The Big Guns have come out against Bernie.

[Jack Rabbit]

28. That's not exactly what I see

The progressives and the corporatists in the Democratic Party are ready to split but are trying to hang together until the GOP finally implodes. It doesn't matter if Bernie or Hillary wins the nomination. One or the other of them will win the election over Donald Trump or Ted Cruz, the two clowns still standing in the Republican race, who are also the two most repulsive Republicans in the race.

With the wheels coming off Mrs. Clinton's campaign, the greatest obstacle to Bernie becoming President is not a Republican in November, but those in the corporatist wing of the party willing to resort to subterfuge to prevent him from winning the nomination or, barring that, to run a willing corporate stooge like Michael Bloomberg to sabotage Bernie's chances in November. Bernie could even win in that scenario, but a poll recent showing Bloomberg running as a third party candidate puts Bernie neck and neck with Trump or Cruz, whereas he blows either one out in what will be a traditional two-party race. If the corporatist wing of the party is successful at denying Bernie the nomination after he wins most of the primaries, then many progressives will either stay home or vote for a third party candidate like Jill Stein rather than vote for Mrs. Clinton or whomever the corporatists find to take her place on the ticket. That will probably split the party permanently, Republican implosion or no Republican implosion. Nevertheless, I believe any Democrat will defeat either Trump or Cruz, but giving the eventual president such a crooked path to the White House will certainly diminish the effectiveness of that president and perhaps even make re-election 2020 less likely. Such an outcome would be adverse both for the Democratic Party and for most Americans.

If there is anybody considering stopping Bernie Sanders by this kind of subterfuge, consider yourself warned against it.