Bernie: Hey, voting third-party isn’t the worst idea.
CFP: He’s out there campaigning for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, who needs the left-wing base to coalesce behind her if she’s going to win. He knows this perfectly well. And yet when asked if voting third-party is a waste of your vote, Bernie Sanders was notably, er,circumspect on the question:
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders barnstormed Michigan Thursday to urge his loyal supporters to rally behind Democrat Hillary Clinton for president, but he wouldn’t say marking the ballot for a third-party candidate would be a wasted vote.
In an interview before his fourth speech of the day, the self-described democratic socialist from Vermont declined to adopt the emerging talking point of some Democratic Party leaders that a vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein or Libertarian Gary Johnson would effectively help elect Republican Donald Trump.
“I don’t want to go there, because I have run as a third-party candidate myself in the state of Vermont,” Sanders told The Detroit News. “Historically, third parties have played a very important role in bringing out ideas that were ahead of their times, (that) the mainstream politicians adopt 20 years later. I don’t want to go that route.” MORE
In my daily life, I actively talk up Bernie supporters (spot ’em by the bumper stickers).
Though many are luke-warm/skeptical of voting for Trump, NONE are voting for Hillary.
BRING ON Donald Trump’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klu_rjDMEkk
42nd Street!!!
Bernie loves flying on private jets way too much to ever badmouth the Wicked Witch of Chappaqua–but all along I’ve felt that Bernie who is still an independent was put up to his toe in the water candidacy by her thighness simply because she wanted to avoid the charge that she was not “battle” tested and he wasn’t a registered Dem and would therefore not be branded a traitor by the the Dem-e. His problem was he unexpectedly connected with a large segment of the Party and almost beat her.
It’s now toe the line or get laid out next to the cannon in Ft. Marcy Park–but you know he’s still got to have a bad taste in his mouth from the DNC email hack.
His ideas were ahead of their time in 1917.
Bernie loves his new $600,000 casa. He’s not about to say anything to make that go away.