Sanders admits campaign paid family members (2005)

[The Magistrate]

1. People Posing As Exemplars Of Principle, Sir, Are Uniquely Vulnerable

My practice is to hold a man to the standards he declares for others. My standards may be considerably looser, but a scold or crusader cannot take advantage of that. When a man spends time denouncing others as corrupt, and while he does is padding his campaign payroll with relatives and associates, my personal view regarding 'honest graft' does not apply to his actions. It will be his ringing denunciations he must be judged by.





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."