{"id":38399,"date":"2016-05-20T12:38:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T16:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=38399"},"modified":"2016-05-20T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T18:04:09","slug":"he-could-have-been-more-than-a-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=38399","title":{"rendered":"He Could Have Been (More Than) A Contender!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Rohnert Park, CA<br \/>\nMay 20, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Sanders had a real chance to become president. Had he<br \/>\nbeen willing to step up from the beginning and go after Hillary Clinton<br \/>\nin the aggressive manner that The Donald is using, he may have<br \/>\nalready dispatched her to the sidelines despite her big advantages.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is ripping Hillary apart! He is making her look weak and stupid.<br \/>\nHe is doing Bernie Sanders work for him! But it may be too little, too<br \/>\nlate to save his candidacy despite his late surge against Hillary.<\/p>\n<p>The likelihood that Bernie will be able to get Super Delegates to vote<br \/>\nfor him at this late date even though he is doing extremely well in the<br \/>\nprimaries is slim.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the polls show him doing better against Trump in November,<br \/>\nthese are the hard-core cadre of Clinton loyalists that will almost<br \/>\ndefinitely stay with their benefactor rather than do what is best for the<br \/>\nDemocratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, Trump is having a field day going after Hillary on so many<br \/>\nissues: her horrible record as Secretary of State; the criminal<br \/>\ninvestigation of her private e-mail server; her husband&#8217;s sexual history;<br \/>\nher responsibility for Libya and Syria; her many other scandals and<br \/>\nher trouble defeating the relatively weak Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>Yup: he could have been more than a contender. But if he loses the<br \/>\nnomination fight, many of his followers will line up behind Trump as the<br \/>\nbest way to thumb their noses at the establishment because Hillary is<br \/>\nfar more a symbol of all they hate than The Donald is.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all his many weaknesses, he more than anyone in the race has<br \/>\ncaptured the full angst of the American electorate. Bernie may have<br \/>\nsquandered the natural advantage of the Democratic Party in the general<br \/>\nelection by his failure to embrace an anti-war agenda, something Trump<br \/>\nhas done effectively against Jeb Bush and Hillary.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned folks: we are a long way from seeing how this plays out.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/trump-ask-hillary-who-blew-up-the-plane\/\">http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/trump-ask-hillary-who-blew-up-the-plane\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/trump-is-winning\/\">http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/trump-is-winning\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}