We are lucky that we have 3 exceptionally strong candidates!

[freshwest]

4. Sanders has already promised such:

If Bernie Sanders Runs For President, It Won’t Be as an Independent: “I will not be a spoiler”

Naturally, “Will you run for president in 2016?” was the first question DFA Executive Director Charles Chamberlain asked Sanders. Though not definitive, his answer was enough to leave these activists hopeful.

“I am giving very serious consideration to it, but before you make a decision of that magnitude, … you have to make sure that you can do it well,” Sanders said. “So what we are doing is reaching out to folks all over this country trying to determine whether or not we can put the grassroots organization together that we need.”

Sanders knows he will have to rely on grassroots mobilization to have a fighting chance at being elected, because his campaign will take on every monied interest. “If I run, we’ll be taking on the billionaire class,” he said. “That’s Wall Street, the drug companies, the military industrial complex.”

To the dismay some idealists, Sanders rejected the idea of running for president as an independent. “No matter what I do, I will not be a spoiler,” Sanders said. “I will not play that role in helping to elect some right-wing Republican as President of the United States.”

http://inthesetimes.com/article/17572/bernie_sanders_president

to pampango:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026140372

Hillary enthusiastically went on the campaign trail in 2008 for Obama despite the loss. With her it has always been more about the ideas and less about her even though she has taken the lion's share of abuse.

O'Malley has little life outside the Democratic Party. It appears he is willing to run negative, which Sanders is NOT, in relation to HRC. But if he isn't prepared to implode, he will support the nominee.

Joe Liebermann was the only former Democrat who took the independent route after his loss to the preferred candidate by his state's Democratic voters. He got back in office, but he's nowhere to be seen now and pretty much despised.

I think we have nothing to worry about on that score. Also, Bernie, Hillary and O'Malley have the blessing of the DNC and the organization and the funds that go along with it. He is part of the Democratic Party and a member of the CPC, the largest group of Democrats in the House. He is the lone Senator in their group. The GOP has called the CPC communist. They're not. They're old school Democrats.