Author: eastcoastmoderate

Reuters/Ipsos, Clinton +6
CBS; Clinton +7
ABC; Clinton +8
CNN; Clinton +9

90% of Sanders supporters have come home and will vote for Hillary.

I heard alarm bells ringing when Hillary was either tied or losing the Trump. Simple question, where are you now??

One thing about Bernie Sanders supporters, some of them will go above and beyond the call to act like four years olds, throw hissy fits and just make total morons of themselves. By all accounts, Hillary Clinton had a great convention. Unlike Donald Trump’s convention, which was full of doom and gloom, Clinton’s was very upbeat, fun, enlightening and hit Trump on all the things that Trump should be hit for.

The only sour note were Sanders supporters, still moaning like a bunch of juvenile delinquents, trying to disrupt the convention by shouting obscenities, drowning out speakers and pathetically saying they will vote for Trump.
Now these die-hard Sanders morons never did get very far with their protests, and never really got their protest off the ground. As for Bernie, he did the right thing, albeit weeks late. He was gracious and endorsed Hillary, to the utter gall of Sanders dead enders. Gee Bernie backers, is Sanders a traitor now?? Will you ever forgive him for his transgression?? I would like to say it’s time for them to grow up, but they will never grow up. They are incapable of growing up.

Hillary Clinton is now the Democratic nominee for president She earned it. She got more votes than Bernie and won. Bernie Sanders is now relegated to the back lot of losers. Thank God many people saw through the Bernie charade and rejected it. If the dead end Bernie supporters who will not vote for Hillary are going to continue to act like the fools they are, we don’t need you. Hillary will win the election without you sad sacks. Time for a reality check. Time to be counted, or step out of the way. After the convention, you are irrelevant to the election.

Gee Bernie, it only took you several weeks, being 900 delegates down, and not being able to bribe superdelegates to come over to you to finally figure out that you weren’t going to be the nominee. For weeks, people have been pleading with you to graciously step aside, end your campaign and support Hillary. Whatever the reason, you went on, although it was a hopeless  cause, and undermined a campaign that you could have been proud of.

If you want to get your credibility back, do what you said you were going to do, and make sure Donald Trump never becomes president. Endorse Hillary, speak on her behalf, and you’ll get your 20 minutes at the convention to say what you want to say. Hillary did the same for Barack Obama in 2008, and now it’s your turn to do the same.

The beat goes on. 49 people dead, over 50 injured in a slaughter of innocents at an Orlando night club. We grieve for the victims, and again we pray that this will end, and in a few days, this story fades from the memory of the American people, until it happens again, then the cycle continues, more grieving, more prayers and again, nothing gets done.

This is what the Republicans want. They seems like they care, but they don’t. The Democrats bring up the issue of gun control, banning assault weapons, making it harder to purchase a gun, and all the Republicans do, is spout fucking nonsense, telling us how the gun is not responsible. Meanwhile, the NRA continues to grease their palms with a bunch more zeroes for the checks they write, getting more blood on their hands, and basically laughing while Americans murder themselves at an obscene rate.
What happened in Orlando should finally be a wake up call for us. An average of 35,000 people are shot to death by guns every year. Think about that. 58,000 US soldiers died in the whole Vietnam war, and that lasted years, while we are killing ourselves at the rate of 14 Vietnam’s in the past 20 years. However, the chances of anything getting done is zero. The NRA, and the Republicans would rather see the slaughter continue, pray for the families and the victims, and continue to deny that a problems with guns exists. The United States is the only industrialized country that murders its citizens like this. No other developed country even comes close.

Yes, Orlando is a tragedy. 49 innocent lives snuffed out by hate, but the response to it by the GOP and the NRA is nothing short of criminal. Save me your speeches of grieving for the families and our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Orlando. We all know it’s a bunch of bullshit.

