Remember how it turned out the GOP was financing Nader?

[arely staircase]

Wonder how much of that is going on now.

[Cali_Democrat]

1. Most likely it's happening right now

Remember during one of the Democratic debates when the RNC chairman was live-tweeting and defending Bernie?

[arely staircase]

2. Bernie is now a Trump/GOP errand boy.

[LondonReign2]

12. A ton!

Blankfein, Dimon, big Hillary backers.

Oh, wait, that isn't what you meant?

[Bill USA]

25. Bernie Sanders’s Conservative Fanboys - Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/23/bernie-sanders-s-conservative-fanboys.html

[timmymoff]

3. We know it is going on

Hillary courted Jeb Bush , Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz mega donors. So yup it's going on, but not by the progressive candidate of the democratic party, but by the right leaning candidate of the democratic party.

[Amaril]

10. + 1,000,000! (n/t)

[eastwestdem]

4. No doubt, particular with the rhetoric BS is spewing today. nt

[Vogon_Glory]

5. I'm wondering the same thing

I'm wondering the same thing. After watching what the Rethugs did to Bill Clinton and what many of them tried to do to President Obsma, I would not be the slightest bit surprised to see right-wing operatives hard at work for the hard-right propaganda organs and the Republican Party masquerading as just another one of Bernie's fan-boys or just another one of Bernie's fan-girls.

[LexVegas]

6. They are going to try to boost the weaker candidate. That is Bernie. nt

[TwilightZone]

8. Hell, I would if I were them. Look at it from their perspective:

Politically-savvy, well-connected, well-funded, veteran politician with an extensive national organization vs. not-yet-vetted political loner who once flirted with communism.

That's how the GOP would see it.

[Ken Burch]

9. Bernie's campaign exists because the people want it to exist.

Only the rich would have benefited if HRC had been nominated by acclimation, because she would be running twenty degrees to Obama's right.

There will never again be a good reason for Democratic presidential candidates to blur the differences between themselves and the Republican candidates, and especially not to the massive degree Bill did in '92 and '96(something she never publicly questioned).

[Vogon_Glory]

11. You're missing something

You're missing something. I don't doubt that many Sanders voters are motivated by a genuine and understandable anger at the default kleptocratic policies this country has been operating under more often than not since 1995. But I strongly believe that a lot of the current rancor is being artificially stoked by right-wing moles pretending to be Sanders supporters.

If it makes you feel better, I suspect that there are other R/W moles pretending to be Clinton supporters.

What's in it for right-wingers and Republicans to promote the Sanders vs Clinton feud?
A weakened and divided Democratic Party that would boost the chances of Trump and boost the chances of the Republicans keeping the US Senate and probably the House, too

[Txbluedog]

14. Totally agree with your last paragraph

We started out with the prospect of a contested republican convention now is Turing into possible riots and chaos at the democratic convention

[Ken Burch]

16. I agree with you about the right-wing mole problem.

It is nearly impossible for a candidate to vet her or his online supporters.

My objection to the OP was that it seemed to be yet another argument that Bernie's campaign is illegitimate and should never have happened.

[Gothmog]

13. Rove funded Nader's campaign

For some funny reason, Karl Rove funded Nader in 2000 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/ralph-nader-was-indispens_b_4235065.html

Furthermore, Karl Rove and the Republican Party knew this, and so they nurtured and crucially assisted Nader's campaigns, both in 2000 and in 2004. On 27 October 2000, the AP's Laura Meckler headlined "GOP Group To Air Pro-Nader TV Ads." She opened: "Hoping to boost Ralph Nader in states where he is threatening to hurt Al Gore, a Republican group is launching TV ads featuring Nader attacking the vice president [Mr. Gore]. ... 'Al Gore is suffering from election year delusion if he thinks his record on the environment is anything to be proud of,' Nader says [in the commercial]. An announcer interjects: 'What's Al Gore's real record?' Nader says: 'Eight years of principles betrayed and promises broken.'" Meckler's report continued: "A spokeswoman for the Green Party nominee said that his campaign had no control over what other organizations do with Nader's speeches." Bush's people - the group sponsoring this particular ad happened to be the Republican Leadership Council - knew exactly what they were doing, even though the liberal suckers who voted so carelessly for Ralph Nader obviously did not. Anyone who drives a car the way those liberal fools voted, faces charges of criminal negligence, at the very least. But this time, the entire nation crashed as a result; not merely a single car.

This is from the GOP bag of dirty tricks that worked once and Rove has been running attack ads against Clinton but not Sanders. Again the GOP knows which candidate is the weakest general election candidate

[Luminous Animal]

15. Remember when Kerry received from GOP donors at a rate 10 times that of Nader?

[arely staircase]

17. For the purpose of defeating Republicans. Nader took their money to defeat Democrats

So there is that minor detail.

[bonemachine]

23. Huh?

Nader wasn't running against Bush too?

[arely staircase]

24. So the GOP money men were giving Nader money to defeat Bush?

You really believe that? Well they weren't. They were financing a left third party to specifically go after the Democratic Candidate.

Any money that GOP donors are giving to Clinton is so she can defeat Trump.

Then in the next cycle it will be her against the people that helped her beat Trump.

[QC]

18. Remember when Clinton went after Bush, Cruz, and Rubio donors.

It was in the news just a couple of weeks ago. No need to go back fifteen years for this.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/hilary-clinton-bush-donors-222872

[arely staircase]

20. Yes. For money to defeat Donald Trump. Nader took their money to defeat AL Gore.

so a bit different.

[bonemachine]

22. Wait...

Nader wasn't running against Bush as well? How does that work?

[uponit7771]

28. Of course but not for the reasons of beating bush, just to suppress Gore numbers but you know that

[NCTraveler]

19. We know about Crossroads.

Not much Sanders can do about that.

[hellofromreddit]

21. I'm confident that it's not happening.

Nader isn't even running.

[uponit7771]

26. Well (with side eye)

[The_Casual_Observer]

27. I doubt they need to do that, Trump simply repeats everything that Bernie

says for free.