Our own favorate son, Willy, is posting again- drunk as usual, on the website of drunks, druggies, communists and haters. Yeah... he's on a roll.
What will Skinner's wife think?
WilliamPitt (57,879 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026591352
So, yeah, here's a big heaping helping of "Shut The **** Up"
to those puling about "He's not a Democrat!"
...and an invitation to get on board.
Jump on. Jump in.
Jump. You are fresh out of excuses.
Bernie Sanders to Run for President as a Democrat
http://www.ecowatch.com/2015/04/29/bernie-sanders-run-president-democrat/
Let's do this.
Ooo... trying to be edgy, Willy just comes off pathetic.
joeybee12 (50,822 posts)
1. Unrec...
I like Bernie, I'm glad he's running...but there are quite a few people here who think people are objecting...at least they think there's a lot more than there actually are...
onehandle (43,379 posts)
3. I hope you don't mean DU.
Because that strawman hasn't surfaced.
Orsino (29,946 posts)
4. Well, I guess that settles that.
A politician says he's suddenly a Democrat, so shut the hell up, anyone pointing out that he wasn't one three days ago.
Me, I wish the Democratic Party would catch the hell up to Sanders. If they don't marginalize him instantly, I'll be impressed.
TBF (28,011 posts)
21. If Hillary's smart she'll welcome the challenge -it is her carte blanche to move left. When the investment bankers complain she can say it's out of her hands because she has been challenged and needs to satisfy the base.
magical thyme (10,592 posts)
36. what difference does it make if she moves left for the primaries and even the general. And then swings right again when it's time to actually govern? She helped write TPP. She's arm in arm w/wall street and the banksters
You mean Hillary would lie to you just to get your vote?
Aerows (30,733 posts)
10. I give not a ****
whether Bernie has a chance or not - I will vote for him in the Primary. Anybody that doesn't want to vote for him doesn't have to do so, but I will.
It's called a primary for a reason - you weed out candidates that don't represent the party, and vote for those whose ideals and message resonate with you.
You don't have to be in love with Hillary or Bernie to be a Democrat. You are a Democrat because you want to see our party put forth the best candidate and lead our nation.
It's polling about 50/50 for Hill/Bernie on the DUmp so far. Still no word from Skinner...
MaggieD (949 posts)
80. LOL - the nerve of DEMOCRATS Expecting someone to declare as a DEMOCRAT in order to enter the DEMOCRATIC primary.
I'm glad Bernie got the DNC rule book and decided to follow the rules. And I wish him the best of luck. He is truly one of the good guys. The jury is decidedly still out on his supporters though.
MaggieD (949 posts)
95. It's going to be a long campaign season for you folks
First of all, correcting the billgerent claims by Sanders supporters INSISTING he can run in a DEMOCRATIC primary without declaring as. DEMOCRAT is not in any way, shape or form, an attack. It's simply stating the DNC rules. They are common sense rules and there is nothing new about them.
Secondly, it's not "baseless" at all. He was quoted numerous times as saying he was undecided about declaring as a DEMOCRAT. Glad he got the memo about the rules.
NoJusticeNoPeace (4,212 posts)
27. Sanders/Lee
Sheila Jackson Lee?
~In 1997, while on a trip to the Mars Pathfinder operations center in California, Jackson Lee asked if the Pathfinder had succeeded in taking a picture of the flag planted on Mars by Neil Armstrong in 1969. Needless to say, Jackson Lee, then a member of the House Science Committee, had confused Mars with the Moon.
~In 2010, she compared the war in Afghanistan to Vietnam, an analogy that has often been invoked by Democrats. But the lesson she took from that was unique, to say the least. “Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working.†Jackson Lee went on to caution: “We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.†South Vietnam has not existed for almost 40 years since North Vietnamese forces took Saigon and reunified the former French colony in 1975.
