imagine2015 (815 posts) Wed Apr 27, 2016, 09:16 PM
Bernie Can Still Win The Nomination: 5 Ways This Could Happen
So the battle continues until the convention. Don't get discouraged Bernie supporters. That's what the Hillaryites are hoping for. This is far from over!
1. Clinton’s health fails in a very big and very public way. She’s had multiple public fainting spells since 2005, including one resulting in a broken elbow in 2009. In 2012, she suffered a concussion and was hospitalized with cerebral venous thrombosis, a life-threatening blood clot condition. Her campaign health statement acknowledges these problems and throws in hypothyroidism to boot, although characterizing the 67-year-old as enjoying “excellent†health.
2. Clinton is indicted in, or otherwise dragged down over, the “Servergate†affair, in which she appears to have illegally mishandled classified information while Secretary of State.
3. Clinton comes to big legal or political grief over apparent connections between large donations to her family’s foundation on one hand and her actions as Secretary of State on the other. For example, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia donated $10 million to the Clinton Foundation and Boeing donated $900,000. Later, Secretary Clinton cleared a $29 billion arms deal involving the two parties. You can see how that kind of thing looks. There may be some “there†there.
4. The texts of Clinton’s Wall Street speeches, for which she received millions of dollars in honoraria, are leaked. Clinton’s refusal to release those texts tells us that their release would be politically damaging. Everything comes to light sooner or later. If it’s sooner — that is, before July — we may find out how just how damaging.
5. Clinton will not win enough elected (pledged) delegates to capture the nomination. It now appears likely this will in fact happen. That will enable the unpledged super delegates to vote for the candidate who they believe will have the best chance of defeating the Republican nominee. That would be Bernie.
Any of the top 4 scenarios might result in Hillary Clinton’s ignominious withdrawal from the presidential race and release of her delegates, followed by the party’s scramble for an alternative nominee. If Bernie Sanders doesn’t quit, he becomes the odds-on favorite for the job.
Ummmm, yeah. Scenarios 1, 3, and 4 are pretty much
smoke. This DU-member must be continuously breathing through his/her
to believe
Tsaritsa CHILL wouldn't brazen her way through #s 3 and 4, and #1 is wishful thinking (let him/her do a fortnight or month of one or more impassioned speeches a day, every day, and see what his/her voice sounds like!).
If the "Servergate" DU-folk have for months been denouncing as fake does result in an indictment, the Clinton behavior pattern since Slick Willy has been to brazen their way through such things, and
Tsaritsa CHILL almost certainly provided the will and strategies underlying their stonewalling and machinations.
Scenario #5 is almost certainly what most remaining
Bernbot Stalwarts' hope is. But it relies on
The CHILL's dedicated super-delegates being panicked by
The CHILL's too slim plurality into flipping to
The Bern,
who would have a smaller percentage of pledged delegates! Even as
smoke that's pretty thin!
