St. Bernie Sanders Drops by Swanky Martha’s Vineyard to Beg for Money

It has been with bemusement and bewilderment to see many liberals lining up to back Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders as an alternative to Queen Hillary. The aging Sanders - who is a proud socialist - may be drawing big crowds now but he will be crushed by the Clinton political machine like cockroach pulverized by a jackboot when the time comes. 

I have more than a few friends who are whimsical and naïve liberals and to them old Bernie is nearly a Christ like figure but alas they are being conned - just like they were by Obama. Sanders is really nothing more than a Democrat ringer to provide the appearance that there is a choice when there really isn’t and if liberals were to take their heads out of the Kool Aid vat for long enough to take a good look around it would be clear for even them to see.

Bernie outed himself as just another political charlatan with his visit to the tony enclaves of Martha’s Vineyard to schmooze with the wealthy elite and to fundraise. As reported by the New York Times in the story “Bernie Sanders Courts Martha’s Vineyard Donors”:

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has risen in the polls thanks in part to his denunciations of the forces of concentrated wealth, drawing thousands of liberals to hear his jeremiads against corporate power in early nominating states and liberal hubs such as Madison, Wis.

But Mr. Sanders quietly stepped off the campaign trail this weekend to visit Martha’s Vineyard, a favorite summer destination of the country’s elite, in order to mix with representatives of some of the same interests he inveighs against in his stump speech.

Mr. Sanders attended the annual Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fund-raiser on the Massachusetts island, a popular gathering that draws some of the most prominent business lobbyists and fund-raisers in the Democratic Party.

One prominent attendee, a supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, suggested Mr. Sanders’s appearance suggested he was more pragmatic than his rhetoric would let on.

“Bernie is attracting throngs and has a wave going preaching against the one percent,” said the attendee, requesting anonymity to speak candidly. “So why would he take the weekend to spend in Martha’s Vineyard with wealthy people who are donating at least $37,000 and change to the DSCC?” (That is the minimum contribution to the Senate Democrats campaign arm in order to attend the event).

The website Twitchy has a series of Tweets hitting Sanders for his pilgrimage to the hallowed land of the one percent in the post entitled “Bernie Sanders boldly declares ‘money cannot be the God of life’ while raising money on Martha’s Vineyard” which is something that any liberal idiot who actually thinks that the guy has even the chance of a showball in the foundry pits of Hades should read. I did actually drop by the orange festooned cyber-sewer Daily Kos this morning and didn't see anything about St. Bernie's trip to the Vineyard but hey, you have to keep the sheep in line until Queen Hillary is able to hone her own fake populist shtick to perfection.

Sanders’ presence at Martha’s Vineyard shows just how cynical a pack of backstabbing weasels that America’s career politicians are as well as what a bunch of chumps that liberals always will be. Listening to all of the hogwash that Bernie is the messiah who would deliver them from the clutches of capitalist evil is more pathetic than anything. It also shows a certain willful detachment from the reality that is the USA in 2015 where money is everything in politics. This is an undeniable maxim that is even true for a hypocritical old goat like Bernie Sanders.

Neocons Hedge Bets in Backing Flaky Rick Perry

The very definition of a fixed horserace is when the same interests own both horses in that race. Such is the growing neocon push behind Texas Governor Rick Perry who has been cleaned up after his 2012 GOP primary season embarrassment to emerge as the Mexican bashing, American exceptionist promoting ringer in the upcoming race against neocon Democratic party candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. They even gave him Barry Goldwater style horn-rimmed glasses for his coming out party.

 The neocon central transmission beacon The Washington Post prominently featured an op ed allegedly penned by Perry entitled “Isolationist policies make the threat of terrorism even greater" in a broadside against the growing libertarian element in the party led by Senator Rand Paul. Make no mistake about it, the REAL enemy in the 2016 presidential and congressional elections are Americans who are fed up with our costly meddling in the world and the ongoing hatred that it generates – which is entirely justified when you consider that the military grade murder brought by the USA! USA! USA! – in foreign lands in which we murder innocent civilians for corporate profits and the spreading of “democracy” as a carpet bombing of enduring horseshit.

