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Let the anti-Bernie Sanders red-baiting begin... (Salon)
Salon.com ^ | 9/15/15 | Simon Maloy

Posted on 09/15/2015 5:50:10 PM PDT by Faith Presses On

Full title: Let the anti-Bernie Sanders red-baiting begin: Hillary Clinton’s super PAC wants you to know that he’s a socialist

The Bernie Sanders 2016 boom has reached a critical threshold: it is now significant enough to be the target of nonsensical attacks from the Clinton universe. Sanders has been coming on hot in recent polling, overtaking Hillary in New Hampshire and threatening to pull even (or ahead) in Iowa. Up to this point, Clinton’s campaign has barely acknowledged Sanders’ existence and has maintained its critical focus on the Republican presidential candidates. But as the Huffington Post reports this morning, the Clinton-aligned super PAC Correct the Record is now dabbling in some very silly attacks on Sanders, looping in the democratic socialist senator as part of the international socialist conspiracy:

A super PAC backing Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is going negative, circulating an email that yokes her chief rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to some of the more controversial remarks made by Jeremy Corbyn, the United Kingdom’s new Labour Party leader, including his praise for the late Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan leader who provided discounted fuel to Vermont in a deal supported by Sanders.

THE RED MENACE! As HuffPo lays out, the gist of the email is that Corbyn, a long-serving socialist Member of Parliament, has made some “extreme comments,” and that there are “similarities” between Corbyn and Sanders. Correct the Record is also apparently trying to make the case that Sanders was totally best buds with now-deceased Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: berniesanders; communism; hillaryclinton; socialism
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To: Faith Presses On
If Bernie wins the Democrat nomination, he will be a sitting duck in debates and ads for any Republican nominee with half a brain:

Bernie, you said: “You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country.”

So let me get this straight, Bernie . . . you're going to set up an agency or a czar to determine how many kinds of deodorant, and how much of it, can be permitted by law?

Will you do the same with toilet paper? I mean look how many brands of toilet paper there are. Shall we just set up a monopoly of one company, or better yet, a government monopoly, to produce exactly the right amount of toilet paper, or otherwise limit the amount of toilet paper that gets produced?

Are you going to hire Michael Gruber to be the guy who figures out the correct amount of toilet paper that people should be allowed to use? He's smart. He teaches at MIT. So why shouldn't we put him in charge of figuring out exactly how much of everything should or shouldn't be produced for the American people?

Have you been to socialist Venezuela lately, Bernie? They seem to have solved the problem of too many toilet paper brands. Because right now there is no toilet paper to be had at all in socialist Venezuela."

So tell me Bernie, what exactly will you do to feed starving children by reducing the amount of toilet paper we have in this country? And by the way, when you close all the toilet paper companies, how will the people who used to work at them feed their own starving children?

Bernie? . . . .

21 posted on 09/15/2015 6:24:18 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: Faith Presses On
an admitted socialist, is being called a socialist, am i missing something here???
22 posted on 09/15/2015 6:36:04 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: a fool in paradise

The writer Robert Ringer said (and I agree) that a self-proclaimed liberal is a closet socialist, and a self-proclaimed socialist is a closet communist.


23 posted on 09/15/2015 6:37:09 PM PDT by VR-21
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To: Faith Presses On
Sanders styles himself a “Democratic Socialist” which is somewhat oxymoronic in and of it's self.A life long politician with little real world experience he is only one more uber-progressive statist goon not the Socialist he claims to be. He doesn't replace private ownership with public ownership only to siphon of more profits for use by the state.
24 posted on 09/15/2015 7:06:22 PM PDT by Captain Compassion
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To: goldstategop

These are NOT liberals. They are assorted Marxists circling the wagons around Sanders, Hillary, Warren, and Obama.

Liberalism died in 1968. I was there.


25 posted on 09/15/2015 7:07:26 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (.)
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To: a fool in paradise

for Hillary Clintoon to be so presumptious as to alert America of The Bernies Socialist COMMUNIST background is almost too much to take.


26 posted on 09/16/2015 12:31:40 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: struggle

well...the Pope Frankie has been fairly successful in that regard


27 posted on 09/16/2015 12:32:41 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Captain Compassion

“Sanders styles himself a “Democratic Socialist” which is somewhat oxymoronic”

Like the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Democratic Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge), Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea) etc...


28 posted on 09/16/2015 2:06:14 PM PDT by HenpeckedCon (What pi$$es me off the most is that POS commie will get a State Funeral!)
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To: MeshugeMikey
for Hillary Clintoon to be so presumptious as to alert America of The Bernies Socialist COMMUNIST background is almost too much to take.

Her lover Saul Alinsky would be SO proud of her.

29 posted on 09/16/2015 5:13:19 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: a fool in paradise

Indeed!


30 posted on 09/16/2015 5:16:05 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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