Larry Sabato's analysis (CNN) of Sanders' failings: "Bernie is a loner in the Senate and in DC.

[Surya Gayatri]

His only supporter in the Senate is Jeff Merkley of OR.

The downside of being a "lone wolf" is that you don't interact well with others. And, that character flaw is now damaging the Democratic Party."

Allowing this loose cannon to exploit and abuse the Dem Party will prove to have been a major tactical error, I fear.

Watching his enraged, spitting face, I feel as if I'm observing someone in the throes of nervous breakdown. Not a reassuring vision.

[FarPoint]

1. Sanders is a Narcissist....

Definitely not Presidential....

[Surya Gayatri]

2. In love with HIS own ideas...and his "revolutionary" persona.

[FarPoint]

4. Has goals, no plan or clue as to ever actually accomplish them.

Hot air balloon place I guess. Lacks any concept of leadership. He's just a broken spoke in the wheel.

[stonecutter357]

3. a major tactical error.

[Koinos]

5. Why would anyone support a presidential candidate who cannot interact with others?

[Surya Gayatri]

6. Yeah, you'd think that interpersonal skills would be a sine qua non for the job.

[Koinos]

8. Unfortunately, the constitional requirements are minimal.

It is up to the voters to hire the most qualified person. Sad to say, many of them also lack interpersonal skills and do not get along well with others. So they think that being anti-social is something positive and inspiring. Same goes for the Trump camp.

[Surya Gayatri]

12. Their respective ego-driven campaigns, stump styles and demagogic tendencies have

literally become indistinguishable from each other.

Opposite sides of the same counterfeit coin.

[Koinos]

15. Both appear to be suffering from anti-social personality disorder.

How did this country end up with any candidates like this?

[Surya Gayatri]

20. When you hear some of their voters' insanity, you have to say, "like candidate, like supporter".

[Koinos]

25. I remember early on, when we were counseled to distinguish the noble Sanders from the bad followers.

We were told that Sanders is a decent and good man and will always take the high road, even though some of his followers seemed to be quite abusive, mean, and uncivil.

Now we find out the real truth, that his followers simply imitated their role model.

[Surya Gayatri]

27. Like is attracted to like. Birds of a feather, and all that...

[Koinos]

31. Except for the little bird, who was really looking for water and not for Bernie.

I am ashamed of myself. When I thought of a bird landing on Bernie's podium, the image of a vulture just popped up in my head.

[Surya Gayatri]

34. He is a raptor trying to bring down his prey, the Democratic Party.

I'm now convinced that, like any rabid revolutionary, his abiding philosophy is: "You must destroy it in order to 'mend' it."

[Koinos]

51. I agree.

I had almost gotten the image of a vulture out of my mind -- red face, bent neck, long flapping wings (Bernie?).

Now, I've got to deal with the raptor image. "Feeling the raptor" sounds more painful than "feeling the bern." There is something so final about it.

Revolutionaries have the mistaken idea that, if you demolish everything, some good things will grow back. The truth is, things are destroyed and people die. There is no simple reboot of a dead system. What you get is a dead system with dead people in it.

I think that our aim is to try to make things better, rather than worse. Total destruction is never an improvement.

[Surya Gayatri]

53. ^^^WORD^^^!

"Total destruction is never an improvement."

[sarae]

35. Well said

That's exactly what happened. And he can't take any responsibility for the "movement" he's created. Can you imagine this guy as President? He's already failed this most basic of tests for a candidate. If he can't handle his followers, how would he handle the most powerful nation in the world? He would be a walking disaster.

[Koinos]

50. Your're right.

If he were president, nothing would be his fault. He would blame everyone else for his blunders. That's not a sign of maturity, and it would be especially catastrophic for a president.

A president has to have more than a list of idealistic goals. He or she has to have character. Hillary has that. Bernie does not.

[SharonClark]

46. It is to be successful in the job

Sanders lacks social skills and his fans appear to lack them also. They get in a rage that Hillary is civil to people she disagrees with. Sanders doesn't know how to disagree without being disagreeable.

That is no way to go thru life.

[Surya Gayatri]

47. Truth! " Sanders doesn't know how to disagree without being disagreeable."

[Koinos]

54. Definitely not fun to be with.

I get a whole different feeling when I see Obama joking and laughing with other people. He likes people. Bernie finds them an unpleasant necessity.

[Cha]

7. Yes, we've seen this on display far more than we ever needed or wanted to..

I can't even imagine why Sen Merkley is supporting him.

I found BS intolerable before his statement on the violence and misogyny in Nevada and now.. well let's just say.. I think he's his own worst enemy and burnie sanders will get what he deserves.

Thank you, Surya~

[Surya Gayatri]

9. Just 3 more weeks (21 days) and I'm counting! LOL!

Last night's deranged diatribe was the last straw. If I never have to hear him again in my lifetime, it will still be too often.

Odious, spiteful, spittle-spewing demagogue.

[Cha]

13. Yeah, that's all he is.. is a

demagogue.

[Koinos]

19. Early in the campaign, when I still supported O'Malley, I said that Sanders was a demagogue.

Many people disagreed with me about that. It turns out I was right all along. This is one time when I really hated being right.

