Sanders Returns: "It's Not Just About Me," Clinton Will Have To Change Her Platform To Earn My Suppo

[MADem]

95. Makes sense, simply from an age and effort POV.

You have a LOT more help at the cabinet level, huge staff, massive budget, you get a plane when you need it, you can go on "fact finding" visits hither and yon, the work is not all that hard, if you can delegate, it's a good life. Also, the pay is quite good.

Certainly easier than having to campaign again in '18 (not that VT is a huge area to cover, but there are a lot of people mad at him about the F-35 in Burlington, and there are other things he can be poked/prodded about, fair or not). He's got the fundraising thing down now (after all these years), but people do weary of being regarded as "the well" after a time.

It also puts him in his very own wheelhouse--the focus of his campaign has been wages, labor, etc. He doesn't have a CLUE as to what is going on in the Middle East, I think Putin would eat him alive, we'd be relying on crazed Republicans to make us appear insane enough to back them off, instead of using constructive diplomacy. But LABOR? He can point that finger, wave that arm, rile 'em up, and get cheers.

I think it's a win-win.

We'll see, though!