What is there about "We are in it until the convention" that is so hard to understand?

[Skwmom]

Bernie has said

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of what the Republicans can use against her. (Can you visualize the avalanche now?)

Also, why would Camp Clinton want to start the GOP assault against her sooner rather than later?

[Skwmom]

4. All over the news?

[Skwmom]

11. Compiling that list would take days (though I'm sure they have already made it).

[bvf]

15. Come now.

Were you around in the early 90s?

Even then, she was at least as much (if not more) a target as her husband (remember the guy with the uncontrollable libido? Yeah, that guy).

You've gotta be kidding.

[grossproffit]

5. Welcome to DU!

[Firebrand Gary]

2. That must have taken a long time.

[onehandle]

3. Yes. His delegates are in it until the convention. He will still be on ballots.

He can still drop out before the convention, but still be 'in it.

This Is what is going to happen.

Happens every convention.

Marco Rubio will be 'in it until the convention.'

He has delegates too.

[Skwmom]

6. I don't think so.

[PatrickforO]

28. I think there's more to it than that. Bernie has touched the hearts and minds of millions of

Americans, people like me who are tired of electing clowns to represent our interests only to get sold out to the MIC, Wall St. and the wealthy over and over and over.

I won't stand any more for having establishment politicians pee down my back and tell me it is raining. I'm tired of voting for the DINO because they suck 'less' than the Republican extremist. I'm sick of my kitchen table issues being ignored. I'm tired of shitty, rationed healthcare with financially crippling copays. I'm sick of politicians getting on TV and mouthing meaningless euphemisms about 'getting entitlements under control.' Because that's BULLSHIT. I've paid into Social Security full-boat for over 40 years and it is a SACRED TRUST. It WILL be there when I need it or else I'm hitting the streets. I'll die in a hail of National Guard bullets before I allow fucking Third Way and GOP establishment politicians to take it away from me. It's MINE and I EARNED IT.

Like millions of other Americans, I ask why, JUST ONCE, we can't use OUR tax dollars that WE pay in for stuff that actually makes our lives better instead of forever war, hopeless war on drugs, privatized prisons and a huge, bloated, swollen, erect national security apparatus so that we can be spied upon 24/7/365. Again, that's bullshit.

Bernie has called for a political revolution, by which he means that people like me need to stand up and hold the empty suits we elect accountable for looking after our interests instead of those of Wall Street. And, make no mistake. Bernie is giving the oligarchs an 'out.' He's saying basically, give us back the New Deal along with single payer and throw some money into infrastructure repair. Make corporations and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes.

Those are SOME PRETTY LITTLE BONES considering the greed-head CEO parasites who 'earn' $20 million plus per year and record stratospheric corporate profits. Throw us these bones and, hey, the oligarchs just bought another 75 to 100 years during which they can continue to fuck us. Don't and there will be bloody worldwide revolt in a couple of decades at the outside.

Anyway, handle, I am f-ing tired of watching my party get further right than the Eisenhower Republicans.

Think about this:

IF THIS IS TRULY A GOVERNMENT OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE, THEN WE ARE BEING TAXED WITHOUT REPRESENTATION BECAUSE MOST OF OUR MONEY IS GOING TO THE MIC, NSA AND WALL STREET.

(On edit) And none of the money being wasted on that crap helps you or I one little bit.

[DJ13]

29. Post of the thread

[k8conant]

7. A lot can happen in three months:

what's her hurry?

Can't she get her deep-pocket supporters to help her?

[bahrbearian]

20. She's Maxed out her Goldman-Sachs, Platinum Card

[MuseRider]

27. I would bet

GS has a plan where she can get more if she really needs it.

[baldguy]

9. Remember 1980.

Bringing it to the convention makes for a weaker general election campaign. The Republicans have already shot themselves in the foot in that respect. Why would you want to copy them?

[Skwmom]

10. 1980 was 36 years ago. If you are SO WORRIED about running a weak general election, maybe you

should wonder how the candidate that has hardly had a gloved laid on her, and with the establishment and the corporate media propping her up is going to handle the avalanche of FACTS headed her way? Being worried about Bernie going to the convention isn't what you should be worried about.

[baldguy]

12. Not "weak"; "weakER".

Clinton will beat either of the leading GOP psychopaths handily, but I'd like to see her margin of winning be as wide as possible. And you should too, not see her hobbled before she gets out of the gate.

[Skwmom]

17. Again. What little bit Bernie has said will NOT matter because of the avalanche headed her way.

It's like worrying about the horses when the barn door has already been left wide open.

[baldguy]

25. If Sanders is so inconsequential, what makes you think he should be President?

[LWolf]

13. Should HRC get the nomination,

it's going to be a weak GE campaign regardless. All of the positive energy generated by Sanders' campaign and supporters is going to dissipate. It might appear further down the line, but it won't be there for Clinton, and neither will all the crossover votes that Sanders brings.

A Clinton nomination is the Democratic Party shooting themselves in the foot. For November, and for the future.

Instead of leading the political revolution that will continue, they will be holding the line against it.

Wrong choice for the future of the nation, and for the future of a party that wants to be relevant.

[Bjornsdotter]

19. I do

...and if you are trying to sell the idea that the convention was the main reason Carter lost I'm not buying what you are selling.

[Andy823]

22. A lot of poster on this board

Don't really give a damn about the damage being done to Clinton or the Democratic party. The vast majority of "radical" posters who claim to be supporting Bernie also belong to another board where they encourage the "Bernie or Bust" way of thinking, and some actually think that letting the republicans win is a good thing because it will get rid of Hillary, the "3rd way", and allow the radicals to take over the party.

So you see trying to be rational with those who want to destroy the Democratic party along with Hillary isn't going to work. The only reason many of them come here is to spew right wing talking points, and divide the posters here on DU. They play both sides here, and their only goal is to get as many people pissed of as they can in hopes they won't vote in November for any Democrat, and the republicans will win.

[Skwmom]

24. Bernie is not damaging Hillary. Hillary damages Hillary (of course Bill does play a part).

[Tarc]

18. I'd say there's a 50/50 shot of Sanders dropping out if he's swept on April 26th

[hack89]

21. Bernie might have other ideas after next week

He is no fool and will not embarrass himself to please his supporters.

[Skwmom]

23. He will NOT be embarrassing. There are plenty of good states left to Bernie.

[Bleacher Creature]

26. It's what he is supposed to say.

It would be political malpractice to say anything else. It doesn't mean much, and really won't affect how things play out.