Boo, I suggest you take a closer look at Bernie’s 30-plus years in politics. He is not the uncompromising politician you make him out to be, but instead a shrewd game-player who not only has learned how to get elected, but how to get things done. The man didn’t get re-elected mayor in Burlington three times or US Representative nine times or US Senator twice because he fails at his job. In both houses of Congress, against great odds, he frequently passed progressive legislation by tacking on amendments to favored bills, and he frequently had bipartisan support (see http://bit.ly/1ryZ3QU). In fact, the first time I heard of Bernie Sanders was from a 72-year-old Burlington Republican who voted for Bernie in his first-re-election campaign for mayor.

In contrast, Hillary has had a much shorter and much less accomplished time in elected office, and she is so vilified by the right that she will have a hard time convincing many Republicans to vote for her, even against Donald Trump. And if she is elected, she is also likely to run into the same unyielding opposition that confronted President Obama.

Bernie is human and, like all of us, he has his flaws. Has some negativism slipped into his campaign? Yes. But to unfavorably compare that against other campaigns you have witnessed that have gone negative is an exaggeration at best. When you’ve done a side-by-side count of the negative comments coming out of any of the GOP campaigns, or the Clinton-Obama campaign, and the Sanders campaign, then maybe you’ll have something real to talk about (though I am skeptical). Until you have that evidence, then the insinuation that Sanders has somehow slipped deeply into the dark side of campaigning is as baseless and negative as many Trumpisms.