And we'll do our best to have Bernie as the nominee.

Big giant DOMA yes voter, Leahy rattles on about ancient family history because he is a creature of a distant past. Heritage, promises, birthrights....

I wish he felt he could support Bernie, but he at least he explained his position in terms I understand.

PS I hate the whole idea of "superdelegates".

Interesting to know Leahy is suddenly untroubled by things like acting as a representative for those of us who have elected him over and over again. He can phrase it however he likes, it's still pathetic that he "gave his word" before our state spoke. He's up for re-election this year and I won't be forgetting that. I get that people are fond of him, but this is ridiculous.

Which is the problem. Now, a third party or independent option... I haven't heard that yet, but it's a possibility.

Now if Jesus Christ would all of a sudden make a audible endorsement of Hillary ..well then I'd be concerned

To the DLC, DWS and HRC, honorable truth-tellers all. Oh, and to your SuperPACs, as well.

And, if so, shouldn't he abide by their wishes?

This could get very interesting.

WE THE PEOPLE?

I bet their wives aren't "friends" anymore. Friends don't shit on you when you need them the most. Friends, my ass...fair weathered, I'd say. Bernie announced his run long before Clinton did.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

The Entrenched Elite and Cushy Establishment continues to show that they are more interested in being Elite than they are about the needs of the 99%.

This will be part of the Political Revolution.

In the face of the Civil War, many Southern Senators felt the same way about "keeping your word", and then the worst war we ever fought in was started over people claiming they wouldn't "break their word".

All of this Superdelegate nonsense is just a way for the Hillary camp to puff up her feathers and make it seem like Bernie has no chance of winning.

It was a load of crap in 2008 with Obama. It's a load of crap in 2016 with Sanders.

We don't know which candidate, Sanders or Clinton, will earn the most hard delegates. The candidates that wins those hard delegates will also win the Superdelegates.

It's absolutely ridiculous to suggest that those SDs would usurp the will of the people. It's not going to happen.

If Bernie does continue to do well and win these states--the dynamic completely changes. I think people forget what happened to this country and also the huge line of support that Obama coalesced behind him. If Sanders continues winning, he will do the same.

The SDs will have no choice. If Bernie has more hard delegates and the majority of the Dems behind him in lockstep, they will all fall in line.

Anything else is bluster.

One possible flaw is that regardless of Obama's "change" mantra, he and Clinton were very similar politically, as made evident immediately after the election. Political insiders would have known this, even as less informed voters and bystanders were swept up in jubilation that change was in the offing. After all, he ran on e.g. 'I didn't vote for the Iraq war, and was against it', yet immediately promoted her to SoS where she could and did double down on the neocon adventure. Rahm, and Obama's entire list of appointees, largely pulled from the Clinton stable. Esp. on economics and foreign policy. Political insiders would have known it was coming.

I don't think this can be said of Sanders. He isn't an insider. He threatens their world. He threatens their entire structure, whether it's directly and openly third-way or whether it's just a dependent derivative position on the second or third tiers, as in "the Democratic progressive caucus", which hasn't the spine to stand up. In fact, all except one of those "Dem progressive" members who did endorse, endorsed Hillary Clinton, who they KNOW isn't even remotely close to being a "progressive" (except - she's pro-choice! yay! Her ONLY positive, and even that is half-assed). That can't be explained away with a shrug.

I think what Leahy is saying is that he'll join with the other Clinton dedicated superdelegates to overturn the will of the Dem party nationally, and not just those of Vermont, if that's the situation those superdelegates are given to decide. I wouldn't pass this off as being just talk, this time. I think they're serious about it.

(p.s. - would you have imagined that Steinem would ever say such a thing, if the situation were "normal" according as her white/liberal/establishment reading? She's totally out of the loop created by eg. feminist organizations like SisterSong on this one, yet she seems oblivious. Leahy and the other superdelegates might equally be oblivious.)

The establishment supporters of the establishment candidate will not flip so easily. They have too much to lose.

Bernie is generating huge momentum DESPITE the dem party. For him to make real progress will require the kind of party support that Reagan and Dubya enjoyed behind them. The current dem party ain't it.

I see this very likely turning into a bigger rift between the left and right factions of the dem party. It may become Do or Die for the SDs. I think they will cross the picket line, if it means saving a win for H. And more business as usual for themselves.

Leahy has already shown them how easy it is.

The problem is with making such a promise to begin with. It's anti-democratic.

It makes no sense at all.