Look, I get that this is a contentious primary. I get that Sanders is in it to win it. I respect a lot of his positions.

BUT

President Obama has been elected, twice, by the largest margins since Reagan. He has every right as President of the United States to nominate and have confirmed his nominees for the Supreme Court.

If Sanders were to somehow pull off a win in the Democratic Primary and then almost assuredly win the Presidency in November, OBAMA WOULD STILL BE POTUS!

Obama’s job doesn’t suddenly end after the election. Obama doesn’t suddenly not get to select the next Supreme Court justice.

Saying that he would expect Obama to withdraw his nominee is highly disrespectful. Acting like Obama’s nominee wouldn’t vote to overturn Citizen’s United, when Sanders himself hasn’t even met with Garland, is disrespectful.

You know who else has argued that Obama shouldn’t get to pick the next Supreme Court justice on his watch because they don’t like his nominee, the Republicans. Well, now the Republicans and Sanders.

And Sanders wonders why he keeps losing Democratic voters in primary battles. Maybe, just maybe, its because he threatened to primary our sitting President in 2012 and pulls stunts like this that are highly disrespectful of an extremely popular sitting President.