and doomed to absolute certain failure. That last one is unforgivable in politics; you never want to primary someone like that and fail.

I didn't support his call to primary Obama, but Bernie's call to primary Obama in 2012 was clearly based on issues. There is a big difference between saying someone needs to be primaried because he has failed to keep campaign promises and has not been progressive enough and saying someone should be primaried because of sour grapes over another election.

Plus, Bernie as a US citizen is a constituent of the president and thus had an interest in the 2012 election. Most of the people calling for Bernie to be primaried are not from Vermont, probably have never been to Vermont, and have no vested interest in the Vermont primary in 2018 other than retribution.

some childish, petty, and vindictive folks on this board.

including me.

say any number of profoundly stupid things here. Doesn't mean much.

It was the same way in 2008. Some Obama supporters went nuts over Hillary's refusal to concede starting in May (maybe earlier). I kept telling them "we won, get over it."

It's been clear this entire cycle that Dean's support of HRC and passionate opposition to Bernie is based on a deeply-felt personal rage towards the man...possibly fueled by jealousy, given how much better Bernie did in 2016 than Dean did in 2004. Every time you saw Dean on tv this cycle, his entire body seemed clenched with anger.

If the national Dems tried primarying Bernie, the most likely result would be that Vermont Dems would break with the national party and join the VPP and other smaller parties in their own independent grouping...instantly putting the state under the total political dominance of a left-wing third party.

Even DWS wouldn't be crazy enough to go there.

Unless Bernie has a complete meltdown and decides to turn Philadelphia into Chicago 1968.

Most likely outcome

Bernie is going to meet with the President and Senator Reid on Thursday. Than sometime in the next week he will meet with Secretary Clinton. At this point changes to the nominating process, platform, and committee assignments will be discussed. Bernie will be offered a role in a Clinton administration. Personally I think he'd make a great Secretary of Labor. He will most likely decline and be given a more prominent leadership role in the Senate.

As long as Bernie doesn't have a complete meltdown he will walk away with a higher profile and more than a few things he wants.