A funny thing happened when Bernie took the stage with his wife in Burlington, I think it was the night of Super Tuesday, when he was about to lose a lot of elections, and he knew it. He was at home, in his element, his support network all around him. And guess what Bernie was a mensch! I thought maybe I had unfairly judged him. He seems like a nice guy.

Until then my main exposure to Sanders was on the debate stage with his adversary standing next to him. And last night, I was reminded why I think Bernie is such a bad choice to lead anything. He may have been a good mayor of Burlington, I can see that, given how the people there envelope him in love, but when challenged, as a President surely is, in every contact he has with other people, who are always trying to get something from him, or push him into a corner, Bernie becomes a defensive raging jerk.

If I were sitting in the audience at a conference with two people on stage and Bernie lecturing everyone, including his adversary, I would hopefully get up and walk out. In my weaker moments, in the past, with Larry Ellison or Jason Calacanis, I made the mistake of standing up and explaining how they were losing the audience. I'd say the same to Bernie, but I would expect he would paint me as somehow inadequate, a member of the Establishment, who had done business with big banks (I have as has almost everyone, including Bernie probably, if he ever took out a mortgage). Bernie gets very antagonistic when challenged. In my experience this quality makes someone an awful leader. I would never follow a Sanders type person. Which is kind of ridiculous because I basically agree with him on almost everything. And I'm not running against him. I even surprised myself that I was open to thinking of him as a sweet person. But the Bernie I see on stage in a debate is a person I don't want anything to do with.