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Three main reasons, I think.
1. He's not a lifelong Democrat, yet now he's running for what among other things is the role of party leader. Not tearing his opponent down probably saves him from getting grief about that. Indeed, I've barely heard it mentioned.
2. He knows he might lose the nominating contest. In that case, he doesn't want to have torn down the winner.
3. Every political candidate or other marketer has an implicit BS "budget". BS up to a certain level, and you're OK; people either forgive you for engaging in usual and customary amounts of puffery, or else they actually believe you and don't know that it's BS. Sanders is campaigning heavily on an image of honesty/authenticity, so his BS budget is smaller than many candidates'.
Sanders is spending his BS budget almost entirely in several major areas:
I salute him for all those choices. They're strategically shrewd, and by political standards pretty ethical. But given all that, he doesn't have enough BS "budget" left over to wallow in the e-mail nonsense.
- Pretending his numbers add up.
- Pretending certain proposals have a chance of passing.
- Pretending he has more than a nodding acquaintance with issues of national security.
We're getting off track here people.
This is a football thread not a discussion of national socialist party strategies.