Even as “Feel the Bern” has devolved into “Sift Through the Embers”, what is left of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign refuses to die.
And it is burning members of the Clinton team, but good.
From and Jonathan Easley and Amie Parnes’ article at thehill.com:
Hillary Clinton’s allies are fuming over Bernie Sanders’s vow to take the presidential nominating contest to a floor fight at the Democratic convention this summer.
Many Democrats believe Clinton effectively clinched the nomination after a string of victories across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic gave her what looks to be an insurmountable lead in delegates.
But rather than rein in his efforts, Sanders has declared that he’s playing to win, even if he’s trailing badly in delegates after the last votes are cast in the final primary contests next month.
The Vermont senator says he plans to campaign and lobby superdelegates to support him over Clinton all the way through the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this July.
Some Clinton supporters, believing the nomination is at this point only a formality, are frustrated by Sanders’s threat to drag things out.
“At this late stage in the primary, he should stop trying to rile up his people and start to bring everyone together,” said one longtime Clinton ally. “That’s what Hillary did for Obama. He needs to set an example and start bringing his people over if he cares about defeating [Donald] Trump in the general election.”
I don’t blame the Hillary people for wanting Bernie Sanders to roll over and play dead. He’s pretty much dead anyway, and it would enable Hillary Clinton to stop kissing up to Sanders’ millions and millions of hard left supporters, so she can veer back toward the center for the electio…..
….hey, wait a minute. Maybe that’s exactly why Bernie Sanders is not rolling over and playing dead.
Maybe Bernie Sanders is staying in it expressly because Hillary Clinton, devoid of any principles, moral compass or shame, would have no problem revising herself away from Sanders’ authentic, strongly held positions the minute he dropped out of the race.
The more I think about it, the more logical it is as the reason Mr. Sanders is still on the campaign trail.
