I can't wait for the primaries to be over so we can all unite behind our nominee Bernie Sanders!

[peacebird]

Going forward in the general it will be great to have President Obama and former Presidents Carter & Clinton out campaigning for him!

[Thinkingabout]

1. Her name is Hillary Clinton.

[jehop61]

2. Or Hillary

Either one would be great!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

32. or even Martin!

[onehandle]

3. Starts in ten weeks. Ends five weeks later on Super Tuesday.

Although I would argue that the primary is already over and Hillary won.

[peacebird]

4. Before a single vote is cast? My, how 'democratic' of you....

[Agschmid]

8. Yet your OP does the exact same thing...

[peacebird]

9. No. I say that after the primary we come together. You state Hillary will be the winner

Big difference.

Nice try at deflection though....

[Agschmid]

11. I actually didn't state anything about who would be the winner.

You did, right in your OP title...

And before any votes have been cast, oh my the progressiveness of that is amazing.

Keep on keeping on.

Lol.

[peacebird]

16. You state: I would argue that the primary is already over and Hillary won.

Buh- bye!

[Agschmid]

18. No I didn't.

Try again.

But if that's the level of conversation you want to have go for it.

[George II]

24. Nice to see people decide what you said, regardless of whether you said it or not.

[Agschmid]

37. It's certainly a bit odd...

[Cali_Democrat]

47. Where did Agschmid say that?

You seem lost.

[brooklynite]

13. "our nominee Bernie Sanders!"

Nice try at deflection though....

[George II]

22. No votes will be cast in NH, Iowa, SC, or Nevada before Super Tuesday, and none will be cast....

....ON Super Tuesday?

By Midnight on March 1, 2016 about 30-35% of the delegates will be elected by Democrats CASTING votes.

[Cali_Democrat]

46. You said Bernie will be the nominee before a single primary vote has been cast.

Did you forget what you posted?

[yardwork]

56. It makes me wonder if the same person posted.....

[AtomicKitten]

5. Heard that in 2008. How'd that work out again?

[onehandle]

6. There is no Obama, this time around. nt

[peacebird]

10. This time we have a known entity in Bernie!

[senz]

14. + 1000 That we do.

peacebird,

[George II]

25. Yes, a known entity that hasn't gotten a single vote in his 30+ years of politics....

...on behalf of Democrats.

Sorry, I'm not enthralled with that "entity".

[peacebird]

27. ? He has voted with Democrats his entire career!

[Matariki]

29. That is patently untrue

[Floyd Steinberg]

33. Please proceed

To continue to serve bullshit about Sanders. At the end we must unite around President-elect Sanders.

Clinton is already finished, despite her polling. She cannot win when her favorable numbers are still underwater. Take a look at the rolling polls on favorable for Clinton at Huffpost

[George II]

36. Sweet comments from a relative newcomer. Or should I say "welcome back"?

[zappaman]

57. !!!

[Andy823]

61. Yep here only 4 days

And yet they sound like every other anti Hillary poster who "claims" to be for Sanders. I bet they don't like president Obama either!

[Floyd Steinberg]

63. I like Obama

Voted for him twice. What of it? Is there a litmus test for a new poster? I did not realize there were rules about that.

[George II]

23. You guys never tire of bringing up that worn out story, totally ignoring the fact that this...

...is 2015/2016 and Senator Sanders isn't a shadow of Barack Obama.

[peacebird]

28. True, but Hillary is still Hillary, & the result will be the same

[WillyT]

7. :evilgrin:

& Rec !!!

[firebrand80]

12. I'd be terrified of we nominated Bernie

I'd support him of course, but I wouldn't like his chances.

Our only hope would be the GOP nominating Trump or Honest Ben.

[AgingAmerican]

52. Of course you would

He would reverse right wing economic policies and reduce the military budget. Both kryptonite to the corporate controlled Third Way®

[senz]

15. Many in the GOP like Bernie for his honesty, authenticity and courage.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-lifelong-conservatives-who-love-bernie-sanders/417441/

And, as numerous polls have shown, he can defeat each of the GOP candidates in the GE.

[moobu2]

19. Bernie's poll numbers aren't a clear indication of his electability

at this point because the GOP hasn't attacked him yet and the media don't even bother to dig into his past and do real reporting on him because no one besides his worshipers thinks he has any chance whatsoever to win the primary. If Hillary falls for some unforeseen reason that will all change and they'll go after Bernie like they've been doing Hilary for the last several years and Bernie's poll numbers will reflect that new negative attention.

[senz]

31. Sounds like his cross-party appeal has you nervous.

Of course the Repubs will go after him with renewed vigor after he wins the nomination, so I think he's very smart to begin his appeal across party lines early, so that larger numbers of voters will have a sense of who he really is before the lies get started.

[moobu2]

42. Republicans want him to win

sure because he'll be much easier to beat in the general. Bernie Sanders will have zero cross over appeal in the general after the republicans get done with him. But thankfully, we wont have to worry about Bernie winning the primary.

[senz]

45. And you'd prefer Third Way, neither Dem nor Repub.

Just a corporate cross breed.

[AgingAmerican]

53. This is the talking point

Of course all evidence says otherwise, but they are desperate.

