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By that definition, maybe we should consider asking him to drop out as well to make room for a "new crop of Democrats"? /s
to destroy the party from within by moving it to the right. Mission accomplished! It no longer resembles the party that I knew in the 1970s. So now REAL DEMOCRATS who are left of center will either have to take back the party or let it wither and decay while forming a new one. The pro corporate, anti-worker anti-environment agenda of the DLC isn't working for anyone but the 0.01%.
If the precious young of this country choose to stay home if Hillary wins the nomination, they can go and jump off a short pier. They can stomp their feet and run to the internet to spread their special brand of immature vitriol all they want.
Come election time, real Democrats and other people who care about this country will have a choice between two candidates with clear and distinct agendas. I will vote for the Democratic nominee, I'm mature enough to know that a Republican in the WH would be disastrous for the country. If people choose to cut their nose to spite themselves and sit on their hands or vote third party, so be it. I neither have college debt, plan on getting pregnant or lack health insurance. If these issues are so unimportant to the young, then they should suffer the consequences of sitting out an election because their candidate of choice didn't get nominated. In other words they need to grow up.
I fervently wanted Hillary to be the nominee in 2008, but it was obvious that Obama was the only choice once he clenched the nomination. Was I supposed to vote for McCain?
To state that they will stay home, be it the young or the "purists", is just lacking in political maturity. I refuse to beg anyone to vote for the nominee, but I have zero patience for people who are so selfish that they rather throw the presidency away because their candidate didn't win the nomination.
Now, the establishment is doing yourt best to alienate them. And you expect their suport for your the republican lite Hillary after this attitude?
Keep dreaming!
You get much further with sugar than vinegar.
I think many will go 3rd party. They vote with their principles. They do not base their vote on partisanship, but on who will represent their interests the best. Hillary is clearly not that person.
As a veteran from her husband's little adventure in Yugoslavia, I cannot see any reason why anyone should support a candidate who have not been right once regarding the 4 wars in the Middle East the last 15 years, and think he or she will have it right the 5th time.
I will not endorse someone who are unwilling to go after war criminals. I doubt that Bernie will go after the Bushies, but it would be refreshing if he did. Unfortunately, he would have to after after the Clinton klan as well, since they do not have clean hands in these wars.
I do not endorse someone who's endorsement has a past where she thought that a half a million dead people (during Clinton's bomb campaign) was worth it stating that there is a special place in hell for Bernie supporters.
I do not endorse a candidate who has taken money from corporate donors and try to give the impression that she has YOUR interest at heart.
I do not endorse a candidate who is all about "me, me, I, me, I will I have been attacked, I am such a great bullshiter" kind of candidate.
I do not endorse a candidate who takes a stop in the campaign trail to have a fund raiser with people she wants to regulate next year.
I know it's disingenouos of me. I know what she did it for.
She went there to wag her finger at them! The money she raised was to buy one of those big foam hands that they sell at sporting events (do you know how much one of those costs at the stadium? (highway robbery I'm telling you, highway robbery) Once she has one of these foam hands, then she'll really be able to wag her finger.
I do not endorse a candidate that confuses facts with smear.
So why do you support Hillary, and why do you expect people's support after that littler self righteous moral tirade of yours?
From what I see, I see a middle class person without the struggles of the young, and you want them to vote more of the same that has led to this. You don't have hardships, and want the people you smear to vote for an elitist far removed from reality and in bed with Wall Street.
It's like asking OWS to vote for someone who's in bed with Wall Street. Do you feel comfortable voting for someone who has the same donor as Ted Cruz?
Sorry.
I have yet to see any tangeable argument for any vote for Hillary whatsoever.
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If I'm wrong and Sanders becomes the nominee, then I will vote for him in the general election. Would you rather see a Republican in the WH than vote for the party's nominee if it's not your candidate of choice? That's my point. To expect a candidate to stop running because young people prefer someone else, is ludicrous. The voting will trudge along until one or the other one wins enough pledged delegates. The young can choose what to do at that point. What more do you want me to say about it? I don't believe in pie in the sky promises and any agenda that requires a "political revolution" to come to fruition. I think that Sanders means well, but is an ideologue.
He doesn't know his place.
Why doesn't he just step aside and let corporate America take over?
You can trust them. They're experts!
Sanders' supporters saying that Hillary is fracturing the party. He's the Johnny-come-lately to the party. Hillary has been a registered Democrat since the late 60s. I'm not going to take advice about party unity from a supporter of the guy who just joined the party 5 minutes ago out of political expediency.
Ahhh, this place gets crazier and crazier by the day.
gawd, ENOUGH already
I am referring to the hysterical hatred of Hillary
DU, mirror image of Free Republic. Same extremes, same purity tests, different party.
"We must do this together"!?
The only thing we hear from MSM is how they discard Bernie Sanders as a socialist (and leave out Democratic).
Whenever I hear "liberal media", I hear RW talk.
When I saw how different Cuomo treated Bernie and Hillary, and not a cricket from Hillary supporters, only whining, it makes me wonder.
And now we get the ad hominems as well and must bow down to the will of over sensitive Hillary supporters who thinks that pointing out the systemic corruption and ties with Wall Street is a smear campaign against Hillary.
My sympathies to civilian Hillary and her supporters whom unlike Bernie supporters have had such a hard life and feel that their personal integrity being attacked.
Sort of makes bullets from wars given to you by Clinton and Bush since 1990 flying around seem like a walk in the park, doesn't it?
I'm sorry. But to feel sympathy with people who seem to live in your bubble of privilege and entitlement and smear the only honest candidate and his supporters is very, very hard.
So tell us, do you think that Bernie Sanders have been given a fair treatment by MSM and CNN in comparison to Hillary?
And why do you feel entitled to attack Bernie supporters? Is it because there is nothing you can attack Bernie himself on?
Response to cali (Original post)
This place is like a parallel world. Hillary is the Democrat who has been a member of the party for decades. A man who ran against Democrats, who relished being an Independent, who refused for years to join the party is not considered to be the person fracturing the Democratic party. It's Hillary. On this board, top is bottom and left is right.
