It’s appalling how Senator sanders is taking advantage of his supporters

[William769]

Senator Sanders has no path to the Democratic Presidential nomination, no path whatsoever. He continues to ask for money from his supporters giving the illusion that he still is in the running for the nomination and any sane person knows that’s just not true.



Senator Sanders is a epitome of what a Democratic candidate is not or the way a Democratic candidate should act (we have the Republican party for that).



I hear time & time again from Sanders supporters that if Senator Sanders is not the Democratic nominee, they will take their ball & go home. Well you know what? That’s fine by me. I have come to the conclusion that the majority of Senator Sanders supporters are not Democrats to begin with, so if they want to take their ball & go home, let them.



One thing I have learned from Senator Sanders campaign is he is a master at squandering and dare I say stealing money from his supporters that I for one would like to know where a lot of it has gone because it doesn’t seem to be for the campaign. Maybe we should ask his wife Jane because it’s probably with all the money that’s missing from the university that she used to run.



In closing I will leave you with this. Senator Sanders and his wife Jane are setting on a really nice retirement package (if you catch my drift), and I for one am waiting for the day they think they have accumulated enough money to finally retire.

http://hillaryclintonsupporters.com/its-appalling-how-senator-sanders-is-taking-advantage-of-his-supporters/

[hrmjustin]

1. K&R!

[sheshe2]

2. KnR!

[ucrdem]

3. They keep dropping hints that he'll run third party if we don't treat him right.

Fine, let him. Clinton still wins. In fact it might even help by splitting the anti-Clinton vote:

[fleabiscuit]

13. I highly doubt he would win past VT, if that. eom

[ucrdem]

19. Yep.

[jmowreader]

14. In a three-way he'd probably take New Hampshire, too

Sanders v. Trump in a race without Hillary in it? We lose New York and California. The urban areas won't go for Sanders, and the red parts of those states will definitely go for Trump.

[ucrdem]

18. Yeah I gave him NH and a couple of other states he wouldn't get

But the reality is that he'd be lucky to get Vermont.

[Lord Magus]

15. There's also the fact that Sanders doesn't actually have the option of running as an independent.

That ship has already sailed. After he loses in California and even his wildest fantasies of a comeback are dashed, it'll be far too late for him to get on the ballot as an independent.

[ucrdem]

17. So far he's missed the Texas deadline of 5/9

But yeah the rest are coming thick and fast through the end of the summer:

https://ballotpedia.org/Filing_deadlines_and_signature_requirements_for_independent_presidential_candidates,_2016

Will he do it? As ever I'm hoping for the best and expecting the worst. But I don't see how it's going to change the outcome a lot either way. It might affect the bank balances of his supporters though.

[stopbush]

4. Sanders long ago learned the first rule of having a long political career,

and that is to preemptively project your own faults onto your opponent. That way you insulate yourself from your very real faults being pointed out by your opponents, as their retrospectively doing so then looks childish.

Trump does the same thing.

Sanders rails against wasteful defense spending, yet he went all in on the boondoggle F35 program when it meant bringing the pork home to VT. He says he won't run a negative campaign yet his career is littered with the same. He complains about an ineffective Congress yet he hasn't a single accomplishment of significance to show for his decades as a back bencher. He complains about big money in politics yet berns through millions of dollars running a campaign that seems to be nothing more than an exercise in self aggrandizement.

And his poor supporters, bouyed by unrealistic promises and the demonization of anyone not supportive of Sanders, eat it up with an uncritical spoon, as he continues to fleece them out money they should be saving for their own future.

Sanders destructive behavior and his eventual demise will be responsible for the political disillusionment of a generation of young voters who - rather than finding inspiration from an RFK - were conned by a man whose mind is stuck in the hippie 60s, and who no more cared about their well being than he could believe that "his people" could rise to the levels of violence and misogyny that he has inspired in them, and that was on full display during the NV state convention.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. This deserves a POTY-Post Of The Year. He is making me despise him.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-american-people-hillary-clinton-lesser-evils/story?id=39280278

[liberal N proud]

5. $27 at a time

[Thinkingabout]

6. He ran on the Liberty Union party ticket amd when he made a vote against their

Wishes they approached him in his office, what did he do, had them arrested. This was a parting action with the Liberty Union party. He tries to sell himself as a dove but has too many votes for military action. Military action also gives orders to the MIC's and he likes them getting more work.

It seems his campaign is going to be deep in the red and his negotiations will probably to get funds raised to retire his campaign debt.

[fleabiscuit]

7. I'm almost of the mind to steal your last sentence and put it in my sig line.

[Koinos]

8. Essentially, he is opposed to big money in politics.

And he is going to sell his endorsement for money to pay back illegal campaign contributions.

[Thinkingabout]

11. $27 on average

[charlyvi]

9. You survived the alert William769

Yay!

[William769]

16. Could you PM me the results? Pretty please.

[Cha]

21. ..

[ismnotwasm]

12. K&R

[Cha]

20. It's despicable that BS continues to

tell his die hard fans that he has a path to victory and solicit donations from them.

And, while supposedly telling the DNC that he will help beat trump.

Thank you so much for this.. it had to be said. so glad you did it! sanders is exactly what a Democrat with principles is not.. it's been appalling to watch.. and him not getting called out on it. well, that's all changing now.. Finally he is!

William~