Inside Bernie Sanders’ “Last Bitter Days"

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

Via Politico

There's no strategist pulling the strings, and no collection of burn-it-all-down aides egging him on. At the heart of the rage against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the campaign aides closest to him say, is Bernie Sanders.

It was the Vermont senator who personally rewrote his campaign manager's shorter statement after the chaos at the Nevada state party convention and blamed the political establishment for inciting the violence.

He was the one who made the choice to go after Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz after his wife read him a transcript of her blasting him on television.

He chose the knife fight over calling Clinton unqualified, which aides blame for pulling the bottom out of any hopes they had of winning in New York and their last real chance of turning a losing primary run around.

And when Jimmy Kimmel's producers asked Sanders’ campaign for a question to ask Donald Trump, Sanders himself wrote the one challenging the Republican nominee to a debate.

Convinced as Sanders is that he's realizing his lifelong dream of being the catalyst for remaking American politics—aides say he takes credit for a Harvard Kennedy School study in April showing young people getting more liberal, and he takes personal offense every time Clinton just dismisses the possibility of picking him as her running mate—his guiding principle under attack has basically boiled down to a feeling that multiple aides sum up as: “Screw me? No, screw you.”

Take the combative statement after the Nevada showdown.

“I don't know who advised him that this was the right route to take, but we are now actively destroying what Bernie worked so hard to build over the last year just to pick up two ****ing delegates in a state he lost,” rapid response director Mike Casca complained to Weaver in an internal campaign email obtained by POLITICO.

Every time Sanders got into a knife fight, aides say, they ended up losing. But they could never stop Sanders when he got his back up.
 

There are many divisions within the Sanders campaign—between the dead-enders and the work-it-out crowds, between the younger aides who think he got off message while the consultants got rich and obsessed with Beltway-style superdelegate math, and between the more experienced staffers who think the kids got way too high on their sense of the difference between a movement and an actual campaign.

But more than any of them, Sanders is himself filled with resentment, on edge, feeling like he gets no respect — all while holding on in his head to the enticing but remote chance that Clinton may be indicted before the convention.

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[FATCAT 60,972]

Last hope is the FBI primary. It'll be a landslide.

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

Just now, FATCAT said:

Last hope is the FBI primary. It'll be a landslide.

Don't mirror his bitterness. You're too young for that.

[FATCAT 60,972]

Just now, LebaneseDude said:

Don't mirror his bitterness. You're too young for that.

It isn't bitterness. He's doing exactly what he said he'd do in the beginning, go all the way to the convention.

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

Welp. Looks like my bad feeling about him actually had merit!

Now that his campaign is imploding, we're going to see him for exactly who he is when people start talking.

Hopefully he's less of an arse than this article implies.

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

Just now, FATCAT said:

It isn't bitterness. He's doing exactly what he said he'd do in the beginning, go all the way to the convention.

That's great. I just hope you realize it's going to be futile for your own sake.

[venusfly 17,885]

Bernie almost had me, but his policies are too ambitious for the timeframe he has. Going on the attack at big business when the entire image of the US is big business was never going to work out well. I'd be for him if he went for a more gradual approach that would hit people with less of a blow.

And he also lost me with the childish fingerpointing.

[Morphine Prince 109,994]

Surprised you hadn't posted this yet. 

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

10 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

Surprised you hadn't posted this yet. 

Checking the sources by reading their articles.

They checked out with no clear allegiance to either camp, so I posted it.

If you saw it, why didn't you post it?

[Morphine Prince 109,994]

Anyway, I think Bernie should focus on Trump at this point. Should make as much damage as he can while in the spotlight. 

 

[RAMROD 118,060]

So when people wish to finish the race regardless the result is called bitter now. OK.

[Morphine Prince 109,994]

9 minutes ago, LebaneseDude said:

If you saw it, why didn't you post it?

Clinton won. Congrats. 

The Sanders camp. is doing too much. They need to focus on Trump now if he's not gonna drop out. His super delegate goals aren't gonna do anything. 

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

Just now, RAMROD said:

So when people wish to finish the race regardless the result is called bitter now. OK.

His efforts could actually be useful by being directed at the proper target, as opposed to the person who beat him in a display of bitterness.

[Didymus 34,380]

What happened to not posting opinions as threads

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

1 hour ago, Didymus said:

What happened to not posting opinions as threads

How is this an opinion piece?

This is a compilation of quotes from Sanders aides.