growth and blooming of the BERNIE BUDS! Maybe an American Spring????????????

ETA...response to poster #1. Good posts all.

welcomed "converted" Republicans like Crist, Chaffee and Specter, with open arms. They have also converted Republicans to run for them as Democrats, like Senator Webb.

Their problem is not that Sanders is not a Democrat. Their problem is......

people when this surfaced recently here and in the Clinton campaign since Sanders has been gaining substantially. Bernie's stances have been known for decades, including his essential support, caucusing and voting with Democrats in the Congress. The sudden objection, fugetaboutit.

that they were going to 'disqualify' Sanders.

This will obviously be a part of that attack front.

a sports completion, examination or beauty contest. Unless winning is a disqualifier. An attempt will be interesting to observe, if it flies. The air of desperation and mendacity is so thick...

But I am sure we will soon find out. She has already tried to associate Sandy Hook with Sanders, so really there is no low too low for Clinton to go to in order to win at any and all costs.

very vocal Clinton supporters who preach this line of bullshit.

None have given me a cogent and direct answer. They can only spin, lie, distort, and obfuscate.

It's a long list, so I won't waste the space, nor time, listing all the ways. Y'all know them.

Talk about desperation eating a cracker! Scraping the bottom of the barrel on smear topics. SMDH
She just keeps putting more nails in her coffin w/these tactics. So obvious!

She's afraid the mirror will tell her who's the most electable of all.

and a 3rd party run if he doesn't get the nomination.

If those corrupt assholes want to play it that way, let's take the gloves off and have at it.

I suspect they underestimated how much the public is sick to death of not just "The Establishment" and Wall Street policies - but also the sense of entitlement the Bushes and Clintons together seemed to have, the idea that the two family dynasties would take turns running the country for generations.

With the idea that she was "her turn" (to be followed by Jeb's turn, then Chelsea's turn, or so it seemed at the start of the season) - came the miscalculation that of course she would get the democratic nomination.

I believe the campaign thought the only real threat was a third party spoiler, so they welcomed Bernie in thinking he would be out after the first few states - and they wouldn't have the third party threat. When he didn't walk away after the first couple losses, we could see the hillary supporters getting more and more insistent that he had to leave now. NOW. REALLY NOW. And I'm sure that was a point people were getting paid to post - the coordination and messaging was too consistent for it to be coincidence.

The scorched earth reaction now is probably because the first wave of pressure to drop out was a failure, the second wave (various websites setting deadlines to purge Bernie supporters mid march) was a failure, and now they are backed into a corner and don't have a strategy.

ya know, and then cheerfully hand over his supporters and any money he raised to Hillary.

Obviously these people never fucking ONCE thought about the issues, or they would have known that Hillary is not a workable substitute for Bernie, for people who care about the issues. Must be quite the shock.
The young people I know would not have bothered at all with politics, if not for Bernie. And there will be no transfer of enthusiasm, money, and votes to Madam Third Way Neocon Warhawk. They consider her SOS - same old shit - and see no reason to vote for that. And - she pretty much agrees with them on the SOS thing. Plus, they check all shit out on the internet. ALL of it. No blind allegiance, they did not buy tickets to the old kabuki play.