So. Over the last 24 hours, Bernie Sanders and his campaign has decided to break their word and attack Hillary Clinton personally. First, the top Berniebro out there, Jeff Weaver, said yesterday that he sure hopes Secretary Clinton doesn’t “destroy the Democratic party to satisfy the Secretary’s ambitions to become the president of the United States.” “We want to have a party that we can unify.”
Ok. Let’s unpack that for a moment. Hillary Clinton is winning.
Repeat after me you fracking Sanderistas: Hillary Clinton is actually winning this primary. She is beating Bernie. She has more pledged delegates than him. She has more actual votes than him. And those leads are not close.
What Weaver said is usually what a frontrunner says to the second place runner up.
A second point regarding this statement is that it is not Hillary Clinton that attacks and destroys Dmeocrats and Democratic unity. She has spent 40 years as a loyal Democrat, raising money for down ballot Democrats, campaigning for down ballot Democrats all over the country for decades. Bernie has never raised a single fucking dime for anyone but himself, and he hates the Democratic Party and all Democrats. He admitted that the only reason he is running as a Democrat was for media attention. He cares not for changing the party, for bettering the party, for electing more progressive members of the party. He cares only about himself.
So… doesn’t that make Bernie Sanders the ambitious one here?
A third point, the ambitious attack. That is a common smear used against professional women every where. “She’s too ambitious.” Thus, this was a sexist anti-woman attack on Hillary Clinton. And for it, Jeff Weaver and Bernie Sanders can go fuck themselves.
Hillary, for her part, did not go there when responding on Jake Tapper’s to these horrible attacks.
She took the tact that she is the most loyal Democrat who cares about the party and the Sanderistas are just desperate flailing people right now. And she is right.
I won’t be as kind.
And that was BEFORE Bernie Sanders said that Hillary Clinton is now somehow unqualified to be President. What?
Seriously, what?
The only universe in which Hillary Clinton is unqualified to be president is one where women are viewed as inferior nothings who should be seen and not heard, who should keep house and raise babies but not vote.
Sanders this morning is furiously backpedaling, saying he only said that because Hillary said he was unqualified on Morning Joe. And that is yet another lie from Bernie, because she did not say that, even when prompted by the shit stirring Joe Scarborough:
Scarborough: We’ve been talking about Bernie Sanders’ New York Daily News interview. And I want to start with that. And ask you in light of the interview, in light of the questions he had problems with, do you believe this morning that Bernie Sanders is qualified and ready to be President of the United States?
CLINTON: Well, I think the interview raised a lot of really serious questions and I look at it this way. The core of his campaign has been ‘break up the banks,’ and it didn’t seem in reading his answers that he understood exactly how that would work under Dodd-Frank, exactly who would be responsible, what the criteria were, and you know, that means you can’t really help people if you don’t know how to do what you are campaigning on saying you want to do.”
Scarborough: So is he, is he qualified? …I know there are a lot of examples where he came up short and the interviewers were having to repeat questions and so the question, and I’m serious, if you weren’t running today and you looked at Bernie Sanders, would you say, ‘This guy is ready to be president of the United States’?”
Clinton: Well, I think he hadn’t done his homework, and he’d been talking for more than a year about doing things that he obviously hadn’t really studied or understood, and that does raise a lot of questions. And really what that goes to is for voters to ask themselves, Can he deliver what he is talking about, can he really help people, can he help our economy, can he keep our country strong?
She never said Bernie wasn’t qualified to be president even though Scarborough was begging for it. Did she play rough? Absolutely. That Daily News interview was a disaster for Bernie, because it revealed that he lacked knowledge in the area that should be his wheelhouse.
So Bernie can go fuck himself, and not only should be get the fuck out of this primary now, he should resign his Senate seat to Howard Dean and then never be heard from again.