The only liberal I will even consider is Bernie Sanders

Sander, the typical elitist civil rights phony who has helped keep blacks in poverty.

 

I kinda know who Bernie is, he's been around a long time. He's an enemy of the USA.

If the CIA hasn't rid the world of Che Guevara, Bernie would have Chea Guevera his VP running mate.

Why does the Demoeat Patry keep running radical leftist for political positions ???

Probably because the Democrat Party was hijacked by the radical left aka "New Left"
Hillary, Obama, Sanders, Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayres, Tom Haden, "Hanoi" Jane Fonda. CPUSA, PLS(Party for Socialism and Liberation) MEShA, Nat. Council of La Raza, SPLC,

 

Character is good, but it doesn't quite measure up to action.

I don't doubt Sanders convictions, I disagree with his policies - except on gun rights and a bunch of social and foreign policy issues. I fundamentally disagree with him on economics though, and that's a tough thing to come back from. I'd really like him to be VP on a ticket with Gary Johnson, I think he'd bring some authority to the office and build some serious consensus on both sides of the aisle.

 

An enemy of the country? LOL! No, just an enemy of the Wealthy and powerful .

Thanks for the following, he gets , and always had, my vote !

By 1990 Sanders was a leading member of Jesse Jackson's National Rainbow Coalition, and he ran successfully for Congress as a socialist, representing Vermont's single at-large congressional district. The following year, Sanders founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus along with fellow House members Tom Andrews, Peter DeFazio, Ron Dellums, Lane Evans, and Maxine Waters.

During the 1990s, Sanders participated multiple times in the Socialist Scholars Conferences that were held annually in New York City.

During each year of the Bill Clinton administration—starting in 1993, shortly after the first al-Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center—Sanders introduced legislation to cut the U.S. intelligence budget sight unseen. He justified this approach by noting that “the Soviet Union no longer exists,” and that such concerns as “massive unemployment,” “low wages,” “homelessness,” “hungry children,” and “the collapse of our educational system” represented “maybe a stronger danger [than foreign terrorists] for our national security.”

Sanders was a vocal critic of the Patriot Act, the anti-terrorism bill passed in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, as an assault on civil liberties.

In 2006 Sanders co-sponsored a resolution by Rep. John Conyers to impeach President Bush on grounds that he had led the United States into an illegal and immoral war in Iraq.

In November 2006 Sanders ran successfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Then-Senator Barack Obama, whom Sanders described as “one of the great leaders” of that legislative body, campaigned enthusiastically on Sanders's behalf. When a Washington Post reporter asked Sanders just prior to the election: “Are you now or have you ever been a Socialist?” Sanders replied, “Yeah. I wouldn’t deny it. Not for one second. I’m a democratic Socialist.”

In 2007 Senator Sanders and Rep. Maurice Hinchey together introduced the Media Ownership Reform Act, which was designed to tightly restrict the number of radio stations that any firm could own. It also sought to resurrect the so-called “Fairness Doctrine”—a measure that, if passed, would greatly diminish the influence of conservative talk radio.

Sanders has long maintained that “global warming/climate change” not only threatens “the fate of the entire planet,” but is caused chiefly by human industrial activity and must be curbed by means of legislation strictly limiting carbon emissions. In 2007 Sanders and Senator Barbara Boxer proposed the Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act, which, according to an MIT study, would have imposed on U.S. taxpayers a yearly financial burden of more than $4,500 per family, purportedly to check climate change. In February 2010 Sanders likened climate-change skeptics to people who had disregarded the Nazi threat prior to WWII: “During that period of Nazism and fascism's growth … there were people in this country and in the British parliament who said, 'Don't worry! Hitler's not real! It'll disappear!'” Accusing “big business” of being “willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits,” Sanders in 2013 said that “global warming is a far more serious problem than al Qaeda.” Stating unequivocally that “the scientific community is unanimous” in its belief that “the planet is warming up,” Sanders the following year declared that the “debate is over” and emphasized the importance of “transform[ing] our energy systems away from fossil fuels.”

In September 2011, Sanders was the first U.S. Senator to support the anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street movement, lauding its activists for focusing a “spotlight” on the need for “real Wall Street reform.”

In March 2013, Sanders and fellow Senator Tom Harkin together introduced a bill to tax Wall Street speculators. “Both the economic crisis and the deficit crisis are a direct result of the greed, recklessness, and illegal behavior on Wall Street,” said Sanders.

