Bernie Sanders Would Have Lost the Election in a Landslide

[ehrnst]

140. Not just an op-ed, but by a very good investigative reporter. He saw it. And so much of it is public

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 it—a 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

Eichenwald said that he saw the actual oppo folder, and that it was two feed thick.

It must be hard to hear to hear all this, but I understand that tribal loyalty is stronger than cognitive dissonance. Bernie would have been "Trotsky Bernie" within days after the Democratic Convention.

But Trump would have been the only candidate who wouldn't have been able to bring up the issue about Bernie's taxes staying hidden, so there's that.