The ticking Bernie time bomb

[DIVINEprividence]

The fact Sanders is a self proclaimed socialist is problematic but is the least of his worries. He real liability are his stag mag rape fantasies. Personally I don’t hold it against Sanders and accept his explanation but Trump will make this the centerpiece of his campaign and pound him like a sledgehammer inoculating Trump of his own misogynistic behavior. The Dem midterm victories were driven by women. When this atom bomb explodes it will absolutely demoralize the Democratic base.

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/29/410606045/the-bernie-sanders-rape-fantasy-essay-explained

[calguy]

1. I've never heard of this issue before

But you can be sure that republicans have. There is just no telling how many ugly skeletons reside in Bernie's past. To be sure, should he because the nominee, Americans will be fed a steady diet of "Crazy Bernie's" secret life as a communist perverted freeloader.
Is it fair? No. Do republicans care? Hell No!!

[ElementaryPenguin]

2. Bernie wasn't condoning rape or writing pornography...

He was obviously trying to make some points about the problems between men and women in our society - and the complicated role that sex plays in it.

[Nanjeanne]

4. Oh gee - that's just not scandalous enough even if it's correct. This was tried in 2016 and went no

where. But even if they want to use it again, I really don't think it's going to have much of a play against Trump when you compare it to the more than 17 women who have accused Trump of sexual assault.

[Demsrule86]

9. He wasnt the nominee so how do you know that?

[MH1]

6. The Mother Jones link in the OP shows the actual article; people can judge for themselves.

Myself, I think the younger B.S. was a pretty horrible writer but the piece presages the narrow, binary mindset that he currently displays.

People can go to the link and see it for themselves. Seeing the whole piece does not help Bernie with me.

[Demsrule86]

8. I read that shit. Awful and shows a person who at that time did not like or respect

Women. That being said , it was a long time ago. I expect the GOP wii use it extensively to win back suburban Moms. And it might work.

[NurseJackie]

3. The Cenk Uygur endorsement certainly won't help either.

[MoonlitKnight]

5. Desperation from the Biden campaign

This is really low and reflects poorly.

[Scurrilous]

7. Cool, man!

“It is very bad,” Frank Kochman, my father and co-publisher of the Vermont Freeman, said of Sanders’s 1972 piece. “But it has a wonderful graphic.”

“We were probably hard up for copy,” Jennifer Kochman, my mom, another co-publisher, added.'


'Is that the drummer from Fleetwood Mac?'



https://newrepublic.com/article/122005/he-was-presidential-candidate-bernie-sanders-was-radical

[David__77]

10. "Time bomb" is in the eye of the beholder.

There are many things can be made into a "time bomb."