Bernie’s Bad End...Paul Krugman

[workinclasszero]

Bernie’s Bad End
MAY 2, 2016 6:44 AM

This is really depressing: Sanders claiming that there will be a contested convention, and suggesting that the nomination fight was rigged. Can someone tell Bernie that he’s in the process of blowing his own chance for a positive legacy?

At this point it’s as if Sanders is determined to validate everything liberal skeptics have been saying all along about his unwillingness to face reality — and all of it for, maybe, a few weeks of additional fundraising, at the expense of any future credibility and goodwill. Isn’t there anyone who can tell him to stop before it’s too late?

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/bernies-bad-end/

[stonecutter357]

1. he has blown his chance for a positive legacy.

[KittyWampus]

11. He's making liberals and progressives look bad. Whining about losing and lying about

a contested convention.

[RandySF]

2. There is

And you can someone sane talks to him on primary day. But you can also tell that Jane Sanders is the last person he talks to at night by his reversals on the following days.

[pandr32]

29. Yes--his senior political advisor!

Ughhhhh!

[Her Sister]

34. Gotta join you in this!

eom

[Cha]

3. Wow.. Krugman has been on bernie's case.. Good!

At this point it’s as if Sanders is determined to validate everything liberal skeptics have been saying all along about his unwillingness to face reality — and all of it for, maybe, a few weeks of additional fundraising, at the expense of any future credibility and goodwill. Isn’t there anyone who can tell him to stop before it’s too late?

Wow.. this is really helpful.. I hope it gets through to some BS fans.

Thank you, working!

[stopbush]

5. Krugman went under the bus long ago.

His words of wisdom will be twisted by the BSers to confirm Sanders' "us against the establishment" mantra.

[Cha]

6. Let them twist.. sanders is hoisting himself on his own petard with jane's help and it looks

as though no one can stop him.

[workinclasszero]

8. Whatever legacy Sanders hoped to have had in the democratic party

is being flushed down the drain with his delusional instance of flipping enough supers to win and calling every damn primary he lost to Hillary "rigged".

Not to mention he said it would be horrible to try to win via the supers early in the primary season! The man and his backers are massive hypocrites!

[Cha]

9. these guys are putting mitt to shame in the flip-flop, etch-a-sketch dept

He's making sure his fans don't vote for Hillary in the GE.. why would they if they believed all she did was cheat?

This is on bernieFnsanders.

Bui, no worries.. Hillary has a secret weapon.. she doesn't need BS.

[workinclasszero]

15. I think its a recruiting mechanism for the green party TBH

And you are right, she doesn't need fake democrats anyway.

Heck tons of republicans are planning to vote for Hillary if Herr Trump is the thug candidate and I see no way that he wont be.

[BlueCaliDem]

41. I just hope she'll pull that secret weapon out soon. It's getting crazy with an equally unbalanced

candidate threatening to do something that the Democratic Party Convention that hasn't seen done in ages!

Sanders needs a phone call quick and if he stays stubbornly stupid in his attempt to (as I've called it months ago) "gut the Democratic Party", someone needs to tell him that if he doesn't reverse course, he's gonna come out early and crush him.

Any Democrat - true Democrat, not the wishy-washy kind - who still supports this nincompoop should have their head examined. This man is hellbent on destroying the Democratic Party just because he's upset he's not winning. This is childish, boorish, immature, and self-destructive, and I'm really sick and tired of him. Really.

On a lighter note...Hi, Cha!

[Cha]

43. This is her secret weapon but he won't be out till Fall..

Keith Boykin ??@keithboykin
No matter where things stand right now, don't forget Hillary Clinton has a secret weapon for the fall campaign.
5:15 PM - 26 Apr 2016
236 236 Retweets 358 358 likes

https://theobamadiary.com/2016/04/26/well-done-md-pa/#comments

And you see Paul Krugman's .. "Bernie's bad end"? And, "Al Giordano has it trending on twitter"!

Pertinent Tweet..

Propane Jane ?@docrocktex26 · 55m55 minutes ago

The truly disgusting part about Bernie's contested convention aspirations is how he thinks he's entitled to override the will of POC/women.

https://twitter.com/theonlyadult

People are up in arms so the speak.. Hillary's getting lots of HELP! berni's screwing himself up.. all with his own mouth.

[spooky3]

48. You blew the secret! :-)

I think she'll have some other surprises up her sleeve later.

I hope her coattails are long and strong.

[Cha]

52. Oh yes, it won't just be the President.. but they will be a dynamic duo!

And, Yes.. the coattails.. the Dem races across the country that's she been helping with her Fundraising that sanders is always whining about. One of the many on his whine list.

