And the 2016 Ralph Nader Award Goes to Bernie Sanders - Time.com

[karynnj]

62. Primary accusations always can be used in the general election --

Note in your excerpt that there is a HUGE sleight of hand. Bernie spoke of the system working only for the very rich ... something HRC picked up in her own speeches. In the article, this morphs into Trump speaking of undocumented immigrants!! It is true that Bernie spoke against the trade deals, but that is consistent with his position since trade deals started! Remember that HRC herself blasted TPP.

Trump won the republican primaries with the angry messages that this person is linking tO Bernie. Trump did not pick up Bernie's message - Trump continued with the message he had from the beginning. Note that Bernie referenced both FDR and various democratic socialist countries - there was very little in common with Trump. It also ignores that Sanders DID communicate to some of people who were unreachable by Clinton.

Compare this with the GIFT HRC gave to McCain - stating that both of them were qualified to take the 3 am call - and Obama was not. Or consider that it was Al Gore who first raised the Willie Horton attack on Dukakis. You could argue that Bob Kerrey attacked Bill Clinton's actions on the draft. Howard Dean attacked Kerry as a flip flopper (a theme Bush used as well - even though Kerry is more consistent than most).

That is what happens in primary elections. In fact, of the ones listed by Sanders, Clinton, Core, Kerrey, and Dean -- you could say that the attacks were easily found opposition research (Horton, draft) or generic (all governors attack legislators as flip flopping; all legislators note that Governors have no foreign policy) except one that subjectively questioned the ability of an opponent to be a CIC.

The fact is that Bernie Sanders never had a reputation for running ugly races.