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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders and the DNC: It's war [View all]Hekate
(90,624 posts)39. That DNC data base is a BFD of a resource, and Independents never put a dime into it, did they?
Bernie is a Dem only for convenience. He currently gets all the perks that come with running as a member of OUR party -- and make no mistake, that DNC data base is a BFD that individual candidates cannot AFFORD to replicate, much less someone like Sanders the Independent from Vermont.
His campaign staffers screwed up royally, and they did it all by themselves. It's not Debbie Wasserman Schultz's doing, much less Hillary Clinton's.
Yet watch the faithful go ballistic....
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bernie's team Sabotaged their own campaign and now they're trying to weasel out of it..
Cha
Dec 2015
#46
Yeah, bernie is unprincipled.. I've seen it in the way he disses and disingenously mischaracterizes
Cha
Dec 2015
#49
Exactly.. bernie said he'd be a "hyporcrite if he ever ran as a Dem bc of the things his said about
Cha
Dec 2015
#47
Yeah, fund raise off of his own team stealing data. If they're so proud of their grassroots
Cha
Dec 2015
#53
Nothing like an outsider coming in demanding privileges, resources, base vote to work at destroying
seabeyond
Dec 2015
#5
Staffers stole, He filed a lawsuit to disrupt, Sanders supporters excuse, you question my integrity?
seabeyond
Dec 2015
#22
"you better believe I'm questioning your integrity." Like that has any kind of meaning at all.
seabeyond
Dec 2015
#32
What I am GENUINELY having issues with is this idea from certain quarters that because Sanders
Number23
Dec 2015
#31
Ya. And now, they call anyone out on integrity for not standing up for the guy that stole.
seabeyond
Dec 2015
#33
That DNC data base is a BFD of a resource, and Independents never put a dime into it, did they?
Hekate
Dec 2015
#39
Right on. It sickens me this man has been allowed all the privileges of the Democratic Party, as he
seabeyond
Dec 2015
#40
The MSM pretty much look for entertainment these days,which in a presidential season is kind of sick
Hekate
Dec 2015
#42
Good. The long war between the left and right wing of the party needs to be out in the open.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2015
#17
"The breach was revealed at a time when Sanders' candidacy is fading from its summer highs"
Number23
Dec 2015
#36
"This is incredibly disappointing," Mook said, before driving the knife deeper. "This is someone who
Cha
Dec 2015
#45