Did Biden Tell Sanders He Will Choose Warren as VP?

[The Magistrate]

71. The 'Due' Influence, Sir, Is None

When a faction lacks the votes, its influence is what the majority is inclined to grant. If a minority faction seeks to procure more by some extra-parliamentary technique, such as disruption on the floor or threats to behave in a manner it believes injurious to the Party's electoral prospects, it is not incumbent on the majority to placate them, and they may well decide to reply in the spirit of 'publish and be damned' which draws a blackmailer's teeth.

And this does not even engage whether your assessment of relative factional strengths is accurate. I suspect it is not, but even if it were spot-on, that would not alter the case.





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."