Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is toddling off to Iowa and a couple of other early-primary states to speak on income inequality. And because it's August and there's nothing else to talk about, everyone is abuzz. Is Bernie running for President?
Now, we cats have already selected our candidate for 2016, and it's not Bernie Sanders. But we have a lovely little Bernie Sanders fantasy — one that will never happen, but which we love thinking about nevertheless.
Our fantasy is that Ralph Nader — who loves to say that Democrats are as terrible as Republicans are — gets so excited about the idea of Independent Bernie Sanders possibly landing in the White House that he offers an endorsement. And Bernie rejects it.
Wouldn't it be great? "I hereby reject Ralph Nader's endorsement because more than anybody else, it's Ralph Nader's fault that America is where it is. Barack Obama has spent the last several years trying to undo the damage that Ralph Nader helped make possible by tossing the 2000 election to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. If you loved the 2008 financial meltdown, the lies about WMD in Iraq, and the Supreme Court's decisions on Hobby Lobby, the Voting Rights Act and Citizens United, you have Ralph Nader and his ridiculous 2000 ego trip to thank for it. Ralph Nader, take your endorsement and shove it."
Of course, it's a silly daydream. But we'd love it if it somehow came true. We still wouldn't vote for Bernie Sanders for President. But we'd definitely send him a mash note.
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