tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2364980587788164382.post4512882822595949180..comments2023-07-09T05:59:26.077-04:00Comments on Falstaff: Hypocritic oath - updatedFalstaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01543557291381143262noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2364980587788164382.post-11772487970324496502016-04-16T02:11:06.751-04:002016-04-16T02:11:06.751-04:00Thanks, guys -- very acute comments. The good news...Thanks, guys -- very acute comments. The good news is that it'll all be over in ten days. She's gonna clean his clock in NY, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland, etc. -- and she doesn't even need to do so in order to wrap this up. <br /><br />I keep reminding myself how much better all this is than '08. Falstaffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01543557291381143262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2364980587788164382.post-39326929539675546032016-04-16T01:40:02.884-04:002016-04-16T01:40:02.884-04:00Terrific insight by Falstaff as usual.
I think H...Terrific insight by Falstaff as usual. <br /><br />I think HRC has opened up two new attacks on Sanders that will be his quick undoing. First, of all the issues to be a pragmatist why did he pick the issue of guns? That speaks volumes as discussed here. Second, HRC can easily accept that Bernie may be right on the diagnosis but he has no clue on the cure. If HRC wins New York -- and wins big -- it kills the main rationale he has been touting lately -- he has all the momentum. I mean is the point to jam $15 an hour down everyone's throats or phase it in? I think the Cuomo approach is sound -- but maybe because I have spent a lot of time in Upstate New York. <br /><br />One thing that has come out of this prolonged primary is the idea that any Democrat who supports business is therefore a Democratic technocrat. The world is changing. These folks need to read The Second Machine Age. They have great arguments for 1980 -- not 2016.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17539898502188259736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2364980587788164382.post-63863517898379112192016-04-15T20:36:48.652-04:002016-04-15T20:36:48.652-04:00And, as she implied last night, his gun position i...And, as she implied last night, his gun position is hypocritical in another way: it's exactly the kind of pragmatic coalition-building he hates in everybody else. He was never going to go anywhere in Vermont politics without getting in good with gun owners and the gun lobby, and so, miraculously, guns turned out to be the one issue on which he wasn't more-liberal-than-thou. And now, of course, taking a right-wing line on guns is part of his flailing attempt to bring in the vanishing electorate of conservative, white, working-class Democrats. In other words, the same voters Trump is counting on to make him president. Good luck with that, guys.Brendan Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18029384135423483043noreply@blogger.com