Anyone else nostalgic for those halcyon days when we were chortling about the disfunctional GOP?

[bklyncowgirl]

OUR candidates were issue oriented and our debates civilized. Then a funny thing happened on the way to the coronation--Sanders won New Hampshire and the caca hit the fan.

Now we're the disfunctional ones ripping each other apart while Republicans do what they always do which is fall in line. I'm not saying that Sanders should drop out--he has important things to say and he should keep on fighting for his issues right down to the convention but he shoud stick to the issues. I'm not saying Hillary should roll over--She has the most delegates but a little graciousness would go a long way before the passions of both candidates followers get out of hand.

I don't know if that's going to happen. Supposedly Howard Dean warned Hillary not to "poke" Bernie. She did. Worse yet The DNC chair poked him too. Sanders is a stubborn man--a Brooklyn street fighter at heart but he shoud make it clear that threatening Clinton supporters is not what his campaign is about. As for Hillary--graciousness to defeated rivals is just not how the Clintons roll--ask Jerry Brown about that but running a clean campaign, making it clear that electoral shenanigans will not be tolerated is clearly possible.

I don't know if the genie can be put back in the bottle. I just know that if it isn't we all better get used to the idea of President Trump.

[Xipe Totec]

1. Well, our candidates are still issue oriented and our debates are still civilized.

Relatively speaking...

Face it, whoever emerges from the Democratic primary as the victor, will have to jump into the ring and square off against the Donald, "Mano a güevos" for the General election.

There's only one candidate with the necessary güevos to face off against the Donald.

And I'm speaking metaphorically here, not biologically.

[bklyncowgirl]

3. Our candidates maybe--their followers not so much.

My point was everyone needs to take it down a notch--especially on DU.

[Xipe Totec]

4. Good luck with that...

Especially on DU.

[bklyncowgirl]

5. Look, there are some Sanders supporters who have been jerks.

I also think that the Clinton people have blown it way out of proportion. It would also be good tactics for Sanders to say that that sort of behavior has no place in his campaign.

[bklyncowgirl]

7. I agree with you that it was all blown out of proportion

But repeating that this is not how I want my followers to act can't hurt. And politicians like Boxer should be used to being booed.