*****AA Group****** The cold, hard truth: it's game over for Bernie Sanders

[steve2470]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/01/super-tuesday-results-bernie-sanders-campaign

It’s time for some cold hard truths in this presidential election.

Here’s an ice cold one: winning a landslide victory in the mighty state of Vermont is not a foundation for success. Especially if Vermont has been your home since the Jurassic age of politics.

Here’s another: if you hold a victory rally before most of the states have been called, you’re not fooling anyone. When your victorious supporters have emptied the hall before the TV pundits have barely warmed up, you’re actually throwing a consolation party.

Bernie Sanders has built his impressively insurgent campaign on the premise that he’s a truth-teller. On Tuesday night, he repeated the commonplace belief that climate change is not a hoax (as many Republicans argue), and that the science is clear.

[highprincipleswork]

1. He IS a truth-teller. Walks the walk, as well as talks the talk Compassionate & Progressive too.

Too bad some just can't, don't, won't see it, despite evidence.

You know, not everything is flash (which sometimes covers up for horrible policies and lack of real Progressive substance).

http://www.essence.com/2015/10/16/bernie-sanders-secretly-met-sandra-blands-mother

[BKH70041]

2. SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't say that out loud. You'll rain on their underwater parade.

[thereismore]

3. I honestly expected a cogent analysis from Richard Wolffe, but he does not really do any math.

He writes about his feelings mostly, but he is very thin on substance, at least in that article. Just because he gave a victory party early on does not mean it is over. Maybe he needed some rest. He is a septuagenarian, you know. As sharp as he is, the body has its limits. Let's give him a break.

[artyteacher]

4. He has already lost though. eom

[JI7]

5. the truth is he never thought he would win the nomination

He got in the race to bring attention to economic issues.

[randys1]

6. If we dont now PUSH Hillary like MAD on universal healthcare and MW, then we deserve

to lose ground on those issues.

She is gonna do what we tell her to do if it means she doesnt get reelected.

The real politics starts after the election.

[Kind of Blue]

7. Thank you!

[wildeyed]

8. There it is.

And he has succeeded wildly.

[gollygee]

11. Very likely

And he has certainly shaken things up, so really he's won what he was going for.

[joshcryer]

15. +1

[Number23]

9. That was brutal. Just up and down brutal

Steve, how are you dealing with this? Do you agree with this article?

[steve2470]

10. I was expecting this to happen on Super Tuesday, so I'm not surprised

His campaign has bypassed the PoC community excessively, and he started his campaign way too late. I do largely agree with what the author is saying. I can understand Bernie staying in the campaign just to make a statement or for a long-shot chance, which I think he has slim to no chance with Secretary Clinton's lead. I could also understand him bowing out gracefully in the next few weeks.

Lesson of his campaign: Understand that you absolutely must have an excellent connection with the PoC community to run as a Democrat. Secretary Clinton does, and that's why she's going to win the nomination and, I think, in November as well.

I really hope the nastiest "Sanders supporters" wise up and either accept reality or just leave DU. One can hope anyway. Have a great day, Number23!

[JustAnotherGen]

12. Great article

Thanks for posting!

[steve2470]

14. my pleasure! :) nt

[Number23]

13. Have you seen the piece that Kos wrote on this? It was posted in this forum

Once you get beyond the profanity, he offers up alot of wisdom and he says alot of the things that you're saying here.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/29/1492734/-Democrats-South-Carolina-and-wrapping-up-our-primary-season

Mainly that parachuting into communities of color a few months before you need their votes is not a winning strategy. And also running an insurgent campaign based on "course correction" against a president with an 80% approval rating in your own party is even worse.

I really hope the nastiest "Sanders supporters" wise up and either accept reality or just leave DU. One can hope anyway.

From your lips to God's ears. Good Lord, that would be so incredibly wonderful.

[qwlauren35]

16. The more I think about it...

the more I want him to stay in the race. All the way to the end.

Nothing fires people up for the general election more than voting in the primaries. Especially if their candidate wins, but even if not, especially when they think their voices are heard. Sanders is reaching out to voices that need to be heard. He has put together a platform on the left that people resonate with, and it forces Hillary to answer and address important questions. He's pulling her left. Kicking and screaming, but definitely left.

He needs to continue, all the way to the end, and all the way to the Convention.

[Number23]

17. I agree. I don't think it hurts anyone for him to stay in as long as he wants.

It's clear at this juncture that he won't win the nomination but he could still play a role in the discourse which is still pretty important.

[Digital Puppy]

18. Posts like this and analysis like #10 are appreciated

Your thoughts resonate with mine in the initial approach to the campaign (both BS and HC). I just think Clinton has been thinking about this for 8.5 years...

(Steve, thanks for not being rabid and frothing at the mouth...)

[steve2470]

19. you're very welcome

Some people on this board forget or never knew that you get more "flies" with honey than with vinegar. The honey approach is obvious, and there's no point in being an obnoxious jackass. Set out your points politely and with a view to educate. God knows Sanders has already done this, so there's no point in doing it again. The people in GDP, for the most part, just like throwing feces at each other. Does anyone change their mind in GDP ? I damn sure don't.

Secretary Clinton has been preparing, like you said, for years and has always had a great connection to the AA community. It just astonishes me that an otherwise smart and savvy Senator Sanders has blown it, but I have to remember that he only became a Democrat a few months ago. He's been an independent for so many years in an extremely white state.