1) If you are losing to a “weak front runner,” what’s that say about you?

2) Sanders didn’t contest Texas? Really?

Sanders was one of the first presidential contenders of either party to establish a state operation in Texas, setting up shop in November with a campaign headquarters in east Austin that now features an 8-foot-tall, free-standing “Bernie 2016” sign in the front yard.

He may have pulled out in the end from lack of traction, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t contest it. He just failed.

3) Don’t ever, ever, ever suggest that Southern Democrats are worth less than any others. Devine specifically called out these states (plus Texas):

State % of Dem Electorate that was black AL 54 VA 26 LA n/a (State w/ 2nd most AAs) TN 32 MS 71 GA 51 AR 27

Four of those seven states featured majority-black Democratic electorates. The other, Texas, was 19 percent African American and 28 percent Latino. What kind of asshole do you have to be to denigrate those states, suggesting that their votes count less than anyone else’s?

4) There’s a reason that Sanders didn’t compete in those states. He didn’t hand them over nicely to Clinton out of chivalry. We all know those reasons. (See chart above.)

5) Clinton didn’t compete in a bunch of states too, and guess what? Those delegates count just as much for Sanders! It’s called “deploying resources tactically.”

6) Remember when Mark Penn was caught flat-footed in 2008, unable to count delegates? So the Clinton campaign found all sorts of reasons to denigrate the states they lost, such as claiming that Obama could only win “small states that Democrats can’t carry in the fall.” Remember that? It was dickish then. Not sure why anyone would want to emulate that stuff.

7) Let’s revisit this part of his quote: “Where we compete with Clinton, where this competition is real, we have a very good chance of beating her in every place that we compete with her.” So, let’s look at the states in which they both competed: