Bernie Sanders needs to get off his butt - in plain English - and suspend his campaign for President. The Vermont Senator cannot win the Democratic nomination. And by not dropping out of the race - quickly and quietly - Sanders is not allowing Hillary Clinton - who will, in fact, be the Democratic nominee - to take advantage of more time...to campaign against Republican Donald Trump. 
Former Secretary of State Clinton has won more votes and more delegates than Senator Sanders... and he needs to now - not after the last primaries in June...not at the Philadelphia convention in July - to convince and, if necessary, command...in every way possible...his voters...that it's time to unite and unify the Democratic Party...and for everyone to fall behind Hillary Clinton.
Bernie Sanders is not a Democrat. He is an Independent who entered the 2016 race to try to move Mrs. Clinton further left...to become more liberal...and more progressive...and Sanders has done that. But now...he - and some of his supporters - are hurting the Democratic Party.
No matter what happens in any future primaries...it's now time for Senator Sanders to do what is best for the Democratic Party and to do what is best for the entire country. He needs to let Hillary Clinton be officially named the presumptive nominee, so she can focus and concentrate on defeating Donald Trump in the November 8th general election.If Bernie Sanders wants a Democrat in The White House come January 20th, 2017...the only Democrat who has the chance to do that is Hillary Clinton. It's time for Senator Sanders to get off the campaign trail...and to go home.
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Why should he leave? Neither he nor Clinton will have enough elected delegates to declare victory before the convention. So just because Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Hillary Clinton have conspired with the “Super Delegates” to give the nomination to Hillary no matter what the voters do, so you believe he should just quit. It is possible that Sanders could have more elected delegates going into the convention then Hillary and then the corrupt Clinton machine will steal the nomination from Bernie. I was never a big Bernie fan but the way the party and Hillary have treated him and conspired against him I hope he runs as a third party even if it cost us the White House, it will show the party elite that you can’t play god with the elections. Feel the Bern!
ReplyDeleteWhat you and others don't seem to understand...is that Bernie Sanders was well aware - as was Hillary Clinton - when they both began their campaigns...that the Democratic Party rules include both Pledged (or what you called "Elected") and Super Delegates. The Super Delegates are every much a part of the nomination process as the Pledged Delegates. And they are a legitimate part of who is nominated. There is no "conspiracy" (as you want to believe) between Mrs. Clinton and Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The Super Delegates make their decisions independently. For you to say that you "hope (Bernie Sanders) runs as a third party even if it costs us The White House) is a despicable comment to make. If you are a true Democrat (which you imply by saying "us") then you would never write such horrendous words. "The party elite" is not - as you say - "playing God with the elections." And Bernie Sanders knows it. The Independent Senator from Vermont would need to win more than two-thirds of the remaining Pledge Delegates for him to secure the nomination. It's ludicrous to think that he could possibly do that. With the Democratic Party system - structured as it is - there are no "winner-take-all" contests. All primaries are won on a "proportional" basis. If Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders each won 50% of the remaining delegates, he cannot gain enough Pledged Delegates to catch up and beat Secretary Clinton. Because - in that unlikely scenario - for every 100 delegates available, Mrs. Clinton would get 50 and Mr. Sanders would get 50. So you see, even with those numbers, Senator Sanders cannot win. Now you can blame the Democratic Party for their system that includes the Super Delegates, but, as I said, both candidates knew when they entered the race...that the Super Delegates are part of that system. Would you be complaining if it was Senator Sanders who was ahead and had nearly all of the Super Delegates? I don't think so. And, in that case, if Secretary Clinton was losing to Senator Sanders...and her supporters were yelling "conspiracy" (as you have)...you'd be shouting sore loser to Mrs. Clinton. The fact of the matter is...Bernie Sanders and his supporters like you are acting like sore losers. As I said in my commentary...it's time for Bernie to go home. GBD
DeleteYou may believe that the super delegates make their decisions independently, I do not. If you don’t fall in line with the DNC’s pick you can lose campaign support, if in Congress or the Senate you lose committee assignments, you know you have to back their pick if you know what’s good for you. If they don’t treat Bernie fairly with the rules or platform committees to make sure he is part of the convention maybe he should tell us all to stay home in November so the party knows they need us.
ReplyDeleteAgain - as I stated to you earlier - Bernie Sanders was well aware of the Democratic Party rules before he entered the campaign. If Senator Sanders was to do what you are suggesting - to tell his supporters "to stay home in November" - that not only would be wrong, it would be a despicable act by a man who claims to not want Donald Trump in The White House. And for you to make such a statement...is just as bad. I understand that you are a Sanders supporter and that you want him to be the Democratic nominee...but when Hillary Clinton is nominated...and if you and other Sanders supporters stay home from voting on November 8th...if you're really a Democrat...a liberal...a progressive...would you rather have Hillary Clinton as your President...or Donald Trump? I supported Hillary Clinton not Barack Obama in 2008, but once then-Senator Obama was nominated, I was 100% behind him. And today, I am a staunch supporter of President Obama. Making threatening statements - as you have - about staying home on November 8th just fuels the fire with Democrats all across the country. Democrats need to unify and unite...and it needs to be done immediately. And Senator Sanders needs to encourage, convince, push - if necessary and command - if need be - his supporters to all fall behind Hillary Clinton. But he needs to do it first...and he needs to do it soon. GBD
DeleteThe movement is great- stadiums, crowd, so on and so forth. But the facts are the facts, The system isn't what Trump and Bernie are calling it. Secretary Clinton leads in votes, pledged delegates and super-delegates.
