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(254 posts)I agree with what you have opined in this post. Consider MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. Now I love her show but really? Now it appears more than ever that this program along with the rest of MSNBC has gone to the dark side and should be named MSGOP. I remember how she was enthusiastic about Sanders entering into the campaign. It will make Clinton a much stronger candidate in the general election. You reap what you sow. Now that Sanders has given the Clinton candidacy a lot of trouble stating they are going all the way to the convention and perhaps make it a contested one.
I wonder if she ever thought that egging one Sanders to enter the race would result in a weakened Clinton candidacy because now she has to fend off from a democratic socialist, who by his own past is an independent not beholding to the rules of the Democratic party.
Does Rachel care? Probably not because she is member of the media elite. Now it does appear that a lot of what MSGOP is doing was imposed on the remaining rational media types such as Rachel Maddow.
However, I don't see or hear any outrage about what Sanders is doing. I voted for Sanders in the Arizona primary with the hope that, if he really were to take the nomination maybe, just maybe, we would get some changes in this country hoped for by a Sanders presidency.
She appears to be mushy mouth about the situation that now confronts the Democratic party.
I would have never let Sanders run as a democrat. If he wanted to run for president let him run as an independent. Then lets see how much support he would get...
I also would reject the Democratic policy to let independents vote in the primaries. Let us vote for a true Democrat, not a wolf draped in Democratic cloth. If we had closed primaries I can assure that I would have voted for clinton. I would have rejected the Sanders independent campaign.
Time and the election will tell whether or not the Sanders insurgency into the Democratic party will have helped or hurt. Right now, I feel I'm being denied the democratic candidate I will or would have voted for in the general election.
Good work!