Remember, the trouble makers are a small IGNORANT fringe. 90% of Bernie supporters are aboard.

[RBInMaine]

Granted, the screechers in the hall need a lesson in REALITY and a lesson in RESPECT.

Some of this Bernie campaign FRINGE got themselves into a FRENZY over their candidate and the "movement." They invested in it like a religion, and many for the first time. I can understand the profound disappointment. What they must remember is that politics isn't a religion. It is a process whereby someone wins and someone loses. We all have to face disappointment. I have had to face it MANY times, having put my heart and soul into campaigns and we came up short. Other times we won. That's the nature of the beast. I like Bernie a hell of a lot. He beat all expectations.
He did some great things with that campaign and had a big impact on the platform. Knowing how he was such an underdog, those are great victories in that sense. I do hope that he, Weaver, and Devine will follow through and continue their movement in ways that will keep all those people really engaged.

But now they must see that interrupting people like Elijah Cummings and booing people is RUDE, NOT "progressive," DISRESPECTFUL, and CHILDISH. There is no room for it at a PARTY convention. That convention is not there for RADICALS to mount ridiculous protests
on the floor of the party hall. To think there are some Bernie delegates saying they will not vote for the nominee. UNACCEPTABLE.

So fringe people, Bernie or Bust people, I have one piece of advice for you. GROW THE HELL UP! Do you really want Trump, the most vile asshole to ever win a party nomination? If not, GROW UP, SMARTEN UP, LISTEN TO BERNIE, and work to beat Trump!

[DemonGoddess]

1. Feh

The shriekers, the small minority of assholes, need to experience an old fashioned ass whooping.

[RBInMaine]

4. The best way is to swarm them with Hillary signs and shout THEM down.

[Tal Vez]

8. They just received a beating.

And, if they remain involved in politics, it will certainly not be their last defeat.

They just need to learn how to recover from a setback, how to get back up and how to gracefully move forward. A lot of that comes with experience. A defeat or setback will strengthen a person if he/she gets back up and finds a constructive path. By November, nearly all of them will be able to see what is pretty obvious.

[DemonGoddess]

10. They show a decided

unwillingness to learn from defeat, though. Everything has to be handed to 'em, whether warranted or not.

[Tal Vez]

12. I hear a lot of them describing Sanders and Clinton as "polar opposites" on the issues.

If you had supported Sanders and somehow developed the belief that Sanders and Clinton are "polar opposites" on the issues, would you be able to support Clinton. I wouldn't.

What is behind this delusion that the two are "polar opposites" on the issues?

[DemonGoddess]

13. Belief in years and years of

RW smears, instead of actually looking at her real record, and real accomplishments.

[Tal Vez]

14. Clearly right wing smears have taken a toll on Clinton's image,

but the right wingers have always cast Clinton as a left wing radical. There are supporters of Sanders who somehow developed the opinion that Clinton is a right wing conservative. For me, it is hard to imagine how anyone could arrive at that view of Clinton, particularly if they had been around during all those decades of right wing smears of Clinton.

[DemonGoddess]

17. that was primary wars that caused

the right wing conservative shit

[RonniePudding]

2. They need to be removed from the hall

Involuntarily if necessary.

They are green party-naderite pissants.

[Maru Kitteh]

19. Parasites, pure and simple. And NOT Democrats; big D or small d.

[frazzled]

3. They are the delegates Sanders and his voters selected

to represent him at the convention. Therefore they are NOT insignificant. They have influence among an admittedly small but potentially decisive number of naive and/or destructive voters.

I will not ignore them or write them off as an aberration. There are too many out there cheering them on.

[RBInMaine]

5. Best thing to do is with swarm them with Hillary signs and shout THEM down.

[RBInMaine]

6. Counter them in every way in writing, media, etc. and at rallies SWARM them and shout THEM down.

[BlueCaliDem]

7. I heard a Sanders supporter this morning say that this Convention was supposed to be for Bernie

and yet all she heard the other night was "Hillary, Hillary, Hillary", and "it was disappointing" and it upset her.

