The Bernie Sanders smear campaign has begun

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259. I think our party can't see the forest for the trees (we need the youth vote)

I think our party is so loaded with wonks (who we do need) that we're focusing too much on the early primary rounds. If our party quietly sanctions prominent members stepping up and deriding the message Senator Sanders has been delivering on behalf of many progressives, then there will be bloody hell to pay in the general elections of 2016.

It would be an enormous mistake to think a campaign derived from the hit pieces against Sanders will resonate with young voters. A mind numbingly enormous, where did that Republican victory come from, kind of mistake.

The young people will look at our party and see limousine liberals, loaded with cash from who knows where and in bed with the elites who are crushing them. You can't just announce to them that they should be excited to vote for the kind of message the deriders of Sanders are peddling. The more you try to saturate the media with that message, the more they will tune it out.

Do these people even mingle with this underemployed, storm tossed by the economy, generation? I see no signs of such contact. I tell you, when it comes time to mingle with the voters, I see that as being a very loud wake up call.