Finally Figuring Out Bernie

Bernie Sanders: Senator and career politician.  Yes.  But everyone should have known that.  Sanders ran in the Dem primary on purpose.  He didn't run on the Green Party or any other independent ticket.  Sanders understood was well as anyone that Clinton was the presumptive nominee the day Obama was reelected in 2012; none of the prime establishment Democrats challenged Clinton's nomination.  (Watching Sanders campaign against Hillary Clinton this year has probably taken 20 years of Joe Biden's life.)  Sanders knew what he was in for and is most likely quite surprised how well he's done, but that doesn't change what was decided on 6 Nov. 2012.