Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts Sanders Plays a Dangerous Game

[riversedge]

Short and to the point. Spot on.



Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
Sanders Plays a Dangerous Game
http://www.uexpress.com/cokie-and-steven-roberts/2016/5/25/sanders-plays-a-dangerous-game

May 25, 2016 -


Bernie Sanders is playing a selfish, dangerous game.

He has no chance of winning the Democratic nomination -- none, zero, zilch. Yet he persists in attacking Hillary Clinton, and his supporters threaten to disrupt the Democratic convention in a way that can have only one effect: helping elect Donald Trump president.

Does he want that to be his legacy? Apparently he doesn't care. Sanders' ego has swelled to Trumpian proportions, and he has rejected numerous and increasingly desperate appeals from senior Democrats to recognize reality and back off.

Sanders and his wife, Jane, we are told, feel "disrespected" by party leaders and have somehow decided that Clinton and the Democrats are his real enemy, not Trump and the Republicans.

The New York Times reported recently that his strategy was "aimed at inflicting a heavy blow on Hillary Clinton" before the end of the primaries. Even if Sanders doesn't win the nomination, he would "arrive at the Philadelphia convention with maximum political power."

Tad Devine, a senior Sanders strategist,...........................

[still_one]

1. What we are seeing is the real Sanders. It is either his way or the highway. He doesn't work well

with people

[CanadaexPat]

2. This is Hillary's GE campaign in a nutshell:

Trump is worse.

[Iliyah]

3. A big bull. HRC is running on issues to help America.

T-rump is bad.

[GreatGazoo]

5. that is the version of it that her supporters and paid surrogates stick with

It is a good cop | bad cop scenario.

I wanted to make a FB graphic: Good Cop (pic of Hillary), Bad Cop (Trump, Not a cop (Sanders)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_cop/bad_cop

[geek tragedy]

10. it was Obama's campaign in 2012 nt

[hellofromreddit]

4. Bernie isn't attacking Hillary

If he did it would get ugly fast.

[GreatGazoo]

6. you're messing up their fantasy narrative

with your facts

[mmonk]

9. Exactly.

[closeupready]

7. So two Republicans have an opinion about the Democratic race - so what.

Who cares.

[Joe Lauria]

8. Why Sanders is staying in

Clinton needs to win 613 pledged delegates of the remaining 775 to clinch the nomination.

That is very unlikely. So she will need the super-delegates' votes.

Unlike pledged delegates, the super-delegates can change their minds right up to the convention night when they must cast their ballot.

Sanders does much better against Trump in the polls. Clinton could still be indicted.

Sanders would be stupid not to lobby the super-delegates until that night in Philadelphia.

That's why he's staying in. Not because he's bitter. Not because he wants to damage Clinton.
But because he thinks he can still win.

[geek tragedy]

11. meh, he's got 6 days left and seems to have toned it down.

maybe, just maybe, he's trying to land the plane