2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: SLATE: Bernie Sanders Claims He’s a Longtime Champion of Marriage Equality. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)candidates on LGBT issues. Don't make the error that so many make here, that if "Bernie" is critiqued for his conduct, that this means that the writer is "in the tank" for Clinton. This guy has ripped Clinton, and others, too.
So--whatever. There's no need to be defensive. Words have meaning, facts are important. If he's not vetted now, and he makes it through the gauntlet, Bernie WILL be vetted later, and not by Democrats, either.
How lovely that you were a proponent of civil unions in 2002, but this debate took place in 2006, four years after you "evolved." And, he has an easy two to one lead in the polls--he could have safely sketched out a bolder position, but he chose not to, instead, hanging his hat on the States Rights argument.