Discussion: Sanders: 'We'll See' If I Will Fundraise For Down-Ballot Democrats (VIDEO)

“Right now, our job is to, what I’m trying to do is win the Democratic nomination,” Sanders said.

Sounds like a reasonable answer to me.

Right guys? :wink:

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Clinton has raised tens of millions to aid in electing Democrats to national and state offices in all 50 states. Sanders? “We’ll see.”

Saving the country from Republicans – I mean that “saving” bit literally – requires electing good Democrats everywhere. That’s one of the reasons I’m supporting Clinton.

And – golly, Sanders’s supporters – you think maybe the reason superdelegates (mostly elected Democrats) support Clinton is because she supports the party and all of them?

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Bernie could have been positive. Can’t see past the immediate goal!!

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I don’t even know in how many ways folks can be reminded that Sanders wasn’t even a Democrat until a few months ago, when he decided to run under the Democratic Party umbrella in order to get noticed.

If he’d run as a Green, or as an Independent, he would have been ignored. So he hitches himself to the Democratic Party, and boom. He’s got something going on now. Which is good, because it’s turned the discussion towards much more progressive goals than it would have otherwise. And for that, I’m very grateful.

But lets be frank here. He’s been in Congress for 3 decades. He’s never, and I mean never, done squat for any Democratic Party members before. And as his reply tells you, he’s not really planning on doing much after the Primaries either. Because to Bernie, joining the Democratic Party was just a temporary means to an end.

The funniest part is that he and his followers now want loyalty and support from the Democratic Party leadership/apparatus. Also known as the Super Delegates. Even though he’s never supported them before, has actively acted against them in some instances in the past, and is still hemming and hawing about supporting them in the future.

Yeah, the Democratic Party Super Delegates will support Bernie when Trump shaves his orangutan hair toupee off.

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Hmmmmmmmmmm.

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There you have it, the pied piper of the political revolution that’s destined to La La land is no democrats.

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Senator Sanders is on a crusade, and, like any crusader, the crusade is all he cares about. He (and his supporters) could care less about collateral damage to Secretary Clinton or the Democratic Party’s chances in November. He will carry his futile crusade all the way to the convention buttressed by his sanctimony. Then, he will turn his back on the Democratic Party, and wander back to Vermont basking in his own glow. There he will run for senator once again as an Independent. You can take it to the bank.

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There was only one correct answer to this questions and this wasn’t it.

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A political party is like a team. They’re all supposed to work together towards the goal of making things better. To the Sanders supporters, the Democratic Party is a corrupt machine that will devour everything good and decent in this world to feed itself.

Naturally, the truth is somewhere in between. I have concerns about Clinton, but think she will be the candidate most likely to be able to deal with the Republican meltdown and move the progressive agenda forward. She won’t move it much, but she will move it. Sanders as President will not only be fighting Republicans, but have to win over the Democrats he’s been railing against and not helping.

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Maybe someone should remind Bernie that many of the super delegates whose votes he hopes to switch are down - ballet candidates.

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I what world should an anti establishment candidate get his bonafides by fundraising for the party machine, after that party did everything it could to pull the rug out from under his feet. You people are absurd.

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I like a lot of Bernie’s platform. But after watching 8 years of Republican obsruction against Obama, you ask ‘How the heck will you get this accomplished with a Republican Congress?’ His answer? “They won’t be there. I’ll be swept in to office in a political revolution.” Yeah. Not if you’re not willing to help them, they won’t.

In a recent interview, Barney Frank said “Other than Glass-Steagall, what did he propose in 2009 and 2010 when he was a senator when we were dealing with this? The answer is nothing. Why haven’t you looked at his record?” Bernie’s a hack.

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He makes it easy for the superdelegates.

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Oh please, the party has not done ‘everything it could to pull the rug out from under his feet.’ It’s been incredibly accommodating to a non-Democrat. Sorry you don’t like the rules set up over 30 years ago, but that doesn’t mean that people are trying to screw Bernie.

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What’s even more absurd is that even though you say Bernie and his followers are “anti-establishment”, Bernie and his supporters then want the Democratic Party (aka “the establishment”) to fully support Bernie in his quixotic quest to destroy “the establishment” (aka “the Democratic Party”).

You do realize how crazy that sounds, right?

It’s like asking someone you’re trying to murder to assist you as you stab him. “Please stand straight as I insert my knife into your chest cavity. There’s a fellow! Oh, I hit a bone. Could you please help me press the knife further in? Why, thank you! Jolly good chap you are!”.

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Per Susan Sarandon shouldn’t Bernie turn his fundraising to getting THE DONALD elected??

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Well, golly. Sanders as the jolly murderer of the Democratic Party is a creative analogy.

But we do have your support in November if he wins the nomination, right? :slight_smile:

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You say you want a revolution? Well, you know…
…we’d all love to see the plan, Bernie

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Of course Sanders isn’t interested in raising money for down ticket Democrats, why on earth would he need them to help him with his agenda?

Actually this is exactly why he would be a terrible President. He has not one clue how to be on a political team that actually gets things done. Legislating is a team sport, and it takes a large team (also known as a legislative majority) to make legislative changes necessary to begin to drag the nation further left., Does he really think that through the full force of his will, but with Republican majorities in the house and senate that he can implement any of this policies? It is strange that for as long as Bernie has been in government that he still doesn’t quite understand how it works, how it takes a good team to advance any kind of progressive change. These are things you cannot do alone with only rhetoric. And this is the difference in campaigns, one actually understands that we must have Democrats begin to take back the Senate and the House and one who simply has no real understanding of how this works.

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