The notion among the Party's Deep Thinkers is that Bernie is a disaster.

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206. Inauthentic Argument

Are you saying if Sanders is the Democratic Party candidate for President, you will not do your utmost to GOTV and elect him? Or are you saying you will not vote for him? Your sentence that only his supporters have to get him over the finish line raises these questions. It seems I have heard similar attacks on people who express a lack of support for the establishment candidate in the primaries. To be directly similar I could say "Dont you know that not working for, supporting and voting for Sanders if he is the Democratic candidate is wanting the republicans to win.

The more major and less ironic point is that no one is a democrat or republican until you register either as a voter or as a candidate. You are trying to stifle discussion of Sanders by saying he is not yet running as a democrat. Under this standard, at this point in a campaign, we could not discuss any candidates.

For example, Hilary right now is neither a candidate NOR a democratic candidate for president. She is free to run as an independant or republican if she so chooses. This is somewhat a technical point but candidates have changed parties to run in the past and they will in the future even if we do not expect Hillary to end up outside the democratic party.

However, it is entirely relevant in addressing your point. If it is not appropriate to consider Sanders as the democratic candidate because he has not declared as a democrat as opposed to an independant, then its inappropriate to discuss Hillary as a democrat until she actually declares as running as a democrat.

If Sanders ends up electing to run as an independant as opposed to a democrat, come back to the argument with your point. Until then, stop trying to stifle discussion of alternative candidates.