2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Would Have Lost the Election in a Landslide [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Here's the video of his favorable appraisal of the Sandinistas:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/meganapper/sanders-in-1985-sandinista-leader-impressive-castro-totally?utm_term=.dav25Ayrk#.biOL85dQk
Stories on his attendance at the rally where they chanted "Here, there, everywhere/the Yankee will die":
http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/bernie-sanders-democratic-socialist-or-out-and-out-stalinistist/
And it's not like Sierra Blanca is any secret:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/4/16/1516075/-Sanders-are-still-profiting-from-Sierra-Blanca-nuclear-waste-dump-per-their-2014-tax-return
Violations of campaign finance laws:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/5/11/1525428/-FEC-releases-damning-639-pages-of-violations-by-Bernie-Sanders-campaign
Voting against Amber Alert:
http://archive.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2006/09/21/sanders_vote_on_amber_alert_emerges_as_key_campaign_issue/
Failed single payer in VT:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/12/21/6-reasons-why-vermonts-single-payer-health-plan-was-doomed-from-the-start/#37604029277d
"In 1972, when he was 31, Sanders wrote a fictitious essay in which he described a woman enjoying being raped by three men. Yes, there is an explanation for ita long, complicated one, just like the one that would make clear why the Clinton emails story was nonsense. And we all know how well that worked out."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/28/politics/bernie-sanders-rape-essay-1972/
Then there's Old Towne Media, ripe for the picking:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/5/31/1532953/-The-Potential-Scandal-at-the-Heart-of-the-Sanders-Campaign