Can someone with a logical brain please answer a question for me?
Many ITT have claimed that supporters of candidates who failed should be angry, livid, or uncontrollably outraged at those candidates for failing. Why was I not more angry at Pete? Why isn’t @alex calling for Liz Warren’s head?
If we are going off the assumption that this should be the way of things, then why the hell aren’t you all more upset at Bernie? Why are you not livid that he failed in his campaign? Why aren’t you outraged that his staff fucked this up and apparently had a strategy that fell apart when one or two players fell on grenades? What blindness led his team to not even consider the possibility that the center would coalesce early?
Oddly, I’m more angry at Bernie’s campaign than I am at Pete’s. Pete ran an incredible campaign. He hit a triple off a Luis Castillo changeup. Bernie batted 8th, swung and whiffed off a floater right down the middle, and now we’re left with a .057-avg pitcher at the plate with 2 outs and a full count, when we’re down by a run.
Introspection and logical thinking…too much to ask?
I don’t know why Pete supporters would be mad at Pete. He realized he wasn’t going to win and endorsed the candidate with the best chance who was most ideologically aligned with him. He’s put himself in a good position for political advancement. Quite an achievement for a young mayor from a moderately small city and a win for his faction in the Democratic Party.
Meh. If you were a Liz fan who thought that she and Bernie were really very close on policy and that advancing that policy was more important to her than her standing in the Party, I could see being disappointed in her.
I literally said what that thing could be in the next sentence, and we were only talking about her releasing that specific wonk plan at that specific time.
I’ve been literally offering up alternatives to “her being a snake who dreamed up her whole campaign as a way to destroy him.”
