Physician Jill Stein, who is seeking the Green Party’s nomination for president in 2016, has called Bernie Sanders’ 2016 Democratic presidential campaign “wonderful” and stated that the Green Party “will not attack that campaign.”
However, she told RT on Saturday, “But unfortunately he is in a party that has a track record for basically sabotaging its rebels. It has done a good job of doing that in the past from Dennis Kucinich to Jesse Jackson to Howard Dean, whether they use a PR campaign like the ‘Dean’s scream’ to bring down the Dean candidacy. Also Jesse Jackson was sabotaged by a PR by the DNC. The Democratic Party has its ways of reigning people in if they try to rebel. The bottom line is that we are in political system in the U.S., which is funded by predatory banks and fossil fueled giants and war profiteers. So, we really need to reject that system, we say to reject the lesser evil so we can stand up and really fight for the greater good.”
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Yes, for a major party. Dole was 73 in 1996, as you said, and the oldest vice presidential nominee was Alben Barkley, who was 70 on Election Day 1948 and 71 when inaugurated.
On Election Day 1996, Bob Dole was 72.
On Election Day 2016, Bernie Sanders will be 75.
Hillary Clinton will be 69.
I wonder, would Sanders be the oldest candidate ever on a national ticket, for a major party?
Would Clinton/Sanders would be one of the oldest general election tickets ever? (Well, besides Bob Dole and anybody)
My first thought is the Republicans would cry socialist, but then I remember Trump is likely to be nominated and I can no longer predict anything.
Clinton picking Sanders for VP is as unlikely as it would have been for Dukakis to pick Jesse Jackson. A strong insurgent does not automatically get on the ticket. Clinton would be more likely to try to get Sherrod Brown or Elizabeth Warren (though I expect she’ll go with Julian Castro).
If by convention time, Clinton wins the most votes (in addition to most delegates), she can easily neutralize Sanders by picking him for VP. A Clinton/Sanders ticket should be popular with the Democratic base in November.
OTOH, should Sanders win most votes — but Clinton get the nomination due to the superdelegates — I don’t see Sanders accepting the VP slot. Then the base will be divided in November.
He did, today, win three out of four uncertain states no one expected him to, though, and the fourth was practically a tie. We all knew Clinton would win southern states anyway.
Independent of superdelegates that would make me say “too soon to tell.” But Stein will probably be proven right, if they don’t change their minds. They did in 2008, apparently.
They probably would, if it was necessary, but it’s not. You don’t have to sabotage the candidate who is losing all on his own.
To nitpick a tertiary point:
To blame the “Dean Scream” on the DNC is a stretch. It was a goofy moment that was perfect fodder for comedy. The fact that we know exactly what the Dean Scream is without an explanation, shows the “stickiness” of the whole Dean Scream meme.
I’ll at least give Dean this much: He didn’t have to ask his supporters to, “Please clap”.
I absolutely expect this to happen.