Tulsi Gabbard quits DNC to back Sanders

[Michchamp]

maybe this will finally get Tinsel to Feel the Bern?

political endorsements for Bernie have been few and far between, but he has started to pick up a couple.

 

[tigermud]

Awfully quiet here lately, bern is all but done the only thing that can stop Hillary now would be an indictment, prolly unlikely, looks like the establishment republicans are planing to dust romey off, they'd rather Hillary win over trump, all the more reason to back trump IMO. Really don't like the thought of Christie being attorney general though as I strongly disagree with his position on cannabis and the failed 40+ years long drug war in general, and I say this as a non user.

 

[tinselwolverine]

maybe this will finally get Tinsel to Feel the Bern?

political endorsements for Bernie have been few and far between, but he has started to pick up a couple.

Wow.

I really am a huge fan of military hero Tulsi Gabbard, who stood up against the very anti-democratic coalition between DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the (speculative) criminal Hillary Clinton.

I voted for Obama against that (speculative) criminal bitch in 2008 (the Republicans wouldn't let me vote for Ron Paul since I'm not registered to either party; in 2008 the Democrats had an open primary) in the California primary; and should for some godforsaken reason I choose to and am actually registered to vote for somebody in the California primary - assuming Kasich is out of the picture then - and if Kasich is still in and I wanted to vote for Kasich I would have to register as a Republican thirty days prior to the primary - which would be fine - again, assuming Kasich would be out and I would be a registered voter - then I would vote for Sanders against Clinton.

If Kashich isn't the Republican nominee, I will once again vote for the Libertarian candidate (again, assuming I am registered to vote at all) in the general election.

But good for Tulsi Gabbard for following her conscience.

She is truly a hero and a trailblazer in very many ways, and I congratulate her for standing up against the tyranny of Hillary Clinton, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC, and I wish her all the best in all the endeavors she might choose to pursue.

 

[Spartanmack]

Wow.

I really am a huge fan of military hero Tulsi Gabbard, who stood up against the very anti-democratic coalition between DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the (speculative) criminal Hillary Clinton.

I voted for Obama against that (speculative) criminal bitch in 2008 (the Republicans wouldn't let me vote for Ron Paul since I'm not registered to either party; in 2008 the Democrats had an open primary) in the California primary; and should for some godforsaken reason I choose to and am actually registered to vote for somebody in the California primary - assuming Kasich is out of the picture then - and if Kasich is still in and I wanted to vote for Kasich I would have to register as a Republican thirty days prior to the primary - which would be fine - again, assuming Kasich would be out and I would be a registered voter - then I would vote for Sanders against Clinton.

If Kashich isn't the Republican nominee, I will once again vote for the Libertarian candidate (again, assuming I am registered to vote at all) in the general election.

But good for Tulsi Gabbard for following her conscience.

She is truly a hero and a trailblazer in very many ways, and I congratulate her for standing up against the tyranny of Hillary Clinton, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC, and I wish her all the best in all the endeavors she might choose to pursue.

I congratulate her as well on the courage of her convictions but have to say I question her judgement on her choice of who she chose to endorse in defiance of the criminal Clinton machine.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I congratulate her as well on the courage of her convictions but have to say I question her judgement on her choice of who she chose to endorse in defiance of the criminal Clinton machine.

Well, she's a Democrat, she doesn't have a lot of other choices.

The times I've turned on Fox News during this campaign, I've heard Sean Hannity saying good thing about his character and intentions, and Sanders goes on O'Reilly and they seem to have a friendly discourse.

Hannity says Sanders is wrong in just about all the issues, and I get the feeling O'Reilly does too - but they both seem to think he's a person of character and integrity, unlike Hillary Clinton.

 

[Michchamp]

Well, she's a Democrat, she doesn't have a lot of other choices.

The times I've turned on Fox News during this campaign, I've heard Sean Hannity saying good thing about his character and intentions, and Sanders goes on O'Reilly and they seem to have a friendly discourse.

