Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: A compilation of oppo research on Bernie Sanders [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)fake and not entirely, Repub/Russia would create around various facets of Sanders' wannabe-revolutionary background and not always ethical behaviors.
The one plus I see for Sanders is that with Trump almost certainly committing traitorous activities to benefit Russia, whatever "scandals" they designed around Sanders and Russia have probably been shoved to the back of the cabinet. I could be wrong, of course. Russia's goal is to destroy the U.S., and no telling just what they would find useful.
Btw, why did Sanders avoid voting with Democrats for sanctions on Russia (we lost by very little, it could have been a critical vote), and why is Sanders supporting Russia's proposal to dismantle NATO (!) and create a new alliance that includes Russia (!), even while European nations are being forced to arm against Russian invasion? (!)
It must pain the Republicans' character assassins to pass up the mountains they could make with that, and so much more Trump's own behaviors make problematic. How about when, in the middle of the Cold War, Sanders called for forfeiting the battle to contain the Soviet Union and disbanding not only our armed forces but all our intelligence networks? That would have been a great gift to Russia, bigger even than anything Trump's done, back in the days when Putin was still a lowly KGB agent busy with compromat activities.
But still useful: Solidarity with Iran's far-right Muslim theocratic revolution under the Ayatollah even as they held dozens of kidnapped Americans hostage and massacred Iranians? Apologist for Cuba even while between 60-150K Cubans died in the revolutionary genocide (Russia and the Cuba's socialist revolutionaries learned from the Nazis to not keep records)? Sanders' full-throated support of Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, Sandanistas, massacres of indigenous peoples and other murderously ruthless suppressions of resistance, anyone? Why on earth does he think American foreign policy and sexual repression give people cancer?
There's so much these nice, clean, ethical Democratic oppo data don't even look at, but the Republicans have been mining every inch of Sanders life for every lie, and documented truth from Sanders own mouth, they could possibly build from everything and nothing.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden