Elizabeth Warren: "I’m still cheering Bernie on"

[c-ville rook]

105. "Let me preface it with the point that I fully support Bernie's...

...ideas and platform.I admire him for his consistency - he has advocated on the issue of income inequality and the poor for decades. ...

First, I've done a good bit of research on Bernie's platform, and none of the planks have a chance of being realized."


I am not trying to be overly pedantic about this but I am not sure the words "fully support" mean what you think they do.

As a Bernie supporter/primary voter, who is going to support Hillary in the GE because I understand the importance of trying to slow down before rocketing straight into whatever ravine Trump/Cruz represent. Let me say this attitude "nothing too positive can be done" that Hillary and her supporters have adopted is less than inspiring.

To put down the Hillary chestnut Bernie is not electable. That is not what the polls in April indicated. Granted that has probably changed since his path to the nomination is all but erased in the primaries -- but there is a difference. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, Hillary has been laying groundwork since Bill left office for a run and it finally paid off.

What should scare everyone here is how quickly Bernie closed the distance on "our party's" likely nominee from a flat stop. I have never been a fan of the “me next school of political succession” -- it does not create winners. And I'd be in a fit if the GOP did not seem to be going full speed, in reverse off a cliff.