Bernie Sanders' aides just threw him under the bus to Politico. This is blistering.

[Native]

http://www.vox.com/2016/6/8/11881130/bernie-sanders-politico

The main takeaway is that Sanders's aides know they've lost; the candidate doesn't.

The secondary takeaway: the aides are throwing the candidate under the bus (Big Time).

[berni_mccoy]

1. Please stop.

[riversedge]

24. Karma can bite.

[dchill]

31. Yes, it can bite anyone.

And it will.

[Jitter65]

46. Bernie's aides seem much more civil and pro-party than Bernie. Hope some come on over. nt

[mcar]

56. Stop posting articles?

[snooper2]

64. hard to stop a crash when it is happening in slow motion

[Logical]

2. Not sure why Hillary fans are still trying to annoy Bernie fans. Nt

[vercetti2021]

4. Sore winners

They really don't need our votes it seems.

[BlueStater]

15. I guess what I've heard about the Clintons for years is true.

They really are a pair of extremely petty, vindictive people who try to destroy everyone who crosses them.

[grasswire]

27. yeah, the fish rots from the head.

HRC and WJC have modeled petty, vindictive behavior for decades now.

It's legendary.

[apcalc]

57. And this piece has exactly WHAT to do with the Clintons?

[WhiteTara]

69. The Clintons did not post that OP

that's one of the weirdest blames yet.

[LAS14]

71. You're saying the Clintons are personally behind this article???

[avaistheone1]

65. And to promote party unity

DU poster bigtree wants to primary Bernie.

How that for being positive and moving forward?

[davidn3600]

13. They are convinced they can win the GE without us

Have fun.

[tonyt53]

54. "Us" didn't show up so well in CA. "Us" didn't show up so well in ND - 355 total! WFT!!!

"Us' can sit home and whine and let Trump win in November. "We" will get and vote for the Democratic Party nomination because "we"' isn't about "me". "Us" apparently is.

[HooptieWagon]

19. They're just making sure Hillary's votes are few, but pure.

A rather bizarre strategy for sure. Not just here on DU...Earlier I responded to a comment on a friends FB page, and was immediately jumped on by half a dozen nasty trolls. Friend doesn't know who they even are, although he's a public figure with thousands of FB followers, I'm sure he doesn't know them all. But strange that half a dozen immediately went into attack mode. Definately a personality cult, but that's not going to get them a win in Nov. At this point, I don't even care.

[Eko]

43. Because its human nature.

I'll take the next step and say why is anyone on here trying to annoy Sanders or Clinton fans. It's over. What's next?

[dinkytron]

47. They have little faith in their candidate.

[PoliticAverse]

51. The ones that aren't trolls and are smart aren't. n/t

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

53. Makes zero sense... rubbing salt in the wound... sad day on DU.

[imagine2015]

74. That's the Hillaryite plan to achieve unity against Trump!

[Sheepshank]

83. I think Hillary supporters are upset that Bernie is attempting to hold back

A campaign that seriously need to his the pavement hard and fast.

[joshcryer]

3. Weaver is a POS.

His response to Casca is garbage.

[a kennedy]

5. This is nuts.........

[passiveporcupine]

6. From Ezra Klein,

what do you expect? And Politico is in the bag for Hillary.

Sorry, not buying it. Not buying the timing of you posting this here either.

[Tarc]

17. This is pretty funny coming from the champions of HA Goodman & Shaun King

[virtualobserver]

32. you don't like Shaun King....that tells me all that I need to know

[riversedge]

44. S. King has taken on the nasty, stupid characterizations of H.A. Goodman lately.

[Tarc]

49. Shaun King is Bernie cheerleader #2. Not quite a partisan hack as Goodman

But within spitting distance.

[riversedge]

45. ha ha. Politico is in the bag for Hillary you claim. Move out of your Bernie Bubble and

and you will learn something. bye

[geek tragedy]

8. Yikes.

More than any of them, Sanders is himself filled with resentment, on edge, feeling like he gets no respect -- all while holding on in his head to the enticing but remote chance that Clinton may be indicted before the convention.

...

as Sanders is that he’s realizing his lifelong dream of being the catalyst for remaking American politics—aides say he takes credit for a Harvard Kennedy School study in April showing young people getting more liberal, and he takes personal offense every time Clinton just dismisses the possibility of picking him as her running mate—his guiding principle under attack has basically boiled down to a feeling that multiple aides sum up as: “Screw me? No, screw you.”

