Dear Bernie supporters.. Bernie will not be the nominee

[showblue22]

Under any circumstance! Even if something happens to Joe. Something happening to Joe, does not make Bernie a winner!

[jimfields33]

1. This is getting comical.

Are you afraid he’d make a tremendous president? He would.

[LexVegas]

2. ...

[showblue22]

3. No. I want the USA to succeed.

If I thought it would I under Bernie, I would have voted for him. I just wan't to make it clear. Bernie lost and nothing will make that not so.

[Codeine]

4. Yeah, a guy with literally no ability whatever

to work with another human being or form a political alliance is truly Presidential material.

[we can do it]

5. He doesn't even show up for his job now, in time of crisis.

[SCantiGOP]

6. Was he the first Senator in the history of the country

to miss a meaningless vote?
I'm just trying to figure out why everyone is so concerned about a cloture vote that needed 60 votes ending up 47-47.

[William769]

8. Probably so in a Democratic primary with a raging pandemic going on and a stimulus package hanging

In the wind.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

[George II]

10. If he had shown up it would have been a symbolic victory for Democrats, 47-48. Aside from that....

....if every Senator felt the same way it would have been a 0-0 vote. Other than the five (all republicans) who were in quarantine, EVERY Senator felt it important enough to do his/her job.

When I was working I didn't have the option to pick and choose which job functions I could do and which I could ignore. If I skipped any I would have been written up and eventually fired.

BTW, regardless of the meaninglessness of THAT particular vote, two points:

1. Yesterday afternoon he DID find his way to Washington to participate in the exact same vote, just as "meaningless".
2. From last June through early January (6.5 months), he missed 253 consecutive votes.

[Mr.Bill]

15. Well, 94 of them

thought it was important enough to show up.

[sheshe2]

27. I am sorry.

The man has a job to do and makes one hell of a salary, 174K. He is AWOL in one of the biggest crisis this country has faced. A million or more may die. He should be in Washington.

Not Me, US. That has a hollow ring right now. Where is he for we the people? Where?

[pnwmom]

7. The truth is comical? If something happened to Joe, his delegates would be free

to line up behind whoever they wanted. And that's not going to be Sanders.

[thesquanderer]

24. I thought delegates were committed to their candidate for the first ballot, no matter what, no? nt

[pnwmom]

30. Yes, and then they'd line up behind someone else. And it won't be the guy who disdains Democrats. n/

[The Magistrate]

40. Exactly, Ma'am

If the tragedy occurred, Sanders would lose to a dead man on the first ballot, and be overwhelmed by votes for a favorite son or daughter of the Democratic Party selected by the convention.





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

[NurseJackie]

11. Haaaaaa!

[Haggis for Breakfast]

26. Oh, how I miss Phyllis Diller !!

That laugh of hers !!

[beastie boy]

12. Snap out of it!

He is not going to be president. Tremendous, mediocre or terrible, or otherwise.

[PuffedMica]

13. +1

[marble falls]

14. ...

[relayerbob]

17. Sanders????

He has absolutely terrible leadership skills. Doesn't listen, no team-building capabilities whatsoever (rabble-rousing and getting people angry is not leadership), no consensus building experience, no foreign policy experience, no management experience, poor hiring judgement, inability to project outcomes from known facts.

He'd be better than Trump, but that's about it

[zackymilly]

21. President? He can't even do his job as a Senator. Where the hell is he? n/t

[redstateblues]

28. Sorry -no. He's too much like what we've already got

[sheshe2]

29. Ummm.

K.

He doesn't even do his day job now. No excuse not to be in Washington as millions may die and the Senate is doing their best to give Americans a fighting chance for survival.

Tell me WHY HE IS NOT THERE!

[Demsrule86]

31. If Sanders ran in the General, Trump would be reelected and he is a terrible president...almost

anyone except Sanders could beat Trump.

[NCProgressive]

9. Bernie who?

[Northern_Light]

16. Enough already !!!

You REALLY thought it was necessary to post this?

Yes, we know Bernie isn't nominee. Can we please move on.

[trueblue2007]

20. BERNIE .. .. .. .. .. DROP OUT NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tritsofme]

22. Why won't Bernie move on, and do his actual job?

[zackymilly]

38. Welcome to DU! Now I have to say goodbye. n/t

[bS7n40nwc1]

18. So what...?

I will concede that Joe "Nothing will fundamentally change" Biden will likely be the nominee, and that we can look forward to little systemic improvement in this country for the next 4 years.

Hey, I might even like that the country is administered by Jill Biden, Nancy Reagan style, until the 2024 election.

That said, I would still like the opportunity to vote for Bernie in the primaries. Again.

C'mon Joe supporters. You're already crowing about your candidate's delegate count. What's the harm in giving us change supporters a few more months of warm & fuzzies before the same-old/same-old curtain falls again?

[zackymilly]

39. Why don't most Bernie supporters ever go out and vote?

[jorgevlorgan]

19. Well he will be under these circumstances:

Accruing 1991 pledged delegates before the convention.

[Kahuna]

23. Say it louder so the people in the rear can hear you...

[thesquanderer]

25. re: "Something happening to Joe, does not make Bernie a winner!"

True... but if something happening to Joe resulted in Sanders getting 64% of the delegates from here on out, that would make Bernie the winner.

Not likely, though...

[radius777]

35. Sanders and Biden represent opposing wings

and are not interchangeable, and voters know this, why there was such quick consolidation on Super Tuesday for Biden (and against Bernie).

In the highly unlikely chance Biden's campaign was fatally wounded - the centrist wing (which is 2/3 of the party) voters IMO would still vote Biden in the remaining primaries so that the convention could then nominate a Biden replacement.

[thesquanderer]

37. That's a reasonable theory, that most voters would choose brokered convention over Sanders...

...but I don't think you could say that would be a certainty.

[Gothmog]

32. sanders will not be the nominee

The math is against sanders

[Gothmog]

33. From the Hoarse Whisperer

Link to tweet

[Cha]

34. Exactly.

[LVZ]

36. The GOP has its SCIENCE DENIERS and Bernie Bros have their MATH DENIERS

[fallout87]

41. Can I borrow your crystal ball?

I need winning lottery numbers!

Lol

[showblue22]

42. You need a dose of reality.