Somebody needs to tell Bernie. Saw part of the hour long interview with Bernie at his pastoral Vermont home by Rachel Maddow. He seems to think if he wins half the states – 25 out of 50 – that means something. Never mind that many of the states he won are low population states. He still is not going to say he will support the candidate since he seems to still think HE will be the candidate.
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In the last few elections one TV network has put on a group of “independents” in the last week of the election process to see if they had decided who they would vote for. My husband and I would sit and laugh at people who claimed that they STlLL had not decided who they would vote for for POTUS just days before the election. That was taking “undecided” to the extreme: an extreme inability to make a decision. Sad. Being “independent” is not necessarily a sign of moral righteousness but often a sign of an extreme inability to make a decision. It is not as if the entire planet is hanging on their vote.
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The other thing the Blue Dogs did was attack choice. I was among those arguing that Stupak among others had to be dis-elected.
Nobody is turning down their support. They will just have to wait until the main election to vote if they live in states that have closed primaries. Joining a party does not mean you have to be 100% in agreement with everything and everyone in the party. That is just silly. But there is a pretty deep difference between the Republican and Democratic parties. My parents were social liberals but fiscal conservatives. They were Republicans back when Republicans were fiscal conservatives – about 50 years ago. I have often wondered what they would think about the current Republican party which is dominated by religious fanatics and small government extremists.
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What are you talking about? Have you met ALL it’s members? Judging the party on your minimal exposure to it’s members is kind of silly and juvenile. As someone else pointed out: the Party IS it’s members.
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He has received the support he agreed to.
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There’s this link too:
I figure worst case scenario for HRC is 26-24 in states won + the DC primary. That is with her winning CA,NJ and NM on 6/7. If she wins KY on 5/17 then it’s 27-23. On 6/18 the primaries will be over and Bern will be behind in states won,popular vote and even further behind than he is right now in pledged delegates. Toast!
Thanks! That makes me feel better.
Samantha Bee did a hilarious bit on this back in 2004, linked for your enjoyment here. (NOTE: Warning! salty language. may be offensive to some viewers.)
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Yes, they were difficult on some issues, but they did vote with the party most of the time.
Thanks for the link. It was eerily like actual “undecided” panels I have seen…LOL!
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Keep tiptoeing around Captain Crazypants and his rabid followers …
Bernie clearly does not have enough supporters to win the nomination, or the general election. Even HE admits it. The only thing his supporters can do is throw the election to the GOP. Maybe Bernie’s ego is so out of control at this point that he wants to go down in history as the man who intentionally put Trump in the White House and destroyed our nation - I can’t say, but I am confident our Founders did not risk death and/or life in prison for Sanders to do that. IF he does, and IF the nation, and the planet, survives the next four years, do not fool yourself that people will “come to their senses and vote for Sanders” in 2020 - it would never happen. Sanders might well be dead by then, but even if he is not, the country will be under the control of a GOP Congress, with a SCOTUS packed with justices picked by the Heritage Foundation and the NRA (Trump’s promise for his nominees), climate change will be killing us, our national parks, lands, forests and waterways will have been sold off to the rich pals of the GOPers for mining, fracking, drilling, logging and whatever else they can do to rape every cent of value from it, social security, medicare, public education will have been privatized, if they still exist, and school lunches, head start, food stamps and national healthcare will be ideas of the past, Your vote will be worthless, because the system will be totally bought by the GOP and their minions and donors. Do not fool yourselves. THIS is the election that will determine the future - or lack thereof - of our nation. so VOTE BLUE, NO MATTER WHO, or you might as well just vote for Trump.