Aides say Sanders thinks that progressives who picked Clinton are cynical, power-chasing chickens — like Sen. Sherrod Brown, one of his most consistent allies in the Senate before endorsing Clinton and campaigning hard for her ahead of the Ohio primary. Sanders is so bitter about it that he’d be ready to nix Brown as an acceptable VP choice, if Clinton ever asked his advice on who’d be a good progressive champion.

[grasswire]

29. gossip, gossip

Remember what happened to Al Gore.

So much gossip, spun from a machine.

[Ken Burch]

9. Don't do this. Just don't do this.

You're better than that.

[HooptieWagon]

10. Hill shill Ezra Klein... turd flinger.

'Nuff said.

[merrily]

11. VOX.

[MFM008]

12. its Politico

we didnt write it but someone talked.

[QC]

14. Is Ezra Klein related to Joe Klein?

He's always reminded me of him.

[upaloopa]

16. Not a pretty picture. They don't seem to know they are fighting against nobody

anymore

[workinclasszero]

18. Jump while the jumpin is good boys!

[okasha]

20. Sad, if true.

[BreakfastClub]

21. I read that he is difficult to work for, so it doesn't surprise me that his

aides threw him under the bus.

[That Guy 888]

52. I've read that Clinton has a journal to keep track of her enemies.

It doesn't surprise me that her creatures are still flinging crap while pretending to be journalists.

[Lord Magus]

76. Where'd you read that, Drudge Report or Breitbart?

Or maybe it was WND?

[That Guy 888]

82. Actually the right-wing crap helps hide genuine information.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/hillary-clinton-hit-list-102067_Page3.html#.V1iWojV0c8I

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/195192-kerry-kennedy-top-clintons-traitor-list

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/195188-hillarys-hit-list

I couldn't find the article I remembered which had a quote from a life long friend something like "She told me she wanted a journal and I asked her why. She replied to keep track of enemies." I'm pretty sure it was Salon or Politico or The Hill. If it was a conservative website I'd jabber away about Vince Foster or Benghaziiiiii. I don't feel like looking further, because I meant that quote as a quick reply to the "some say" quality of the post attacking Sanders.

[hedda_foil]

22. The Politico piece is no different from any campaign's immediate after-action reporting.

Certainly no worse than the norm. Far better than the internecine rivalry, attempted palace coups and backbiting of Hillary's team in 2008.

[enid602]

37. agreed

I'm a Hill supporter, and remember the similar reporting against her in 2008. Horribly cruel to fling this shit at someone when they're down. We should instead recognize their valiant fight, and how close they came to winning. Both Hill in '08, and Bern right now.

[LAS14]

75. I agree. See reply #73

[mikehiggins]

66. Pretty much what I was going to post but you beat me to it.

Its like the stories making it sound like laying off staff is some sort of unique development. Working on a campaign is good for resume building, etc., but there is no way it is a career. Supposedly a whole bunch of folks are going to get a thank you and a handshake and maybe a letter of recommendation and that's all she wrote. With only one primary left and HRC being dramatically ahead carrying a full staff forward is a nice idea but WTF? After D.C. the campaign needs little more than a handful of people. More would be simply a waste of money.

As for the second guessing, that's always the way things pan out. Hard to find fault with that. Maybe if Sanders was more (fill in the gap) and less (ditto) things might have worked out differently. Considering the fact that a) he was not lusting for the White House for over a quarter century and b) that he was trying to beat the drums for old-line Democratic positions, he did a great job. In one year the campaign went from a joke to a real threat to the Establishment, financed mostly by grass roots fund raising giving the lie to the Third Way/Clintonista/Democratic Establishment dogma that only the rich can and should have any impact on the nation's politics.

Anyone who doesn't see what an incredible success that is should give it some more thought.

So, IMHO, most likely the grumpy Senator from Vermont will return to the Senate and probably get a standing ovation for waging such an outstanding fight against all odds.

Not bad for a guy from Brooklyn who's even older than me.

As for progressives, some of whom will be surprised at how quickly the Establishment works to reinforce the status quo, there are some venues open for them to continue the fight for those ideas we consider worth fighting for.

And the fight must go on. The world will not wait.

The water is rising.

[LAS14]

73. Good point. I didn't swallow wholesale all the things said...

... about Hillary's internal campaign in 2008, so I guess I should continue cutting Bernie a little slack.

[bettyellen]

23. Whoa. He pissed off one of his top people to have them leak that. Not a pretty picture.

Highlights his punitive approach, which I had noted before after Flint.

