2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]BainsBane
(55,388 posts)You used numbers from 2015 to support your blatant misrepresentation about coverage for the 2016 primary. Now you switch to DWS and debates, in a weak effort to distract from your previous distortions. Eichenwald dealt quite thoroughly with this the false debate mantra that we have heard ad nauseum. http://www.newsweek.com/myths-cost-democrats-presidential-election-521044
No one heard anything from Bernie in 6 debates that they didn't hear in one. After the second debate it was clear to me I would not be hearing anything more from him that I heard in the first. I watched every single debate and he never elaborated on his message because he simply didn't have more to say. He had a core message but not developed policy. I'm not the kind of person who is persuaded by slogans. I look for substance. He didn't provide it in debates or on his website, and certainly not in the NY Daily News Interview. The fact is he never thought through how he would implement what he talked about. I expect that was because he never planned to be elected, the same reason he never put together a foreign policy team.
Bernie lost months ago. Yet he and his supporters continue to whine about how he was denied his right to rule over people whose votes he could not earn. Worse yet, your stunt with that blatantly false claim about media coverage and complete lack of remorse at being caught red handed says a great deal about who you are. You chose to forsake your credibility to promote a politician's excuses for his own failures. I'm done here.
FYI, if Bernie ever runs for national office again, I will absolutely vote against him. That's a promise.