Bernie's campaign less than one hour ago.

[The Magistrate]

9. Diamond And Silk In Slim-Tone Form, It Would Seem

Against Sanders, the facts of his open support for Communists in the Caribbean and Central America into the Reagan era, as well as his support for the Iranian Revolution, would be what was dinned in. Sanders is often praised by his followers for 'consistency' throughout his political career, and that is where he was at its beginning. These are not smears, these are positions of a party he stood as elector for in a Presidential election. It is hard to claim a man does not support positions of a candidate he is an elector for. It can be attempted, but not with success. 'Crazy Bernie the Commie' is simply too fat a target to be passed up, and it would not be.

Mr. Biden has a whole structure of Party identity to rely on in the question of Social Security. Everyone knows it is a Democratic program, everyone knows Republicans are its enemy. The charge becomes noise. The 'Crazy Bernie the Commie' line is different, there is just enough fact, and fact not too widely known, to give it real bite. Especially among older voters, who were of age during the Cold War. And the line would be helped along by Sanders inability not to say that one extra sentence to try and justify his youthful foolishness. Of course he wasn't really youthful, he was nearing forty years of age. No one really cares if 'Red China' reduced poverty, no one really thinks that quite excuses the Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution or Tiananmen Square. Just as no one, particular people of Cuban heritage in Florida, gives the north end of a southbound rat whether Castro got more people able to read.