'Americans will never vote for a socialist'

[ram2008]

'Americans will never vote for a socialist'

I keep hearing this tired talking point over and over again when people discuss Bernie's candidacy, but it's just not true.

Newsflash: Republicans in 2008 and 2012 successfully convinced over half the country that Obama was a socialist. And guess what? He still won-- by a lot. The only people who cared were Tea Party lunatics on the right... they won't be voting for Clinton anyway.

People seem to forget that Republicans overused the word so much that it doesn't have any effect anymore. Socialist, so what? Where do they stand on TPP?

This election will be about ideas, not about what you decide to be 'called.' And for that reason, Bernie DOES stand a chance.. Americans WILL vote for a socialist.

[daleanime]

1. Hell yes....

[Cleita]

2. They voted for the other socialist President Franklin D. Roosevelt four times. eom

[randys1]

3. Good point, according to most Obama is a socialist, which is laughable

[Joe Turner]

4. Obama is a corporatist like HRC

and the entire republican field. I'll take the socialist any day.

[azmom]

9. Me too.

Give me a socialist any day.

[onecaliberal]

5. :

Americans will never vote for a corporatist.

[azmom]

6. A democratic socialist.

They will, because money needs to be redistributed. The capitalists know that.
Who is going to buy their products?

[CanadaexPat]

7. Vermont is part of America.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Your headliner tells a story

concocted by the likes of Frank Luntz,Lee Atwater, and Karl Rove. Sad to say,our M$M loves to repeat this banner,as if we still live in the McCarty era. The last real Socialist in Politics here in the USA was Senator Burdick from North Dakota. Seems to me he was elected and reelected to the Senate some seven or eight times. Bernie is a old time 1940's Democrat.

[craigmatic]

10. Tell that to TR, FDR, LBJ, and Truman.

[azmom]

11. Stop with the labels.

Enough is enough.

[mike_c]

12. I'm American...

...and I've been waiting most of my life to vote for a socialist. Hell to the yes!