After last Tuesday, when the results started to come in and leaving very little doubt that Hillary Clinton was going to be the Democratic nominee for president, (in fact we all knew several weeks ago that Clinton was going to be the nominee), there was Bernie Sanders in California, still talking about how he was magically still going to stay in the race until every last vote was counted. Even when Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and others announced that they were going to back Hillary, there was Sanders, still in denial, back home for a brief visit think things over. Then Thursday, he met with Obama for about an hour, then stuck his nose in front of the microphones and still stated he wasn’t going anywhere.
Now you would have thought by now, Sanders would have gotten the hint, and done the honorable thing by dropping out and supporting Hillary, but Bernie, still being egged on by his massive ego, is still finger pointing in DC, still trying to convince himself that he is still relevant.

Back in 2008, when Hillary Clinton was in the same position that Sanders finds himself in, she made the hard choice to get out even though she was a lot closer to Obama in terms of both delegates and votes, then Sanders is now. Hillary ended up standing besides Obama, endorsed him and helped him get elected. She didn’t have the ego that Sanders has now.

There are indications that after the DC vote on Tuesday, Bernie will finally throw in the towel, and admit defeat, but I have no confidence that it will happen. You have surrogates like Nina Turner vowing to fight on all the way to the convention.

Whatever happens on Tuesday, Bernie Sanders is going to have to show me, and a whole lot of other people to say Hillary is the nominee, and I wholeheartedly endorse her. No strings attached, no having control on what happens at the convention, no getting rid of people he doesn’t like, and no demands that he knows won’t happen. The main thing now is to beat Donald Trump in November and Sanders says he will make sure that happens

The spotlight is on Bernie to come to his senses and do the right thing. If next Wednesday, both Bernie and Hillary are on the same stage, and Bernie endorses Hillary, the he’ll join the band and help Hillary when he can to defeat Trump. If that doesn’t happen, then Bernie is his own worst enemy, and the Democrats should cut all ties with him. The choice is up to him.

This will be short and sweet. Hillary Clinton has made history. The first female presidential nominee of a major party. The primaries are over, (except for DC), the votes tallied, the delegates delegated, the verdict is in. Time to get down to the business of defeating Donald Trump. Time to make sure that racist, bigoted, hate-filled, lying, petty, vindictive man never sees the White House.

Go Hillary!!!!

Well, Bernie is at it again. This time he’s attacking Hillary for declining a Fox News request for a debate in California. In declining the request, Hillary stated that it’s time to move forward and talk about why Donald Trump should not be president, and will use her time in California to meet directly with the voters, and make her case to them.

Sanders wasted no time attacking Clinton. “I think it’s a little bit insulting to the people of California, our largest state, that she is not prepared to have a discussion with me in helping Californians address the major crisis that they face. Democracy and respect for the voters of California suggest that there should be a vigorous debate in which the voters will determine whose ideas they support”.

Tell me Bernie, why would Hillary have a debate with you once again?? Is there anything the two of you will say that you haven’t already said before?? Why are you in bed with with a network as Fox, the most disgusting, anti-Democratic, racist, homophobic network in history??
The fact that Sanders wants a debate show just how desperate he has become. He’s running low in money, so he wants free airtime, his campaign is becoming less and less relevant. Maybe it’s the fact that the latest polls in California have Hillary up big and his massive ego can’t handle it.

Whatever the reasons, Hillary Clinton debating Bernie Sanders would be pointless. She has already pivoted to the general election, going after Trump, and that’s where her time and energy should be. Bernie Sanders should stop wasting his time and our time with his abject stupidity.

I like to say that I would be surprised at Bernie Sanders and his supporters about the way they acted in Nevada the other day, but I can’t for this simple reason. They have been acting this way for the past several weeks, and now that Hillary Clinton is just about salted away the delegate count, the violence, the hatred, the vitriol, have all escalated to a fever pitch.

Led by such luminaries as Rosario Dawson, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Cornel West and other mouthpieces for the Sanders campaign and egged on by Bernie, there is a constant attack mode against Hillary. Add that to the fact that Donald Trump supporters are crossing over in open primaries and voting for Sanders, makes it even clearer the coordination of these attacks, that Trump and Sanders are actually working together to bring down Hillary. A fact further established by Trump the other day, practically begging Bernie to run as an independent.
Look, I understand the anger, I really do, but it’s entirely misplaced, misguided and in recent days, just plain ugly. Sanders supporters feel robbed, cheated and blame the establishment for all their woes. The fact is Sanders came up short in ACTUAL voting. Also there is no hard evidence of cheating, no hard evidence of Sanders being treated unfairly at all. Every argument Sanders and his supporters have made of a rigged system simply doesn’t hold water

The moaning, groaning, whining and crying I’ve heard the past few days, would fill up both oceans. Sanders ran a well meaning and fruitful campaign, but simply got beaten by the better candidate in Hillary Clinton. No shame in owing up to that. Going around making false accusations, threatening and intimidating people, shouting hysterically, and acting like a bunch of kids isn’t going to solve anything.

