Don't you just love the "Give 'em enough rope" strategy?

[Le Taz Hot]

It's truly magical. Sit back and let your opponent do all the work for you. DWS got Bernie more publicity than he's seen the entire campaign, disgusted Hillary supporters are jumping ship to the Sanders camp, and Hillary's reputation for dishonesty just grew exponentially.

Personally, I think we should keep DWS. She's worked wonders for the Sanders campaign.

[Fumesucker]

1. When someone tells you who they are you should believe them n/t

[Hepburn]

2. Sweet couple of days! n/t

[bvf]

3. It's been a good week.

Probably a game-changer.

Although your point is taken about DWS, can't agree with you there. DWS being handed her walking papers would be another HUGE feather in Sanders's cap.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. The DNC was buried by it's own bullshit.

[merrily]

35. We can at least hope it was the DNC's OWN bullsh*t and not something worse.

[grasswire]

5. yes, I'll bet a lot of political strategists...

...are filing this episode away for the lesson books. The Bernie campaign showed amazing grit and growl today.

[merrily]

6. I understand and admire your thinking about keeping DWS as a strategy.

However, I perversely would rather have a Party that is on the up and up than win.

If DU has taught me anything this primary season, it's that putting winning above honesty, decency, and other values and principles is very ugly in my estimation.

As corny (and self-defeating) as it may sound, I would rather be true to myself. I know I have survived my candidate's losing a primary or an election because I have experiences that before and survived. I have never lost myself and therefore don't know if I can survive that. I'm too risk averse to take that huge a chance.

[Dragonfli]

8. Wise words, could not have said it better myself /nt

[merrily]

9. Thanks, Dragonfli. Coming from someone like you, that is high praise indeed.

I've been admiring your posts whenever I come across them.

[Dragonfli]

10. I believe we think alike in many ways

I'm one of your biggest fans, I suppose after my initial statement that comes off as a bit narcissistic

[merrily]

12. Oh, my goodness. My first self-described "fan!" I could not have asked for a better one.

Where's the after party?

[Dragonfli]

22. I'm hoping the after party will be right here during a Sanders inaguration

With vitual drinks all around!! (likely a few real ones as well)

Oh! and dancing, I have heard that no revolution is worth having if there is to be no dancing involved!

[merrily]

29. I just realized: We have no universal US folk dance(s)!

First Nations have theirs, individual immigrant/ethnic groups have theirs, and we have fad dances. However, we have no US folk dances that we all have in common as a people.

[OnyxCollie]

7. “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.” -Sun Tzu. nt

[merrily]

19. Thanks! Perfect! I need to memorize Sun Tzu's comments.

I love how pissy pithy they are.

[winter is coming]

27. Or you'll drop dead, fall in, and make someone else's day.

[merrily]

31. And I thought Sun Tzu was cold!

[NanceGreggs]

11. "disgusted Hillary supporters are jumping ship to the Sanders camp."

Do you have the stats on that? Can you provide a link that shows the numbers of how many HRC supporters have jumped ship to the Sanders's campaign?

I wouldn't want to think you were just makin' shit up without having the evidence to support it.

[merrily]

14. Oooooo. Nance vs. Le Taz

[NanceGreggs]

15. No battle royale here.

I'm just asking Le Taz to provide the proof of her statements.

I'm sure she has those facts at-the-ready - or she wouldn't have made those statements in the first place.

[merrily]

17. Yes, I saw your posts with your standard games. You need not explain them to me.

They're transparent and not deep enough to require explication, but I do appreciate your willingness to educate me. Thanks!

[NanceGreggs]

21. I didn't think it was a "game" ...

... to ask a poster for links to back-up a statement they've made as being factual.

If Le Taz doesn't have any facts to prove her assertion, she is perfectly capable of saying so.

[merrily]

23. LOL! I do agree as to the bit about Taz's capabilities, though. Hence, my popcorn post. nt

[Scuba]

37. It's really not many Hillary supporters that are jumping ship, Nance.

Just the eithical ones.

[hootinholler]

38. Snaps for Scuba!

Couldn't be that many!

[Juicy_Bellows]

13. We've got to see what the debates bring tomorrow.

If a bear shits in the woods and no one is around to see it, did it really happen?

The DNC is all in on Clinton - I hope that simple fact comes across tomorrow.

[merrily]

16. That "simple fact" is much like your classical philosophical question about a bear

relieving itself in the woods without media coverage. MSM was sure all over the "Bernie campaign did something bad with Hillary's data" myth. The stories and press conferences were proliferating so quickly yesterday, I could not have kept up with them, even if I had devoted my entire day to the effort.

Has msm ever reported the DNC's blatant actions vis a vis HRC with that degree of fanfare, speed and coverage?

[Juicy_Bellows]

18. With such fervor? I don't think so.

All the more why tomorrow may be interesting.

[merrily]

20. Every debate in which Sanders and/or O'Malley participate is interesting.

However, Mr. and Ms. America may not get as close a look at some turd piles as they do at others, real or trumped up. (No Trump turd pun intended, but feel free to create your own.)

[Juicy_Bellows]

24. Here's to thoroughly examined turds!

Spelunkers for kernels of truth!

[merrily]

25. Not the most appetizing toast I've ever heard, but I'll drink to that anyway!

[RandySF]

26. The Sanders camapign acts just like the Republicans

Get caught red headed and bluster their way out. I guess Sanders does have a lot in common with Trump.

[ConservativeDemocrat]

32. It's succeeded too... at least in the DU

Whenever they're caught, just double down. Try to pretend its someone else's fault. "They made me steal, by leaving the door unlocked! Made me, I tell you!! And I'm terribly offended. It's all a big conspiracy!!!1!!1!"

This place has really become unhinged teabagger-of-the-left central.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

[merrily]

34. Got red handed doing what? Trying to make sure Bernie's data was not compromised by the negligence

(or worse) of the DNC's vendor, whom the Sanders campaign had warned of the breach months earlier?

Sorry, the ones acting like Republicans in this are not Bernie's supporters.

ETA: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251910870

[Kalidurga]

28. Nope DWS is next on the chopping block.

The DNC is going to have their hands full for at least a couple of days trying to keep up with the phone calls 877-336-7200 the DNC contribution line, to have DWS fired.

[Le Taz Hot]

39. Your're probably right.

She fucked this up so monumentally the Big Boys are going to HAVE to get rid of her, otherwise, this stays with the party and will be used in the GE. IF they change Chairs and IF Bernie wins the nomination, the DNC MAY have a chance of surviving. Barring that, she and the DNC are done.

[Betty Karlson]

30. No: for the good of the party she needs to go.

The party is bigger than Sanders, you see?

[Lil Missy]

33. You just made all of that up.

[azurnoir]

36. she initiated the sh*t storm we all knew was coming