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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The claim has been that Sanders hasn't done anything for the party - and that comes mainly from Debbie Wasserman Schultz who from day one has been completely behind the Clinton campaign and who from day one has been actively sabotaging Sanders and screwing him over every chance she gets.  But even so, the claim that he hasn't done anything for the party is bogus, because he has in fact raised a lot of money for the Democratic Senate campaign.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/bernie-sanders-regular-luxurious-dscc-fundraising-retreats

The money HRC is raising "for the party", on the other hand, is likely to just be funneled right back into her own campaign, if it isn't already.  DWS is hellbent on making Hillary the nominee and the next President.  [/quote]

Except in the article, his campaign manager said he never actually made fundraising calls so he either 1) was just enjoying a fancy vacation courtesy of the DSCC/his campaign or 2) understood that given access to high dollar donors was raising money for the DSCC and he was ok with that.  Personally, it just verifies that he's a standard politician and nothing more.

My question is how would Sanders raise enough money for his campaign, the DNC and the Convention without courting high dollar donors?  The Charlotte convention had a difficult enough time raising what they needed and that was with a President who didn't constantly lambaste the wealthy and was willing to compromise by taking in-kinds from corporations.  Would he be willing to do that?  Will he hold small high dollar events to get maxout donor to the DNC?  If so, how will explain the sudden change to his supporters?  If not,  how does he expect to sustain the onslaught of the RNC and GOP SuperPACs, plus successfully pull off the Convention?  I expect some donors will give no matter what and create SuperPACs whether he wants them or not.  However, I doubt they will raise nearly as much because a lot of donors aren't going to very generous while being yelled at.[/quote]

Not "standard politician" because a.) these are bigger fundraisers than the typical House ones, and b.) there are plenty "standard politician" Senators who did far less than Sanders did in terms of doing his part and raising funds for DSCC and the party.

As I see it this is just BS, first they try and lambast Sanders as "he's no Democrat, he's an outsider independent and socialist who's done nothing for the party" and then when someone points out that he did indeed raise a lot of money for the party they try and do a switcheroo and say "he's no outsider, he's out there pandering to the rich and going on junkets just like the rest."  Quite a bit of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" hypocrisy coming from his critics on it.

It's intellectually dishonest.[/quote]

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