2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary backing out of Debate PROVES she'll back out on her Progressive policies. [View all]annavictorious
(934 posts)It's unwise to indulge Sanders's delusions on a public stage. It would only serve to legitimatize his bizarre claims to a nomination he didn't win and he didn't earn.
Sanders had a major debate opportunity in NY, and he left quite an impression here.
His debate pre-game included a rally during which one of his surrogates (a formerly respected health care activist) called Democrats "corporate whores" to the cheers of a crowd that couldn't actually vote in the primary because they had never registered with the party that Sanders was exploiting.
Sanders's debate strategy was to be as peevish, sneering, and nasty as possible. Sanders was left with egg on his face when he couldn't support his virulently negative claims about Clinton with actual facts.
Immediately after the debate, Sanders whisked family and friends off on a chartered Delta 767 jet for a whirlwind 36 hour European junket during which he had a pretend meeting with the Pope.
Sanders wouldn't have needed a California debate for exposure if he hadn't blown through the $210,000,000 in donations that supporters (apparently from all corners of the world) entrusted him with.
I's not on Clinton to dig Sanders out of the very deep hole that he dug himself into. He's got until June 7 to get himself out. Enough with his ridiculous entitlement.