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Bernie Sanders: Abortion is 'Choice' But Death Penalty is 'Murder'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 11/01/2015 8:15:40 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

I took it for granted that a leftist like Bernie Sanders would be opposed to the death penalty. Still, I was truly shocked to see Sanders—not in some throwaway comment on the campaign trail but in prepared remarks on the Senate floor—flatly call the death penalty "murder." On his MSNBC show this morning, Al Sharpton played the Sanders clip to illustrate how Sanders is working to differentiate his policy positions from those of Hillary Clinton, who says she supports the death penalty in "rare" cases.

Question: how can we begin to explain the moral compass of liberals like Sanders who call imposing the death penalty on adults duly convicted of heinous crimes "murder," but refer to the killing of innocent, unborn babies as "choice" or other grotesque euphemisms like "women's health?"

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1 posted on 11/01/2015 8:15:40 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: ColdOne; AmericanCheeseFood; netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; ...

Bernie Sanders calls capital punishment “murder.” Of course abortion is just “choice.”

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 11/01/2015 8:17:36 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Protect the guilty and slay the innocent. True to form for a Lefty.


3 posted on 11/01/2015 8:18:21 AM PST by mom of young patriots
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; Reaganite Republican

4 posted on 11/01/2015 8:22:24 AM PST by null and void (We are AmeriCANs. We CAN learn, and learn from history, if we choose.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I can’t look at Sanders and not hear his ‘Bad Lip Reading’ persona, which makes exactly as much sense as he actually does.


5 posted on 11/01/2015 8:23:40 AM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Liberals demand the death of a child in eight months or less but defend a murderer for twenty or thirty years before execution.


6 posted on 11/01/2015 8:23:51 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Bernie Sanders is a LOON! At least he’s honest about his extreme lefty politics unlike Shrillary and most other prominent lefties.


7 posted on 11/01/2015 8:24:37 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

8 posted on 11/01/2015 8:25:25 AM PST by CodeToad (Stupid kills, but not nearly enough!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Savage was right: Liberalism is a mental disorder

That said, bernie is big with the Seattlunatics around here. Sez a lot, don’t it? ;’)


9 posted on 11/01/2015 8:29:40 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The tyranny of the extrouterine over the introuterine.


10 posted on 11/01/2015 8:31:59 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Hey Bernie!

Here are a few facts for you:

The baby is INNOCENT HUMAN LIFE, and there is no justification for killing.

Those found guilty in capital murder cases are not “innocent” and have been admonished in Romans, “It is good to fear the sword of the state, for it has its purpose.”

As a point of debate, Bernie, would you support legislation that limited abortion to cases of rape and incest?

Assuming your answer is “no”, then you have lost the benefit of imposing that argument on pro-life candidates.


11 posted on 11/01/2015 8:32:53 AM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Crackpot.


12 posted on 11/01/2015 8:33:06 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: SkyDancer

Hammer, meet nail.


13 posted on 11/01/2015 8:37:19 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It is vitally important that states enact laws that permit the use of the firing squad to execute condemned prisoners.

And that firing squads can be used if there is any substantial interference with the other means of execution.

Firing squads are simple, their materials are common, no expertise is required-just any LEOs, and it is very hard to appeal on grounds of means. There is no tangible arguments that being hit in the heart with one or more bullets might fail to kill, since it happens all the time around the world.

And it does one other thing.

The death penalty is the “flip side” to gun liberty.

Right now, many people in leadership posts, such as governors and federal judges, are often overly squeamish about executing vicious criminals. However, the public is not.

It often takes decades before a convicted murderer can be turned off by the state, but it only takes the trigger pull of an ordinary citizen to do the same. Eventually the police will realize that a citizen with a gun will provide both judgment and justice far faster and better than “the system” ever could; so if the state is recalcitrant, “let the people decide”.

And it very strongly encourages the states to quit dilly dallying with vicious murderers, and give them the bullets that citizens could have given them, more expeditiously.

Boo-hoo that it keeps Bernie Sanders (or Michael Dukakis, remember him?) up at night. But it is not his family who were butchered by some savage maniac.


14 posted on 11/01/2015 8:48:00 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He’s a nut. An absolute off-his-rocker loon.


15 posted on 11/01/2015 8:49:45 AM PST by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Using Karl Marx’s ideas to help the middle class is like using Adolf Hitler’s ideas to help the Jews.

But you middle class Marxists keep voting Sanders. :)


16 posted on 11/01/2015 8:50:13 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

This is an excellent example of why it’s so inaccurate for the media to ( frequently) assert Bernie is “Jewish.” Yes, he hails from a fine Jewish heritage. But, like many former Jews or “progressive, liberals” who still self- identify as “Jewish” — his leftist politics have replaced much of most of his Biblical training, morals, values. Similar for so-Called “”Catholics” like pelosi, so- called Protestants like Carter and many more, and so- called LDS like Reid. I think it would be much better if such people were not labeled with the faith traditions their parents or grandparents may have held. It only confuses the public discourse. {it would also help millions of people if the applicable deity communities or ecclesiastical authorities would publicly clarify that such advocates or enablers of anti- Biblical policies are not speaking for their respective church’s or synagogues when they push things like uncobdtreined abortions on demand or “capital punishment is murder.” The various churches have really dropped the ball -—). Just my thoughts. It just grates me every time the media broadcasts pictures of , say, pelosi attending mass)


17 posted on 11/01/2015 8:50:53 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Brilliant, funny, and incisive Tagline coming to this space soon.....)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Slovenly old perverted socialist.


18 posted on 11/01/2015 9:09:19 AM PST by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Random Thoughts of a Crazy Liberal: September 2011

19 posted on 11/01/2015 9:11:31 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If BS had half a brain, he wouldn’t be a commie.


20 posted on 11/01/2015 9:19:01 AM PST by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be earned and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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