth talker. Harris is black and a woman.

Leave out his skin color and tell me what it is that makes Booker an interesting candidate for President of the United States. To be fair, he just quit the race because most Democrats apparently agree to some extent with what I am saying here.

 

No, I was the one who started the "Ready the clown-car" thread, with him very much in mind as one of the leading clowns.

 

Bernie Sanders appears to be surging late in Iowa, according to Politico, the establishment hive-off from the Washington Post (they are not natural Sanders backers).

Sanders surges as progressives flock to him over Warren
The consolidation of left-wing support is a remarkable turnaround for Sanders.

Something’s happening with Bernie Sanders that looked unlikely to many a few months ago: Progressive leaders and organizations are lining up behind him, not Elizabeth Warren, in the lead-up to voting. Two groups run by young people — the Sunrise Movement, which seeks to combat climate change, and Dream Defenders, which advocates for people of color — endorsed him last week. He’s also won the backing of People’s Action and the Center for Popular Democracy, which together claim more than 1.5 million members, as well as three lawmakers in the so-called “Squad” and liberal-minded labor unions.

The consolidation of left-wing support is a remarkable turnaround for Sanders. In September, the Working Families Party became the first major national progressive group to endorse a candidate when it picked Warren — despite siding with Sanders in 2016. Warren was surging at the time, and looked poised to overtake Sanders as the leader of the progressive movement and a frontrunner for the nomination.

But now it’s Sanders with the wind at his back. The endorsements, on display here Sunday when Rep. Rashida Tlaib and the Sunrise Movement joined him for a rally attended by more than 900 people, are giving him a jolt of momentum weeks ahead of the Iowa caucuses and supplying him with fresh volunteers in key areas.​

Are you guys feeling the Bern?

 

Dude, I was the one posting stories from the Democrat left press touting this Democrat team of all stars, with Booker virtually always being mentioned, at least early on. That was not me endorsing the guy. It was just my observations about how he was being presented and considered by the Democrat left and the media.

 

According to CNN (Sources say...), Bernie Sanders told Elizabeth Warren to her face in 2018 that he 'did not believe a woman could win' in 2020.

Bernie Sanders told Elizabeth Warren in private 2018 meeting that a woman can't win, sources say

The two agreed that if they ultimately faced each other as presidential candidates, they should remain civil and avoid attacking one another, so as not to hurt the progressive movement. They also discussed how to best take on President Donald Trump, and Warren laid out two main reasons she believed she would be a strong candidate: She could make a robust argument about the economy and earn broad support from female voters.

Sanders responded that he did not believe a woman could win.

The description of that meeting is based on the accounts of four people: two people Warren spoke with directly soon after the encounter, and two people familiar with the meeting.

"It is ludicrous to believe that at the same meeting where Elizabeth Warren told me she was going to run for president, I would tell her that a woman couldn't win," Sanders said. "It's sad that, three weeks before the Iowa caucus and a year after that private conversation, staff who weren't in the room are lying about what happened. What I did say that night was that Donald Trump is a sexist, a racist and a liar who would weaponize whatever he could. Do I believe a woman can win in 2020? Of course! After all, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by 3 million votes in 2016."​

CNN is truly one of the top world leaders when it comes to creating and promoting fake news. I do knot know if this is true. Bernie Sanders says it is a lie. Warren's team is declining to comment.

It appears that the battle between these two in Iowa is getting more and more chippy, almost by the minute. And while Sanders 'script' was relatively benign in the scheme of things, this is positively incindiary.

Unless Warren comes out and discredits these accusations, this is almost certainly going to be the moment when the gloves were taken completely off by these two. Stay tuned....