Republicans for Bernie - "he tells us what’s wrong, and how to fix it, never ran a dirty campaign,

[J_J_]

Republicans for Bernie - "he tells us what’s wrong, and how to fix it, never ran a dirty campaign,

so as a Republican, Marine vet, and Minister, I’m voting for Bernie Sanders.”

https://www.laprogressive.com/republicans-for-bernie/


(Can someone post more of this I cannot get the article to load-THX)

[LWolf]

1. Here's a bit.

This republican, if you read his several paragraphs, is clearly NOT someone I'd consider to be on the same political page with any real progressive. I can agree with him as far as this particular paragraph goes, though:

Of course, when Obama got into office, I quickly realized that he was actually, if anything, a moderate Republican. He passed the ACA (Heritagecare) bill, extended the Bush tax cuts (even for the wealthy at first!), and steered us out of the worst recession since the Great Depression. After the 2010 wave elections for the Tea Party, I was disgusted with how far right the Republican party had gone, and began noticing the blatant racism. I found republicansforobama.org, a group of people closely reflecting my views, and voted Obama in 2012 and Democrat in 2014. I lurked on Reddit for a few months, reading r/politics regularly, and was amazed by Bernie Sander’s policies. Everything he did was for the American worker, from protecting them from outsourcing and cheap foreign labor, to fixing the budget deficit by hiking taxes on the rich, to boosting the minimum wage. He’d be considered a centrist back in the 80s, which is why he has my vote.

I think Sanders will get more support from 3rd parties, independents, and even Republicans, as well as Democrats, should he be nominated, than Hillary Clinton.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. I like to be helpful when I can.

>>>In the past few days, I’ve run into two Republicans who said that they want Bernie Sanders for President. Republicans for an avowed democratic socialist. How did that happen?

The first one was on Facebook. I later learned his name, Everett Clifford. He commented on a pro-Bernie post that I put up. He told me that he was a Republican, an ex-Marine, and a minister. “Have been living in Vermont for many years, have voted for Bernie every time, very proud of him, he tells us what’s wrong, and how to fix it, never ran a dirty campaign, so as a Republican, Marine vet, and Minister, I’m voting for Bernie Sanders.”

I made a poster with him on it and told him I thought that Bernie’s campaign should find more Republicans like him. (I contacted Bernie.org and told them the same thing). If Republicans could supported a democratic socialist, that would show that his message of battling the billionaires has broad appeal. Everett Clifford told me that he thought that there were others like him. (He said he liked my poster. Someone reposted my Clifford poster on a liberal Facebook page and it drew 86 “likes,” which I thought was good, even though I didn’t find my poster that attractive).

Republicans for BernieThen, a day later, I found a post by another avowed Republican. This post went to great lengths, explaining why the person was supporting Bernie Sanders and was against the Republican party:

I am a long-time GOP supporter. During my teenage years, I witnessed Reagan, contrary to the narrative today, being a very pragmatic moderate Republican. After providing the economy with some Keynesian stimulus in the form of tax cuts, as the economy got back on its feet we saw him increase taxes to help reduce the deficit. He closed loopholes for the wealthy. He granted amnesty (something I oppose but it shows how he was willing to compromise.) He worked with Tip O’Neill to salvage Social Security.

While I did not support Iran Contra, I proudly registered to become a Repbulican just in time for the upcoming election of 1988. I voted for H W Bush, and after being impressed with his pragmatis>>>> rest at link

[Snotcicles]

3. I think lots of people are tired of labels and are looking past them for someone who's real. nt