Suddenly the GOP is for Socialism, Single Payer, and Glass-Steagall

This morning Joe Scarborough was on his MSNBC show, Morning Joe, defending Bernie Sanders. So he's a socialist, what's the problem with that?

After Obama was creamed by GOPers for years for being a socialist when he isn't, they now love socialism. What's wrong with socialism, it's a perfectly fine thing. Amazing how much progress they've made in the couple of days Bernie's been running.

For years they have been in a Holy War against Obamacare. In 2013 they actually again shut down the government in a Quixotic attempt to end or weaken the ACA.

Now, however, the RNC is defending Bernie's single player plan from Hillary Clinton attacks. Where were they in 1994 when she was pushing something close to single payer?

They have fulminated against Dodd-Frank for years. But now Morning Joe was on saying that breaking up the big banks is a great idea.

I'm sure this is all because they think Bernie will be tougher to beat in the general.

They are Bernie Sanders Republicans in the way that I'm a Trump Democrat.

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-bernie-sanders-republicans.html

P.S. Bernie's ground game is not quite on the level of Obama's according to FiveThirtyEight.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/sanderss-iowa-ground-game-is-good-but-it-aint-obamas/

Like I said earlier, the media is making it sound like Bernie is the favorite in Iowa now and from the standpoint of the Clinton team this is all to the good. Expectations have clearly been lowered.

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/ha-goodman-on-how-bernie-wins-black.html

Finally Krugman notes my point as well. Bernie resembles Obama the candidate but Hillary resembles Obama the President.

"Krugman opens fire on the big promises Sanders is making about how mobilization can achieve major, transformational change, looking at the Obama presidency to show Sanders is wrong:

"His achievements have depended at every stage on accepting half loaves as being better than none: health reform that leaves the system largely private, financial reform that seriously restricts Wall Street’s abuses without fully breaking its power, higher taxes on the rich but no full-scale assault on inequality….Mr. Sanders is the heir to candidate Obama, but Mrs. Clinton is the heir to President Obama."

"Indeed, Sanders is arguing explicitly that the change Obama achieved is small beer compared to the scale of the challenges we face, and he’s suggesting that he will somehow achieve a popular mobilization much grander and more transformational than the one Obama ever achieved."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/01/22/the-gop-establishment-capitulates-to-donald-trump/

True, though the trick is you have to be a candidate before you can be President. But I do think for a number of reasons-first and foremost the black vote and that most Dems do think the President has been very successful-this isn't 2008.

But again, the extreme negativity of the press right now is a feature not a bug.