On April 29, 2015, Sanders announced that he was running for the Democratic Party's 2016 presidential nomination, citing economic inequality, climate change, and the Citizens United Supreme Court decision as issues of particular concern to him.

In May 2015, Sanders told CNBC interviewer John Harwood that he was in favor of dramatically raising the marginal tax rate on America's highest earners. “[When] radical socialist Dwight D. Eisenhower was president,” Sanders said sarcastically, “I think the highest marginal tax rate was something like 90 percent.” When Harwood asked whether Sanders thought that was too high, the senator replied: “No. What I think is obscene, and what frightens me is, again, when you have the top one-tenth of one percent owning almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 [percent]. Does anybody think that is the kind of economy this country should have?”

In his first public speech as a presidential candidate in Burlington, Vermont, Sanders in May 2015 broadly laid out the major planks of his campaign's agenda:

He declared that financial inequality "is immoral, it is bad economics, it is unsustainable."
Vowing to send "a message to the billionaire class," he said: "[Y]ou can't have huge tax breaks [for the rich] while children in this country go hungry ... while there are massive unmet needs on every corner.... Your greed has got to end.... You cannot take advantage of all the benefits of America if you refuse to accept your responsibilities."
He pledged to enact "a tax system that is fair and progressive, which tells the wealthiest individuals and the largest corporations that they are going to begin to pay their fair share."
Claiming that "the current federal [hourly] minimum wage of $7.25 is a starvation wage and must be raised ... to $15.00 an hour."
He described the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) as a "modest" step in the direction of rightfully forcing the U.S. to "join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care to all as a right." "And we must do it through a Medicare-for-all, single payer health plan," he explained.
He called for "pay equity for women workers," and "paid sick leave and guaranteed vacation time for every worker in this country."
Describing the rising costs of a college education as "insane," he vowed to "fight to make tuition in public colleges and universities free, as well as substantially lower interest rates on student loans."
He pledged to "expand Social Security benefits" and mandate "a universal pre-K system for all the children of this country."
Asserting that "there is nothing more important" than fighting global warming, he said: "The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real, it is caused by human activity, and it is already causing devastating problems in our country and throughout the world." He elaborated that in the absence of government intervention, America would inevitably see "more drought, more famine, more rising sea level, more floods, more ocean acidification, [and] more extreme weather disturbances," he elaborated, in the absence of government intervention.
He called for the government to use taxpayer dollars to rebuild America's "crumbling infrastructure" by repairing "our roads, our bridges, our water systems, our rail and airports." Sanders added he would begin this process by working to advance, in the Senate, a five-year, $1 trillion bill that he himself had proposed, claiming that it "would create and maintain 13 million good paying jobs."
Over the years, Sanders's political campaigns have received strong support from such organizations as the AFL-CIO, the American Association for Justice, the Backbone Campaign, the Council for a Livable World, the Democratic Socialists of America, and Peace Action.

Sanders is a strong supporter of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of environmentalists and big labor that wants the federal government to take over America's energy industry.

Although Sanders is officially listed as an Independent, he caucuses with the Democrats and votes with them nearly 100% of the time. For an overview of Sanders's voting record on key issues during his career in the House and Senate, click here and here.
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His economic policies are one area that I'm not overly fond of about him too. He's a little more radical than I'd care for when it comes to some of the policies he supports to deal with the economy but I do think he's got a good grasp of the economic problems people are facing in their lives.

I feel like with Sanders that I know what I'd be voting for, good and bad alike. And I'm torn between thinking we need to break the molds of our regular hand greasing politicians but I don't just want to elect any person out of the norm either. If he was a little more moderate economically he'd be as close to the perfect candidate I've yet to see in my life.

 

I liked Gary Johnson to be honest. A very practical man, which is saying something when it concerns libertarians.

That Ron Paul/Dennis Kucinich ticket looked good for a bit. Both socially laissez-faire, their economic positions would likely find some middle ground.

 

You're just a Big Doody Head n stuff. Everybody knows the Communists were all about Democracy and Human Rights, and never in a million years engage in imperialism and messing around in other countries politics, indulge in mass murders, shoot and kill dissidents, etc. We know this because they say so. Che Guevara was only a hapless Cuban tourist, and wasn't there to overthrow anybody or kill people he didn't like, and run the place as a Cuban puppet colony; that never happens with Commies, don't you know. It's all conservative neo-con lies, which is why all these faux 'Progressives' that used to live in Europe and the U.S. have all immigrated en masse to the Communist Paradises ...