At this point, Bernie Sanders is helping Trump.

[Yavin4]

Sanders is diverting precious time and resources that could be used to go after Trump in order to continue a campaign for a nomination that cannot be won. He's driving up Hillary's negatives and giving false hope to his supporters.

Is this fatal to Hillary's campaign? No. She can overcome it, but it's a waste of time and resources.

[Live and Learn]

1. Balderdash! nt

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. Then she's too weak to be the nominee.

Trump and the GOP machine are gonna chew her up.

[JaneyVee]

6. Weak how? She's running 2 campaigns...and winning both.

[Yavin4]

15. Exactly.

Running two campaigns at once is monumentally stupid.

[lumberjack_jeff]

21. If she can't successfully defend herself against the kid glove treatment she's currently getting

then this is going to be a disappointing fall.

[JaneyVee]

24. SHE'S WINNING BOTH CAMPAIGNS! BOTH!

[lumberjack_jeff]

26. Good for her. But this renders the OP bullshit, does it not? n/t

[JaneyVee]

30. Not at all.

[Dawgs]

41. Then what's the problem?

[NuclearDem]

29. In what reality has Hillary Clinton been treated with kids gloves by the Republicans?

Was that when she was being accused of murdering Vince Foster, threatening her husband's alleged mistresses, seeing her husband impeached, being accused of murdering Christopher Stevens, or being interrogated for 11 hours?

[lumberjack_jeff]

37. They're not going after her in any significant way.

At this point, all she is to the Trump campaign is a punchline.

The GOP is the dog that didn't bark. The Cruz campaign, in particular, knows exactly what she promised Goldman Sachs and has said nothing. They'll maintain this silence on a wide array of damaging issues because they'd rather face Clinton than Sanders, and don't want to destroy her prematurely.

[Autumn]

3. At this point, Bernie Sanders is campaigning for the democratic nomination.

If anyone is helping Trump that would be Hillary.

[arcane1]

7. Seriously. The desperation around here is getting ridiculous.

[Autumn]

17. We need hip waders. The flop sweat is flowing like a river in here.

[GreatGazoo]

38. and Hillary has NEVER asked Sanders to drop out

and she won't do so.

Some of her supporters (?) have taken it on themselves to second guess her campaign even while they proclaim they are With Her.

[JaneyVee]

4. Its so weird and craven how he's still going after Hillary...

Lose with some dignity.

[panader0]

33. Bernie has not gone after Hillary's e-mail scandal.

He has gone after her Wall Street ties, and justifiably so. But Trump won't hesitate to get dirty.
HRC should drop out while there is a shred of her dignity left. Then she could concentrate on her forthcoming
legal battles.

[jack_krass]

39. Only to you. GO Bernie!

[Dawgs]

43. Why wouldn't he? She hasn't won shit yet. n/t

[arcane1]

5. Dream on. n/t

[immoderate]

8. She should quit!

She is too reactionary for these times.

--imm

[floriduck]

9. Actually, Clinton's incompetence is helping Trump. Good, strong candidates wrap up

nominations on their own without blaming anyone and everyone for their own failures.

[Kall]

10. Hillary Clinton is responsible for Hillary Clinton's negatives.

[SheenaR]

11. This logic continues to make me scratch my head

Is Bernie Sanders actually that much of a visionary that his attacks on Hillary would NEVER have been thought of by Republicans. People here act like he is creating a playbook for them, since Hillary has had zero blemishes on her for the last three decades.

Give me a break. Guy is trying to save us from a huge mistake. And I agree with him.

[lagomorph777]

12. You really do sound frightened of Bernie.

Thanks for the endorsement!

[LexVegas]

13. Meh...they're two sides of the same coin. nt

[AtomicKitten]

14. Rather like Hillary helped McCain in 2008, but that didn't bother her supporters then.

Obama did fine. If you're worried about her candidacy, that would indicate you understand why she is perceived as a weak candidate. Clinton supporters need to pull up their socks and let the process play out.

[Attorney in Texas]

16. If the race is over, she can ignore Sanders; if it isn't over, Sanders should continue campaigning.

The fact that Hillary is buying ads in Kentucky tells me that Hillary doesn't think the race is over.

Do you mistrust Hillary's judgment about whether the campaign is over?