Dig the following from the Texas Governor’s WAPO propaganda spiel:

As a veteran, and as a governor who has supported Texas National Guard deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, I can understand the emotions behind isolationism. Many people are tired of war, and the urge to pull back is a natural, human reaction. Unfortunately, we live in a world where isolationist policies would only endanger our national security even further.

[First off Perry’s vaunted military service was not combat service, while not a draft dodger like the last Texas Governor to run for president Rambo Rick flew transport planes, like the line from Top Gun about “flying a cargo plane of rubber dogshit out of Hong Kong”. Even in a time where the cult of the uniform and the worship of all things military here in The Homeland Perry’s will be hard pressed to sell his military duties as something of valor – at least to those with any sense.]

That’s why it’s disheartening to hear fellow Republicans, such as Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), suggest that our nation should ignore what’s happening in Iraq. The main problem with this argument is that it means ignoring the profound threat that the group now calling itself the Islamic State poses to the United States and the world.

[Rand Paul supports the “terrorists” and if you vote for him so do you]

In the Islamic State, which came to prominence in Syria and now controls ample territory, weapons and cash in both that country and Iraq, the world is confronting an even more radicalized version of Islamic extremism than al-Qaeda. This group is well-trained, technologically sophisticated and adept at recruitment, with thousands of people with European passports fighting on its side, as well as some Americans.

[Is the anti-Muslim fear-mongering EVER going to jump the shark? When you have right-wing media promoting alarmist tales of a southern border invasion based on a “Muslim prayer rug” that was found in Arizona that was really just a fucking soccer jersey isn’t it time to just call all of the anti-Muslim bigots out as being crazy and moving on to real issues?]

This represents a real threat to our national security — to which Paul seems curiously blind — because any of these passport carriers can simply buy a plane ticket and show up in the United States without even a visa. It’s particularly chilling when you consider that one American has already carried out a suicide bombing and a terrorist-trained European allegedly killed four at the Jewish Museum in Brussels

[Reference to the Jewish Museum shooting is a thinly veiled plea for Sheldon Adelson’s millions come campaign season]

Yet Paul still advocates inaction, going so far as to claim in an op-ed last month in the Wall Street Journal that President Ronald Reagan’s own doctrines would lead him to same conclusion.

But his analysis is wrong. Paul conveniently omitted Reagan’s long internationalist record of leading the world with moral and strategic clarity.

Unlike the noninterventionists of today, Reagan believed that our security and economic prosperity require persistent engagement and leadership abroad. He, like Eisenhower before him, refused to heed “the false prophets of living alone.”

Reagan identified Soviet communism as an existential threat to our national security and Western values, and he confronted this threat in every theater. Today, we count his many actions as critical to the ultimate defeat of the Soviet Union and the freeing of hundreds of millions from tyranny.

At the time, though, there were those who said that Reagan’s policies would push the Soviets to war. These voices instead promoted accommodation and timidity in the face of Soviet advancement as the surest path to peace. This, sadly, is the same policy of inaction that Paul advocates today.

In the face of the advancement of the Islamic State, Paul and others suggest the best approach to this 21st-century threat is to do next to nothing. I personally don’t believe in a wait-and-see foreign policy for the United States. Neither would Reagan.

Reagan led proudly from the front, not from behind, and when he drew a “red line,” the world knew exactly what that meant.

[Just like Pleasantville, there are no roads leading out of REAGANGRAD for the Republicans who have yet to find a successful ideology with widespread appeal – such as the one that Rand Paul and a new national policy of minding our own damned business would equivocate. Were this embraced then the GOP just might win another general election in the next fifty years instead of babbling Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan and clicking their heels together in the hope of a different result than another embarssing ass-whipping by incompetents like Obama]

The neocons have made no secret that they would be ecstatic at the prospect of a Hillary Clinton regime, they can finally return to the Democratic party from which they left in disgust back when the unwashed rabble who were protesting the Vietnam War chose George McGovern as their candidate. Nothing will facilitate that becoming a reality than a Rick Perry Republican candidacy, if this is the matchup then Adelson can just pocket his filthy blood money and go to his grave knowing that heads he wins and tails we lose – just like the casino business.