It's not his convention.

negotiating tactics that have the Democrat's opening bid start out as a Republican concession. This is how it's supposed to work. Take note. You might not get to see it again for quite some time if your dream candidate comes true.

Time to stop the negotiations and kick out Fox groupie West while you are at it.

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it is NOT how it is supposed to work. The Democratic Party is supposed to be made up of people who come together to work together toward common goals. Not a party + 1 left-wing independent who's infiltrated in order to attack it from inside.

Ed, I don't care how worthy his goals may seem, there ARE other ways, especially for a man in his position. He is now a party leader. He could proceed as a party leader, instead of the leader of an insurgent fifth column, but he is choosing the latter.

So be it. There is something wrong with Bernie, and it is that hostile dysfunctional extremist strain that doesn't allow working with others that I've been watching for months. That basic dysfunction is why people like him don't lead parties, for very long, and why parties made up of people like that don't thrive, and usually break up.

And I suspect something else. He may just have a lot of negative feelings stored up after keeping his extremely cushy salary and exalted position by voting with the leading left-wing party over 96% of the time for a quarter century. What's principled about doing that all the while calling them corrupt, after all?

.....and a succinct explanation for why Bernie hasnt been able to build a significant peer coalition in 25 years.

Franks and Malloy are both very popular in the party and are friends with many of the super delegates. This silly stunt is going to really come back and hurt Sanders when he asks super delegates to vote for him. Malloy is a super delegate. Heck one of the super delegates I know was at Barney Franks' wedding. It will be amusing to see a bernie bro ask that super delegate to support Sanders

run the show, start to finish:

understand why others might choose to do something other than what he wants.

In politics you can not hold grudges.. People debate, disagree, and compromise to get things done. Bernie is holding part grudges.. no wonder he alienated his colleagues

His bread and butter is the politics of resentment.

He is on Trump's team...who does he hurt (Democrats) and who does he help (Trump).

There was a time when the posters of this board didn't come to vomit idiotic and uninformed smears like this one of yours.

I miss those days.

Only someone who really wanted to hurt Dems would threaten to shut down the convention...it helps Trump ...so it is true...as for posting on this site...please...the BSSER's post have been dreadful.

Your smears are uncalled for. They add nothing to the dialog.

He shows his totalitarian leanings...

Let me help.

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I got a jury hide last night for calling out someone who was equating $$$ with speech.

It amazes me what gets alerted on anymore.

Thank you for agreeing to this

Go troll someone else.

And clearly he still thinks he will gain the nomination at the convention; it would be Nevada all over again...we don't need this crap from Bernie Sanders who is a big loser in all measures of the campaign... and is using the convention to settle grudges ...he can not be allowed to do so. Time to cut our Bernie losses...he will do nothing to help, honestly, this shows we would be better of without him. Bernie has shown that he is despicable and why he is disliked in the Senate.

of decades, never swayed, that there is no such thing as valid disagreement with him, that colleagues who disagree with him do so for crooked reasons, has to be part of a bizarre righteousness that probably stands on its own, unbroken by self awareness, much less insight into others.

Apparently he really never was more than a dysfunctional little gadfly buzzing mostly unknown around the big leagues for a couple decades, until now in this weird election season. Sad, and of course inevitably irritating.

those who deserve to be resented -- Immoral Corporations, Wall St. Banksters and the Elites who control them.

When he was in Congress, even when i agreed with Frank, he made my skin crawl.

Bernie can be an abrasive jerk sometimes too.

So it's not unusual for two abrasive personalities to butt heads.

The point is that in in this primary, Frank has gone out of his way to be insulting to Sanders and his supporters in an especially personal and vitriolic way. I've seen him on interviews and he verged on the irrational in his behavior.

I totally agree that he is not an appropriate person to have on the platform group.

To be fair, I also don't like the fact that Bernie put Cornell West on there either....But the Clinton campaign is free to challenge him too.

Please...

Scalp-hunting is about egos, not greater causes.

I'm sure it chafes Sanders to see Frank in that position. But, really, so what?

There's a much stronger case for dumping DWS, who has shown she's simply not up to the job and has done questionable things in office.

write the platform? He called Obama the "N" word and is not a Democrat.

is someone who has dropped out of contention.

president, or are you hoping he'll shake things up enough to cause some improvements before settling back into the Senate?

makes you one of the good ones. Surprisingly few of his followers are turning out to be genuinely motivated by his issues, but some are.

Malloy has the guts to stand against the NRA, Sanders doesn't.

And it is just pure vengeance for Frank.

No Sanders is not the Saint his followers proclaim him to be.
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His ego is huge and now power hungry.

Would the Hillary supporters expect Hillary to roll over and just accept committees that were filled with pro Bernie people?

No, you would expect her to fight.

Around June 8 the DNC will become an extension of the Clinton campaign and everyone at the DNC will report to Robbie Mook.

