Third Way Failed The Test-- Again... Third Way Always Fails The Test

I admit I hadn't heard about David Doel's show, the Rational National before. But here are two from consecutive days last week-- one up top and one at the bottom-- and he's talking about the same thing we were on those same days-- attacks on Bernie by the Wall Street Democrats, the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. I went so far as to list-- in the Meet The Scumbags section of this post-- the members of the Third Way Board of Directors and their Wall Street origins. They're the ones running the Bernie smear campaign-- and he hasn't even declared he's running yet-- in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. As Bernie pointed out in his e-mail to supporters on Thursday, these crooked conservative banksters-- defenders of the status quo-- not only want to defeat him, "they want to make sure that the progressive agenda is not advanced by anyone... Our agenda terrifies the political and financial establishment of this country."

Ironically, the crooks at Third Way say that "Bernie failed the test" in 2016 and now they need to put someone up who can beat Trump. I say ironically because it was the Third Way candidate, Hillary Clinton, who ran and failed, not Bernie, who many people feel was cheated out of the nomination by Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other party bosses who rigged the primary against him. One of the Third Way crooks told the media that "By far the most important question that Democrats should be asking is which candidate and which set of ideas has the best chance of beating Trump. The midterms proved conclusively that the Sanders ideas fail that test." That isn't what the midterms proved at all. Even relatively conservative Democrats were running on Bernie's ideas, especially Medicare for All, which is overwhelmingly supported by Democrats and independents and even by 52% of Republicans!

If the Third Way crooks, and their puppets among the Blue Dogs and New Dems, think the Democratic Party is going to embrace their candidate again-- this time either Bloomberg, Gillibrand, Biden or Beto-- they must be high. Let me recommend Nicole Goodkind's piece-- also from last week-- in Newsweek: Bernie Sanders Will Face Donald Trump in 2020 Election, Democrats Say. This one is about party pros, based on a survey The Hill conducted. They rank Bernie #1, followed by Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Sherrod Brown and Deval Patrick (who isn't running and is barely known outside of Massachusetts).

“His people have never gone away,” Democratic strategist Brad Bannon told The Hill. “And he has a loyal core following out there that will be with him come hell or high water.” Sanders is the most popular politician in America, with an approval rating of 75 percent, according to a recent Harvard-Harris poll.

The dumbest comment of the pros came from Phil Singer, who runs a third rate p.r./lobbying firm, Marathon Strategies, and was Hillary's press secretary in her stupendously failed 2008 primary run against Obama. His company mostly does greasy corporate pr and his top clients are Delta, IBM, Barnes & Noble, Chuck Schumer, Tesla, Bloomberg's anti-gun PAC, a low-end sandwich chain and a charter school outfit. He says the Democrats have a "weak field"-- and in the stupidest possible analogy only an out-of-touch old white man would make: "You have a bunch of Celine Dions but there’s no Beatles."