Generally speaking they want to stomp out anybody who will not play ball with them, people like Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders.
Their preference is a Republican, of course, but they do just fine with people like Obama and Hillary who won't really do much to upset them.
So their first instinct was to crush Hillary (Benghazi. emails, etc) to clear the path for a Republican patsy like Rubio, Christie, or Bush. But now that this seems extremely unlikely, they are facing the stark reality that the GOP nominee will be either Cruz or Trump. They have enough brain cells to figure out that they are screwed with Cruz, because he is absolutely unelectable, and even his own party hates him. In comparison, they figure Trump is a person who will cut deals. That's what he is. That's what he does.
Meanwhile the Dems are more interested in preserving the duopoly than they are in advancing "Democratic causes", so their natural instinct was to bury Sanders.
What seems to have happened in the past 3 weeks is that most of the GOP has decided they can live with Trump, so they are back to kicking the crap out of Hillary, hoping to get a Trump/Sanders match-up. Notice the right wingers have not attacked Sanders at all, They figure if he gets the nomination then they can bury him in an avalanche of Koch advertising "educating the public" about what a socialist Bernie is, and we can't turn the country over to a commie, can we?
I picked Arizona v. New England for the Super Bowl. And it looks like Trump V. Sanders in the November elections to me.
= new reply since forum marked as read
