Democrats to Sanders: Time to wind it down

[kay1864]

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Source: Politico.com

Democratic senators of all stripes are as impressed as they are surprised by Bernie Sanders’ insurgent campaign.

But the time has come, they say, for Sanders to start winding things down.

After holding their fire on Sanders for the better part of a year, the senators — all backers of Hillary Clinton — are gently calling on Sanders to face the reality that there’s almost no chance he’s going to be the Democratic nominee. They don’t say outright he should quit; doing so would be counterproductive, they say.

But nearly a dozen Democratic lawmakers suggested in interviews that Sanders should focus more on stopping Donald Trump and less on why he believes Clinton’s stands on trade, financial regulation and foreign policy would make her a flawed president.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/bernie-dems-winddown-220966#ixzz43XEjP94I

[dchill]

1. You know what?

Screw 'em.

[James48]

2. ++ THIS!!

Exactly.

[They_Live]

5. + 10,000

[MynameisBlarney]

23. Damn right!

It ain't over 'til it's over.

[BillZBubb]

57. Yes!

[MrMickeysMom]

64. I wouldn't coitis them w/anybody's genitals

So, FUCK THEM

[Wilms]

3. Then they'll have to speak louder.

Apparently, People can't hear them.

[mac56]

12. ^ THIS ^

[Darb]

28. A large majority hears them.

And wonders the same thing. But, whatev.

[Wilms]

30. If I pissed in your Cheerios, I apologize.

But...DO NOT stalk me. K?

[Darb]

35. Coincidence.

I just reply to badly partisan, mostly bullshit posts. Just lucky I guess.

[dchill]

39. Then reply to yourself.

[Darb]

42. Less than funny.

I know a good quip when I see one and will give kudos. That wasn't one.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

48. Nobody cares.

[Darb]

55. The arbiter has spoken.

The minions thank you.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

67. blah blah blah - that's all I hear...

If you had anything interesting or relevant to say other than STOP THE VOTING!! maybe you'd get more support.

[Darb]

86. Wow, that's your take?

You should look deeper than the thickness of a dime.

[dchill]

49. Not trying to be funny.

Your posts are badly partisan and mostly bullshit. It works both ways.

[Darb]

65. Sorry, but you are mistaken. Perhaps,

it is your bernie zeal that doesn't allow you to see that spreading lies, innuendo, and half truths about the Democratic frontrunner on the Democratic Underground is profoundly stupid and suspect. And might I say, WILL be called out from time to time.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

69. Name 1 lie that Bernie tells about Hillary.

I don't expect to hear back from you.

[Darb]

79. Who said anything about Bernie?

I am replying to the bernies on the Democratic Underground. Any more questions?

[dchill]

73. You are...

spreading lies, innuendo, and half truths about me. I have never said anything about The One that isn't true. It must really twist you up to have to stoop so low and reach so far at the same time.

[Darb]

82. Gumby-like reach.

You interjected into a thread. So take no offense that was not directed at you specifically. If you do, then it is on you.

[tazkcmo]

4. To the convention!

Quitting is off the table.

[kay1864]

16. Might want to read past the title

They don’t say outright he should quit; doing so would be counterproductive, they say.

But nearly a dozen Democratic lawmakers suggested in interviews that Sanders should focus more on stopping Donald Trump and less on why he believes Clinton’s stands on trade, financial regulation and foreign policy would make her a flawed president.

[tazkcmo]

20. Sounds like quitting to me.

Quit running against his opponent equals quit running for the Democratic nomination equals quitting.


To the convention!

[Wilms]

22. That's quitting outright...

...and moving on to campaigning for a flawed candidate.

That seems like nonsense.

[TrueDemVA]

38. Cowardly Senators

These Senators act like they know what's best. They are hoping people quit believing in what is right and just lie down. To hell with them. Quitting now is an awful example to set for our future. FIGHT!!!
That's what I was taught to do if you believe in what's right. I think this country needs to wake up and see the garbage we are being fed by these scum bags.
Making another donation today. Every time I hear these weak, spineless, douchebags say quit, just means more money to the cause.
GO BERNIE!!!

Also, no need to tell me to read past the title. I know what it says, but reading between the lines, it is obvious they are tired of Bernie calling out the Clinton campaign for all their bullshit and fall in line. Screw them. It's primary time. People need to see the truth.

[sarge43]

47. "....would make her a flawed president."

Has Senator Sanders lied about Clinton's stand on trade, regulations and foreign policy?

No, don't think so. Then, Clinton may well be a flawed president and not suitable for that office.

Truth, so annoying.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

50. Don't they know he's running against Clinton, not Trump? Dumb fucks!

[Ghost Dog]

80. You might want to emphasise, as the politico article

does not, to be truthful and fair, that these are declared Clinton-supporter senators?

[djean111]

6. Fuck them.

Guess this is the next wave of trying to get Bernie to quit.

[kay1864]

18. Might want to read past the title

See above

[djean111]

21. I read too fast - they want Bernie to stop running against Hillary.

Well, my first instinct is the best - Fuck them.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

7. Too bad We The People are the ones who decide when he quits.

We can also decide that Hillary needs to quit. You know, like we did back in 2008.