Bernie Sanders has run out of excuses. His supporters have run out of excuses. He made his points, and Hillary will implement most of them into her platform at the convention. Sanders is running out of money, he is deceiving everyone by staying in with no way to the nomination. Everyone has come to the reality that Hillary Clinton and Adolf Hit, er, Donald Trump are the two left standing. The longer Sanders stays in the more he hurts Hillary and the more he embarrasses himself, and the legacy of Bernie Sanders will not be one of uplifting and inspiring people, but of a bitter and careless old man who never saw the writing on the wall.

I read Booman’s article for people to stop telling Bernie Sanders to drop out, and while he does make some valid points, I believe all he is doing now by staying in is hurting Hillary Clinton.

So far Bernie has had a fantastic run and I give him every credit in the world for it, but he must see the writing on the wall. Hillary is only 144 delegates away from clinching the nomination. She is going to be the nominee, unless she is indicted, (which by the way is looking less and less likely everyday). Sanders is doing the GOP’s bidding for them. By attacking Hillary, Sanders is aiding in the GOP cause. The question comes up daily as to why Clinton cannot put away Sanders. Actually, Hillary is closer to the Democratic nomination than Trump is to the GOP one, but both Ted Cruz and John Kasich saw that they were not going to catch Trump, and they did the right thing and dropped out.
 The fact that Sanders is still in the race is taking valuable airtime from Hillary. In fact, both CNN and MSNBC are still shilling for Sanders on an almost daily basis, even though he has virtually no shot to win. What’s the point?? I’ve barely heard any Hillary press for the past week, and when I have, it’s usually a story about why she still still has a Sanders problem.

The Sanders campaign is rapidly losing money. He has cut his staff, is not even going to campaign in California, much if at all. The majority of Democrats have made their choice, and that choice is Hillary Clinton. Many influential Democrats as well as liberals in the media have told Bernie to do the right thing and drop out. I agree with them. The more he resists those calls, the more embarrassing it becomes. Bernie Sanders is in danger of turning a promising and uplifting campaign into one where his credibility will be totally gone.

When Bernie Sanders won Indiana last week, he came out on stage and waving and pointing his index finger in the air, promised the fight will go on and he can still win the nomination. As I sat there, it suddenly hit me, Bernie wants to star in his own reality show, and he is using the presidential campaign to launch it, and the media is more than willing to go along with the game.

Bernie would be a great host for such a show. He and his supporters can go on and delude themselves into thinking that by some miracle he can win the nomination, and waltz into the White House and set about his dream of a socialist utopia. His little minions drooling over every word he says, and everything would be right with the world.
Sanders is living in a fantasy world, and frankly, I’m beginning to worry about him. First he says he can win the White House, then the next he’s making demands on Hillary Clinton in the platform, something you don’t do if you think you still have a shot at winning. Then he’s open to the possibility of being Clinton’s running mate, like there’s a chance in hell of that happening. Then in the background, he’s trying to blackmail Clinton Superdelegates to join him, forgetting the fact that he only became a Democrat to run for president. Then, like Donald Trump, he rails against the system, saying the deck is stacked against him, knowing full well going in, the system was like that. Then, another Trump specialty, the media is being unfair to him. In fact, this is sounding like a bad episode of the Young and the Restless.

Bernie Sanders can’t, or doesn’t want to face reality. He has gone from someone who garnered a lot of respect to someone who has become one of the biggest crybabies on the planet. His supporters have gone from respectful to ugly to downright vulgar, using intimidation tactics, outright lies, and in the case of Rosario Dawson, slander. I would like to think this will improve over time, but considering who Sanders and his supporters are, I’m have no hope that it will.