[fleabiscuit]

56. ++++++++++++++++++111111111111111 K&R

[skylucy]

58. BlueCaliDem---Thank you for expressing sentiments that I am feeling today. Anything of a

positive nature that I believed about Sanders is gone. I am thoroughly disgusted. I am also concerned that Sanders will continue to denigrate Hillary and the Democratic Party all the way until (and even during) the convention. I watched a clip of Hillary from 2008 conceding to and endorsing Obama. Despite being disappointed that she had been beaten by then-Senator Obama, she was unequivocal in her support for him and called on all Dems to back him. I fear that Sanders has no such loyalty to the party or any of us long-time, true Democrats. He wants to hurt the party,because after using it for his own ends, he has lost. It's like he wants all of us to suffer because he didn't win. I gave him far too much credit when he began his campaign. His words about doing whatever it takes to "make sure a Republican doesn't win the White House" are self serving lies at this point. Remember when his campaign workers stole Hillary's data when there was a breach in the system? And then his campaign whined and filed a lawsuit against the DNC because they had to wait one day before accessing the system again? I gave him the benefit of the doubt at that time. I shouldn't have.

[stopbush]

4. Yep. Leaving a bad taste in everyone's mouth, destroying what

little legacy he had while pushing a generation of new voters away from the normal process, convincing them you only lost because the other side cheated.

Nice job, Sanders.

[Cha]

7. He's looking like the biggest poor loser on the Planet now.

[yallerdawg]

13. I bet someone (everyone) told Sanders about book deals...

and huge advances!

He has nothing to lose.

Only we do.

[Cha]

18. Oh I think he does have a lot to lose.. he's just not thinking of his reputation in the

US Senate. It may not mean much to him now with all the rock star rallies he's held and the $$$$$$$ flowing like whine.. except in April when it went down almost $25 Million.

Maybe he's worried about campaign debts the way he's been spending without much to show for it?

but, he's going to be sorry he's claiming Hillary only won because everything is "rigged".. one of his gd favorite buzz words.

[yallerdawg]

24. I'm just sayin'...

isn't $27 right around the cost of a brand new hardback?

And that $27 would go in his bank account, not campaign account?

There just has to be a reason for burning it all down with no chance of winning the nomination.

"Millionaires and billionaires." If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!

Too cynical? Too soon?

[Cha]

25. "If you can't beat 'em join 'em.. LOL!

Not too cynical.. unless I am too. I mean we're speaking from months of experience!

Not too soon, either.

[stopbush]

21. Losing donors like crazy, getting down to the deadenders

supporting him.

With every passing day, he shows us why he would have been a horrible POTUS.

[Cha]

23. ".. down to the deadenders.. " yes, good way to put it, stop.

yeah, just what we needed .. the stump speech president.. I know President Obama is happy that Hillary is succeeding him.. he knows how competent she is.

[question everything]

10. As the RNC chairman told Trump: give us a break

You knew, or should have known, the rules of this race. Not to mention that you were not a Democrat, hated Democrats, campaigned against Democrats until you decided to take advantage of bright eyed youngsters.

[Cary]

12. Emoprogs will be emoprogs

They make the same mistakes over and over. They never learn.

[workinclasszero]

17. Wow you got their number all right LOL

Emo Progressive (or “emoprog”) is a self-described liberal or progressive, often with libertarian leanings, whose political orientation is to be angry, dissatisfied and unhappy with the state of the nation at any given time, because in their view, liberal policies are not being implemented quickly or forcefully enough.

[Her Sister]

36. wow! Great definition!

So right on!

[displacedtexan]

44. "Liberal policies" = free tuition and instant Kardashian lifestyle

I blame a combo of TMZ and Pinterest for the dissastisfaction of emoprogs.

[Vogon_Glory]

54. EmoProg. Nice One

EmoProg? Nice one. I've been calling them fan-boys and fan-girls, and I've gotten so sour that I found my old "politically immature," insult that I haven't used in years.

[DemonGoddess]

14. Good OpEd

[SunSeeker]

16. Paul Krugman hits it out of the park again!

[BootinUp]

26. He has an amazing batting average, no?

[beachbumbob]

19. We will see if bernies love Bernie is greater than his love for America and

Whether or not he rather see America destroyed than help beat trump and conservatives...Manu of his supporters want America to be destroyed...

[tonyt53]

20. It was inevitable

Since almost all of Bernie's rallies have been at or near a college campus, and the school year is ending now, his supporters will forget he even exists in about a month anyway. I find it so very odd that he chose to bring that crowd into his campaign before trying to get people that actually do vote in a general election.

[stopbush]

22. His campaign was built on the premise that he couldn't win, but

that he could still be considered to have run a successful campaign if he got exposure.

That's why he ran as a D and why he targeted college kids. The media exposure and the $ rolling in convinced him he could win. Now he's stuck in the fantasy.

[workinclasszero]

30. He's delusional thats why

And so are his rabid fans.

I said months ago if you are depending on 18 to 29 year old people exclusively, the revolution, to get you to the white house, you are an idiot!

Its a proven historical fact that this group votes the least of everybody!

But I was scolded and called a tool of the oligarchy because I looked at the historical record.

Got many many posts hidden/run off the board for saying such horrible "untrue" things. SMH

[Cary]

31. Which is why we should strive to not react to them

Don't sweat the hides. I got my last hide, on a thread I started in order to actually try to be reasonable and nice to them, for simply saying that I won't follow mopes and losers. Did I say they were mopes and losers? No, I specifically avoided any reference to anyone.

