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Inside the bitter last days of Bernie's revolution
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/bernie-sanders-campaign-last-days-224041#ixzz4AxX3mWDX
Theres no strategist pulling the strings, and no collection of burn-it-all-down aides egging him on. At the heart of the rage against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the campaign aides closest to him say, is Bernie Sanders.
It was the Vermont senator who personally rewrote his campaign managers shorter statement after the chaos at the Nevada state party convention and blamed the political establishment for inciting the violence.
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I know we are winding down paying attention to the Bern Show, but this had some revealing items.
TwilightZone
(28,833 posts)Turns out I was wrong. I have to admit that the members of this group that said it goes all the way to the top were dead-on.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Is that like the Ron Paul revolution?
Bernie...hmm
I know I've heard that name somewhere but I can't place it.
William769
(55,815 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,375 posts)Talk about dodging a bullet.
Still watching CA returns! Saw this on Twitter.
William769
(55,815 posts)I keep updating the numbers on my site as they come in.
TwilightZone
(28,833 posts)He's exactly as egocentric and vindictive as many believed him to be.
sheshe2
(87,272 posts)I never liked him. Yet that was like a sucker punch. Far worse than I thought.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)It will be fascinating to hear how he tries to blackma... oops, I mean negotiate with the Democratic Party by threatening to pack up his followers and go home to Vermont!
ismnotwasm
(42,443 posts)Dispite hearing all along some insider tales of how he operates. This is just pitiful.
BootinUp
(48,918 posts)stopbush
(24,630 posts)What a sorry excuse for a presidential candidate.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,375 posts)I'd turned it off.
stopbush
(24,630 posts)TwilightZone
(28,833 posts)Bingo
Starry Messenger
(32,375 posts)You nailed that.
DURHAM D
(32,834 posts)He is everything we thought he is/was.
Get the hook.
Starry Messenger
(32,375 posts)They are filleting him on MSNBC.
DURHAM D
(32,834 posts)Up is down.
Black is white.
BootinUp
(48,918 posts)spooky3
(36,109 posts)The weaker candidate--him.
DURHAM D
(32,834 posts)make his speech? Sick? Sick in the head? Screaming at this staff? Firing the person/people who were interviewed for this story. Making sure he picked up all the travel size personal hygiene items back at the motel?
BootinUp
(48,918 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,375 posts)and he wants to deliver a speech saying a close CA win means he has grounds to not concede. He's watching returns in his hotel room. Those people are going to get tired standing out there though, in an airplane hanger...
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)the more this truth gets out there, the better.
The "hero" with feet of clay needs to be exposed.
Starry Messenger
(32,375 posts)Princess Turandot
(4,823 posts)And he still wants Barney kicked out?
Is he going to demand that of PBO on Thursday?
Starry Messenger
(32,375 posts)Cha
(305,137 posts)know it.
I dont know who advised him that this was the right route to take, but we are now actively destroying what Bernie worked so hard to build over the last year just to pick up two fucking delegates in a state he lost, rapid response director Mike Casca complained to Weaver in an internal campaign email obtained by POLITICO.
What he got was left wing pundits turning against him and no "fucking" delegates.
Bitter berni.. will be left in the dust..
"Every time Sanders got into a knife fight, aides say, they ended up losing. But they could never stop Sanders when he got his back up."
Word got back to Reids team that Weaver had nixed the idea, ruling out backing anyone who hadnt endorsed Sanders. Weaver says its because the Senate hopefuls had to get in line for Sanders support behind top backers like Gabbard and Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.)though neither has a competitive race this year.
Sanders never followed up himself
One Loser decision after another.
Thanks for this, Starry.. I'm sure there will be more desconstruciing of what went wrong with the BS campaign.
We were all right there to see it.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/bernie-sanders-campaign-last-days-224041#ixzz4AxJ54UK8
Starry Messenger
(32,375 posts)He should have gauged going in who was going to support him, and he should have talked to his co-workers/Supers to see if there was even soft support there. So many things wrong with this campaign. And it lost!
Cha
(305,137 posts)jimw81
(111 posts)I think someone in a senior position leaked this story calling for help to save careers. After the primaries are over the people associate with his campaign will be labeled as toxic in Democratic circles.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)The good news is that he can drop the "Happy Grandpa" act. He's out of cash so it's over.
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/bernie-sanders-campaign-last-days-224041#ixzz4AzU6zKRs
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Walk away
(9,494 posts)forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)They havent been able to get Sanders focused on any of that, or on the real questions about what kind of long term organization to build out of his email list. They know theyll have their own rally in Philadelphia outside the the convention hallbut thats about as far as theyve gotten.
He's basically managed to hijack left politics for his own ego.
Starry Messenger
(32,375 posts)Any progressive org would give its eye teeth for it.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)Schadenfreude is so sweet.
"Every time Sanders got into a knife fight, aides say, they ended up losing. But they could never stop Sanders when he got his back up."
Starry Messenger
(32,375 posts)I want the Sarandon conversation--who signed off on her going around saying a Trump win would make the proles more revolutionary?
So many questions...!
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)Wonder if he likes how that feels?
I started reading the campaign tweets and press releases about the time he dissed PP and HRC. That was when I realized that the campaign was directly responsible for the misleading use of polls, nasty talking points and encouraging bro-ish behavior from supporters. Now we know that it all came directly from the top.
Demsrule86
(70,983 posts)"Every time Sanders got into a knife fight, aides say, they ended up losing. But they could never stop Sanders when he got his back up.
What I don't get is why Sanders thinks he should have all this influence. It is clear to me as spiteful and angry as he is, he will not deliver votes for presumptive Nominee Clinton (feels good to write presumptive). We are going to have to win without him clearly. I do not understand why he thinks as the loser he has the right to remake the Democratic system. He can't organize his way out of a paper bag and the so-called movement will die on the vine...as it takes real work to organize this sort of thing. He won't do the heavy lifting. I think the kindness shown by our nominee has emboldened Sanders who's ego is the size of Texas...so it needs to stop. The Democratic primary process worked just fine...it stopped a guy who never had a chance to win the general and that is what it is designed to do.
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Walk away
(9,494 posts)Demsrule86
(70,983 posts)Terrible situation.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(114,921 posts)#FeelTheBernout