"Once you get off of the social issues abortion, gay rights, guns and into the economic issues,"

[Vesper]

32. Even worse, what this right winger has proposed is a 20 week abortion ban.

That's about the time amnio and ultrasounds show problems with the fetus, and it's extreme right wingers (like Trent Franks and Ted Cruz) who want to force women to carry no matter what by banning procedures. Even that "compromise" (that's the spin Mello and his supporters are using) is pure BS, goes into "partial birth abortion" a literal lie made up by anti-choicers on the right to attack the medical community.

What I'm seeing is people who are trying to disguise their hypocrisy by playing the purity game, and going on and on about pretty much everything under the sun, to downplay the dangerous nature of this man and the legislation that he's sponsored.

I don't know what the hell Bernie was thinking, but he's exposing a really scary and negative aspect to his politics that many of us did not trust and that many slowly being disenchanted with.

There is no excuse for the level of ignorance or uncuriousness that would allow him to waste the funds, attention and the time of the DNC to support a MAYOR with this kind of background while dissing an actual progressive running for a House seat.

He's failing at his job and no one gave him the authority to decide who and what is a progressive, if Mello is Bernie's version, I want no part of them.