So I got hidden by them for saying that I won't follow mopes and losers. It's a bad thing to opt out of following mopes and losers.

We're better than that, or at least I try to be. It's funny because they berated me in that thread because of my transparency page and guess what? They were PPR'd because they themselves were banned and had multiple socks.

So don't let the flakes get to you. Chin up! All is well.

[workinclasszero]

40. Hillary won regardless of if they accept it or not

Same as the voting age facts.

A fact is a fact even if a person doesn't want it to be true!

[Cary]

42. Was there ever any doubt?

No. Not really. And pretty much that's why I support Hillary. I think she's better, don't get me wrong. But both would work for me, and no Republican would be acceptable.

I'm still going with my opinion that we had two great candidates and I'm not taking my eyes off the prize, which is a Democratic victory. Republicans are unacceptable. They present Kasich as something sane and reasonable, but he's not sane and he's not reasonable. He's not moderate. He's not fit to govern and none of the Republicans are.

I mean look at their approval rating. Look at what they've managed to do with Senate and House majorities. Do I need to say more? They have nothing except the same old, very tired tax cuts for rich people and more wars. They are not fit to govern.

Now if that makes me a partisan hack then so be it. I cannot rationalize Republicans in any way, shape or form.

[LAS14]

27. Too true! Revive the Bernie of early debates!

[Satch59]

28. Thank you Paul Krugman!

Bernie is sounding more like Cruz (delusional) which is NOT good for him and not good the Democratic Party...we are so much better than this. The idea of Bernie not embracing a graceful exit speaks to his ego and true intentions... Yes, Hillary stayed through CA but never talked of contested convention or rigged super delegates and never made demands on the platform or to Obama.... Grace...a beautiful word...Hillary has it...Bernie doesn't.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

46. Sounding like Cruz?

He's about as popular as Cruz among his fellow congressional members. I think someone said, "I don't know anyone who's worked with Bernie Sanders but plenty of people have been lectured by him."

[BeyondGeography]

32. A couple of these comments are very good

Bill
Ithaca, NY 2 hours ago
Hard to understand this behavior. Sanders strikes me as someone who has run for president out of a desire to achieve a social and political agenda, rather than out of egotistical ambition. In that sense, he seems the absolute opposite of The Donald, who has no apparent political perspective or agenda, and for whom the only thing that matters is becoming president - it all about ego.
Sanders spent what - close to two decades? - in Congress without much display of ego. Now, having accomplished far more than anyone thought he could, it seems as though Sanders is feeling a bit full of himself and his ego has risen to the top. Too bad, he may blow all that he has managed to accomplish.

And:

R. Willemann
Ossining, NY 1 hour ago
It makes one weep! I supported Bernie's positions, sent him money and voted for him in the primary to make a statement and to see if the democratic electorate could rally behind his grand positions. My goal was to show future democratic politicians that progressive values have currency and determine just how deep the support is.

Now this, an apparent demonstration that progressives reject compromise, a key feature in successful governance, and would rather loose big than make incremental progress. Why must they see any deviation from revealed truth as apostasy? It is clear the American electorate is not ready for Bernie, but wise politics at this point could have prepared the country to better deal with the powerful negative forces that loom.

[Her Sister]

33. "Bernie's Bad End" is now trending. ~ Al Giordano twitter

https://twitter.com/AlGiordano/status/727142543662583812

[Cha]

37. Yay! Thank you, Paul Krugman! Some sanity/reality!

Mahalo HS~

[workinclasszero]

39. Cool!

[Gothmog]

35. Sanders is lying about contested convention to keep small dollar donations coming

[sheshe2]

38. Krugman nails it.

A direct hit!

[Koinos]

45. Bernie doesn't listen; he lectures.

Isn’t there anyone who can tell him to stop before it’s too late?

[Fla Dem]

47. God I am so disappointed in him, and actually at the point where I hate him.

And there are very few people I expend the energy you need to hate.

[Koinos]

49. I have passed through a number of stages.

I have gone from respect to doubt, from doubt to disdain, from disdain to ridicule, and -- finally -- from ridicule to pity. I feel sorry for him, and it pains me to see what he has done to himself, to his followers, and to the Democratic party.

ETA: And it pains me that progressives flocked to Sanders and ignored O'Malley.

[Fla Dem]

50. Couldn't have said it better myself.

[Koinos]

51. The Democrats invited a pickpocket to their party.

But we can handle it.

[Fla Dem]

53. But that's just it, he wasn't invited. He crashed the party.

[Cha]

55. Booom! BS crashed the party.. turns out he's a boor and he won't leave.

[Koinos]

57. Interesting point.

I would think that theoretically the DNC could have rejected his bid to run as a Democrat, since he wasn't one. But maybe there was nothing anyone could do. Unfortunately, does that mean that Libertarians and Greens and even Republicans should be allowed to run as Democrats in the future, if they wish to? Maybe it's time to look at and change some of the rules.

I don't like open primaries either.