I know. You're shocked. Bernie Sanders? Bitter. No way.
"Inside the bitter last days of Bernie's revolution"
Yeah that sounds bitterly bitter.
"There’s no strategist pulling the strings, and no collection of burn-it-all-down aides egging him on. At the heart of the rage against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the campaign aides closest to him say, is Bernie Sanders."
#FeeltheBern
"But more than any of them, Sanders is himself filled with resentment, on edge, feeling like he gets no respect -- all while holding on in his head to the enticing but remote chance that Clinton may be indicted before the convention."
Yes folks, this is the real Bernie. Angry, bitter and petty. Wanting to do Hillary harm, but too afraid to really hit her hard.
"Sanders has been on email and the phone, directing elements of the campaign right down to his city-by-city schedule in California. He wants it. He thinks it should be his."
And then it got redistributed away from him.
"Convinced as Sanders is that he’s realizing his lifelong dream of being the catalyst for remaking American politics—aides say he takes credit for a Harvard Kennedy School study in April showing young people getting more liberal"
Also Bernie Sanders invented the internet. So he's basically delusional and suffers from grandiosity. How shocking.
"and he takes personal offense every time Clinton just dismisses the possibility of picking him as her running mate"
And he's an egomaniac
"his guiding principle under attack has basically boiled down to a feeling that multiple aides sum up as: “Screw me? No, screw you.”
Hey he is from New York after all.
"“They would be very smart to understand that the best way to approach Bernie is not to try to push him around,” Devine said. “It’s much better if they try to cooperate with him and find common ground. They should be mindful of the fact that the people he’s brought into this process are new to it and they will be very suspicious of any effort to push him around.”
Give Bernie's ego a safe space or the left-wing circus around him will cry and whine.
"Aides say Sanders thinks that progressives who picked Clinton are cynical, power-chasing chickens — like Sen. Sherrod Brown, one of his most consistent allies in the Senate before endorsing Clinton and campaigning hard for her ahead of the Ohio primary. Sanders is so bitter about it that he’d be ready to nix Brown as an acceptable VP choice, if Clinton ever asked his advice on who’d be a good progressive champion."
Yeah, I'm sure Hillary will be asking him about VP picks and rejecting her supporters for his. Any day now.
And it's not just Hillary who has an enemies list.
"There’s also the issue of payback. Campaign aides say that whatever else happens, Sanders wants former Congressman Barney Frank and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy out of their spots as co-chairs of the convention rules committee. It’s become a priority fight for him."
From hell's heart I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I sabotage the election.
"Sanders, the aides say, believes Frank has hated him for years, but the former Massachusetts congressman’s calling him a “McCarthyite” pushed him over the edge."
Aren't lefty slapfights just adorable? Trotskyist! McCarthyite! To the gulag!