~In a workshop around the 2010 convention of the NAACP in Kansas City, Jackson Lee said that the Klansmen of the past are now Tea Party members. In her somewhat incoherent statement, the Texas congresswoman said “All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing uh, clothing, uh, with a name, say, I am part of the tea party.†She then went criticize these Tea Partiers for being among “those who said Congresswoman Jackson-Lee’s braids were too tight in her hair.â€
~Jackson Lee has a well-documented history of being the worst employer on Capitol Hill. With plenty of job security representing a safe Democratic district, she goes out of her way to demean and abuse members of her staff. As Jonathan Strong, then of the Daily Caller documented in 2011, she constantly referred to one staff member as “You Stupid Mother****er,†threw her cell phone at another and demanded to be chauffeured by car when travelling between House office buildings (which are connected by tunnels) and that staffers run to the supermarket at 2 a.m. to buy garlic supplements for her. The congresswoman was also known to proclaim angrily ‘â€What am I a prostitute? Am I your prostitute? You can’t prostitute me.â€
~Early in her tenure in Congress, back in the days when airlines still served food, Jackson Lee would demand the ability to make multiple first class reservations on Continental Airlines and then cancel them freely according to her schedule. The airline did not appreciate this. The culminating point was when Jackson Lee boarded a flight back to her Houston district and discovered the first class menu didn’t include the seafood option that she wanted. The congresswoman started screaming “Don’t you know who I am? I’m Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Where is my seafood meal? I know it was ordered!â€
But enough about SJL
former9thward (14,387 posts)
70. We have a loose system in the U.S.
Nomination papers normally do not ask if a candidate is a party member. They ask what office they are running for and which party. Nomination petitions require the voters who sign to be party members. Sanders will not have an issue getting on the PA ballot as a Democrat.
By loose you mean cheating..
MADem (110,363 posts)
153. FEC Form 2 asks for party affiliation in block four.
That form is a candidacy declaration form, and Sanders has fifteen days to file it after he announces.
The last time he filed the form (for his senate run) he said he was an "I" -- Independent.
oberliner (28,974 posts)
41. Hillary will be our nominee
Try to get excited about that.
https://www.hillaryclinton.com
Buns_of_Fire (9,389 posts)
54. Come tomorrow, when he officially announces,
I'll be switching my wholehearted support to him from Vermin Supreme.
Just as well. The landlord doesn't allow us to keep ponies in the bedroom, anyway.
Oh, and for those few who trot out that BS about "he's not a Democrat!", I quote from the DNC Charter, Article Eight, Section 1:
The Democratic Party of the United States shall be open to all who desire to support the Party and who wish to be known as Democrats.
I submit that anyone who declares themselves as a candidate for the Democratic nomination is a Democrat. So there. (And he's sure as hell a better Democrat than a lot who have called themselves Democrats!)
Buzz Clik
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He's a ***** on DU as well.
Lyric (12,328 posts)
74. I adore Bernie, but I'm a Hillary Clinton girl all the way.
However, I will be voting for whichever Democrat wins the nomination, because ANY Dem is better than one of the clown car denizens. And you know I adore you too, so there!
Raine1967 (6,782 posts)
75. To be very honest, had any Clinton supporter said something like this
I would be offended. Thing is, I didn't see anything like that. I never saw a Clinton supporter here on DU saying STFU.
I really don't think this helps DU.
Right now I am truly welcoming of every candidate that wants to be a part of the primary, I would never tell a supporter of whatever candidate I decided to choose to STFU.
As someone who listens to Sanders every week on Thom Hartman, I kinda believe that Sanders would not really like this sentiment either. He's not devisive.
NanceGreggs (16,331 posts)
100. Where the **** am I?
It's been discussed on this site for months that if Sanders ran, it would be as a Democrat. Is this really news to anyone?
Brushing aside the army of strawmen that have been erected here today - from "the HRC supporters are having a FIT over Bernie running!" to "the Hillary crowd is petrified of a Bernie run" - this seems like yet another call-out of people who, for the most part, don't exist.
I think you'd be hard-pressed to find an HRC supporter, a Warren supporter, an O'Malley supporter - and supporters of any other possibilities - who doesn't respect and admire Sanders, and doesn't welcome his participation in the process.
It would seem that the big heaping helping of STFU is over-kill in the circumstances, given that those "puling" are so few, a teeny teaspoon would more than suffice.
workinclasszero (4,281 posts)
122. STFU? You mean on democratic underground
we have to ****ing apologize for being democrat??
WTF?
Hey, now! Willy is Hip. He's Edgy! He's Cool! The young crowd dig him, man!
