Nice.

Or will he take a cabinet post, as Secretary of Labor?

they'll vote for Trump are chain-yanking. It's their way of saying "All y'all suck!"

Trump will not be the GOP nominee. The Republicans have "super delegates" too. And they have an RNC with oodles of cash. AND donors who will "fall in line" to crush The Donald, even if they have to "accommodate" a mutually agreed upon compromise by backing a second choice in exchange for a bit of quid pro quo.

But you never move too soon. Don't spend money a second before it's needed.

Dont you get the impression that he's implodimg on purpose? Making fun of the reporter was a bit much.

He finds himself in this Chauncy Gardener type situation, though, where every stupidity is regarded as quirky genius.

I do think the reporter thing, plus the Muslims Celebrate in NJ thing, plus the "I could see the bodies falling from my house" thing (shades of Palin) will eventually catch up with him and trip him.

If not, he'll be standing up there, calling his audience assholes and idiots, while they continue to cheer! Idiocracy!!!

he has a huge ego, there is no way he will simply announce that he is leaving the race. That would be showing defeat and completely out of character for this blowhard.

He needs to get his poll numbers so low that it gets him off the debate stage. But, the more awful he talks and behaves, it seems the right wing teahadis love him.

He built this monster and now he has to figure out how to neutralize it.

And like a stray animal. It is now his pet.

Maybe he needs to go after someone's granny next!!

He is an American. Where are you from?

will she switch to the GOP?

Yes, that's a stupid question. So is the OP.

... doing what suits his political needs.

those leftovers. Totally understandable!

Hey, people need fruit!

... who knows what his future holds after losing the primary? But it will be interesting to watch. I'm looking forward to seeing it unfold. I'm sure he'll do what's best.

pure grade school.

to the content of Reply 20 and the rest of the exchanges. You obviously have a different opinion about all that than I did and, for some reason, you obviously found it necessary or desirable to share your opinion with me, even though you were not involved in the original exchanges and the two people who were involved had tapped out Friday. I hope no Bernie supporter bothers NurseJackie any further with this in the mistaken belief that it would somehow help me or help anything, really. None of that matters, either. Have a great day.

Well, he can't win either way.

That's nice

Yesterday you said you would vote for Donald Trump if Sanders gets the nomination. Are we supposed to take anything you say serious after that?

... parody and sarcasm without the sarcasm emoji to spell it out for you is your own problem not mine. Whether you believe me or "get me" or take me seriously or not is of no concern to me.

He is running on the democratic ticket because he knows that running third party would get him no-where in a 2 party system that this country currently runs on.

He is running because he believes he can win. He doesn't want to split the votes and doesn't want to be a Ralph Nader.
He is a member of Democratic Caucus of the US Senate. One of two independents.

He is trying to raise awareness of all the issues this country is facing, and providing his solutions to them.

He is being honest and passionate and trying to engage as many people as possible to be part of his revolution. A revolution who's purpose is to give the middle class back their country. The middle class that has been losing for 40+ years at the hands of republicans, Blue Dog Dems, and Third-way triagulating democrats like Hillary Clinton.

I respect that you are supporting Hillary.
I think Hillary is bad for the middle Class.

The thing is, he was always a Democrat on the issues. The whole "independent" and "Democratic Socialist" thing was all about grandstanding, and allowed him to bash the Democratic Party as part of his " a pox on both your houses" schtick.

Barney Frank, who is as liberal as anyone - including Sanders - has been calling him out on this crap for a long time. Seriously, it's all grandstanding.

Barn's critique of Betn was scathing. And Barn does not come off as being petty or mean spirited.

the donors of any Party.

Frank seems to be the one who was grandstanding.

I could not care less.

You don’t change the system from within the Democratic Party.”

“My own feeling is that the Democratic Party is ideologically bankrupt.”

“We have to ask ourselves, ‘Why should we work within the Democratic Party if we don’t agree with anything the Democratic Party says?’”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/bernie-sanders-2016-democrats-121181#ixzz3q2Yjz9Og

lol Hillary supporters just keep getting more and more vicious with their made up nonsense.

Look up his own words, very easy to find. In fact there was one link supplied one post up.

He runs on the Democratic ticket only for political expediency and cheap votes. And there are plenty around to give him just that.

Thanks in advance.

It's the Third Way® that scorns the Democratic party and is ruining it with right wing (Republican) war and economic policies.

