Sadly, as long as billionaires keep funding the GOP jerks, itās harder than ever to give up. Most had no business running to begin with.
Sanders to the presidency: āI canāt quit you.ā Another memorable moment from Bernback Mountain.
Hillary said all the right things and threw the ball into Sanders court. Will he do the right things or is he the new Nader?
Surely, he wonāt go there and heāll keep his word regarding Hillary being infinitely more qualified than any Republican candidate in the race and about the necessity of having a Democrat in the White House.
It may be hard to quit but āThe Mathā will be helpful to āThe Bernā in figuring that out.
He wonāt be quitting before CA. But its pretty clear they realize he canāt win the nomination, and lobbying super delegates is a foolās errand for him. So they will spend the remaining time trying to force their agenda onto the party platform.
Look forward to more calls attacking the DNC and the establishment for being unfair because they arenāt letting the loser determine everything.
āItās hard, Jake. I mean you throw yourself in to these campaigns body and soul. You work 24/7,ā she said. " Your family, your supporters, everybody is so invested in trying to win, and Iām very proud of my campaign, grateful that I have such strong support but I absolutely understand that Senator Sanders has been a passionate advocate for positions that he cares deeply about. I think thatās been helpful to the democratic primary process."
Well put.
I hope this conciliatory comment and the Sanders decision to drop the lawsuit signal a ratcheting-down of the hostility between the two camps. Iām not so naive as to think that Sanders and Clinton will ever be best buddies, but at this point ongoing warfare benefits nobody but the Republicans.
I donāt expect Sanders to campaign at all for Clinton, but if all he does is tell his followers that they should vote for Clinton in November, thatās enough for me.
Aināt that the truth. I truly wonder if Sanders and his people realize what they are asking for or are they that deluded?
He wonāt be just a typical loser of a campaign either, he is an outsider/a guest of the Democrat Party and as such, he should be more respectful and grateful.
Personally, other than money, I donāt see the point in staying in until California. Does he really, really want to see how much he is being buried and how overwhelmingly more popular Hillary is?
Itās a stone cold fact now, I guess Bernie needs a stone cold fact cast in cement.
Unlike Nader, Sanders has to go back to being a Senator after all this is over. If he wants any chance of passing any legislation of interest to him, heāll need the support of his Democratic colleagues. Thatās the primary reason he wonāt/canāt go full Nader.
On the other hand, his campaign will raise his statue as a Senator.
Sanders hasnāt passed any legislation of interest to him in 25 years in Congress. Why would he suddenly become interested in doing so now?
Bernie is quite content with putting up unrealistic bills and then scolding everyone else for not supporting them. Its been his style his entire tenure in Congress.
I wasnāt aware that they were building new post offices in Vermont ; )
Unless Bernie gets real and tries to work with the ACA or with Elizabeth Warren re: Wall Street, then he isnāt going to pass much more than a gall stone.
The āNader Incidentā is THE Albatross of the Democratic Party and while I think that Bernie is a bit grumpy and too selfish, I donāt believe that he is mean enough to jack our whole Party and himself for eternity just to get even or whatever.
Where is Ralph Nader BTW, he perished after he Nadered the nation. See!
Just the opposite really. His scorched earth policy campaign has hurt him with his fellow Senators. I see Sanders slinking back to work without a friend (not that he had any to begin with) with no chance of sitting on committees let alone being committee chair. Sanders has burned down all bridges in his Quixotic quest for the Presidency. Luckily for him he is old enough to quit and go home to lick his wounds. Once this is over he wonāt be heard from again.
Somewhere on a left of center site, this story has already accumulated hundreds of comments by Berniebots enraged to the point of hysterical blindness by these remarks.
I think his votes and stands on issues will be noted where before he was merely in the background. Time will tell.
Love the typo. A real Freudian slip.
It would be good if heād at least say a few nice words about her, but Iām not counting on that.
But what I am really, really looking forward to is that, once Sanders gets out, Obama, Biden, and Warren will be free to campaign like crazy.
On the other hand, his campaign will raise his statue as a Senator.
Great catch ā¦ I completely missed it!
Unless he acts the assholish bitter old man, ala McGrumpyPants, he will be forgotten by December.
I voted for the man. Obama was my choice in 2008. Bernie stays in even up to the convention, if he does it classy like Hillary did, he does himself good and his movement. Make your legacy count for something, build on it.