[Cha]

23. The very definition of a demagogue.

[Koinos]

11. I think that, unless Sanders cleans up his act, Merkley will stop supporting him.

Merkley has to go back to the Senate when this is all over. I don't think he will want to be known as the sole senator who supported the man who wanted to destroy the Democratic party. If he becomes the majority leader, Chuck Schumer isn't going to hand out awards to senators who were part of this debacle.

[Cha]

16. Yeah, Good point, Koinos.. who wants to be

pariah for that loser?

[Koinos]

21. Unlike Sanders, Merkley does want to play well with others.

[Cha]

24. Right.. and I wonder if he's ever regretted getting on burnie's bandwagon?

[Koinos]

28. Probably each and every day.

And wasn't Elizabeth Warren wise to stay away from this disaster? I think she knew the "real" Bernie well enough to foresee where this was headed.

And whatever happened to Cornel West?

[Cha]

30. Sorry.. LOL@your question..

which is a damn good one.

We didn't miss him but now that you mention it. wth did become of ol Cornel and his campaigning with burnie?

And yes, EW was wise!

[Koinos]

33. When the ship is going down, don't tie yourself to the mast.

[TwilightZone]

44. The same people who were clamoring for Warren to run because of her political savvy...

were the ones complaining the loudest when she wouldn't endorse Sanders, not understanding that it was a perfect example of that political awareness.

[Koinos]

49. Absolutely true.

One reason I like her a lot.

[sarae]

38. Especially when it has to be obvious by now that Bernie

wouldn't reciprocate or even appreciate his support. BS wouldn't go to bat for anyone; he only cares about himself, as has been shown many times over in the last 8 months.

[Cha]

42. Oh I know that.. Hillary & President Obama have both helped him

in the past.. they must be especially fond of him by now. lol

[riversedge]

10. The constant anger in his voice and face is wearing. Who wants a President that portrays that

image every day. Not me!

[Koinos]

14. He definitely appears close to some sort of breakdown.

It might even happen at the convention, if he doesn't get his way. And he won't get his way.

A man who has frequent fits of anger is not "fit" to be president of the United States.

[Surya Gayatri]

17. Just exhausting and excruciating. The horror! Hearing and seeing that

specter on a daily basis on the world stage!

[still_one]

18. Absolutely. Thanks Surya

[Iamaartist]

22. Just what said on my post the other day.......

[Stuckinthebush]

26. The DNC will enact a rule

That one MUST be a Democratic Party member in good standing before being allowed to run in OUR primaries.

[Surya Gayatri]

29. With some sort of historical clause, i.e. "Member in good standing for no less than 12 months".

[Stuckinthebush]

32. I'd be ok with a three year rule!

Be a Dem if you are going to run in our primaries. Not a new Dem but an established Dem.

[Surya Gayatri]

37. Split the difference and say "two years' of active membership".

That would preclude the kind of overnight conversion we've seen with his "shotgun" candidacy.

[Stuckinthebush]

39. Deal

Surya and Stuck should be on the DNC rules committee.

[Surya Gayatri]

41. LOL! The logistics would be tough, as I live in Europe!

But, I can let 'em know what I think even from here.

[TwilightZone]

36. Even Merkley has said he should drop out before the convention if he's behind.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/28/politics/bernie-sanders-jeff-merkley-endorsement/

[Surya Gayatri]

40. Frankly, at this juncture, I believe he's beyond listening to anyone or anything

but his own ballooning ego.

[KitSileya]

43. As was written yesterday, Sanders thinks he *is* political legitimacy.

That makes it impossible for him to co-operate with anyone, because to co-operate you need to be considered equals. No one can be equal to Sanders if he thinks he is the only one with political legitimacy, nay if he thinks he is it. Any collaboration he has done in Congress or in the Senate has been because he thinks he either tricked them into it, or because he thinks that he forced them into it. He must be a seriously disturbed individual, and, as some have said, must have a very narcissistic personality. He is more Trump-like than we realized at first. The difference is that Sanders is narcissistic based on his political positions, while Trump is narcissistic on his masculinity.

[Surya Gayatri]

45. And, their cult-like, hero-worshipping followers are eerily similar as well.

"He is more Trump-like than we realized at first. The difference is that Sanders is narcissistic based on his political positions, while Trump is narcissistic on his masculinity."

Also, for Trump, based on his bogus financial success. And, for Bernie, based on his self-styled moral superiority.

[Tarheel_Dem]

48. It's like watching Clint Eastwood talking to that damn chair, except it ain't funny.

[TwilightZone]

52. Neither was Clint, except in a watching-a-train-wreck kind of way.

That was one of the more bizarre political stunts I can recall.

[Tarheel_Dem]

55. Trust me, like most of the sane world, I was laughing at Clint no with him. He's the butt of jokes..

now, and I fear when this is all over, so will BS, except BS will be as despised as Ralph Nader who gave us W.

[lunamagica]

56. The way he talks about himself in the third person? "Bernis Sanders thinks". Who talks like that?

I know, royalty.