It is truly shocking that people in politics use language like this. All this time I thought such phrasing was limited to the clergy.
When life gives you Hillary Clinton, make Hillary Clinton Aide.
No…No…NO…WTH. I really expect more out of Hillary’s team. I was always impressed with the No Drama Obama staff. We need that now. Do NOT stir the pot.
“hopes of Democratic voters unifying to support the party’s nominee in the general election growing more remote.”
Oh, please! Give me a fucking break! The Bernie supporters who were never going to vote in the first place because they are now bored with politics will stay home, and the vast majority of the rest will vote for Clinton. This stupid, unrealistic “threat” is used by the media for clickbait and to keep the horserace aspect of the election. Remember all the breathless media speculation about whether Obama could ever overcome the vast desertion of pro-Hillary voters and the dreaded “PUMAs”? It really is a shame, though, that Senator Obama didn’t win his races for Prez in 2008 and 2012. Oh, wait…
Gee, to tell you the truth, after being called a “Democrat whore” by the Bernie campaign last week, I was actually hoping someone would tell Sanders to go fuck himself a few days ago.
Better yet…F**K Susan Sarandon??
The math has been pretty clear for a while that Hillary is going to win the nomination, yet Sanders and his people have fed the narrative that this manifest reality is false, and they have smeared Secretary Clinton in the process.
The question they have to ask themselves is do they want to risk a Trump presidency, and lose the gains of the Obama presidency?
Based on their reckless rhetoric, it seems that they do, just as some Nader supporters pretended that there was no difference between Gore and Bush, it’s beyond obvious that there would a MASSIVE difference between Hillary and Drumpf.
That’s kind of ironic because if Gore hadn’t been robbed of the presidency, there would be no Iraq vote to hang on Hillary.
"…tone it down. If not, fuck him.”
I couldn’t have put it any better myself. It’s time to move on.
Just because most Hillary supporters think it, doesn’t mean you’re actually supposed to say it.
Small potatoes which people should stop obsessing about.
anonymous senior aide told Politico
That’s some real truthiness there!
It´s a pretty thin reed on which to base an article. Then again, it will allow some people to pontificate, so there´s that.
Pontificate? TPM forum members? Surely you jest, sir! 
I wish I could have been on Bill Maher last week when Sarandon was on, just to remind her of a little quote she made during the 2008 election campaign:
“I think Jesus would be very supportive of John Edwards."
Yeah, I guess since Jesus hung around with whores and lepers, he could stomach John Edwards. For a while.
BTW, Susan, how IS that Edwards presidency working out for you? And do you think that Bernie Sanders has the same moral and ethical standards that your other heroes Ralph “There’s no difference in the parties. There’s no difference between Bush and Gore!” Nader and John “You’d be banging a chick on the side if your wife had cancer, too!” Edwards?
The same John Edwards who voted for the Iraq AUMF?
The Sanders mob has been sounding more and more like a branch of the GOP attack machine in recent months. They have even stooped to attacking the whole Democratic Party. I’m surprised that the “anonymous senior aide” was so measured and restrained in critizing the Senator.
But, most of all, fuck Jeff Weaver. Josh Marshall is right - that guy is TOXIC!
We know based on actions that Hillary is a Republican…and now we see that her staff talks like a Trump Republican as well.
FFS, TPM and Politico. This is a story? That some “anonymous senior aide” used a naughty word? IN POLITICS?
I think I’m about to faint.