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Sanders campaign spurs hippie-era flashbacks
Sierra Vista Herald ^ | Gene Lyons

Posted on 01/29/2016 12:45:36 PM PST by SandRat

Upack your old tie-dyed T-shirts, roll yourself a fat doobie and warm up the ancient VW bus. We're going to do Woodstock and the 1972 presidential election all over again. And this time, the hippies are going to win! Four years of peace, love, and single-payer health care.

But do take care to clear the path for Bernie Sanders. Because if he steps in something the dog left behind, he's going to blame Wall Street and start yelling and waving his arms around.

And you know how much that upsets Republican congressmen who are otherwise so eager to oblige his plans to soak the rich and give everybody free college, free health care, free Bubble Up and rainbow stew, as the old Merle Haggard song had it


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1 posted on 01/29/2016 12:45:36 PM PST by SandRat
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Drug flashbacks?


2 posted on 01/29/2016 12:46:59 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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3 posted on 01/29/2016 12:47:12 PM PST by nascarnation
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The hippies went all in on Gene McCarthy and his polling promptly dropped because straight people couldn’t stand the hippies. So the hippies tried cleaning up their act and called it getting “Clean for Gene.” Gene promptly soared like ... a brick.


4 posted on 01/29/2016 12:49:17 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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5 posted on 01/29/2016 12:51:33 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Free Republic Caucus: vote daily / watch for the thread / Starts 01/20 midnight to midnight EST)
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For me, the most common flashback is from hippies spitting on our soldiers returning from Vietnam.

Trust me, those leopards' spots haven't changed.

6 posted on 01/29/2016 12:58:29 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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Did someone say dirty, smelly hippie?!?


7 posted on 01/29/2016 1:21:09 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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My EYES, egad, my EYES!


8 posted on 01/29/2016 1:31:58 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Bernie’s not just supported by modern-day, wannabe hippies, he is one. I saw an article the other day (can’t find it now) that the guy didn’t have a paying job until he was 40, moved his first wife into an abandoned maple syrup house with a dirt floor (she didn’t stay long), tried his hand as a carpenter (and sucked at it) and it went on...


9 posted on 01/29/2016 1:36:38 PM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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Sanders is living the socialist dream - he gets paid for doing nothing and has great retirement and medical benefits for life.


10 posted on 01/29/2016 1:39:02 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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I'm for Bernie cuz it's organic man.
11 posted on 01/29/2016 1:42:11 PM PST by Organic Panic
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Dont eat the brown acid, oops he already did


12 posted on 01/29/2016 2:08:34 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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13 posted on 01/29/2016 4:01:04 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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I just don’t get it...saw an Acura TL in the work parking lot yesterday that had 2 Sanders decals on it.

USAF installation where one would think that anyone supporting this clown wouldn’t want to get within a 100 miles of.

This guy is promising “free” ice cream to all the children...we’d better watch out.


14 posted on 01/29/2016 4:06:50 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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I saw one Go on post (Ft Huachuca), today - Heaven Help Us.
15 posted on 01/29/2016 4:32:41 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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I saw one leaving Fort Hood yesterday ... nice car for a hippy.


16 posted on 01/29/2016 4:35:02 PM PST by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. Three times is enemy action.)
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