Hillary AND Bernie are last year's news. Can you folks leave it there and focus on the Future?

[Steven Maurer]

15. I'm less innocent than you may imagine...

I've read the DU before. I mostly saw the site as a toxic wasteland during the primary. I saw the behavior of both sides.

While you are likely correct in saying "every time he makes news he's attacked for some angle of it", it appears that you're not accounting for the standard bias of news - which is to never report on politicians unless they're being somehow controversial. So it is not unexpected that people might be critical of Senator Sanders even seeming to play footsie with the anti-choice movement, especially when his stated position has been that any sort of political pragmatism is immoral.

Being a pragmatist myself, I certainly welcome any movement on the good Senator's part to value actually winning (so you can do good things, even if they're not perfect things). On the other hand, I can certainly see how this welcome shift could strike other people as hypocritical, or worse, his selective-pragmatism as a signal that women's rights is being turned into a second-class consideration in the Democratic coalition.

So I disagree with your sense that this isn't a real issue. At least not this time. This was a shot across the bow, and it worked. Senator Sanders listened. Which is how it should be.