Semi-closed primaries (which CA is, because NPP voters could still vote in the Dem primary) are not arcane rules designed to disenfranchise voters. They are used to prevent party raiding by GOP voters who want to face an easier opponent in the fall (in this case, Sanders).

In my first comment I said I know it’s a bad idea. I know it won’t happen. I just said I want it. I also acknowledged that it is petty to want.

And yet they wouldn’t vote on this...

These posts are in response to ConnieMilligan, who replied to AuntBea with this:

How about independents let Democratic-registered voters figure the primary out and shove their feeble minded pettiness? See how that works?

And also the threat of “Obama is going to take your guns away after this horrible shooting, stock up now!” does wonders for them. Rinse, dry, repeat.

I generally like Biden, but I am aware of his missteps with women’s issues. It also annoys me to no end that people who hate Hillary for voting for the Iraq War and supporting the 1994 crime bill would probably love to vote for a man who also voted for the war and WROTE the crime bill.

I mean, I live with one of them. He was completely uninvolved in politics until this primary season. He had no opinion about the Democratic Party (other than voting for Obama twice) until Sanders came along.

Telling his voters that superdelegates are corrupt, the DNC is corrupt, closed primaries are corrupt, etc. are not “policy disputes.” I think it’s fine for Bernie to not officially drop out until the convention; I do not think it’s fine for him to continue attacking the party while doing so.

I have been watching, since 2008, which was my first time voting as an 18yo. Obviously the Democratic party leadership preferred her to Sanders (I don’t blame them, since he spent the entire campaign convincing his supporters they are corrupt), but the leadership didn’t crown her. In fact, the media dragged this…

And how she stopped attacking Obama once she didn’t have a shot at the nomination, and didn’t spend the whole campaign complaining that the process is corrupt which convinced her voters not to vote D in the fall.

Yeah I know about him, not the biggest fan of carpetbagging (wasn’t the biggest fan when HRC did it, either). But otherwise, yeah, go ahead!

This is really great! My county Democratic Party announced last year that they were offering a scholarship to help train new people who are interested in a run for office, but unfortunately did not reply to my email suggesting that some funding should be set aside specifically for women and POC. I am so glad to see a…

The DNC did not “crown” Hillary Clinton its nominee. The voters did, since she won the most votes, the most delegates, and the most contests.

Which is why I said I know it’s a bad idea. But deep down inside of me, I do feel that someone who exploited the party in order to further his own career, and someone who attacked the party over and over enough that his supporters no longer trust it, should not be rewarded by the party with a easy win once again.

The Senate is part of Congress.

I wonder, if HRC had lost the primary and were refusing to endorse Bernie until he adopted some of her policies (e.g. gun control, a lower federal minimum wage that is more appropriate for non-major metro areas alongside a $15 minimum for large cities like NYC, etc.), how would his supporters react to that?

Yeah, the petty bitch inside of me wants the DSCC to run someone against him in 2018. I know that that is actually a bad idea, but I can’t help but want it.

Oh please. Are you being willfully ignorant? Charlize Theron in that picture is wearing women’s jeans and a blouse. “Jeans” and “button-down shirt” are large categories. Do you really not know what masculine/men’s clothing looks like?

No one is saying she is “any less of a woman” or male. This is about her style (clothes, hair, etc.), not her gender identity.