Coop Scoop #7 Bonus Edition: Debate of the Dead

Feb 25
Issue #7
coopscoopnews@gmail.com Bonus Edition: The Debate of the Dead


The Monday night South Carolina Democratic Debate was a two hour long garish, and rather nauseating display, of the moral and political bankruptcy of the Democratic Party and should serve as a chilly warning of a POSSIBLE re-election of Donald Trump.

While Trump is out there holding one boisterous rally after another with his amped up supporters, the Democratic Zombie Candidates are on a TV stage beating the stuffing out of each other and libeling the only candidate up there who can inspire voters every bit or more as Trump can…and the same guy who can actually cut into Trump’s base.

You come away from this sordid exercise wondering what is a greater threat to our future: climate change, increasing inequality, OR is it actually Bernie Sanders and Fidel Castro? By the way, the coming virus pandemic, the immigration crisis, the lawlessness of the Trump DOJ and other core issues in our society were barely or not even touched on.

The predictably incompetent and ignorant moderators from CBS not only could not keep any focus on these sort of issues, but could not even control the stage as the candidates. especially the desperate and losing ones. -- were pushed to wildly argue over the mostly trivial gotcha questions thrown their way.

I morally refuse to even address in this report many of the specifics of what was discussed tonight because, frankly, they do not matter. Who gives two cents of a damn what sexist jokes Bloomberg told, or the usual questions, (only about Medicare) about how you gonna pay for it. No follow up on the questions on how our grandchildren are going to pay for the Endless Wars that Bloomie and Biden applauded.

Here are some of my own scattered thoughts as I try to regain my mental balance.

Here is my biggest single takeaway. Time for egomaniacs like Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Steyer and Klobuchar to get the fug out of the race so we can get closer to a general election campaign and start blasting away at Donald Trump. Biden has a very narrow path depending a lot on what happens in South Carolina and Warren still has a VERY narrow path so let’s give them till Super Tuesday (next Tuesday) to linger and then… time to exit. Those of us who oppose Trump want a kick-ass, fiery and strong candidate who will fearlessly go toe to toe with Trump, punch his lights out and it seems rather obvious that Sanders is the only one up there who could do that.

You think egomaniac is too nasty a modifier for the so called “moderates?” Well, they certainly are, at least by their own “moderate” perspective. If it is true, as they argue, that the party, the country and the world will end if Sanders is the nominee, then why don’t they pact NOW and decide on the ONE candidate they will back against Sanders? [Insert laugh track here]. No way as this is still the ego phase of the primary.

I don’t think it will come as a surprise to many that I thought Bloomberg was the most disgusting of all. He couldn’t wait two minutes before he directly accused Bernie Sanders of being a Russian tool. Hey, Mayor….Russian or Cuban or both? And if there is such a thing as anti-charismatic it's Michael Bloomberg. Of course he spent hundreds of millions just to be elected Mayor of NYC because buying the office was the ONLY way an arrogant, wooden billionaire could win anything more than dog catcher. According to Bloomberg, Bernie is a Russian-Cuban stooge because he praised Cuba's literacy program but the Mayor has no problem licking the arse of one of the world's most outstanding totalitarians.... President Xi of China (where Bloomie does a whole lot of business).

Again, as readers of this know, I am a Sanders supporter but I call them as I see them and have no fanatic loyalties. But there are two realities here that are undeniable: Bernie Sanders is on the verge of being unstoppable, if he isn’t already. And his fellow candidates are doing everything humanly possible to destroy him and make sure he enters the general election badly wounded and bleeding. Those who have banged on for months about the imperative of "party unity" are the ones know trying to split it wide open and, as you know, have openly threatened to strip Sanders of the nomination if he falls even one delegate short of an absolute majority, I am beginning to think that if Sanders does wind up being the nominee that there are Democrats who will WANT him to lose and then be able to crow I Told You So.

The bottom line is that this debate will change absolutely nothing except maybe turn off a few million Democrats with even bothering to vote. Just to be specific for a moment: Biden MIGHT squeak out a narrow victory in South Carolina but he has spent zero dollars on any TV buys in the 16 Super Tuesday states and is a more than a 20 to 1 long shot to win the nomination. Know why he can't do much after SC? He’s broke. Donors don’t give money to consistent 3rd and 4th place finishers...or better said, Ditto Klobuchar who has been dead from the beginning. And Pete is hitting the racial wall in South Carolina forward after getting less than 2% of the black vote in Nevada.

This primary election is a referendum on whether the Democrats want to fight for a better future or cower and retreat to the past. The red-baiting during the debate was sickening – but predictable, I am sorry to say. These “Democrats” waving a red flag of a socialist Bernie Bugaboo spent more time publicly worrying about how they are going to win over supposedly (and mostly invisible) moderate Republicans than they did talking about how to inspire, mobilize, and defend and, God Forbid, expand the universe of Democratic voters. The general election is NOT going to be won in the middle, whatever that means. It’s going to be about which of the two candidates can generate the biggest and most enthusiastic turn-out. Bloomberg? Biden? You have got to be kidding. They will be merely appetizers for Trump.

I will end this short and rushed rant with this reminder, especially aimed at the bedwetting, cowering Democrats who are scared stiff that Sanders will be the new George McGovern. I am going to take that radically ahistorical argument apart in the next few days. For this evening, suffice it to say that there is one Democratic candidate who did worse than McGovern who has been conveniently overlooked since the outbreak of the anti-Sanders hysteria. It was, in fact, moderate Walter Mondale in 1984 who lost 49 states and got fewer electoral votes than McGovern. His primary challenger was none other than Jesse Jackson who was labeled too liberal and too black to win. Brilliant decision. Sound familiar?

Oh, yeah, and the “moderates” also lost in 1980, 2000, 2004, and 2016. After McGovern, the party moved farther and farther to the right, culminating in the election of semi-Republican Bill Clinton in 1992 (in which he got only 42% of the vote and won thanks to spoiler Ross Perot). Obama broke, or tried to break this drift to the right after the debacle of the Bush administration and he was able to win because the country had changed radically since the days of McGovern-Nixon He led an inspirational children’s crusade that temporarily overthrew the Democratic Establishment – until he decided to re-assemble and join it.

For the umpteenth time. None of us know who is “electable” against the most unelectable candidate of them all, Donald Trump. I am convinced that Sanders has the best chance to beat him and also the best chance of reshaping the Democratic Party for the future. One thing the moderates are right about…Trump is winning the Democratic Primary so far. But not because of something Sanders said about Castro or Ortega or the man in the moon or because Bernie Sanders is running awat with one victory after another. It’s rather because of the cacophonous Beltway Babble pouring forth from the moderates themselves who have with very few exceptions nothing inspiring or new to offer to a despondent country.

Let’s get rid of this dead wood already and let’s gin up that battle against Donald J. Trump --+--

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