[kay1864]

19. Might want to read past the title

See above

[pangaia]

33. You said that three times now....

[kay1864]

70. Yes. Yes I did.

I don't expect each poster to read every reply. So I replied individually.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

59. WTF? Are you a fucking parrot?

[Darb]

32. "We the people" have been deciding for months.

Hillary is way ahead.

But, whatev.

[dchill]

43. There are still a lot more people.

Why not let them vote? It's kinda the American way.

[Darb]

51. This is a primary. It is a political party deciding who is their candidate.

Not "democracy", so to speak. But whatev. He can stay in for the good of you all's mental health.

If you would be so kind, in your bernie zeal, as to not parrot right-wing talking points, it would be greatly appreciated.

[dchill]

62. Jesus.

It's an election. We're voting. Shove your RW talking points.

[Darb]

89. RW talking points. You just made

projection history. A bernie telling me that I am using RW talking points.

It is a primary. Not an election. It is the process by which a political party chooses who is going to represent it in the election.

Jussayin'. Go all the way to the convention.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

63. You are the parrot. You're trying to undermine our democracy so STOP IT!

[Darb]

76. No, I am not.

Our "democracy" starts with the general if I am not mistaken. The Democratic Party has their own rules and I do not believe they are based entirely on principles of "democracy", upper or lower case.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

72. You the people are only half the people that will be voting - Mind if we wait to see how they vote?

You Hillary shills will do and say anything. Not very democratic of you.

[LiberalArkie]

8. Let's add another paragraph from the article:

“I don’t think any Democrat should call on him to get out,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). “Almost no Democrat I know would say that. And shouldn’t.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/bernie-dems-winddown-220966#ixzz43XtlcsVw
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[pangaia]

34. Of course they won't SAY it..

But they DID say it..

[Kip Humphrey]

9. Another bullshit Hillary camp opinion piece featuring Hillary surrogates masquerading as LBN.

This is DU these days.

[SandersDem]

10. Good

A list of people who need to be primaried.

[GreenPartyVoter]

60. Good point!

[Hiraeth]

74. ^^^ this ^^^

fuck 'em

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

77. EXPOSED!! We need to work hard against these DINO bastards.

And I don't care what you have to say about Sherrod Brown. I like him, but he's being undemocratic, and a DINO as far as I can tell.

[freebrew]

11. Yeah, get in line...

your rich owners have spoken........

Nah.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Not going to happen. All the way to the convention.

[mac56]

14. "But nearly a dozen Democratic lawmakers

suggested in interviews that Sanders should focus more on stopping Donald Trump and less on why he believes Clinton’s stands on trade, financial regulation and foreign policy would make her a flawed president."

Of course they want him to stay away from those topics.

[malthaussen]

15. Yeah, he better wind it down...

... I'm reminded, as often happens, of a "Peanuts" cartoon. Charlie Brown is trying to convince Violet not to hit him, offering a reasoned argument about how children should learn to solve their problems without violence, or how can they be good adults? Whereupon Violet slugs him, admitting to Patty "I had to hit him quick, he was beginning to make sense!"

Mr Sanders has to shut it down quick, he's beginning to make them nervous.

-- Mal

[CrispyQ]

17. This is worse than telling the left to shut up.

Fuckers.

[jillan]

24. It must suck when no one listens to you.

[Cryptoad]

25. Reality is a Bitch, aint it?

[IdaBriggs]

84. "...a flawed president."

From the article

"Why he thinks Clinton's stands on trade, financial regulation and foreign policy would make her a flawed president."

Yes, reality is indeed unpleasant.

[Oak3Tree]

26. He is focusing on stopping trump!

The polls demonstrate he does well.

His speeches address the trump poison well. He can do it better than HRC.

[dchill]

56. +1,000,000

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. F*ck that.

[pangaia]

29. BREAKING NEWS::::::: PANGAIA to Senators telling Bernie to quit...

"FUCK OFF"

[bkkyosemite]

31. They don't like their stuff taken away with a Bernie Presidency.

They can take a flying leap.

[geek tragedy]

36. So much for Bernie's plan to get the superdelegates to override the pledged delegate totals nt

[Bluenorthwest]

37. McCaskill, Shaheen, Schumer are not really people I respect much.

All of them have opposed the civil rights of LGBT over the years, Chuck being a DOMA voter who should have listened to Bernie back then but instead did his 'pragmatic bigotry' method. Shaheen was against equality as Governor then magically for it about the same time the rest of Third Way started 'evolving'. McCaskill, one of the last Democrats to stop opposing the rights of others.
I don't say Third Way lightly as Shaheen and McCaskill are both co-chairs of Third Way.

I see all of these Senators as disrespecting the democratic process and the very voters who lend them the authority they think is their own.

[randr]

40. Because you would never want the most populous states

to vote their choice?
This is ridiculous. Right now we have two highly qualified candidates debating issues of National importance. We have a one/two punch going into the conventions against Trump and it is very effective. Once we stop our primary process we open our candidate up to a steady barrage of filth from the Trump camp.
I want to see our eventual candidate chosen by the most Democrat voters possible and I want them both to present their vision and platform to us at our convention.

