(July 25, 2016 at 11:28 pm)Exian Wrote: Think Bernie did a good enough job getting the Bernie or Bust crowd over to the Hilary camp? He seemed to stress the idea that he and Hilary compromised and combined their platforms in an effort to get them on board.
Probably not; he didn't convince me anyway. His listing of the combined platform just reminded me that basically every item on the list was a Bernie policy that Hillary fought against, then adopted, then claimed she's supported all along.
If Clinton hasn't chosen a conservative Democrat as a running mate, they would have convinced more people. If the DNC email scandal hadn't just happened, they would have convinced more people. If Clinton hadn't just hired Debbie Wassermann Schultz to her campaign, they would have convinced more people.
The DNC screwed themselves if they wanted the support of Bernie supporters, because you can't purposefully try to undermine a progressive grassroots campaign, lie about it, hire the person who was in charge or ultimately responsible for the undermining, and then turn around and say "oh, but do we still have your vote?"
As I said before in another thread, the Democrats had this election on a silver platter when Trump was nominated. All they had to do was avoid scandal, have a fair and democratic nomination process, and they would have sailed into the White House on a landslide. Instead, we got Clinton with her email excuses and lies, the DNC rigging the contest against a perfectly decent candidate, and a Democratic Party that doesn't even deserve to use the word "Democratic" in their name anymore.