Great attitude, and guaranteed to win over voters

The nominee runs the convention. Obama ran the convention in 2008, Kerry ran it in 2004, Gore ran it in 2000, and Clinton ran it in 1992.

The purpose of the convention is to promote the nominee, not to soothe the hurt feelings of the candidate who lost.

Convention is suppose to be 100% decision of the person with most delegates.

Secretary Clinton will have the majority of pledged delegates
Secretary Clinton has the majority of Superdelegates

If BS's ego forces it to go this far, Secretary Clinton will win the nomination on the first ballot.

hopefully, one vote; his delegates vote for him (some) the rest vote for Hillary...then security escorts him to the sidewalk outside the convention...Dems decide who goes to a convention. Bernie might as well head over to the GOP convention...where Trump is ...he is helping Trump.

Bernie is clearly going to to what he can to elect Trump...thus toss him out...you want president Trump...do it...cut off your nose to spite your face...I say Bernie Sander is not worth the trouble.

And Sanders lost..sure vote in the few races left but at the end she wins and he loses...his continued grudge match hurts our efforts in the general...which places him squarely on Trumps team...and of course the so-called Trump-Bernie debate clearly showed who's side he is on.

You keep repeating it seemingly hoping to convince yourself. You still sound like you don't really buy it.

by the way...you do understand how that looks right?

Just making rules up.

with them to effect the changes she promised me to deliver. That's how effective legislators get support for and pass legislation.

Bernie briefly rose to national leadership but is busy destroying his power to make happen all that his more issues-focused followers hoped they could accomplish by supporting him. A gadfly already working above his level of competence who used a wave of discontent to rise far above his level of competence.

He's back to the Senate after this, of course. His name is mud there after, as a member of the Democratic Party in Congress, encouraging people to toss out a fellow sitting Democratic congressman (a huge bad) and also attacking Frank and the other guy. Barney Frank is no longer in congress, of course, but he is enormously liked and respected by his former colleagues.

Wonder if Sander'll spend his next four years voting with the "corrupt" Democrats over 96% of the time, the way he has for the last quarter century? My guess is that, at his age, he may just spend a good part of his time trumpeting his righteousness and everyone else's corruption, getting in the papers now that people know his name, mostly ignored by his colleagues but requiring a swat back now and then.

They want to kick out the co chairs?? God give me strength..

I know I am in shock.

unstable. I am happy for him that Trump declined the debate. Bernie doesn't need any more help in totally destroying the Democratic party.

this is the kind of temperament someone would want in the white house?

It proves that my reservations about him were well founded. He would really make a disagreeable President. It's becoming more and more clear why he has few allies in Congress.

To the contrary, he's busy trashing the power he gained and, no doubt causing more and more of his core of relatively stable liberal followers to drop away by battling the party.

Once the media dialog moves elsewhere, it's over.

Sanders undoubtedly hopes to build his anti-Democratic Party movement, but with what? Movements of people motivated mostly by discontent only have so long before they die away, and a large part of his support is "anti-establishment/where's mine." And of course, his temporary conservative voters were always temporary. There're probably a very large overlap of those with the "Clinton Derangement Syndrome" contingent, but in any case he'll be of no use to the latter once he's no longer a candidate.

Unfortunately for Sanders, America's actually doing a lot better and becoming a lot healthier under Obama. I'm disappointed in him, but now we know the streak of greatness some of us once wondered might be coming out simply isn't there.

Dear Brad Deutsch,

Go fuck yourself.

Love & kisses,
Tarcy

will cry when things do not go his way. He just makes demands and sues when upset.

Into pretzels defending the angry whinning old guy who can't lose gracefully. And he has lost. Make no mistake.

Don't see any of Bernies flaws and go to great lengths to twist Bernies weaknesses into strengths. Sorry but it's amusing. I don't care if you take me seriously. It's hard to take some of you delusional Bernie supporters seriously

Blackmail. Silly us,we thought Sanders would accept that he lost, move on for the good of the country and help defeat Trump. Clearly, that won't happen so ...one vote and out Sanders goes ...he can take any disruptive supporters with him.

and she calls all of the shots at the DNC.

with maturity and grace, and delivers on his promise to do everything possible to defeat Donald Trump.

Go home, Sanders.

Got To a Yankee Game, And tell them to wear BoSox Shirts.

And every time Faux "News" has another breaking "news" story about it, the BS cheerleaders hyperventilate here at DU.

But he doesn't own the house.

how dare they not support him.

Lets make the committee chairs independents...so what if this is the Democratic convention.

everyday.

The crowds and bright lights have gotten to him.

In fact, it seems like there is old bad blood between them.

Keeping people like him in power is why the income inequality gap will continue its expansion.

but dems have bent over backward to accommodate him.

It's been clear for months that Clinton was going to win and it becomes more clear with every passing primary where Sanders doesn't come close to making up ground compared to the decrease in remaining delegates.

No, the chairs will not step aside.

Thanks!