Posted on 07/27/2016 6:53:51 PM PDT by TigerClaws
By Emily Zanotti | 5:41 pm, July 27, 2016 The nomination was barely sealed up at the Democratic National Convention before Bernie Sanders, who had campaigned against Hillary Clinton for the party’s nod, went back to being an Independent.
Sanders, who considers himself, officially, an Independent in Congress because his views lean further left than the Democratic party’s platform, caucuses with Democrats. But until declaring an intention to run for the presidency in 2015, he had rarely, if ever, identified as a member of the Democratic Party (he’s been in politics since 1979).
And now, despite pleading with his base to support Hillary, even though their concerned that she’s too moderate, Sanders will return to Vermont and to his seat in the Senate, and he’ll do it with no official party affiliation.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was forced to resign as Chairwoman of the DNC after leaked emails revealed she’d tried to keep Sanders from challenging Clinton for the party’s nomination, might even be vindicated—sort of.
Sanders has struggled all along with whether to call himself a Democrat, even ducking the question of his party affiliation, raised by local Vermont media, just days after he declared. He later tried to reinforce that he was, indeed, a Democrat. But Sanders certainly wasn’t a party player—and that’s exactly the concern Wasserman Schultz voiced in the Wikileaks document dump.
In an April 24 email she received with an article describing the ways Sanders felt the DNC was undermining his campaign, she wrote back, “Spoken like someone who has never been a member of the Democratic Party and has no understanding of what we do.” If Wasserman Schultz’s job was to ensure that a Democrat got the Democratic party nomination, then she might have been doing her job correctly (even if Bernie’s supporters would disagree).
There’s the additional complication, of course, that Wasserman Schultz was a vocal Clinton supporter, a Clinton surrogate and is now a senior adviser to the campaign, as she’s been officially booted from her DNC duties. But if anyone is vindicating her position, its Sanders, dumping the Democratic party as soon as it was no longer useful.
So much for the so called revolution.
Bernie fans got suckered.
“A Sanders-Cruz ticket and victory could be lethal for both parties...and for America as we have known her.”
I wouldn’t worry much - in less than a week, the filing deadlines for 26 states will have passed. Two weeks after that, another 10 states and then only a handful of states a month from now. The clock is running out very quickly for them.
“A Sanders-Cruz ticket and victory could be lethal for both parties...and for America as we have known her.”
Also, if that ticket did happen, it would be MUCH WORSE for the Democrats, as Sanders and HUGE NUMBERS of Democrats got screwed by a rigged system - whereas Cruz only got stopped trying to RIG THE SYSTEM (to deny Trump the nomination).
The people know the difference - and that is why the Republican convention has gone so much better than the Democrat convention.;
F’em
Slither away.
POS Commie Trash.
Not even Sanders would be stupid enough to think it would be a good idea to offer a dying skunk a position anywhere.
The guy committed the lamest career destroying speech ever made in front of a national television audience, and you’re worried that Trump should offer him something important?
I wouldn’t want to be part of a party that cheated me out of a Presidential nomination either.
“Keep your friends close to you and your enemies closer”
Sanders-Cruz?
That’s as likely as a Tony Stark/Pikachu ticket.
Please do explain how this idea arose, I have a feeling I’m going to find this story fascinating.
Ted Cruz and his supporters would have been fine if the GOP Primary was rigged against Trump.
Bernie only called himself on Indy because commie was a deal breaker.
“Bernie is right there in the audience listening to Tim Kaine.”
...glowering at Kaine even as he gave the Bern a shout out.
I'd vote for that ticket LOL (yer killin me)
Kaine was the head of the DNC before DWS.
Ultimate insider.
Maybe he’ll get mad enough to run third party this fall.
He is setting the stage for an independent run. The sanderistas are already lined up behind him.
Trump ought to give Cruz a spittoon cleaning position
Wonder if he and Trump could find some common ground ?
Bernie was an Independent. He should have run as a third party. Dems were dumb to let him run as a Democrat.
So lemme guess. You were out in public playing Pokemon GO in an Iron Man costume?
Wasn’t Debbie Wasserman Schultz asked the difference between the Socialist Party platform and the Democrat Party platform and she couldn’t come up with anything?
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