I thought she was kidding. She wasn't.

[DemonGoddess]

11. ye gods

that is delusional

[BlueCaliDem]

15. But she really believed it! Clearly, she has no idea what the Convention is for. eom

[NurseJackie]

16. Sad, and amusing....

... but mostly sad.

[BlueCaliDem]

24. I totally agree. It's also sad that so many Americans don't know how the Party operates after

all ballots have been tallied. I believe some still believe that Sanders has a chance to win the nomination at the Convention. I don't see how they can believe that. I really don't.

[Maru Kitteh]

22. I heard the same thing from a silly delegate last night. Too stupid to know it WAS Bernie's night

It was geared mostly around him, and he got the prime spot of honor for the evening.

"We finally got to hear our candidate" "I just wish she reached out to us, even just a little"

Are you fucking kidding me? Helllloooooooo - platform committee ringing any bells? Debt-free college, public option, $15 minimum wage, vocal opposition to the TPP and agreement from the VP that he will do the same RINGING ANY GODDAMN BELLS YET?

It has become a cult/religion for a very unfortunate few. Thank god 90% of Bernie supporters have the grace, intelligence, sanity and maturity to follow his example of class, and cast their vote for HRC.

[BlueCaliDem]

25. K&R, MK! I couldn't agree with you more! eom

[csziggy]

9. Once they booed Sanders at his talk with them before the convention

I knew there were going to be disruptors with nothing productive to do.

Sen. Sanders had a meeting with some of his delegates yesterday afternoon. When he asked them to vote for Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, they booed SANDERS! I don't think Sanders handled it very well and he clearly did not expect that reaction. He did not go after the booing delegates, he just kind of faded away and ended the meeting.

If Sanders had reacted strongly and told his supporters how important it was that they vote for Clinton, last night might have gone better.

[Maru Kitteh]

23. I do think he should have said then that this behavior is UNACCEPTABLE

Plainly and clearly like he was talking to a bunch of children, since he clearly was speaking to a bunch of children in that room at that time. I would like to see him more forcefully rebuke their behavior still, (yesterday's text message needs reinforcement) as I do believe it would have some effect.

[calguy]

18. In a way, they remind me of myself

when I was a very young and politically inexperienced McGovern supporter back in '72. Had McGovern not won the nomination back then, I would have felt and acted the same way.
Looking back all those years ago, I now realize how foolish and naïve we were to think he had a chance to win. Time has taught me how little I really knew back then.

[randome]

20. I believe you.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]

[LanternWaste]

21. Unfortunately, as with all demographics, the loudest and most vulgar get the prime-time news spots.

Unfortunately, as with all demographics, the loudest and most vulgar get the prime-time news spots.

[liberal N proud]

26. Here is a Washington Post article to back that up...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512303874

[redstatebluegirl]

27. Booing Elijah Cummings was the last straw....

[Maru Kitteh]

32. And then having the nerve to sit there with tape on their petulant, cry-baby little mouths

After shouting and booing at E.C. - Fuck them. Seriously.

[glennward]

28. You are correct but the media makes that really hard to do. nt

[L. Coyote]

29. More like 98%. Hate to be critical, but

I see on Facebook who the die-hards are. They are not my rational friends, they are closer to emotional reactionaries. But, they did not come to this place by themselves,they were led there by agent provocateurs spouting the negative CT bullshit about rigged elections, etc.. There was a concerted effort to divide and conquer, and there is resaon to believe those behind the effort had the DNC files in their possession when they were promulgating the divisiveness.

I got the distinct impression months ago of a plot to make Berners so disillusioned they would go home and never vote again.

[Lifelong Protester]

30. Come to Wisconsin

We Dems. here know (unfortunately) how to deal with setbacks.

[lapucelle]

31. I'm sticking to CSPAN

Earlier they were showing protests. There was a Bernie die-in. Then there was a lunatic right winger screaming that "Horrible slur for gays are worthy of death."

Now they're replaying Michelle's speech.

No talking heads for me this week. They are bad actors looking to stir discord. I don't need overpaid hacks telling me what I'm seeing.