Hannity says Sanders is wrong in just about all the issues, and I get the feeling O'Reilly does too - but they both seem to think he's a person of character and integrity, unlike Hillary Clinton.

his constuents always seem to like him and support him.

crazy idea in a democracy, I know... we're supposed to get the candidates we deserve.

 

[Spartanmack]

Well, she's a Democrat, she doesn't have a lot of other choices.

The times I've turned on Fox News during this campaign, I've heard Sean Hannity saying good thing about his character and intentions, and Sanders goes on O'Reilly and they seem to have a friendly discourse.

Hannity says Sanders is wrong in just about all the issues, and I get the feeling O'Reilly does too - but they both seem to think he's a person of character and integrity, unlike Hillary Clinton.

She does have other choices, just not within the party and I don't think her endorsement is merely a repudiation of Clinton. I don't watch Hannity or O'Reilly and I've only seen about 10 minutes of any debate but I have no doubt he actually believes his policies are best for America. I just happen to know unequivocally that he is wrong about virtually everything he wants to do other than getting big money interests out of politics. I'm not sure he's not a scumbag - had a child out of wedlock, was a lazy shiftless bumb who didn't have a steady job until he was 40, wants to penalize successful people, etc, etc - but at least he's a different kind of scumbag. So points for not being a Hillary Clinton kind of scumbag, but more negative points for being a socialist or democratic socialist or whatever he calls himself.

 

[tinselwolverine]

She does have other choices, just not within the party and I don't think her endorsement is merely a repudiation of Clinton.

Of course she does.

There's a 99% chance I'm not going to support or vote for a Republican nor a Democrat.

But -

I'm not registered to either party.

I'm not a sitting member of the United States House of Representatives who was elected as the nominee of either party.

I was never the vice chair of either major party.

Just like all the Republicans still standing claim they're going to support whomever the Republican nominee is should it not be themself, it would be harder and somewhat incongruous for an elected party leader like to Tulsi Gabbard to support somebody outside of their party.

 

[Michchamp]

She does have other choices, just not within the party and I don't think her endorsement is merely a repudiation of Clinton. ...

you can read her statement here.

other choices? no, I think not, based on her statement.

and no, it's not merely a repudiation of Hillary, but the whole pro-war, Neo-con, aggressive interventionist foreign policy that Billary and every other current candidate agrees with.

among the GOP candidates the only one who ever divurged from the Neocon line on foreign policy was Rand Paul. despite his claims of being an outsider, Trump is as recklessly aggressive in his rhetoric as any other candidate

 

[tinselwolverine]

you can read her statement here.

Right within Gabbard's op/ed, CNN seemed to drop in a segment about whom 15 different celebrities are endorsing.

That seems kind of weird.

 

[Thumb]

Had a child out of wedlock makes you a "scumbag".

Kind of how Treyvon getting suspended from school makes him a "thug".

And the right wonders why it's party is in a shambles.

 

[Spartanmack]

you can read her statement here.

other choices? no, I think not, based on her statement.

and no, it's not merely a repudiation of Hillary, but the whole pro-war, Neo-con, aggressive interventionist foreign policy that Billary and every other current candidate agrees with.

among the GOP candidates the only one who ever divurged from the Neocon line on foreign policy was Rand Paul. despite his claims of being an outsider, Trump is as recklessly aggressive in his rhetoric as any other candidate

I already read her statement, which is why I said that it wasn't merely a repudiation of Clinton. Try to keep up.

 

[Spartanmack]

Had a child out of wedlock makes you a "scumbag".

Kind of how Treyvon getting suspended from school makes him a "thug".

And the right wonders why it's party is in a shambles.

having a child out of wedlock in your 20s and being a deadbeat, unwilling to work a steady job until you are 40 and unable to support that child makes you a scumbag. And getting suspended is only the tip of the iceberg of what made Treyvon Martin a thug.