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Wed May 4, 2016, 07:16 AM

 

Why are Hillary supporters so nervous and angry?

They keep doing the "math" and grumbling like Captain Queeg rolling the steel balls in his hands and complaining about "disloyalty"

After Back Bench Bernie's Indiana win last night,......which netted him about 5-7 net delegates and about a 40,000 vote gain on the 3+ million vote margin that Hillary has over him, I'm reminded a quote from Macbeth. To me, it not only symbolizes the Indiana win, but the more I think of it, the entire Sanders campaign!

"...a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

This is what Sanders has allowed his campaign to become. When he finally DOES face reality, I expect that his most rabid supporters will turn on him. He will get no sympathy from me, and the likely hood of my choosing to ever respect him again shrinks with each passing moment.


Of course, this famous speech from MacBeth begins with the announcement:

"The queen, my lord, is dead."

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Reply Why are Hillary supporters so nervous and angry? (Original post)
Human101948 May 2016 OP
Kittycat May 2016 #1
silvershadow May 2016 #2
islandmkl May 2016 #3
magical thyme May 2016 #4
Human101948 May 2016 #6
FlatBaroque May 2016 #5
potone May 2016 #7
SmittynMo May 2016 #8
Schema Thing May 2016 #9
hootinholler May 2016 #10
Deny and Shred May 2016 #12
thereismore May 2016 #13
mac56 May 2016 #19
Deny and Shred May 2016 #11
beltanefauve May 2016 #16
in_cog_ni_to May 2016 #14
QC May 2016 #15
Ino May 2016 #17
mhatrw May 2016 #18

Response to Human101948 (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 07:17 AM

1. Two reasons: unfavorables & FBI investigation

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Response to Kittycat (Reply #1)

Wed May 4, 2016, 07:19 AM

2. The same two things we've been pointing out to them for months now, ever since

 

the wheels fell off the bus.

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Response to Human101948 (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 07:37 AM

3. just a bad morning after....


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Response to Human101948 (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 07:52 AM

4. what kind of hood is a likely

 

hood?

"...a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more"


What is the likelihood the poster in question was frothing at the mouth and sputtering while cutting and pasting?

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Response to magical thyme (Reply #4)

Wed May 4, 2016, 07:57 AM

6. Good catch...it's like one of those perception tests...

 

and I missed it entirely. But definitely spittle spewing going on there.

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Response to Human101948 (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 07:53 AM

5. Thank you dragging that carcass in here

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Response to Human101948 (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 08:13 AM

7. There has been an increase in statements like this.

What I noticed yesterday is new members, some of them with only a few posts, immediately jump on the "Bernie should drop out now" bandwagon. I think they only joined DU to demoralize Bernie supporters. It is so transparent that it is really insulting to our intelligence.

As well as that statement, they also are passionate about defending DWS's statement about preferring closed primaries. I even saw threads in the Hillary group arguing that no one should be allowed to run as a Democrat unless they had been members of the party for years. These positions taken together are in effect a call to Bernie supporters to give up now, not participate in the primaries unless they have been Democrats before this election season, and yet vote for Hillary in the GE.

It is precisely this arrogance that makes it increasingly difficult for Bernie supporters to support her if she wins the nomination. I, and many other people, am tired of having the choice of voting for a Republican or a Republican Lite. If the Democratic party is to thrive, they have to broaden their base of support, not narrow it. As someone who has voted for Democrats for decades, I deeply resent being given the choices of candidates who do not reflect the interests of the majority of the people in this country.

Why are they angry? It is because they know, deep down, that Hillary does not represent our interests.

The Republican party is in full meltdown. The Democratic party could go the same way, and soon, if this badgering continues.

Bernie is right: we need a political revolution! If not now, when?

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Response to Human101948 (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 08:17 AM

8. I would imagine a few HRC supporters

shit their pants last night. Trump vs Hillary? She don't have a prayer against him.

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Response to Human101948 (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 09:37 AM

9. Because they knew they were playing fast and reckless backing Hillary



and they keep thinking it will backfire.


Which it very well might.

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Response to Human101948 (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 09:53 AM

10. link please?

I would like to know which illustrative member of Camp Weathervane dropped that turd.

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Response to Deny and Shred (Reply #12)

Wed May 4, 2016, 10:30 AM

13. That's another poster with that idolized portrait of the queen from when she was 30... sick. nt

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Response to Deny and Shred (Reply #12)

Wed May 4, 2016, 07:13 PM

19. Well, another invitee to my ignore list.

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Response to Human101948 (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 10:17 AM

11. Perhaps they realize how different the GE will be

Clinton loses many of her primary advantages in the GE: Trump's name recognition much higher than Sanders, the DNC can't put its thumb on the scale in her favor in the GE, the money advantages are reversed because Bernie rejected corporate campaign cash unlike any GOP candidate would, Bernie hardly attacked her compared to what lies ahead, half the country is deadset against any more Clintons in the White House, if she can't decicively beat Sanders among declared Democrtats then she has a very uphill climb, David Brock's Republican-lite smear-laden campaign will be less effective against Trump, she runs to the Right of Trump on several important issues, there will be no media blackout of Trump unlike the one of Sanders, it isn't a 'closed' election, and she spent more time alienating Indies than courting them, yet she must now rely on their support.

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Response to Deny and Shred (Reply #11)

Wed May 4, 2016, 02:52 PM

16. Not only

has she alienated Indies and Liberals, her campaign has made zero efforts to GOTV. The new registrations are as a result of our campaign. This, too, will come back to haunt her.

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Response to Human101948 (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 10:38 AM

14. "The queen, my lord, is dead"



They're pathetic. They'll "get it" after Bernie's elected President.

They believe the queen 👑 was due her coronation and Bernie stopped it. Poor, sad little subjects.

Go Bernie!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

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Response to Human101948 (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 11:06 AM

15. This movies is starting to look familiar, and they hate the ending. n/t

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Response to Human101948 (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 05:09 PM

17. Poster HOPES his supporters turn on him...

though it's not clear why he/she thinks they will.

Not gonna happen!

"likely hood" <---- BWAH!

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Response to Human101948 (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 07:06 PM

18. sorest "winners" ever nt

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