I think Bernie Sanders should run for President as a Republican...

[kentuck]

...as a Teddy Roosevelt Republican.

A Progressive. A liberal. A Conservationist.

This country needs a Third Party, even though a third party cannot win. However, a Third Party can determine who of the other two Parties can win. And it can force them to correct the directions they are going.

Once again, I am guilty of thinking out loud...

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. That would be great ...

perhaps, it will get working class republicans to recognize their true interests ... interests they will hear none of the republican candidates speaking to.

[cali]

2. He should not. He'd get virtually no support.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Happened before.

The whole Progressive movement came out of the Republican Party

[kentuck]

4. True.

Democrats seem to be hesitant to accept a progressive candidate?

[Jackpine Radical]

5. I think of the old Republican Party (1856-1930 or so)

as being the enshrinement of the politics of the industrialized north: Friendly to the robber barons (despite a few premonitory warnings from Lincoln), but with a strong abolitionist history.

The Progressive movement included a lot of splinter parties like LaFollette's Wisconsin Progressives (at first a wing of the Republicans), Grangers, Farmer-Labor partiers, Wobblies, various flavors of socialists, etc.

The modern character of the parties didn't really take form until FDR formed his coalitions.

[Vinca]

6. Are you trying to give Bernie a heart attack? LOL.

[obxhead]

7. I think politicians should stick to the parties the belong in.

Bernie should run as a Democrat and Hillary should run as a Republican.

[Oilwellian]

8. A third party has won the presidency

They call themselves the "Third Way."

[treestar]

9. third parties don't just materialize

a party grows because voters vote for it. Bernie can't just declare a third party. It has to have enough supporters to affect things.

The parties are not fixed, as they have changed before. The Whigs and the Know Nothings are gone. And hopefully one day the Republicans.

[Agnosticsherbet]

10. The "Bull Moose" Progressive party disintegrated in 1916 when Roosevelt refused to accept their

nomination. Roosevelt supported Charles Evans Hughes for the Republican nomination and the "Bull Moose" Progressive Party rejoined the Republican Party and ceased to exist.

Hughes had his ass kicked in that election.

The last I heard, Sanders said he would not run as an independent. I don't think he wants to see a Republican in the White House.