Bernie Sanders must drop out - now - and clear the way for Joe Biden's nomination Editorial

[mcar]

Bernie Sanders must drop out - now - and clear the way for Joe Biden’s nomination | Editorial
By ORLANDO SENTINEL EDITORIAL BOARD
ORLANDO SENTINEL |
APR 02, 2020 | 11:28 AM

On March 17 — what seems a lifetime ago — Joe Biden beat Bernie Sanders in the Florida Democratic primary.

Beat isn’t strong enough. Biden trounced Sanders. Knocked him out of the park.

Biden got 62% of the vote in Florida; Sanders got 23%. Put another way, Biden took in more than a million votes; Sanders didn’t crack 400,000....

The reason for Biden’s success in Florida and around the country wasn’t all that complicated: Democrats want a candidate who can beat Donald Trump, a person singularly unsuited to serve as president of these United States.

The coronavirus outbreak has proved those get-rid-of-Trump instincts to be spot on. He is the worst possible leader to guide us through the worst national crisis since World War II.

Beating the virus, saving lives and preserving our economy are the nation’s top priorities at this moment. Come this November, the priority is ensuring Trump does not have a second term.

That’s why Sanders needs to drop out of the Democratic primary. Not later. Not after Congress has acted on the present crisis....

Fewer and fewer people are in the mood for the kind of upheaval Sanders trades on. We’re undergoing an upheaval now, and people already are exhausted from it. And we still face long weeks or maybe months of isolation, disruption and uncertainty.

The nation’s going to need someone who can heal, and Bernie — with all his anger, resentment and white-hot revolutionary rhetoric — isn’t that someone....

Sanders can get us past this more quickly and less painlessly if he would just relent.

Leave the race.

Throw your unequivocal support behind Joe Biden.

Help us get through this and be remembered as a patriot.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-op-coronavirus-bernie-sanders-should-drop-out-20200402-3zpk4widdjgqreqc7uwyayy3qq-story.html

[The Magistrate]

1. Hear Hear, Ma'am!

"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

[mcar]

4. Thanks Magistrate

(I'm a ma'am )

[The Magistrate]

6. I Shall Edit, Ma'am

Thank you for the correction, they help me remember. I am an absent-minded sort when all's said and done,

[mcar]

7. Well, there are a lot of us to keep up with

[William769]

2. Kick & highly recommended.

[Desert grandma]

3. It is as if..

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His ego is as big as the Orange Buffoon's. These are difficult and dangerous times. DROP OUT NOW, Bernie. That is the most patriotic thing you can do right now. Anything less is feeding into Trump and Putin's plan. I'm not meaning to denigrate Bernie or his supporters, however, the mathematical fact is that Joe Biden is our nominee. Bernie would be seen in a really positive light if he were to do the best thing he could do right now for our party and thus for the general election. And that is to wholeheartedly support our apparent nominee, Joe Biden, the way all the other Democratic presidential candidates did.

[mcar]

5. This!

[Cha]

9. Wow! Biden got 62% of the vote in Florida; Sanders got 23%.

Mahalo to the Orlando Sentinel, mcar… And Thank You!

Beating the virus, saving lives and preserving our economy are the nation’s top priorities at this moment. Come this November, the priority is ensuring Trump does not have a second term.

That’s why Sanders needs to drop out of the Democratic primary. Not later. Not after Congress has acted on the present crisis....

Fewer and fewer people are in the mood for the kind of upheaval Sanders trades on. We’re undergoing an upheaval now, and people already are exhausted from it. And we still face long weeks or maybe months of isolation, disruption and uncertainty.

The nation’s going to need someone who can heal, and Bernie — with all his anger, resentment and white-hot revolutionary rhetoric — isn’t that someone....

[mcar]

10. It was a good old-fashioned shellacking, She!

[Cha]

12. Right, I loved it! I'm

Cha, though. lol

[Demsrule86]

11. Perhaps if Wisconsin holds their election...Sanders will lose badly...then at the end of April, Ohio

will vote by mail.