In all the "Bernie would have won/No he wouldn't" posts I've read...........

[NanceGreggs]

152. Poor Bernie ...

Demeaned Democrats for decades, said he'd be a hypocrite if he ever ran as one - then decided to ever-so-briefly "join" the party anyway because, as he himself stated, he needed the media attention.

And now we're supposed to pity the fool who couldn't win the primaries because some states don't allow non-Democrats to have a say in who DEMOCRATS want as their nominee - a policy I wish ALL states would adopt.

I remember the pre-Iowa posts, when the Bernie supporters were telling everyone how all of those new voters who Bernie was attracting would win him the nomination. But they didn't show up in anywhere near the numbers they were predicting - and Bernie lost - by a LOT.

Are you really wanting anyone to believe that Bernie had this YUGE support - but everyone who supported him was unable to vote in a primary? Poor ol' hard-done-by-Bernie was done-in by "DNC shenanigans", and not because his message didn't resonate, or because many Dems viewed him as an opportunist using the Party's resources for his own gain, while telling his followers that the Democrats were corrupt?

"So Bernie was screwed from the beginning in the primaries BECAUSE a large part of what would have been his supporters were not ALLOWED to vote in the primaries."

Did Bernie not know how the states' primaries work before he ran? Maybe he should have checked that out beforehand, instead of cry-babying about it after-the-fact. Maybe "Mr. I would be a hypocrite if I ever ran as a Democrat" should have thought things through.

Spare us the drama. Bernie didn't win because the majority of Dems didn't WANT HIM as their nominee. That's the fact. And his constant whinging didn't help, which invariably centered around everything being everyone else's fault. Mr. Transparency wouldn't even cough-up his complete tax returns - and blamed it on his wife, of course.

Funny how so many Bernie supporters are quick to say that Hillary winning the popular vote is of no consequence, because she knew the rules of the EC going in. Did Bernie not know the rules of the Dem primary going in? It's easy to say Bernie would have won if everyone who supported him was allowed to vote in the primaries - instead of just admitting the "people who couldn't vote for him" never existed in any great numbers in the first place.

In order to secure the nomination, Bernie had to win over DEMOCRATS - ya know, the members of the party he was allegedly running for. Remember them? Apparently, Bernie didn't.