Will Bernie Sanders be gracious in defeat?

[Landslide Lyndon]

You have a really weird hatred of Sanders, Lyin Steve.

As opposed to the completely logical hatred of Clinton that jfern and Idiot Canuck have.

[Landslide Lyndon]

He spent a good part of his Arizona defeat speech tonight attacking Clinton.  With that and his choice to spend the whole week going after Clinton's superdelegates and trying to convince everyone that she'll lose to Trump, it looks like all those who voted No are on track for an easy victory, just like Hillary.

As long as there are gullible people to give him money and he is surrounded by sycophants like Devine who pay themselves 1 million a month from the campaign coffers, don't expect the old codger showing any signs of dignified acceptance.

[Landslide Lyndon]

It's looking increasingly likely that he'll refuse to accept defeat and try to steal the nomination somehow.

His campaign manager is still delusionaly talking about a contested convention.
Someone should inform him that when there are only 2 candidates running one of them will eventually get a majority of delegates.

[Landslide Lyndon]

You know what's REALLY funny? For years the left-wingers were supporting closed primaries because they wanted the base to decide the nominee, not those wishy-washy centrist independents who could vote in (semi)open primaries.

But now suddenly, in one cycle, they have discovered how evil and undemocratic closed primaries are.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Sanders won't be graceful in defeat for the simple reason that he isn't that kind of person.
This article, linked yesterday by Josh Marshall. is very illuminating in showing what kind of unpleasant individual he is, even to those who actually support and work for him.

http://lansingcitypulse.com/article-12189-The-trouble-with-Bernie.html

Here's my problem with Bernie Sanders. With few exceptions, I agree with his positions on issues. But I don't like him or his political temperament. He'd be an awful president.
I followed him carefully when I was editor of the Burlington Free Press in Vermont. Sanders was the state's sole congressman, lived in Burlington, and would periodically visit with the newspaper's editors and publisher.

Considering that the Free Press' editorial positions were very liberal, reflecting the nature of a very liberal Vermont community, one might think that meetings with Sanders were cordial, even celebratory.

They weren't. Sanders was always full of himself: pious, self-righteous and utterly humorless. Burdened by the cross of his socialist crusade, he was a scold whose counter-culture moralizing appealed to the state's liberal sensibilities as well as its conservatives, who embraced his gun ownership stance, his defense of individual rights, an antipathy toward big corporations and, generally speaking, his stick-it-to-them approach to politics.
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“They characterize the senator as rude, short-tempered and, occasionally, downright hostile. Though Sanders has spent much of his life fighting for working Vermonters, they say he mistreats the people working for him,” Heintz wrote. Among those he cited was Steve Rosenfeld, Sanders' press secretary during his 1990 House campaign, and author of “In Making History in Vermont.”

"At his best, Sanders is a skilled reader and manipulator of people and events," Rosenfeld wrote in his account of the campaign. "At his worst, he falls prey to his own emotions, is unable to practice what he preaches (though he would believe otherwise) and exudes a contempt for those he derides, including his staff."