RE “Hopefully at a contested convention the “super delegates “ will do what they are supposed to do and pick the candidate that will best beat Trump !!! That would be Bernie Sanders !!!”
Let me ask a couple of things:
- Are you not bothered by the fact that Bernie Sanders demonized super delegates month after month … but is now lobbying for them?
- Are you aware that Sanders has not had a single negative campaign ad run against him while Secretary Clinton has been attacked by (a) pundits on Fox News every night for months (b) Donald Trump and the entire GOP field of candidates (c) Rance Preibus and the RNC (d) right wing super pacs and (e) Bernie Sanders? Do you think this may have something to do with the national head to head matchups? If not, why?
- What do think would happen to Bernie Sanders if he was under such attack? Do you think he could survive when his “I love Castro and the Sandinstas” videos were played in endless loops? How about his tax hikes … do you think national focus on them would hurt his numbers?
- Do you acknowledge Sanders has had a free ride and given the unprecedented number of attacks on Clinton, the fact she still beat him is a testament to her strength and durability?
- Do you acknowledge the right is much more worried about Clinton and believes she will win … which is why they are going after her and not Sanders?
- Do you acknowledge that Clinton has needed to be much more restrained than Sanders because as the presumptive nominee (and pledged delegate leader for months) she will have the responsibility of unifying the party once Sanders is gone?
- Do you see the duplicity in a candidate who has railed against independent voters being disenfranchised, sued to give 17-year olds the right to vote and wanted every primary to be open now wants the super delegates to overturn the will of the people?
- Given Clinton has hundreds more pledged delegates and millions more votes, why should the super delegates switch?
- Sanders flip-flopped on super delegates and began asking for their support when the race was essentially won by Clinton (her massive 5 victory night on March 15th including the all-important states of Florida and Ohio) … yet no supers have gone to him. Why is this?
Each time Sanders loses, he comes up with a new and more “fantastical” plan on how he is going to win. The super delegate plea is perhaps the most cynical given what he has said about them — but especially because he would be asking them to overturn the will of the people.
He has lost — he should handle that gracefully. Then again, one has to wonder if this is really about “money” for him. As David Plouffe said recently, “fundraising when the nomination is lost is fraud” — that was a bit tough but fundamentally true. These suspicions were reinforced by something we learned from the latest FEC campaign finance report from Bernie Sanders: he paid advisor Tad Devine and his firm $810,211.44 in March. That is ASTOUNDING … for all the people sending in $27, how should they feel? Fleeced would be my guess …