[Gregorian]

41. This is what a modern day revolution looks like.

No guns; just a bunch of Politico pushing back on change that would reverse the biggest heist in the history of the human race.

[EdwardBernays]

44. can we get a list

of all the Dems saying this, so I make sure that I never accidentally give them votes or money, ever.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

45. "almost no chance" - Let us know when there is "no chance". Dumb fucks.

[GoneFishin]

46. So what's new about this compared to the rest of the primary. Fuck 'em.

Their gravy train comes first.

[zalinda]

52. I will be calling and emailing both of my senators.

Schumer will get an earful. I hope he gets primaried.

Z

[onecaliberal]

53. These corporate fucks do not want an end to their money train.

Me to the senators: GO FUCK YOURSELVES!

[PADemD]

54. The problem with these Senators

The problem with these Senators is that they view Bernie as just a cheerleader warming up the crowd for Hillary.

Senators mentioned in article:
Sen. Claire McCaskill
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen
Sen. Barbara Mikulski
Sen. Barbara Boxer
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Sen. Brian Schatz
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid
Sen. Sherrod Brown

[onecaliberal]

83. Those Senators and many more are the god damned problem.

They don't give two fucks about how many people will be disenfranchised. The states ahead are not favorable to Clinton, so of course the crooked third way hacks want it to stop.
Newsflash: we're NEVER going to stop, our lives and the lives of our children in this planet are at stake.

[Land of Enchantment]

58. Both my senators and my rep

endorsed HRC early last year. I emailed all three stating they were premature and need to listen to the voters of NM.
I added if they don't, there would never be another penny contributed to their campaigns from me but also when they are opposed in future primaries I will donating to and supporting their opposition.

Not one of them replied. Udall, Heinrich and Lujan-Grisham Fuck Them.

[Larkspur]

61. "F" these so called Democratic Senators

Hillary kept attacking Obama in 2008 and unlike Bernie, Hillary took a very low road in 2008 when she stated that she'd stay in the race until the end just in case the front runner got assassinated, like RFK did.

[riversedge]

66. Sanders LOST 5 states after he hit on her hard for two weeks he midwest. His

hitting hard is not working

[Larkspur]

78. Unlike Bernie, Hillary went into debt to lose the 2008 primary

I'm proud that I did not help bail her out in 2008.

As long as Bernie raises the money, he should stay in the race.

[PoliticAverse]

68. I'm shocked, shocked, that supporters of one candidate think the other candidate should maybe not

continue.

[muntrv]

71. I say wind it up.

[Jarqui]

75. Hillary didn't drop out until June 2008

If I were Bernie, I'd be doing the same.

In 2008, Obama didn't have the FBI rummaging through a server of classified documents found in his home. Hillary was hoping for a scandal in 2008 ... but it wasn't to be. Now, she's hoping she isn't the scandal in 2016 .. but her odds are not nearly as good as Obama's were.

How many of these Senators backed Bernie? None. So screw them. They'll just have to imagine what it's like to measure drapes in their cabinet office.

[tblue]

81. Now that we're past Hill's red states. In a word, NO!

No way should he or will he. That champagne Debbie & Hill can't wait to break open is gonna have to stay in the fridge.

[Gore1FL]

85. They were saying that before Iowa, too.

Fuck DWS. Fuck the DNC. Lets do the democracy thing, instead.

[Shadowflash]

87. Nope.

It's only halftime. Time to gear up for the rest of the game.

[jwirr]

88. This is a laugh. To begin with - our MN convention delegates

for Bernie (60% to her 40%) are refusing to make any deals until the primary is over. We want to go to the Convention with as much power as we can hold.

Secondly, this meme is just a way for the Clinton campaign to try to get Bernie voters to stay away from the polls in states that have not voted yet. States she needs desperately. Hopefully it will not work.

Finally, our area convention also called on all of our super-delegates to vote the way as their states voted and since they are mostly elected officials I would assume they would be smart enough to listen.

Hillary still wants that coronation and she is not going to get it no matter what the establishment wants - they still need our votes.

[NCjack]

90. Full speed ahead Bernie2016. Making another donation now in response to shitty advice from

3rd-way DEM senators.

[ellennelle]

91. think about this, folks

articles like this reflect mostly a nervousness, if not outright panic from the dem establishment.

seriously; if they were so confident hillary had this in the bag, there would be no need for such articles at all. if they were so certain, they could just ignore him. 'oh? that guy? please.'

but, problem is, they can't. they have to - ahem - address the, erm, problem of the BERN!!

they know it's getting serious now, and the numbers are far closer (hence the "almost impossible&quot than they'd like them to be right now.

plus, this: what i cannot understand for the life of me is how rigidly the DNC/DLC folks resist this powerful wave, which is - if nothing else (and we all know it's far more than...) - the wave of the future. why are they not working more diligently to cultivate it, to harness it, to bring it on board? instead, they persist in insisting on just pissing us all off. WTF???

keep on keepin' on, folks! it ain't over till it's over!

FEEL THE BERN!!

[azurnoir]

92. locking not LBN please post in General Discussion Primaries