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In reply to the discussion: Sanders stumps for Mello in Omaha, stirs national debate about definition of a progressive [View all]Demit
(11,238 posts)He's the one who was asked the question. He's the one who's always stressing 'progressive'.
As long as we're speculating about responses that might have been worse, how about we consider what responses might have been better? More supportive of the party he's supposed to be out there publicly supporting? The kind of boilerplate stuff that politicians with over 30 years of being a politician can say in their sleep?
"He's a good liberal." "He's a good Democrat." "We share the same goals." "We share the same beliefs" (and, if that sticks in his progressive craw, "We share *many* of the same beliefs."
Sanders' response was not a positive any way you look at it.
Anddo the least damage?? That's what we send an Outreach guy out to do? Hopefully not too much damage? Oh, this is all gonna go just great.