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Admiral Loinpresser

(3,859 posts)
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 09:06 PM Oct 2015

Two more Republicans for Bernie.

I guess I'll just start collecting these and post when I have five or ten at a time:

Have been living in Vermont for many years, have voted for Bernie every time, very proud of him, he tells us what’s wrong, and how to fix it, never ran a dirty campaign, so as a Republican, Marine vet, and Minister, I’m voting for Bernie Sanders.”

Clifford isn’t the only Republican taking notice, Hertz tells of another staunch member of the GOP who is abandoning the party in favor of Sanders. This “Reagan” Republican wrote a lengthy comment on another of the writer’s posts and explained why he likes the Vermont Senator. Part of his reason is that Bernie Sanders is a crusader of the middle class:

“Everything he did was for the American worker, from protecting them from outsourcing and cheap foreign labor, to fixing the budget deficit by hiking taxes on the rich, to boosting the minimum wage. He’d be considered a centrist back in the 80s, which is why he has my vote.”

It’s HUGE that Bernie Sanders is stealing not just a religious veteran away from the GOP, but also a Reagan Republican. Those are two of their ideal voters. When you think of Republican voters, your mind probably immediately lands on someone who is religious, a veteran or someone who believes Reagan was a super hero. So to lose those types of voters, the ones they don’t even think they have to work to keep is almost unheard of and it’s not just these two voters.




http://www.occupydemocrats.com/why-this-lifelong-republican-veteran-and-minister-is-voting-for-bernie-sanders-2/
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Two more Republicans for Bernie. (Original Post) Admiral Loinpresser Oct 2015 OP
Bernie exudes directness, honesty & integrity, and believe it or not, these qualities ring true 99th_Monkey Oct 2015 #1
TRUTH. People just want to hear the truth and it's been so many years since in_cog_ni_to Oct 2015 #2
Reagan would be ashamed of today's Republican party. n/t Beartracks Oct 2015 #3
Why? He Created It Demeter Oct 2015 #4
Oh, yes. Definitely Eisenhower. Beartracks Oct 2015 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author Corruption Inc Oct 2015 #5
 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
1. Bernie exudes directness, honesty & integrity, and believe it or not, these qualities ring true
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 10:35 PM
Oct 2015

with some Republicans, and not just a handful either.

In Bernie's own state of Vermont, he regularly gets 21-25% of Republican Vermonters' votes,

in_cog_ni_to

(41,600 posts)
2. TRUTH. People just want to hear the truth and it's been so many years since
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 11:24 PM
Oct 2015

we've had a Presidential candidate who was willing to tell it like it is. Bernie does! His appeal is so strong across all demographics, I just don't see how he doesn't win the nomination!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

 

Demeter

(85,373 posts)
4. Why? He Created It
Sat Oct 31, 2015, 04:20 AM
Oct 2015

and they worship him.

Now, Eisenhower would be ashamed. Maybe even Nixon, when he was sober.

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