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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on November 11, 2014, 09:14:18 PM
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wyldwolf (37,039 posts)
Bernie Sanders hires Tad Devine as campaign advisor
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has spent months fishing for a strategist to guide his potential 2016 presidential campaign. On Monday, he hooked a big one: Tad Devine, one of the Democratic Party’s leading consultants and a former high-level campaign aide to Al Gore, John Kerry, and Michael Dukakis.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/11/11/tad-devine-signs-on-to-work-with-bernie-sanders-on-potential-2016-run/
In Jerome Armstrong's and Marcos Moulitsas Zuniga's book CRASHING THE GATE: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics, Devine was lumped into the category of party hacks along with Bob Shrum because of their ability to get themselves hired again and again, despite terrible losing records.
During the Kerry campaign, when the question of having Joe Lieberman campaign for him came up, Devine stated, "I'd argue that the DLC fits our mold and Joe Lieberman is going to be out there actively campaigning for us.''
BERNIE'S GONNA RUN!!! :yahoo:
But wait!
still_one (33,233 posts)
1. Doesn't sound like a great choice to me. The campaigns he is associated with were badly run
bigwillq (63,308 posts)
2. Gore. Kerry. Dukakis. The man knows how to pick a winner.
BWAH!
Hm-m-m.
Kinda makes you wonder about the ol' geezer's decision making capabilities.
silvershadow (3,147 posts)
3. He can always be replaced. At least he's got a start. nt
That's it. KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE!
JonLP24 (15,297 posts)
10. He has worked for Sanders campaigns in the past
Whoever was instrumental behind the turnaround of Kerry's primary campaign deserves credit.
I'll vote for him regardless of campaign advisor.
Redemption?
Not quite:
Cali_Democrat (22,441 posts)
11. Kerry's campaign didn't turn around because of anything Kerry's campaign did
It was the collapse of Howard Dean that gifted Kerry the nomination in 2004.
BeyondGeography (24,340 posts)
13. He's a dud on the tube
Have seen him many times. Slow-footed and scripted. He must be a little better behind the scenes, right? Right?
Sanders is now the perfect socialist.
**** the practical results, we want political reliability.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025803672
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Oh man!!
I needed a punter for my football team, so I drafted TheMastersNemisis.
:mental:
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The more the merrier. Maybe the DUmmies can trot out Sandra Fluke for a pResidential run as well. I think I have enough power left in the defibrillator battery to jump-start another Ralph Nader campaign. I wonder what Howard Dean is up to nowadays?? :fuelfire: :fuelfire:
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...a former high-level campaign aide to Al Gore, John Kerry, and Michael Dukakis.
:rofl:
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The Pittstain would love to manage that run. :lmao:
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The Pittstain would love to manage that run. :lmao:
He already mailed off a resume' and a blank check with Mama Raven's signature.
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The Pittstain would love to manage that run. :lmao:
Until he gets caught funnelling campaign info to Hitlery. :lol:
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The DUmmies don't seem to know what Frank knows. Bernie Sanders when he speaks, emits humongous amounts of spit and phlegm and spray. Nobody's going to stomach that for a minute, let alone vote for an actual Socialist. What is wrong with them?
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H5 for the best title in a long time.