[vette6387]

What I’d like to know is how is Sanders running in the RAT Primary when he’s been elected as an “Independent.”

[Cboldt]

Anybody can run for anything under any party label. File the papers, make your pitch. There is no rule that says a person can only be in one party at a time. Run as "I" for senator, "D" for president, and "G(reen)" for dogcatcher.

On political parties in general, the public has long forgotton Washington's farewell address.

Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.

[bankwalker]

What I’d like to know is how is Sanders running in the RAT Primary when he’s been elected as an “Independent.”

Did the 'rat debate moderators ask for a loyalty pledge?