Hillary is uniting the Republican Party...

They wouldn't unite of Bernie was the nominee? What's your point here?

She is particularly loathed

"Democratic socialist" any more than they like Hillary

Also Bernie does much better with independents than Hillary

What does it tell you when all those "independents" get outraged they can't muck up the Democratic Party nomination process? Many registered only to vote for Sanders and then unregistered themselves only to find their little plan of stealing delegates in NV fell through. Aw.

"Independents" are the reason why we still have Republicans controlling U.S. Congress and SCOTUS. I have very little to no respect or kind feelings for these "independents". But then again, I AM a Democrat.

To win in November, way to dis them. She won by limiting the vote.

An elderly Jewish hippie socialist who honeymooned in Moscow, fathered a child out of wedlock, and didn't hold his first long-term steady job until he was almost 40? And these are just simple little truths.

All the social conservatives I know, and unfortunately there have been a lot, would be hissing his name and demanding his arrest and imprisonment before talk radio even really got started on him. And they would already have come to believe the survival of our nation depended on it.

They are incredibly vicious political adversaries. Think the Bernie zealots are addicted to hostility and aggression, greedily internalizing every lie they can find, villifying their opponents beyond all recognition just so they can attack, attack, attack with great righteousness?

The SBS zealots are David Koch compared to the right wing's Charles. And the SBSers' opportunities to act out are like DU compared to Fox, Talk Radio, and the right wing's character assassination machine.

She can list her 6 years on walmarts board of directors as stable work experience, fighting unions and importing crap from China.

slice and dice Bernie overnight with slanders that practically create themselves, adding in sharpened fingernails and laser hate glares just for special enjoyment, and you're right.

Btw, I love that a man can spend a quarter century trying various ways of life, with no consideration for accumulating money or possessions, spend his middle years developing a special interest, and then run for president in his elder years. Wonderful! But that's not the point.

you really dont care what happens if you dont get your way?

I believe that she will barely eke out a win if she does at all.

Trump's supporters literally don't care what he says and does. He's playing their stupidity and id like a fiddle. And its working. Already he's convinced half the nation to look past his failures both professionally and personally. Talk to a Trump supporter about the issues some time, bring up his failures, they'll ignore it.

Bernie would struggle with this too, maybe more. He excites white liberal independents for the most part, that's about it. Thinking Bernie will play well with moderate and conservative Independents is not reality.

playing their stupidity and id like a fiddle." It's quite sad what the US is dissolving into on its march to full Idiocracy.

I do wonder, however, if HRC's plan to have Bill as economic adviser is wise. Millions upon millions literally hate some of the financial things he did as president. My concern is this is going to play right into Trump's plans of targeting her as a wall street elitist and fully engrossed in the establishment they hate.

She needs to step out of his shadow and be her own person. Having him campaign is one thing, but putting him in a position of authority, any authority, is a mistake, I think. People will take it as if Hillary is running for Bill's 3rd term. America is still very misogynist.

unfortunate IMO.

Hence the "head scratcher"

However, the sane ones also want a sane one who has some clue what government does and how it does it.

That would be Bernie, not Trump or Hillary.

Let's hope more Republicans than Democrats stay home in November. I have a feeling that's what this election will come down to.

Just like a lot of us always said we would. Which means we have to keep the Obama coalition engaged first and foremost.

Trump won't put out taxes because he doesn't pay as much as the rest of us. He wants more cuts for billionaires. Hillary has historic negatives. But it's our candidate. If comrade you won't vote for top of the ticket, don't ignore down ticket which is ignored financially by Sanders.

It's already been discredited with revelations that most of that money was being funneled back to Hillary's campaign.

McCarthy enthusiastically agreed and took advantage of the nation’s wave of fanatic terror against communism, and emerged on February 9, 1950, claiming he had a list of 205 people in the State Department who were known members of the American Communist Party.

http://www.coldwar.org/articles/50s/senatorjosephmccarthy.asp

By the way, things did not end up well for Joe.

If he is the nominee of the party I will vote for him. Countless people on the Democratic Underground will not support Clinton because she is a capitalist. Senator McCaskill said he will be branded a communist, Trump has called him one. Sitting it out is your choice. When the party loses down ticket, what have you won?

I have every intention of voting down-ticket. I will no longer vote for DINOs.

Oh, and Bernie regularly raises funds for down-ticket. Hillary, on the other hand, takes money AWAY from down-ticket - that money is just laundered through the state organizations and back to Hillary. Sounds almost Soviet, doesn't it?

Bernie admires Democratic Socialism. Your attempts to brand Bernie as a Socialist or Communist won't work here at DU. Not on bernie's supporters, anyway.

I am delighted you will vote.

to supporting him and have said it's because they have to do whatever it takes to keep Hillary out of the White House. I think they're fools putting party over country, but she is a motivating factor for them.

FYI, I can't stand Hillary, but I think she's at least sane which is more than I can say for Trump.

are good for the country. That's why I support Bernie, in the first place.

bad trade deals/means-testing Social Security/fracking or a person who has indicated he would use nuclear weapons?

She never met an opportunity for war that she didn't like.

If she couldn't unify her base she'd have no chance in the GE.

BLACK in 2008.
That is their problem.

another choice.

has always fallen in line
Its not just becase of Hillary.
Team strategy has worked for them for decades while Progressives cant compromise and unite.

It's reasoning like you see in this OP that really makes me wonder about Sanders supporters. Sometimes they seem to be play acting to me.

They seem to want to call it the "New Democrat Party". IT will be RW and conservative and a puppet of the Corporate elite.. It will not be Liberal and Progressive and support the poor and middle-class.