ReplyDeleteGo home already Bernie, you cannot win, and you will not win the nomination. It's just a simple fact.
"When we started this movement we were 64 points behind.." Bernie, who cares? This is a race for the Presidency of the United States- it's not supposed to be easy. It has never been eassy. So please go home and give us a chance to focus early on Nobember 8.
True, true, true. Thanks for your comment, Mamadou Traore. GBD
Deletetrump is your next president. you don't believe it but he will be. too many Bernie people will NEVER vote for Clinton. i have been to many Bernie events and at all of them people have signs about putting Clinton in prison, etc. just like you see at the trump rallies. i have been voting dem since 1980 and i promise you i am voting for trump if clinton gets the nomination. i don't like trump but the dems need to learn a lesson that when they play around they get trump. clinton will never unite the roughly half the dems that are for bernie. it's sad but true. maybe the dems will figure things out by 2020 after 4 years of trump.
ReplyDeleteI don't think you're right. I don't think Donald Trump is ever going to be President of anything but The Trump Organization. The next President of the United States will be former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. As is the case with many Democratic Primary Campaigns (unlike the Republicans) - Democrats will all fall in line and behind the nominee. Democrats did it with Barack Obama when the then-Senator Obama ran in 2008 against the then-Senator Hillary Clinton. I - and millions of other Democrats - supported Mrs. Clinton in 2008, but we all voted for Mr. Obama in the general election because HE was the nominee. It will happen again in 2016. Oh you can tell me that you'll vote for Donald Trump, but why do something so stupid - out of spite. If you're a true Democrat - as you say you are - then why would you vote for Trump and then see the country in those hands? Why would you vote for Trump and find the U.S. Supreme Court become virtually all Conservative, when up to a possible four Justices end up retiring from the bench (or permanently) as they get on in years? Do you really want Roe vs. Wade to be overturned? Do you really want so many human, civil and equal rights to be lost for a generation or perhaps forever? For you to say you'd vote for Trump because you support Bernie Sanders makes no sense to me whatsoever. This is not a schoolyard brawl - although "Trump the Bully" wants to make it that way. To say that you - as a "Bernie Backer" - want "the dems to learn a lesson" is moronic. And I'm sorry to use that word, but you need to understand that this is not a game. We are voting for the President of the United States. It's obvious you don't realize that. GBD
DeleteMark my words Bernie supports will not 'fall in line' behind clinton. have you been to a bernie rally? i have been to several and the vast majority of people are yelling things about clinton, holding signs with pictures of her in jail, signs about anything you can think of that you would expect to see at a trump rally. these people will not be supporting clinton no matter how you think they will fall in line. trump is an extreme candidate and dems need somebody extreme like bernie to fight him. clinton is just a classless politician that neither trump supports or bernie supports want. they want somebody different. if its trump vs clinton then the different person will be trump. and yes i will be voting for trump over clinton because i realize it is not a game. the dnc thinks it is a game and is playing the sore loser because some people actually aren't for their darling star clinton and they can't handle it. they will learn a sour lesson come november.
DeleteIt's tragic that people like you - especially when you claim to be a Democrat - use such words of hate about Hillary Clinton. She has done nothing...NOTHING...illegal. It's bad enough when Donald Trump makes such deplorable comments, but for a Democrat - even one who supports Bernie Sanders - well, there's no excuse for that. Sanders is clearly being the "sore loser," but he will come around. I just hope it won't be too late to get people like you to change your mind. For you to say that you're going to teach the Democratic Party "a sour lesson come November" by staying home or by voting for Trump instead of Mrs. Clinton...that simply is a disgrace. GBD
DeleteI think Bernie is staying in it thinking that Hillary may get indicted or something close enough that she will have to drop out and the only choice for the DNC is to give Bernie the nomination.
ReplyDeleteThen Bernie is nuts! If he or anybody thinks that Hillary Clinton is going to be indicted then I've got a bridge to sell. Secretary Clinton has done nothing illegal. There has never been any proof of any illegalities by her and that is because she has not done anything illegal. Senator Sanders is holding on so he can get some of his points and policies on the Democratic Platform. He needs to sit down with Secretary Clinton sooner rather than later. As for Sanders being "give(n) the nomination" as you suggest, I can tell you right now - first of all that's not going to happen...but God forbid anything did go wrong for Mrs. Clinton - which it won't - the DNC would draft - and do whatever it could - to convince Vice President Joe Biden to be their nominee. Bernie Sanders will not be the Democratic Party nominee under any circumstances. He will never receive enough delegates. So, therefore, if...if...something did go wrong for Secretary Clinton, the Democrats would be looking at an open convention. But that's not going to happen because it will be Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee...and she will be elected the 45th President of the United States. GBD
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