Sanders booed by House Democrats

[NanceGreggs]

250. What you DON'T know ...

... about the US political system is a lot.

The defeated (in this case Bernie) should acknowledge their defeat, and congratulate the winner.

The defeated and his followers should stand behind the nominee instead of insisting it's their way or the highway.

The defeated should fully endorse and support the candidate - as Bernie himself said he would do when he entered this race.

The defeated can speak all he wants - no one is stopping him. And obviously the defeated can make a fool of himself by continuing to speak as though he won, when everyone knows he lost - and lost by a wide margin.

The defeated never really happened? Oh, I assure you that few people will forget how this particular "defeated" candidate continued to make demands of the winning candidate, as though he is in any position to do so.

If you want to understand how "the defeated" act with grace and dignity while putting aside their own loss in order to fully stand behind the chosen candidate, I suggest you look at how Hillary conducted herself after she lost to Obama. She was tireless in her efforts to ensure that her former rival was elected POTUS. She campaigned for him vigorously, and never lost sight of the fact that putting a Democrat in the White House was far more important than her own ego.

HRC was far closer to Obama in delegates/votes in 2008 than Bernie ever was. And yet she conceded without issuing demands of Obama, without insisting that SHE be heard, without withholding her endorsement in an attempt to have HER demands met.

Had Hillary acted the way Bernie is acting now, she wouldn't be on her way to the White House. She'd forever be known as the "defeated" candidate whose ego couldn't accept that she'd lost - a sure sign of never having had the intelligence. self-discipline, and fortitude to lead a nation.

Bernie, by his own words and attitude, will go down in history as not only the "also ran", but the "also ran" who kept insisting that he was "still in the race" long after the winner of that race had been decided by the voters.