for his famed 'integrity'.

for a living. He's selling himself to voters. Hillary sells herself to the highest bidder. There's a difference you know. You people are sort of on the ridiculous side. Get real.

above the will of the voters. That's real.


From the Los Angeles Times

Sanders campaign's new strategy on superdelegates leaves some unimpressed
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-sanders-superdelegates-pennsylvania-20160424-story.html

And Berniestas say Clinton has a problem with honesty & integrity.

Until that happens, they should either go with Bernie or abstain from voting at the convention.

inconsistent.

Make up your minds.

do you understand how any of this works? there is no rule that he has to stay in and have a floor fight at the convention.

I would strongly encourage you find other sourcing for such things, at least until we have a nominee and that organization, too, goes to GE footing.

Edit: Sorry, thought that was from Priorities USA, not Politucs USA. Would self-delete except to preserve the warnings about the other site the URL looked loke.

I am a Hillary supporter

... and pass it off as unbiased.

Totally my bad.

Yes, Bernie would probably lose at this point. I'm for Bernie. But giving anyone 1000 extra votes (I read that a super delegate's one vote was equal to a thousand of our votes) is undemocratic, unjust and people given this undemocratic perk should refuse to use it.

Translation: for sheer personal gain.

But there is one requirement of party membership: obey party rules.

Them's the rules and Bernie has the audacity to use the party for his gain (where's a dime for down ballot races, Bern?) and gripe about party rules.

Hard to see any integrity in that.

Read more carefully please.

And if they are so undemocratic, why is Bernie working as hard as he can to get them to switch?

He complains loudly about the rule ad nauseum because it doesn't work his way. But like everyone else, he's very quietly playing the game, scrounging for SD support.

I agree that the SD rule should be changed, but for now, that's the rule. And Bernie is a member of the party. So for now, it's a dead issue until after the election when the party convenes to consider national election rules.

Agree with last paragraph but silly to ask Bernie to not play by rules. Is it a rule that you can't ask SD's to change? Really? Didn't they do it for Obama? Somebody is confused here and I don't think it's me...

So, if you're playing chess and you try hard to win legally and by the rules, it's called "scrounging?" Really.

I just don't believe in Bernie's 'honesty' and 'integrity' as Bernie supporters do. He yells about the rule ad nauseum loud and clear throughout the land, and then very quietly starts lobbying super delegates. They sure don't talk about that much.

If he is so true to his democratic values and so consistent in what he believes, why is Bernie acting like just another pol when he realizes that lobbying for SD, a hopeless task, is the only possible way he might win? But when you look at the results, he's has picked up only one SD in the last couple of weeks. Over the last week, Hillary picked up 11.

Now, why is that? Hillary has 490 endorsements. Bernie has 13. (538.com). Are 490, mostly public and elected officials, are they all corrupt, criminal, evil, hopelessly committed to corporations? Or perhaps there are other less reasons that aren't so adoring. Logically, there must be.

and those delegates are used to artificially inflate a candidate's delegate count for the purpose of suppressing competition, that's not rigging the election, but encouraging the supers to consider the electability of candidates after they've actually had a chance to size up the field is? That's some high-grade bullshit you're peddling.

I think Sanders may have a tough job ahead of him, convincing the supers that he's the better bet, but he's not rigging the election. His actions are completely within the system the Party set up when they gave superdelegates the power to vote "for the best interests of the party". If they follow previous behavior, they'll back the candidate leading in pledged delegates. If, however, they feel the front-runner doesn't represent our best chance for winning in November, they can vote as they please. You may disagree with that system--I can't say I'm a big fan of it--but that is the way things were set up.

Super Delegates are free to commit, uncommit, or do whatever they choose to do. They don't even have to use their delegate status and vote. I wish somebody would write a primer for Clinton supporters. As I recall, several committed to Clinton in 2008 but they changed their minds.

Clinton supporters. Always sliming.

Is election day. You did not win period end of story. Thus, Bernie will not be the nominee. Supers vote for the one who gets the most delegates. Personally, I do not think Bernie would be good in the General if he can't win a primary

Here's an idea: let's have the entire general election vote by caucus.

If things go as expected, that just might become the new meme for Bernie's campaign.

candidate. Clintonites = lowest common denominator. Bernie? Active, informed voters. I know which side I'm on.

Where is the infirmary around here?

I think they shouldn't consider it - I think they should just do it.