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no_hypocrisy

(46,080 posts) Sun Jul 16, 2017, 09:30 AM Jul 2017

I wish there were a Bernie Sanders figure in the republican party.

Last edited Sun Jul 16, 2017, 11:38 AM - Edit history (2)

Someone who doesn't follow the leadership lockstep. Someone who thinks and votes independent of party and on behalf of constituents and country.

Someone like Millicent Fenwick.

"You couldn't invent Millicent Fenwick....She was unique. The best writers of fiction might have struggled to make her believable but they would have failed." --former New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean, president of Drew University

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millicent_Fenwick

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I wish there were a Bernie Sanders figure in the republican party. (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Jul 2017 OP

Rand Paul? oberliner Jul 2017 #1

I kinda wish for a Sanders on the Republican Party myself. Eom pirateshipdude Jul 2017 #2

Any Republican "Bernie equivalent" would be to the right, not Fenwick-like JHB Jul 2017 #3

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

1. Rand Paul?

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Sun Jul 16, 2017, 09:51 AM

Jul 2017

He's about the closest.

pirateshipdude

(967 posts)

2. I kinda wish for a Sanders on the Republican Party myself. Eom

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Sun Jul 16, 2017, 11:35 AM

Jul 2017

JHB

(37,158 posts)

3. Any Republican "Bernie equivalent" would be to the right, not Fenwick-like

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Sun Jul 16, 2017, 12:04 PM

Jul 2017

Fenwick was a liberal Republican, and the conservatives exterminated her kind as office holders by the 1990s.

The only viable space for "independents" allied to the Republicans is even farther to the right. We won't get those until the conservatives get dethroned as the ruling ideology of the Republican Party, and don't hold your breath waiting for that.

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