Republicans will be able to run ads saying that Sanders was part of a communist political party

[beachbum bob]

.... that called for eliminating the military budget, and fact-checkers will not be able to contradict them.


what can sanders say...he did stand for that

[Her Sister]

1. Bernie Sanders’ Radical Past: In a general election, the attack ads would write themselves

Bernie Sanders’ Radical Past
In a general election, the attack ads would write themselves.

On Monday, Politico published a story headlined “Sanders Once Urged Abolishing CIA.” Michael Crowley reports that in 1974, Bernie Sanders, then a 33-year-old Senate candidate for the anti-war Liberty Union Party, called the spy agency “a dangerous institution that has got to go,” one answerable to no one “except right-wing lunatics who use it to prop up fascist dictatorships.” Such rhetoric, Crowley’s article suggests, could prove damaging in a general election. “Sanders’ unexpectedly strong performance in the presidential race has party leaders increasingly alarmed that Republicans would make devastating use of his early career should he win the Democratic nomination,” Crowley writes.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/02/bernie_sanders_radical_past_would_haunt_him_in_a_general_election.html

[beachbum bob]

2. yep..easy source to find and bernie's record easy source

the attacks would be brutal and would move that 10-15% of the middle to run as fast as possible away from sanders....there is a reason sanders been given a free pass until now....the hope he would be the nominee and make it a cake walk for whatever conservative is running

and believe me it would be a double digit landslide for trump...as he his more vicious than we can imagine.....pure 100% delusion to think sanders has a snowballs chance in hell with the record he has

[SharonClark]

3. To set the record straight - Sanders was NOT part of the Communist Party

[beachbum bob]

4. no one says he was...but the gOP will, thats the whole point

"Socialist Worker Party" would equal "communist" to them...the whole idea on political attack ads in the first place...take a smidgen of truth and blow it up to a huge problem


don't forget what swiftboating did to kerry....and sanders has way more liabilities than kerry did...just been mostly ignore