If Bernie Runs at all, he'll run as a dem. Here's Why

[cali]

It couldn't be clearer that Bernie wants to address the rightward drift in the democratic party and that he sees Hillary as the representation of that. If he runs, it's to force that debate. If Hillary is running and Bernie runs as an independent, she can safely ignore him and then the MSM ignores him. Funny how that works.

I don't think he'll run if Hillary doesn't.

One more thing: Bernie is not Nader. they're very different, and Bernie won't do anything that could enable a repub to gain the WH.

[Autumn]

1. I hope it's not just aimed at Hillary. I think it's the Democratic Party as a whole

that is the problem and I hope that is where Bernie is focusing. If Biden runs there's not much difference between him and Hillary.

[daleanime]

3. +1

[Gothmog]

2. Nader gave Bush the election

Nader is an idiot who is responsible for Citizens United and the gutting of the Voting Rights Act

[polichick]

5. You can just as easily say Third Way Dems gave Bush the election.

[Scuba]

7. Bingo. I can spell "Lieberman".

[Le Taz Hot]

17. The corrupt Supreme Court,

Tammy Faye Harris and Jeb Bush thank you for your service.

[polichick]

4. Forcing a debate isn't enough. It HRC gets in she'll be a corporate servant...

no matter what she says while campaigning.

I'd rather see Bernie and progressives go for broke.

(Plus, millennials aren't going to turn out for another faux revolution.)

[NightWatcher]

6. Bernie is not a seriously electable candidate

He's just pulling a "Kucinich". DK had a following here back in 08 but as the primaries got going it was evident that he wasn't going to matter. I suspect that IF Sanders decides to run and IF (big if) he decided to run as a democrat, he'd suffer a "Kucinich" and disappear into oblivion. If he runs as an Indy, he'll only siphon votes away from the eventual Democratic nominee.

[cali]

8. Bernie is very different from Dennis.

And he's hardly going to disappear. Vermonters support him. He won't lose his seat in the Senate.

[FSogol]

9. +1 n/t

[Douglas Carpenter]

14. Sen. Sanders is NOT Dennis Kucinich. Those who think it's evitable that his campaign will turn out

the same are living with a stunningly myopic worldview. The simple reality is Sen. Sanders communicates such meat and potato language that practically everybody who listens to him discovers that they largely agree with him. I'm not predicting that he will win. But he will at the very least have a viable campaign that wins or comes close in a number of primaries - And his campaign will bring progressivism back into the mainstream of American politics for the first time in more than a generation. I can also safely predict that we will see Hillary moving toward the center and adopting a lot of populist language.

[Damansarajaya]

10. I agree.

Sanders knows that a third party can only suck votes from the Democratic candidate, like Nader the spoiler in 2000.

[idendoit]

11. Wow, you can read Bernie's mind.

[Douglas Carpenter]

13. I agree and I hope he does.

[Douglas Carpenter]

15. knr

[Le Taz Hot]

16. Then watch the Establishment Dem Party Bosses

do everything they can to freeze him out and starve his campaign. The Party Bosses already crowned "our" candidate -- one who is pliable and extremely corporate friendly, just the way they like them.