TO BERNIE, IT'S 1917, AND THIS IS MOSCOW – AT 11:56 A.M. ET:   Bernie refuses to bow to reality.  This is a revolution.  They are in the streets.  The royal family is running away.  Princess Anastasia is missing!  From the Washington Post: 

SAN DIEGO — Bernie Sanders concluded a hurried day of campaigning Sunday by delivering a defiant rebuttal to the growing calls from some Democrats for him to drop out of the presidential race.

Rousing more than 4,000 supporters as the sun set over his rally near Qualcomm Stadium, Sanders signaled that he plans to fight on to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia and is far from ready to cede the nomination to his rival, Hillary Clinton, who picked up more delegates in contests over weekend as she inched closer to clinching.

The sprawling and rebellious scene in Southern California captured the spirit of the Sanders campaign ahead of the primaries that will take place Tuesday here and in five other states. Instead of beginning to accept Clinton’s likely ascent, the Vermont senator and the people behind him are responding with simmering indignation about the forces they believe are aligned against him.

COMMENT:  This is what happens when you allow a man to run for the nomination of a party, even though he's not a member of that party.  Ditto Donald Trump.

Parties are private organizations.  They can, within the law, make their own rules, and it's time to revisit the rules of each of our major parties.  A year like this must never happen again.  I'd rather go back to the smoke-filled rooms, where professional politicians made professional choices, then have this disorganized madness. 

We've been given bad choices this year.  As I've said, deciding between Clinton and Trump is like deciding between Bonnie and Clyde.  And the Dems' second choice, Bernie, is a political nut case who thinks the proletariat yearns for him. 

Each party had better people available, and failed to deliver.

June 6, 2016