Hillary is another in the long line of candidates I’m being asked to settle for. I don’t want to settle again this year.
As a kid I wasn’t excited about Humphrey. I was a Mo Udall delegate in the Texas caucuses in 1976. I worked for Gary Hart in ‘84. I was for Dukakis in ‘88. Frankly, I can’t remember who I was for in ‘92. It wasn’t Bill. I was all in for Dean in 2004. Obama in 2008.
I’m from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party. I want my candidate to represent me. Bernie is that candidate. Unlike my candidates of the past, Bernie has real blue collar appeal as well as wine track cachet. I want him running and winning in November, not just in the primaries. He can beat the horrible people coming out of the GOP primary. Bernie can excite us and push our congressional reps to stand up on their hind legs again.
The Democrats now in the House and Senate are much more receptive to Bernie’s message than would have been the Democrats of 1993 and 1994, back in Bill and Hill’s first term. We can make real progress if we have a strong voice speaking truth to the nation. The time for incrementalism and triangulation is over. Call your mother! Call your grandmother! #FeeltheBern