If not, why are you contradicting Hillary's own assessment about the ongoing nature of the primary?

Hillary's negatives have nothing to do with Sanders and have everything to do with Clinton. Plus, if we nominate Hillary, Trump is going to attack Hillary so harshly and so incessantly and so personally, that you will look back upon the primary as the good old days.

[kstewart33]

18. Absolutely.

It is a waste of time, effort and money.

Hillary should be spending her time in swing states, going after Trump. But of course, she isn't.

I hope that Bernie leaves the Democratic Party the day after the convention. Because he's not helping the party cause - defeating Trump.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

19. "If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen." Harry S. Truman

[MineralMan]

20. So are some of his supporters, or at least some who claim to be that.

Once the primaries are over, the realignment can begin. Right now, we're all wrapped up in intra-party battles. Those are about to officially end. Then, people will have to make up their minds.

[highprincipleswork]

22. Bullshit. If you want to really help, convince your previous Hillary to reach out to Bernie

supporters and to never stop doing so.

This election will be won by Democrats being Progressive and United or by Hillary and her campaign going rightwards and losing the election.

Even the Republicans know that it is time for something different than the Corporatist, triangulating policies of the past. And if Hillary is not careful, Trump will outflank her on the Left and win the election.

Get on your party bosses to include the Bernie supporters, and we will win. Continue to shit on us, and go ever more nasty and rightward, and you will lose. Mark my words.

[azurnoir]

23. I'm so very touched by all the concern for the time and resources of Bernie's supporters

[Aerows]

25. So is Hillary, for that matter. n/t

[panader0]

27. "He's driving up Hillary's negatives"---no, she did that herself.

[Aerows]

45. Everybody under the sun

has said she's an awful candidate, but it falls on deaf ears with the DNC or bust crowd. They think it is true because they want it to be true.

If she loses in November, they will blame everybody except where it squarely lies - with Hillary and the DNC telling Democrats it is Hillary or the highway. Plenty of posts lately have elucidated that thinking and it is telling. They obviously don't need Democrats (so they think).

I'm just going to say I told you so and not be happy in the slightest about it.

I'm a Democrat, I'll vote for her if I have to, but I won't be enthusiastic about doing so.

This election is going to separate the true Dems from the blue dog DNC Dems - honest, to-the-bone Dems will swallow their misgivings and vote for her, while the blue dogs have an expectation that she will win in a landslide because she has a (D) after her name, and that the core will forget the primary vote fiddling.

Personally, I won't be forgetting that any time soon. Wait until after November 2016, and there will be some new old-fangled/old new-fangled kids in town that are sick to death of the DNC wannabes infecting the Democratic party.

[morningfog]

28. Poor thing.

[ViseGrip]

31. And at this point it's clear Hillary is helping the war machine.

[pinebox]

32. At this point YOU are helping Trump be supporting the weaker candidate

in a general election.

[AgingAmerican]

34. Dhe drives up her own negatives

[notadmblnd]

35. Well turn about is fair play. He's doing nothing to her that she didn't do to Obama

And look, he worked hard and overcame it.

I feel certain that if little Hilly puts her nose to the grindstone and works hard to EARN the nomination, she will over come too.

[Redwoods Red]

36. Dupe. Must be today's talking point.

Yesterday was Bernie's an egomaniac.

I wonder what tomorrow will bring.

[matt819]

40. What garbage

The conventions haven't been held. This is all about hating the groundwork for blaming someone other than Hillary on the event of her loss in November, if she's the nominee.

[Matariki]

42. At this point, Hillary Clinton is helping Trump.

[Sky Masterson]

44. Whoa, whoa, whoa...

We haven't even had a convention yet.
Why does she fear the socialist Jewish fella?

With the whole "math" argument that puts a spring in many who haunt here's step and that smug smile on their faces,I can't fathom why people are in a panic or even worried that The Former First Lady can't beat the "You're Fired" guy.
I mean, with her likeability numbers so high and the fact that she has a built in group of voters that don't like her, but that is nothing to worry about. I mean, when Trump drifts left and campaigns on trade she is going to show him by moving to the right!
Secretary Clinton is so incredibly awesome that she could shoot herself in the foot without a gun.