Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

That's a silly counterfactual. Of course she would have looked wonderful if no one run against her.

If Bernie had not run the anti-Hillary vote in the primaries would have gotten behind someone else, probably O'Malley, who would have, like Bernie, been totally dead and hopeless post-Super Tuesday. That person probably would have admitted the futility of the effort sooner than Bernie and the party would have unified sooner. But, who knows? Maybe Webb would have survived instead.

Bernie's move, once he broke out of the pack, to go rabidly anti-Clinton said it all. He didn't have the base on the left to beat her, there just wasn't enough room there, so he had to go negative and hard (because he hadn't gone negative in the beginning - remember when he was sick of talking about her emails?).