Speaker 1: Columnist Walter Shapiro is warning the Democrat presidential candidates they
Speaker 1: better be honest and they'd better stop playing the left
Speaker 1: wing extremists. He says, the candidates like Elizabeth Warren and
Speaker 1: Crazy Bernie better admit that they're big spending plans are
Speaker 1: not really gonna happen. They're just aspirational pie in the
Speaker 1: sky ideas. They're not really policy blueprints. Mr Shapiro has
Speaker 1: been around forever, by the way, says, Democrat presidential wannabes
Speaker 1: have more plans than the Allies drew up for d Day.
Speaker 1: And if these Democrats were to win the election, their
Speaker 1: campaign promises would come back to bite them in the butt.
Speaker 1: The fringe cook base that these candidates are appealing to
Speaker 1: the Twitter verse actually will actually expect them to fulfill
Speaker 1: all of these multi trillion dollar promises. And that's the rub.
Speaker 1: If a progressive Democrat president actually tried to implement any
Speaker 1: of these plans, they would end up losing the House
Speaker 1: and Senate by a landslide in the next midterms, a
Speaker 1: replay of what happened when Democrats forced Obamacare down the
Speaker 1: country's throat. So Mr Shapiro wants his beloved Democrat candidates
Speaker 1: to play it safe. He wants them to set realistic
Speaker 1: expectations so if one of them does make it to
Speaker 1: the White House, he or she will not be saddled
Speaker 1: with big, empty socialist promises. Mr Shapiro relaxed at this rate.
Speaker 1: Despite what the polls and you're drive by media buddies say,
Speaker 1: the chances are pretty slim any of these Democrats would
Speaker 1: win a national election. You don't do that by telling
Speaker 1: everybody how much you hate the country.