CALCULUS: The NRA Spent Thousands to Get Bernie Elected — Then He Voted With Them

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CALCULUS: The NRA Spent Thousands to Get Bernie Elected — Then He Voted With Them
By Susan Madrak
April 10, 2016

For the entire 2016 election, voters have been subjected to an insistent narrative that Bernie Sanders is a model of progressive purity while Hillary Clinton is an unprincipled, calculating politician in the pocket of special interests. We strongly reject that false frame and have repeatedly argued that all politicians make difficult choices, some good, some not so good. Bernie isn’t exempt from that reality.

Bernie’s history on guns is hardly the model of progressive purity. During a recent Morning Joe appearance, he was defensive when asked to comment on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s assessment that on gun manufacturer immunity, Bernie made “a political decision on a moral issue.”

http://bluenationreview.com/nra-spent-thousands-to-get-bernie-elected/

[Cha]

1. He has some strange bedfellows

[Koinos]

2. The Vermont hunter justification never made any sense to me.

[uponit7771]

3. Yeah, Sanders is full of it