[enid602]

51. They have.

They have. Google Jane Sanders/Burlington College/Falsified balance sheet.

[2pooped2pop]

54. and you think Hillary hasn't already had him looked into to attack him?

She just hasn't been able to find anything about him that the people won't like.

[moobu2]

55. It isn't necessary

even if she wanted to. That's my point. Nobody feels it's necessary to attack Bernie Sanders because everybody knows he cant win so that's why his poll numbers in the general election are artificial. Meanwhile, the GOP, the media and the Bernie Sanders campaign/supporters have been relentlessly attacking Hillary Clinton for months.

[George II]

26. Perhaps he should have sought the republican nomination?

[senz]

30. No George. Your candidate is 1000 times more "Republican" than Bernie.

From what I've seen, she has the heart and soul of a Republican. I suspect she always did and always will. She shows no allegiance to "the people." She has shown repeatedly that her primary interest is status, power, money, the high life -- and ego.

Bernie is the opposite of that. Bernie is the distilled essence of what Democrat truly means. We've been over all of this on this forum many times before, and I assume you are of normal intelligence and have a passable memory, so I'm not going to waste my time going over it again.

What these Republicans like about Bernie is his character and his opposition to consolidated corporate power. These concerns are not so much "political" as just plain human. Many Republicans get their opinions from rightwing propaganda (Fox, Rush, etc.) and have never been exposed to someone like Bernie.

I realize your single sentence reply was nothing but a low dig, attempting to damage Bernie, but I also know these attempts are so far off the mark that they fall flat.

Also, if you start baiting with the goal of alerting, as many of us have seen you do before, I will put you on ignore. Okay?

[George II]

38. From what you have seen. Well, from what I have seen Clinton has been.....

....a loyal Democrat supporting Democratic principles and values for decades.

I guess it depends on where one looks, huh?

By the way, just yesterday she was being criticized here on DU for campaigning for Grimes in her campaign against Mitch McConnell last year. Go figure!

[senz]

39. There's a difference between Democratic principles & party politics.

[Thinkingabout]

48. Hillary is a Democrat, Sanders has remained an Independent and in tune to

The Democratic platform. Sanders is the one who is nit Democratic, as for as Hillary and many other Democrats will nit be redefined by others. Give Sanders another name I have seniority on the Democratic title.

[mythology]

49. And yet her voting record in the Senate was 93 percent the

Same as Sanders and she was the 11th most liberal senator during her time in office. It is almost amusing how so many people insist that Clinton is a Republican or a conservative by ignoring her actual record.

[Gothmog]

41. And the National Review is pushing Sanders because he would be easier to beat in the General Electio

The idiots at the National Review are now urging conservatives to support Bernie Sanders http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420262/bernie-sanders-republicans-myra-adams

Support Bernie Sanders!

This is a call to action for every Republican anxious to win back the White House in 2016. Bernie Sanders, the socialist U.S. senator from Vermont, is now surging in his quest to win the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. He is attracting media attention and large crowds, and is invigorated by a New Hampshire–primary poll showing him only 10 points behind frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

After a GOP power player sent me a piece from left-leaning Salon headlined “Hillary Clinton is going to lose: She doesn’t even see the frustrated progressive wave that will nominate Bernie Sanders,” my heart went pitter-patter, beginning to sense an opportunity. But it was not until I saw a headline in The Hill warning that the “Sanders surge is becoming a bigger problem for Clinton,” accompanied by “It may be time for Hillary Clinton to take the challenge from Sen. Bernie Sanders more seriously,” that I was truly motivated to join Team Bernie and rally my fellow Republicans to do the same.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420262/bernie-sanders-republicans-myra-adams

The GOP is urging people to support sanders because the cons

[white_wolf]

59. They did the same thing with Obama in 08 and God have they regretted it.

I remember hearing Limbaugh urge Republicans to vote for Obama because he was sure he would be easier to beat than Clinton.

[treestar]

17. I can make this true by visualizing them

Good advice from many of the self help books of the 80s.

[moobu2]

20. lol good one.

[SidDithers]

21. ...

Sid

[Zorra]

34. That will be such a hoot! But will the "Reagan Democrats" support Bernie? nt

[Hepburn]

35. I know Reagan Republicans who are supporting Bernie...

...so I would venture that a Reagan Democrat would also support him.

[zappaman]

58. Yes, I'm sure manny Reagan Republicans support Bernie.

But likely because Clnton would be a stronger candidate in the GE and they would rather see a Republican in office.

[Gothmog]

40. Predictwise has Sanders at 5% chance of being the Democratic Nominee

That is a new low for Sanders on Predictwise http://www.predictwise.com/politics/2016DemNomination Las Vegas and the overseas betting markets are strongly betting against Sanders.

[reddread]

43. I was so worried about that, whether the losing faction can switch positions quickly

but apparently it is a well developed skillset.

[99Forever]

44. Exactly. n/t

[gollygee]

50. I can't wait until the primaries are over

so we can unite behind whoever the candidate is.

[stevenleser]

60. If you mean nominee for re-election as Vermont's senator, you might have something. nt

[leftofcool]

62. Bernie as the nominee= a 49 State loss to the GOP