Fire Up That Flamethrower, Bernie!

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They had an opponent file on Sanders that was two feet thick.  They would have raked him over the coals with the same bullshit lies they pulled on Clinton.  And it all would have come down to this.



Which would have been enough for most of the assholes who voted for the WLB to begin with.

I'm not sure what that would be. He consistently votes for and proposes things that would help the American people. Trump couldn't say he's crooked. Opponents have tried to dig up dirt on Bernie's divorce but his ex basically said "We're still friends, leave me alone." He could say he's an extremist, but republicans say that about centrists.

Bernie recently got a crowd in the deep south cheering for single payer healthcare. People under 50 tend to not care that he calls himself a Socialist, and some think it's a good thing.

But other people are.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_p..._them.html

Polls Say Bernie Is More Electable Than Hillary. Don’t Believe Them.
What they really show is a candidate who hasn’t been attacked.

That’s what a general-election campaign against Sanders would look like—except it would be much, much worse. Republicans would rip Sanders as a big-spending, big-taxing socialist. They have plenty of ammo. They could quote the 2015 letter in which Sanders urged President Obama to “raise revenue” through “executive action.” They could dig up quotes from decades ago, in which Sanders called himself “clearly anti-capitalistic,” complained that U.S. interventions in Latin America “have been for the benefit of large corporations,” and praised communist countries as culturally superior. “Contrast what the young people in China and Cuba are doing for themselves and for their country as compared to the young people in America,” Sanders argued in 1976.