I’m an Elizabeth Warren supporter. But my second choice is Bernie Sanders. I was a Bernie supporter in 2016.
Sanders and Warren are the two candidates who most closely match my ideology. I’d really like one of them to be the nominee.
The biggest barrier to that outcome, at the moment, is this idiotic feud about who said what three years ago and who let it slip.
The only beneficiary of this asshatery is going to be Biden and Buttigieg.
Look, the single purpose of a campaign is to get its candidate the nomination. So campaigns do a lot of stuff that isn’t in the best interests of democracy in general. Bernie’s minions were using a script that denigrated Warren. Warren’s minions leaked the 2016 conversation. That’s what campaigns do.
At the outset, everyone says “We’re not going to get dirty, so we can have unity at the end.”, But when it all heats up, like now, right before the Iowa caucuses, campaigns do stuff. It’s all but inevitable.
But I’m not voting for a campaign. I’m going to be voting for a candidate. I’m going to be voting to try to get the candidate who best represents me to the White House. I won’t be trying to destroy someone else’s campaign, because that other campaign may be my best chance if my candidate fails.
Burning bridges is not a winning strategy here.
By the way, am I the only one feeling a little sorry for Tom Steyer in that clip. There he is, standing there like the guy who came to the wedding with his cousin who couldn’t get a date and doesn’t know anybody, including the bride and groom, and when he came up to introduce himself he realizes that he doesn’t want to be part of this conversation, but it’s too late to back away…