Boy, I hope Bernie Sanders has it in him to say and do things that will bind the Democratic Party and unite his supporters behind Hillary Clinton. I remember '68 when Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy came from almost out of nowhere to challenge Lyndon Johnson for the nomination. McCarthy never did well enough to win but he did well enough to make a real difference and to influence the race. Sanders is doing better but —
Oh, before anyone writes me with the Yogi Berra quote: I'm sorry…I think it is over. Bernie would have to win around 64 percent of the remaining elected delegates in order to catch up to Hillary and in California, he's at best running even with her or ten points down, depending on which poll you believe.
Sanders is doing better than McCarthy but I'd hate to think he'd do the same thing McCarthy did, which was to withhold support from the nominee until when he did endorse, it was too little, too late. Bernie's press release last night suggested he won't do that; that he'll fight on to the convention. Well, why shouldn't he? He still has a lot of money. But his language suggested he's now fighting to influence the platform and to shove Hillary a little more to the left. Which is fine with me.
(It would also be fine with me if Sanders pulled the Upset of the Century and bounced back to win. I just think that's about as likely as Ted Cruz winning Miss Congeniality. And hey, didn't you just love that brief "alliance" between Cruz and Kasich, when in a futile attempt to stop Trump, they stopped running ads calling each other lying assholes and made like buddies for about twenty minutes? Strange bedfellows, indeed.)
And my Tweet not withstanding, I would love to hear a reason for Carly Fiorina as his running mate other than "We'll pick up the female vote." You remember that worked so well for Walter Mondale and John McCain. A woman on the ticket is fine but she has to bring more to the campaign than mere gender.