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stopbush

(24,630 posts)
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 02:30 PM Jun 2016

Sanders is in for a world of hurt after tomorrow.

The façade will begin to fall away, as the candidate who was treated with kid gloves by the media is suddenly exposed for the debt-ridden, lying fraud he has been this entire campaign.

As bad as the financial reports will be, they won't be nearly as bad as the circus of Sanders insiders who will be rushing to the nearest reporter to put their spin on why the campaign failed. Look for many, many "the fish rots from the head down" stories to emerge, putting the blame squarely on the shoulders of Bernie and Jane, who will be characterized as bull-headed, unable-to-take-advice-from-the-advisors-they're-paying types. It happens every time, as the political handlers seek to insulate themselves from the negative publicity that always attends to a losing campaign, all in an effort to keep themselves viable as political advisors for the next sucker who comes along.

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tonyt53

(5,737 posts)
1. The path is already being opened up today by Sanders himself. His body says "I've lost".
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 02:33 PM
Jun 2016

Have you noticed how Bernie has been falling since colleges (his main rally places) have let out for the summer?

 

BobbyDrake

(2,542 posts)
2. I would tend to disagree. The same bias that made the media inflate Sanders' chances will treat him
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 02:34 PM
Jun 2016

with kid gloves after this is all over. He will not be asked any more about his tax returns, or Jane's destruction of Burlington College, or the Pope Debacle, or anything that even remotely resembles the vetting he should have received but never did. They're going to give him a bunch of fawning press coverage, and continue to make out like he's going to the convention with all this "momentum" and "influence" when really he's not, because the media believes it will create a "challenge" for the Democratic Party to deal with. After all, Trump's candidacy is already flailing and failing, and so the General Election is shaping up to be "What handful of states will Trump manage to keep red on his way to a landslide loss of historic proportion?"

The media needs its narrative, after all, and as the very existence of the Bernie Sanders campaign proved, if they can't find one, they'll create one.

stopbush

(24,630 posts)
4. The media will not be able to pass up the juicy insider stories that will
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 02:37 PM
Jun 2016

be told by those insiders I mentioned above.

 

BobbyDrake

(2,542 posts)
5. Those come later, though, I think. After all, it takes time to get a ghostwriter and a publisher
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 02:40 PM
Jun 2016

lined up for the inevitable "cashing out" phase of the losing campaign.

displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)
6. The SF reporters today used the words "thwart" and "sexism"
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 02:48 PM
Jun 2016

Of course, he never actually answered their questions, and he was incredibly rude to the female reporter.

Koinos

(2,798 posts)
3. I'm not sure about Weaver, but I think Devine will try to save himself at Bernie's expense.
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 02:34 PM
Jun 2016

And who will Bernie blame? Everyone but himself.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
9. There could have been a pathway to the end results which did not include declaring the
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 04:17 PM
Jun 2016

Required number of delegates was 2383 and would be a combination of super delegates and pledged delegates. Also not all ofthe complaining about evry time he lost a primary. Also when it became obvious Sanders was not going to win to stop proviring RW talking points to Trump. Now is the time for uniting the party and explaining why being united is important to defeat Trump.

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