[writes3000]

25. This is shitty - like vultures picking over a hurt individual. No need to gloat.

[MattP]

26. ezra klien is vox

[Renew Deal]

28. It might be for the best

Bernie doesn't have a future in presidential politics. Everyone else does. It would be noble of him to take the hit. But I doubt that's what's going on.

[grasswire]

33. But Bernie has momentum and a movement.

Backed by the coalition he has built of independents and progressives that numbers way more than the Third Way/DNC.

He has the excitement, the young people, and is not pursued by a criminal investigation by the FBI.

He has nothing to lose. AND........he is beloved.

[Renew Deal]

34. I love you Grasswire

Your energy and politeness is fantastic.

[grasswire]

38. I never aimed to be polite.

I have failed myself.

[Renew Deal]

39. lol

[grasswire]

41. And I'm never supporting HRC. nt

[Renew Deal]

42. Hey, that's BS

[PoliticAverse]

58. You won't be supporting Trump, will you? n/t

[grasswire]

81. of course not

I have never supported a Republican in my life.

I have never supported a Democrat who was under FBI investigation for failing to keep the national secrets safe, either.

[LAS14]

72. What has this article got to do with Hillary?

[Lord Magus]

77. If that were accurate he would've won.

Claiming that all independents and progressives wanted Bernie to be the nominee just isn't honest.

[JSup]

35. Why work for someone...

...and then trash them when it goes bad?

No one should ever hire these guys.

[BobbyDrake]

48. Because the checks cleared, that's why.

Everyone on the Sanders campaign knew it was a big grift on progressive voters except Sanders, apparently. And he should have been smart enough to figure it out based on his monthly expenditures, but he wasn't.

[PepperHarlan]

36. Sad.

[Whimsey]

40. I'm thinking Bernie may be synonymous with Jane

She is is main political adviser afterall.

I remember seeing her interviewed on MSNBC the day after the New York Super Tuesday primaries when the interviewer said she had just gotten a report from the campaign that the Sanders campaign was reassessing. Jane was taken about and stoutly disavowed the report. The next day, the report was that the campaign was full steam ahead. I felt she had more influence on the candidate than his hires.

[Lizzie Poppet]

50. Bye Felicia

How in the hell are you not already on my Ignore list?

[mcar]

55. They want to keep their career options alive

Bernie is burning all his bridges with his intransigence. I do think he'll suspend his campaign soon but the optics would have been better if he did it last night, rather than vowing to fight on.

[rjsquirrel]

59. An angry man

whose die hard followed are motivated by anger that is disproportionate to their actual privilege.

[CrowCityDem]

60. This reveals who Bernie really is. Not the image he let people believe.

[RandySF]

61. I guess they feel Berned.

[azurnoir]

62. I read somewhere don't remember where that

Clinton's campaign aides all signed confidentiality agreements , guess Bernie should have done the same - trust is earned not bestowed

[vintx]

63. Feel the unity!

[amborin]

67. the same Vox that spread false info about Bernie's tax plan! more smears

[Native]

68. It is a Politico article.

[LAS14]

70. Wow! I'd all along been willing to cut Sanders some slack...

... not blaming him entirely for all the bad stuff. But this Politico article really looks damning, and doesn't bode well for unity.

However, on reflection and reading some other posts, I think I'd better take this with a teaspoon of post firing salt. See response #73.

[Greywing]

78. Here's a link to the actual article

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/bernie-sanders-campaign-last-days-224041

interesting read

[anotherproletariat]

79. I get those same ego-driven, lashing out vibes from both Jane and Bernie.

This really does validate all those feelings that had been springing up, particularly in the last couple of months. It was pretty obvious he veered from being a cause candidate back when the primaries started, glad to see that those around him agreed as well...since it reinforces his lack of qualifications for the office he was seeking. Jane gave several interviews that seemed to have not been cleared by someone knowledgeable in public relations and campaign functioning.

[imagine2015]

80. The Takeaway: Mainly a ton of rumors and alleged quotes submitted by anonymous Clinton backers.

I read it and wondered how much of the story is pure fabricated anti-Sanders bull shit and how much of it pure horse shit?

Hard to tell.

But it really does have an obnoxious odor!

[Bluenorthwest]

84. This mean gossip is a well selected accessory to your avatar.

There have been entire books gossiping about Hillary and Bill being nasty bosses and I am not fond of those either.

[Native]

85. What have Irish people ever done to you?

[mcar]

86. What does this even mean?

What does the Celtic Cross avatar have to do with posting a link to an article?

[PeaceNikki]

87. It's going to make a great HBO movie someday.