Provable statements of fact are immune from allegations of slander. The Democratic Party is ideologically-bankrupt and will remain so until it purges the Clintonites and DLC from its membership.

in contempt.

I assume he will go back to his ivory tower and look down his nose at democrats like usual.

And she will not.

Anyone who does not bend to his (or should I say his supporters') demands, is corrupt, beholden or incompetent.

DWS is contemptible, at best. Corrupt at worst.

If you are going to be intolerant to the board then are you leaving this member out?

Is the reward for Sanders running on the DNC continuous conspiracy theories? If DWS was as contemptuous towards Sanders as some of the demeaning post theme could be something to complain. There was a complaint about not enough debates and this was throwing the primary to Hillary when the debates has proven not to be Sanders finest moments. The fact of Hillary's polling numbers staying high is because of opinions she is the most qualified. DWS is not responsible for the high polling numbers.

The rank and file, no.

Bernie Sanders is what this country needs. Look around DU and tell me which are real Liberal, Democrats and which are not.

If you support Hillary like the majority of democrats do, that means you aren't a real liberal democrat, is that what BS fans are saying? LOLZ

After Hillary Clinton wins the nomination I guess the libertarians backing him will have to snipe at her from the sidelines with the republicans

February 1st, can't wait!

She WILL NOT win the general.

She's damaged goods.

November 2016 - you better hope you can't wait!

Knock it off already

workinclasszero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-20-08 08:25 AM
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76. So Hillary uses racism and right wing attack thugs to defeat Obama
No surprise here. Hillary is a traitor to the dem party already for her many endorsements of her good buddy McCain over Obama for president.

I despise this woman and her despicable lack of morals.

Hillary Clinton will never set foot in the White House as president. If she steals the nomination somehow the dem party will again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

And we will all have to go through this garbage again in 2012.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5168167

then I hope hope hope that Elizabeth Warren primaries her ass in 2020.

I think Bernie would say he is the only one.

I would say Bernie is the only Liberal running.

(I'm over 70, so I have a long memory of history)

Thanks in advance.

I don't care what he calls himself. Football is about teams; politics is about positions.

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Anyone who promises as much as he does without having the benefit of a team is either naïve, crazy or disingenuous.

Thank you for that.

One sentence description of the vast majority of this thread: "Teh Stoopid, it burns!"
Big time.

While he's on record as saying he won't run as an Independent...... well, call me skeptical.

...and the tweaks against Clinton are just as juvenile.

Without this one to use as the template.

You get what you give.

Yes, simplistic, formulaic, predictable and endless posts trying to get the dim-witted to vote for your candidate are getting a bit stale. I've read way more than a few too many of them on DU as of late. Glad we've established that.

He said he was only running as a Democrat because it was his only chance to win. Plus he has a long history of hating the Democratic Party.

SMH

why should he be trusted?

Convenience for him.

Yep.

(For obvious reasons.)

Sanders and the movement he represents on the left is larger than the label.

Will Hillary Goldman Sachs Clinton finally join the Republican Party after she loses her campaign AGAIN?

He's a Democrat solely out of necessity.

sid

1. He will not lose the nomination; and
2. Who gives a shit...it's his policies and not his label that counts.

Any other questions?

For some politicians, that's actually a positive.

Bernie's running as a Democrat in this primary election season. What he is registered as has nothing to do with it. In this election, he is a Democrat. That's all that matters, really. If he doesn't become the nominee, I'm sure he will still caucus with the Democrats in the Senate, as he has done for many year.

I see this argument that he isn't really a Democratic candidate as empty anti-Sanders propaganda.

And, since nothing Bernie has done has ever hurt the Democratic Party, you have no reason to treat him with suspicion and hostility. What matters is that he keeps caucusing with us in the Senate(as he will if not nominated) and that he doesn't run as an independent in the fall(which we all know he won't, given that the man isn't a self-destructive idiot).

Just basing it on the empirical data available. I, too like to think that I vote 100% progressive, but don't know if I'd be considered a good presidential candidate.

"Loyalty test" arguments are right-wing and toxic. They take us back to the McCarthy/HUAC era, and people on the progressive side of the argument have nothing ever to gain from embracing any part of the mindset of that era.

and after Bernie, win or lose I'm going back to unaffiliated.

If he doesn't, people might think he's a carpetbagger.