I intend to emulate Bernie Sanders in Lancaster, California, by entering an election rally in Lanchester, County Durham to the strains of Where The Hood At?, by DMX.
After all, I am a lot younger than Bernie Sanders. Come to that, I am several years younger than DMX. And unlike him, I never quite did get ordained.
So much for Donald Trump. He is running scared of a debate with Sanders, who articulates the politically informed versions the positions on which of Trump's relative good points are half-baked and amateur variations.
The outright refusal of that debate ought to be absolutely disqualifying of Trump, and may yet turn out to be so.
Clinton openly only wants to debate Trump for a laugh and Sanders probably feels the same although he'd hit him harder on policy. Trump has killed the Republican Party.
ReplyDeleteHe is effectively running without it, and even against it. He can afford to. But that is what he is doing. This is a Presidential Election without a Republican candidate, as such.
DeleteClinton would just laugh at him in debate. But, as you say, Sanders would mix that with going very, very hard. It would be glorious to watch.
The California primary is wide open, Clinton's lead has collapsed. Bernie needs to press Trump on why he'll only debate people who came to his wedding and who have not been opposing globalization for as long as there has been any such word.
ReplyDeleteLonger than that, in fact.
DeleteHe's won the Republican nomination. Why would he debate the loser in the Democratic race?
ReplyDeleteHe wouldn't dare debate with Sanders. With Clinton, he just intends to bloviate about the menopause or what have you. But what would he say to Sanders, who has been arguing against neliberalism and neoconservatism in great detail forever?
DeleteTrump would have been on the ballot with or without the Republican Party and Sanders will be on the ballot with or without the Democratic Party.
ReplyDeleteTrump is effectively an Independent, anyway. The party refuses to have anything to do with him.
DeleteLikewise, his only connection to it is that he is going to take down numerous of its candidates for other offices, and not least for both Houses of Congress, along with him in November.
Of course, unlike Clinton, Sanders beats him in every national and state poll. If Sanders won the California primary, or even came close, then all bets would be off.