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It’s not a stretch to equate running for president to deciding to get married.<\/p>\n

You’d better be all in on both counts, or else you’re doomed to fail in both endeavors.<\/p>\n

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who sounds like a left-leaning Democrat, now says he’s not so sure about running for president, which many liberals in his party want him to do.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/03\/bernie-sanders-isnt-so-sure-about-this-2016-thing-116031.html?hp=l3_3<\/p>\n

Don’t hold your breath on this one, lefties. I don’t think Sanders is going to do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I run it has to be done well,\u201d Sanders said in an interview with POLITICO this week. \u201cAnd if it\u2019s done well, and I run a winning campaign or a strong campaign, it is a real boon to the progressive community, because I believe that the issues I talk about are issues that millions and millions of people believe in. On the other hand, if one were to run a poor campaign, didn\u2019t have a well-funded campaign, didn\u2019t have a good organization, did not do well, because of your own limitations, then that would be a setback for the progressive community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sanders is sounding, with those comments,\u00a0as if he’s full of doubt about whether it’s worth it.<\/p>\n

Politico noted that he hasn’t raised much money, has hired virtually zero key campaign advisers, has done next to no groundwork in any of the early crucial primary and caucus states.<\/p>\n

Now he’s talking like someone who seems to question whether he has the fire in his gut to go all the way.<\/p>\n

The late Sen. George McGovern once said that the first thing a presidential candidate needs is a huge ego. Sanders likely possesses the requisite ego to mount a campaign. He needs the rest of it — all of it<\/em> — to make it a reality. I’m talking about commitment.<\/p>\n

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It’s not a stretch to equate running for president to deciding to get married. You’d better be all in on both counts, or else you’re doomed to fail in both endeavors. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who sounds like a left-leaning Democrat, now says he’s not so sure about running for president, which … Continue reading Sanders sounding like a non-candidate<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[73,597,1893,3653,5246],"class_list":["post-8559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-2016-campaign","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-george-mcgovern","tag-politico","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}