What a Dumb Question

OF COURSE it will hurt Sanders' chances.  THAT is why Putin, Trump, and the GOP want Sanders so much.  It is like asking if gravity exists.

In October 1985, a few months after Bernie Sanders traveled to Nicaragua to celebrate the sixth anniversary of that country's socialist revolution, the Soviet-backed government suspended the civil liberties of its citizens, including the rights to free speech, free assembly and labor strikes.

A few days later, Sanders, then the socialist mayor of Burlington, Vermont, received a pointed letter from a constituent. How, the letter-writer wanted to know, could Sanders continue to embrace a "another in a long line of dictatorships, whose only true concern is its length of stay in power"?

In a written reply, Sanders — who had praised Nicaragua's leaders upon his return from the trip — made no apologies. The Nicaraguan government was fighting a "brutal war" funded by the United States, he wrote, which made the situation "complex." Didn't the U.S. government, Sanders wrote, intern Japanese Americans during World War II? Didn't Lincoln curtail basic rights during the Civil War?

This is one skeleton of a cemetery full of skeletons in Bernie's past, and the number of those skeletons threatens to dwarf Arlington National Cemetery.

I read someplace the GOP had TWO FEET of opposition research on Sanders, no doubt much of it gleaned from the Hillary Clinton campaign. The Clinton campaign had the ammo, but they chose not to use it when they realized Sanders wasn't a real threat to her chances in the primaries.