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Bernie Sanders Leaves the Democratic Party
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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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: 114th; 2016dncconvention; feelthebern; vt2106
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#DemExit
1 posted on 07/27/2016 6:53:51 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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The is starting to look like FUBAREXIT for the Dems.


2 posted on 07/27/2016 6:55:40 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: TigerClaws

Typical lefty flip-flopper.

Nothing to see here.


3 posted on 07/27/2016 6:55:47 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Gear Up)
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To: TigerClaws

I don’t blame him one bit.


4 posted on 07/27/2016 6:56:14 PM PDT by Yaelle (Sorry, Mr. Franklin. We've been extremely careless with our Republic.)
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To: TigerClaws

Never in it to begin with.


5 posted on 07/27/2016 6:56:43 PM PDT by Fungi (Make America America again.)
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To: TigerClaws

I thought he was Independent.


6 posted on 07/27/2016 6:57:04 PM PDT by Genoa (Tempus fugit)
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To: Yaelle

I hope he tells all his supporters to vote for Jill Stein to send a message to the DNC!


7 posted on 07/27/2016 6:57:30 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: TigerClaws

A true believer to the end, Bernie did what he felt necessary to keep his dream for an end to the Republic and furtherance of a socialist-Communist state


8 posted on 07/27/2016 6:57:34 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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Those liberal snowflakes who don’t vote for Stein are global warming “deniers”.


9 posted on 07/27/2016 7:01:10 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: TigerClaws

It was always a marriage of convenience anyway.
Go ahead Bernie. It’s time to ‘see other people’.


10 posted on 07/27/2016 7:02:56 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: TigerClaws

@Democrafratricide


11 posted on 07/27/2016 7:05:15 PM PDT by lightman (I'm nobody special...just a follower of the siren call of the Ison.)
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To: TigerClaws

The dumocraps have now reached a level where they are too extreme for even a commie.


12 posted on 07/27/2016 7:05:30 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (By His wounds we are healed.)
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To: TigerClaws

*Yawm*


13 posted on 07/27/2016 7:07:36 PM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: TigerClaws

Trump had better offer Cruz a Cabinet post ASAP.

A Sanders-Cruz ticket and victory could be lethal for both parties...and for America as we have known her.


14 posted on 07/27/2016 7:08:36 PM PDT by lightman (I'm nobody special...just a follower of the siren call of the Ison.)
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#BernExit

I didn't leave the Democrat Party, the..oh wait. Yes I did.

15 posted on 07/27/2016 7:09:17 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: TigerClaws

Will he continue to run as an Independent / write-in candidate?


16 posted on 07/27/2016 7:10:11 PM PDT by golas1964
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#WhiteBreadMatters


17 posted on 07/27/2016 7:11:44 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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This old crap head is a COMMUNIST. They are all COMMUNISTS that support him. He ought to be ILLEGAL here. SCREW SANDERS AND ALL THOSE COMMUNISTS!


18 posted on 07/27/2016 7:12:18 PM PDT by WENDLE
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To: TigerClaws

Should ask Old Bernout what wine made from sour grapes tastes like...


19 posted on 07/27/2016 7:16:38 PM PDT by W. (Hillary is just like that ex-partner you've hated forever!)
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To: TigerClaws

Bernie is right there in the audience listening to Tim Kaine.


20 posted on 07/27/2016 7:16:48 PM PDT by Darnright (When a system acts illegally, its dictates are not the law of the land, they are the law of force)
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