Let the anti-Bernie Sanders red-baiting begin... (Salon)

Salon.com ^ | 9/15/15 | Simon Maloy

[Maceman]

If Bernie wins the Democrat nomination, he will be a sitting duck in debates and ads for any Republican nominee with half a brain:

Bernie, you said: “You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country.”

So let me get this straight, Bernie . . . you're going to set up an agency or a czar to determine how many kinds of deodorant, and how much of it, can be permitted by law?

Will you do the same with toilet paper? I mean look how many brands of toilet paper there are. Shall we just set up a monopoly of one company, or better yet, a government monopoly, to produce exactly the right amount of toilet paper, or otherwise limit the amount of toilet paper that gets produced?

Are you going to hire Michael Gruber to be the guy who figures out the correct amount of toilet paper that people should be allowed to use? He's smart. He teaches at MIT. So why shouldn't we put him in charge of figuring out exactly how much of everything should or shouldn't be produced for the American people?

Have you been to socialist Venezuela lately, Bernie? They seem to have solved the problem of too many toilet paper brands. Because right now there is no toilet paper to be had at all in socialist Venezuela."

So tell me Bernie, what exactly will you do to feed starving children by reducing the amount of toilet paper we have in this country? And by the way, when you close all the toilet paper companies, how will the people who used to work at them feed their own starving children?

Bernie? . . . .

[Chode]

an admitted socialist, is being called a socialist, am i missing something here???

[VR-21]

The writer Robert Ringer said (and I agree) that a self-proclaimed liberal is a closet socialist, and a self-proclaimed socialist is a closet communist.

[Captain Compassion]

Sanders styles himself a “Democratic Socialist” which is somewhat oxymoronic in and of it's self.A life long politician with little real world experience he is only one more uber-progressive statist goon not the Socialist he claims to be. He doesn't replace private ownership with public ownership only to siphon of more profits for use by the state.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

These are NOT liberals. They are assorted Marxists circling the wagons around Sanders, Hillary, Warren, and Obama.

Liberalism died in 1968. I was there.

[MeshugeMikey]

for Hillary Clintoon to be so presumptious as to alert America of The Bernies Socialist COMMUNIST background is almost too much to take.

[MeshugeMikey]

well...the Pope Frankie has been fairly successful in that regard

[HenpeckedCon]

“Sanders styles himself a “Democratic Socialist” which is somewhat oxymoronic”

Like the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Democratic Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge), Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea) etc...

[a fool in paradise]

for Hillary Clintoon to be so presumptious as to alert America of The Bernies Socialist COMMUNIST background is almost too much to take.

Her lover Saul Alinsky would be SO proud of her.

[MeshugeMikey]

Indeed!