The Odds on When Bernie Finally Figures Out He Lost

Mike Lupica has a great piece in the Daily News about Bernie: he's becoming the Hiro Onoda of 2016.

"Bernie Sanders officially looks like Hiro Onoda now, the member of the Imperial Japanese Army who held out in the Philippines for nearly 30 years before finally surrendering in 1974. Through it all Onoda managed to hold on to his rank as a second lieutenant in his army, and keep fighting, long after the war was over. Even through the primaries of Tuesday night, most of which he lost, Bernie did the same."

"But he vows to keep fighting through a primary in Washington, D.C., that no one even knew existed. He vows to fight on to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. This isn't about his progressive values, or ideals, this is about vanity, and stubbornness, as if he keeps getting angrier and angrier that the rest of us don't know how good he is, and how good for the country."

"It is worth noting that after Hiro Onoda finally left Lubang Island in the Philippines and returned home to Japan, there were people urging him to run for office. He even wrote a book about being a guerrilla fighter in a war long over: "No Surrender: My Thirty Year War." Bernie's is starting to feel at least that long."

"He will meet with President Obama at the White House on Thursday. So the President needs to be the one to tell Bernie Sanders that the war is over."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/bernie-sanders-admit-campaign-article-1.2666619

Let's hope it doesn't take him 30 years to realize it's over.

Yes. Saint Bernie. America's Messiah. Bernie when you talk, the earth moves. Like Angry Black Lady once said on Twitter: after Bernie, I now know what love is.

It's funny, though it's kind of scary. The good news: Dems dodged a real bullet. Someone this self-righteous should never get anywhere near the Oval Office.

"Then, and once more, he was talking about his vision of the future, as if it is the only one that matters in America. This is what he believes, in the spirit of being a true revolutionary, which means someone who only sees one side of things: His own. If you even suggest that Hillary Clinton beat him straight up, that she not only got more superdelegates than he did and more pledged delegates but millions more in the popular vote, than you're just one more person throwing down with a rigged system."

Yes. That's the drawback of someone with such moral self-certainty. It's all about good and evil and no gray areas.

All fanatics like Barry Goldwater believe that they alone know the Truth. You disagree, that just proves your a shill or in Goldwater's case, a Communist.

"Moderation in the protection of liberty is no virtue; extremism in the defense of freedom is no vice."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater

The Hillary bashers heckle that she is 'the status quo.'

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/robyn-urback-clintons-primary-win-was-indeed-a-historic-moment-but-her-candidacy-is-still-very-much-of-the-status-quo

So was the Weimar Republic. But the Germans wanted 'change' back in 1933.

But I don't see Hillary as the status quo, ironically. She''s actually the really radical position: someone who is not promising to save the world on day one of her Presidency

In recent years, fanaticism has been the status quo. The GOP has been the main offender which is why they refused to work with the President even where they agreed, even where he was giving them way more than most liberals-including me-wanted to give away.

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/06/center-left-not-ultra-left.html

But the GOP refused to work with him it was 'Hell, no.' So now the Dems don't bother trying to offer them anything anymore. It was the GOP who taught the Obama White House to be liberal.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/03/dan-pfeiffer-exit-interview.html

But now Bernie wants Democrats to go down this same rabbit hole. No thanks.

There's nothing down that rabbit hole, but Hiro Onoda.

Lupica spells it out for Bernie:

"This is no longer about how Sanders came as close as he did — though not as close as he wants us to believe — at shocking the world. This isn't about the size of his crowds, or roar of his crowds, or the way he roused the young and the disaffected, as much as Trump has roused the very white and the disaffected. This isn't even about all the whining Sanders has done about a rigged system, as if they somehow changed the rules once he started to make his run."

"This is about Sanders being asked to declare, as much as guys like Ryan, and various other cowards in the Republican Party, have been asked to declare on their side of this thing. Does Trump need more ammunition from Bernie against Hillary Clinton? Come on. Before long, he'll be trying to convince the country that Bill and Hillary are Leopold and Loeb. But the idea that Sanders doesn't hurt her the longer he refuses to leave the stage is as much of a fantasy as Sanders still saying there is a path to the nomination."

"Somebody needs to give Sanders the hook. He needs to understand, once and for all, that if he is not helping the nominee from his own party that he is helping the presumptive nominee from the other party. That's the deal."

Hopefully Obama gets through to him today-their meeting is just 45 minutes away or so.