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

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

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?).

I wouldn't characterize him as going rabidly anti-Clinton or negative and hard. Relative to Clinton and Obama in '08, maybe the issue is that people thought she still had a chance to catch him, whereas everyone assumed Sanders was toast so figured that the only reason he was in was to do damage to her. I think that was myopic on both counts -- she was never going to catch Obama in '08, and he was running for other reasons, although he did start to believe in himself a little too much there.