Why Democrats Should Pick Sanders Over Hillary

In an earlier article, I stated the case “Why Hillary Clinton Would Be a Weak Presidential Nominee for Democrats,” and I explained why Ms. Clinton will never be able to rise from her present poor net favorability ratings. All the good publicity about her is past (from her flaks), while her support (being based purely on PR, sheer fluff) was a mile wide and an inch deep. The more that voters get to see her actual record, the more they’ll distrust her words. That reason she’d be a weak general-election candidate is: she’s not at all a trustworthy person (except by her financial backers), and there’s nothing she’ll be able to do at this late date to convince general-election voters that she is. The trust issue is so bad for her, that no matter how much money is spent on her campaigns, it’ll be like trying to paddle a boat not in water but in air — there won’t be the traction that’s needed to get her to being the first person past the finish-line in the boat-race. That boat has already been sold to the highest bidder, even before the race begins. She can evade, but she cannot hide, now that the contest has actually started. As more Democrats learn about this, they’ll turn away. Too many Democrats will avoid voting in the final, the general-election contest, or else will protest-vote for some third-party nominee; whereas the Republican nominee, whomever he is, will clearly be Republican in more than just his official designation. By contrast to Clinton: if Sanders is the Democrat, then voter-turnout on Election Day on the Democratic line will be enormous. And turnout in a Presidential election is crucial also in a much broader sense: it largely determines which of the two Parties will control both the Senate and especially the House (where everybody is up for election every two years). Even if Clinton were to win (which is unlikely), she would then be dealing in 2017 with a strongly Republican Congress, because of 2016’s resulting depressed Democratic voter-turnout. By contrast: if Sanders is the nominee, then not only will he win, but he will possibly (maybe even likely) be dealing with a Democratic Congress in 2017, by virtue of his drawing so many Democrats to the polls on Election Day 2016.  OK you heard it from the horse’s mouth, Washington’s blog.

 Anne Coulter was on Shawn Hannity when I returned from juice break at a quarter after two, till ten to three in both long segment.  Anne has a new book out on “How the United States is being turned into a third world hell hole” because of our immigration policies.  She went on a diaria of the mouth rant as a torrent of accusations flowed out of her mouth such that Shawn could hardly get a word in edge wise.   She said there were not eleven million illegal aliens but thirty million and she says she knows because of school admittance records and prison records and of course mortgages.  She’s big on this idea that there were massive illegal alians stiffing the mortgage companies thus causing the crash of 2008.  She alleges that both the democrats and republicans WANT a flood of immigrants here.  The democrats want to turn them all into voters seemingly as soon as they cross the border.  The Republicans want low wages.  And of course if they send any money back home to Mexico it does right into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels.  And there are murderers and rapists and genital mutilators and of course most of the sex trade you hear about is caused by illegal immigrants.  I’m sure Judy would just eat this book up.  (Hopefully not!)   There was of course the usual commercial break at the bottom of the hour.  At eight to three I went out to smoke and talked to Glen.  I’ve given Glen quite a number of cigarettes and will be low myself.  Finally I got Norman Goldman coming in.  He says the “Lone Wolf” provisions of the Patriot act are those provisions that enable the government to harass and otherwise make trouble for people who just read suspect propaganda on line but otherwise show no other criminal indications.  There is this rampant fear of “Self radicalization”.

Modern scientific discoveries say they have "explained" how some people can get the feeling of an "out of body experiance" and say they have "duplicated the illusion" in the lab.  Nobody knows whether you or "your soul" survives death or not.  Christians don't even agree on imortality.  Some like me claim that the Soul is inherently Immortal.  Other Evangelists say that you are born natural with DNA and all that, and your DNA can even affect your Soul.  Others claim that "demonic activity in your family- - your ancesters- - can affect the "quality" of your Salvation.  Mental illness is a question.  Neil Savedra has claimed both that Mental Illness can affect your whole perception of "God issues" but he has at other times said that mental illness was no impediment to Salvation.  This line of thought usually says that you are born a "Natural man" like an animal, whom these people claim have no souls and do not survive death.  But that you have Immortality "bestowed" upon you by a Higher Power at some point in your life.  Hence the soul isn't immortal by nature but only as some bestowed gift from on high.  The Mormons believe the soul is inherently Immortal.  In fact they believe we all have lived a pre existance in Eternity before we were born, and that when we die our memories of our formal existance will be restored to us.  The Mormons believe the purpose of this life is to "learn certain Lessons you could not have learned otherwise".  If I have to choose I am more sympathetic to this view than the other one.  Some would logically argue that we need "to know what the soul is made of" before we can begin to speculate "where it goes" after Death.  It seems to me that it's easy to fall into some mental trap of viewing Death as some kind of Magic Carpet liberator of the soul no longer being trapped in this body.  But you can also argue that for consciousness to survive death the soul HAS to leave the body and to "Travel" some place in whatever "soul dimension" there is that exists.  After all you can hardly remain there in a dead body deprived of all senses or even awareness- for all Eternity.  Hence there is the logical necessity of some sort of travel in a demension otherwise unknown.  If there is inherent something "not of this world" about the soul, which I have believed- - then the "dimension of travel"  is something we have never experianced before.  We could call it fifth dimensional if you want to.  I see two choices here.  You can take a trip and end up back where you started.  Or you can take a trip only to end your trip in a different city perhaps, if you've decided to relocate.  You can travel OUT of this Universe- - - for a while- only to return to this same time-space continuoum.  Or- - you can travel OUT of this Universe or what we call "In the fifth dimension" only to end up in Another Universe.  As I have said before the possabilities that await us upon Death (if any at all) are positively Endless.

Then it was the soap opera where Melanie is getting out of the script and on the most flimsy of reason is deciding she doesn’t want to marry Brady.  In fact she doesn’t want to be in the same country with him but is moving back to England with her mother.  Remember how only “yesterday” she was professing such great happiness at “being home with her loved ones such as her father and her grandmother and Brady”.  Now she’s throwing all of that in the trash can all because of a threat given by Teresa.   If push came to shove Brady would choose her over his son, because (if it were me) the guilt factor would work with Teresa that she was doing the wrong thing by going to Los Angeles with her mother.  In time Teresa would realize that what worked as a threat doesn’t work so well if you actually get it, because it’s not what she wants - - that is- - living with her parents in LA while Brady and Melanie find marital bliss in Salem.  The worst part of what Melanie did was that now- - - she’s not only inducing Brady to hate Teresa by being saddled with her in a living arrangement he doesn’t want- - but in the end he’ll begin to hate Melanie for making a choice for him, which is a choice HE should be the one to make.

Jim Ward is on with maximum mookage now.  There was a rock compilation listed on the entry “Bastille Day” on “For the Record” which should be re-named “Super Heavy” because all of the songs including ‘Instant Amnesia’ were ‘Super Heavy” not to mention long songs that I doubt would even all fit on two CD’s.  Actually 6 x 13 is 78 so all the pieces need to be is to average less than six minutes in length.   My blogger numbers are rising a little in my current blog.  Actually I was looking for the “Best of Ringo” CD that’s listed somewhere.