Sanders has gotten nastier. Does it help explain his lasting power?

[Alex.]

"When Bernie Sanders launched his long-shot bid for the presidency 10 months ago, there were two words that rarely crossed his lips: Hillary Clinton.

Now he can’t seem to stop talking about her — and not much of what he has to say is very nice.

During a boisterous rally here, the senator from Vermont dinged Clinton for supporting a series of “disastrous” trade deals. He mocked her for refusing to release transcripts of paid speeches she gave to Wall Street firms. He recounted how she was wrong to vote for the Iraq war in 2002.

But the Bernie Sanders who is fighting to remain relevant in the delegate chase against Clinton sounds quite different than the Bernie Sanders whose chief antagonist was the “billionaire class” when he debuted on the campaign trail last spring.

But in Sanders’s case, he risks damaging his brand as anti-establishment politician who has boasted about never running negative television ads and pledging to stay positive in his bid for the Democratic nomination."
Sanders has gotten nastier. Does it help explain his lasting power?

This man is downright slimy whether he is talking about women who think about getting raped or his seeming transformation from iconoclast to run of the mill politician.

 

[washamericom]

he is getting stranger by the day, but then i've only known him for thirty years. he's always had a communist bent, if that helps. he gravitated to chicago like so many, i think he went to alinsky high.

 

[DarkFury]

Given I want Sanders to kick Hillary's ass I don't care what tactics he uses.

 

[Auld Phart]

Given I want Sanders to kick Hillary's ass I don't care what tactics he uses.

Odds are, even if he could kick Hillarys ass, he still wouldn't get the nomination

 

[washamericom]

listen, this is bernie's last shot at pretty much anything, it's not socialism"s year. it's mondale reagan if hillary gets indicted. i'd be surprised if she didn't at this point.

 

[Bleipriester]

Not to speak negative of Clinton means not to speak of Clinton.

 

[Alex.]

Not to speak negative of Clinton means not to speak of Clinton.

That is not the point, Bernie started out as America's grandfather now he is just a grumpy old man.

 

[Bleipriester]

Not to speak negative of Clinton means not to speak of Clinton.

That is not the point, Bernie started out as America's grandfather now he is just a grumpy old man.

Political campaigns always become nasty. When he doesn´t make up thinks, what´s the problem?

 

[Alex.]

Not to speak negative of Clinton means not to speak of Clinton.

That is not the point, Bernie started out as America's grandfather now he is just a grumpy old man.

Political campaigns always become nasty. When he doesn´t make up thinks, what´s the problem?

I do not see a "problem" I see the man as he always was and now the rest of the political world does as well.

 

[Lakhota]

Sanders has become a nasty senile old prick. I can't even stand to hear his voice.

 

[Bleipriester]

Not to speak negative of Clinton means not to speak of Clinton.

That is not the point, Bernie started out as America's grandfather now he is just a grumpy old man.

Political campaigns always become nasty. When he doesn´t make up thinks, what´s the problem?

I do not see a "problem" I see the man as he always was and now the rest of the political world does as well.

I don´t agree. After a review I would not even use the word nasty.

 

[Alex.]

Not to speak negative of Clinton means not to speak of Clinton.

That is not the point, Bernie started out as America's grandfather now he is just a grumpy old man.

Political campaigns always become nasty. When he doesn´t make up thinks, what´s the problem?

I do not see a "problem" I see the man as he always was and now the rest of the political world does as well.

I don´t agree. After a review I would not even use the word nasty.

ok