BREAKING : Bernie Sanders

[dreamnightwind]

146. Woo-hoo! K & R. Contact him!

I might have to change my sig-line, still hoping EW goes for it though.

I love Bernie more than any other politician, and would do anything to support his election.

If he's serious, he really should run as a Dem. He already caucuses with them, and is usually very careful to support the Dems even while trying to pull them left, so switching to Dem would be appropriate in his case.

He's no Nader, he doesn't buy into the false-equivalency trap, and that's a good thing. I can't see Bernie doing anything that will help Republicans.

I don't really get the argument I've seen a number of times that we can pull Hillary to the left by running a show campaign that just voices left-wing positions without a chance of winning. Hillary is nimble enough to easily move left for a primary (if she needs to) and be right back to herself for the general and, more importantly, after inauguration. We can't pull Hillary to the left. Her donors are the ones who can and will be pulling her, every single day she's in office. Such a campaign could get some issues and positions before the public, but it won't substantively change Hillary.

We need a real, determined left-wing candidate to totally go for it in the Democratic primary, in my opinion. Doing so as an independent in the general WILL do damage to the Dem's chances and help the Republican, at least if the independent gets enough votes (polling high enough to get into the MSM debates). The MSM is quite likely to give very little attention to such a candidacy. If it was a RW independent they'd be all over it.

I suggest we write Bernie inquiring about and encouraging him to do this, and to do it as a Dem.

Some Bernie contacts:

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/contact (it's actually not clear to me how to write him at this site, except to address certain other issues).
https://www.facebook.com/senatorsanders‎
https://twitter.com/SenSanders
email [e-mail] (not sure if this goes to an official staffer or if it just goes to a Bernie fan site. It's listed on the Friends of Bernie Sanders website, http://www.bernie.org/)
call [phone]

If anyone has a better list, offer it up, or email me and I'll update this post.