(11-09-2017, 11:21 AM)FBT Wrote:

(11-03-2017, 03:33 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: True. What difference would it make now, anyway? Trump is president. Like it or not, there is nothing we can do about it now. I blame the DNC though. They were determined to force Hillary down people's throats as the only other legitimate choice and it backfired. Maybe now, they will get the hint that people don't like Hillary Clinton. I hate Trump, but Hillary was not a good option. She was and is, completely untrustworthy.

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Wrong. Polls had him beating Trump, where as the same polls had Trump beating Hillary. As someone who didn't vote for either Trump or Hillary, I would've voted for Sanders and I know several other people who would've done the same. Whether Bernie would've won the general election, I don't know, but I bet he would've done better than Clinton did.

Were these the same polls that had Hillary winning in a landslide on election day?  

Sanders never had any expectation of winning anything.  He knew the game was rigged.  Those who continue to carry water for the guy completely ignore the fact that he was paid off to step aside and support the nominee.  He's perfectly content to be a socialist except when it comes to his personal finances, so he's nothing more than a giant hypocrite.  For a guy who has lived an entire life without actually ever having a real job, he's done pretty well for himself.

As far as Brazil's revelations in her book, she's trying to slow walk some of the allegations now that the excerpts have come out.  I've watched a couple of interviews she's done in the past day or two, and she's proving to be an adept tap dancer.  The problem here is that the Clinton camp swooped in and took control of the DNC long before Clinton won the nomination.  Obama had left the party bankrupt, and she had the resources to pay off the party debt, but that came at a price.  Her campaign had complete control over the party finances, and thus the party itself.  There's no way Bernie Sanders was oblivious to this, so his entire campaign was nothing more than a dog and pony show to provide Hillary with a foil.  Little did she know that the disdain many had for her would be significant enough that for some, Bernie seemed like a feasible alternative.

At the end of the day, I'm amazed the FEC hasn't stepped in to investigate this because there's all sorts of fishiness with this story if Brazil is to be believed.