work on the virus is great, but ...

but...

Fuck...I give up.

If what we are dealing with NOW is NOT ENOUGH to get all of us on board and on one team NOTHING EVER WILL

And Sanders flat lied about his 'support' for Mrs. Clinton.

He did not do what he had to do to be an effective campaigner for her in 2016. He needed to apologize. He needed to say he was wrong, that there was no basis whatever for the smears of 'rigged election' and 'corruption' his campaign leveled against Mrs. Clinton. He need to tell his supporters unequivocally to stand down at the convention, and to ask the credentials of those delegates of his who disrupted be revoked, and the disruptors be expelled. He needed, when he made campaign speeches, to speak only of Mrs. Clinton, and what a fine President she would be, rather than simply trim his stump speech with a few compliments, and proceed to boasting aout his 'success' in the primaries and how he was the future of the Party.

'Bernie' of course could not do any of this. He still lives in the 'chicks make coffee and worship radical warriors' mindset he acquired as a young college Marxist. The very idea of 'Bernie' apologizing to a woman, of taking a backseat to a woman, acknowledging a woman beat him fair and square....


"Your attitude is noticed! Oh, yes, it is noticed!"





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

Alexander Pope was probably thinking of Bernie and his merry band of revolutionary surrogates when he wrote: "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.” Sanders basically taught his followers how to sneer at the Democratic party.

An excellent quote. Thank you for sharing it. It summarizes the case perfectly.

...September 5. That's 39 days before he grudgingly began campaigning.

As you point out, too, he did nothing about his disruptive supporters at the convention. He sat there smugly watching it, not saying a word about it.

Well, I guess half-assed efforts and waiting til after the convention to step up qualifies as "support."

I forget what the exact numbers were that I saw for after the Democratic convention. But I do remember his efforts constituted about half what he did, campaigning for himself. By the numbers, it worked out to roughly half as many speeches as there were days in each month after the convention. Like - 15 or 16 per month, assuming a month has 30 days. When he was in it for himself, he was making campaign stops on a daily basis. Quite often, MORE than one PER day. Sometimes two or three (or more) campaign stops per day. And he did NOTHING between the end of the primary season to the convention. NOTHING. Hillary could have used the help.

She certainly made it happen after Barack Obama clinched the nomination by the time the primary season ended in 2008. She didn't sit and sulk for half the summer and wait til after the convention was over. She got right on it in JUNE. And she led the New York delegation, being the one to announce its votes to nominate him on the floor of the convention on nomination night.

Some of us don't forget, Bernie. Some of us WON'T EVER forget.

themselves a Democrat only when it's to their benefit to do so.

Going forward, the DNC needs better and more restrictive rules on who gets to run "as a" Democrat.

Actually, no more of this "as a" Democrat nonsense. The phrase "as a Democrat" clearly means that the comparison is being made with something that is NOT a Democrat. The candidate may be similar to a Democrat, but it's not actually Democrat, and therefore we cannot be assured that the best interests of the Democratic Party will be held in high regard by the "as a" Democrat contender.

I'm even suspicious of the "recently declared" Democrats who switch parties for one reason or another. I feel the same away about those politicians who believe it is in their current and immediate best interests to just-now make a party declaration of being a Democrat.

Therefore, I believe anyone who fancies a shot at becoming the Democratic presidential nominee must be a Democrat for at least ONE FULL election cycle--FOUR YEARS--before they can throw their hat into our ring and seek our party's nomination.

Being an "ally" isn't good enough. Having an 80% voting-with-Democrats record isn't good enough. Promising to "govern as" a Democrat isn't good enough.

We need one message. Bernie is not a team player.

anyone running for the Democratic nomination needs to have run for their last or current office as a Democrat or be a registered Democrat in their home state for the last 5 years.

No more interlopers or carpetbagger-types. Actually, I think if one bothers to look up the meaning of carpetbagger, it's easy to see that it is indeed something that the Democratic party should seek to avoid.

to Whoopi Goldberg in that clip. He starts off trying to shush her and then starts talking over her. Very defensive about 2016. Very rude and hostile. he's not looking good.

of the junior senator from VT than Andrea Mitchell.

good answer.

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