Rutland Herald: Don't run

Bernie Sanders should not run for president. In fact, we beg him not to.

That is an unfavorable opinion, especially among most Vermonters and progressives who support the platform that has come to define him. But at this point, there are more things about another Sanders run at the White House that concern us than excite us.

In this space, we have repeatedly hit the senator on where his loyalties lay: Vermont or a bigger calling? We have asked him to make a choice, which he would argue was his recent re-election to Congress. But in his previous run for the presidency, Sanders, an independent who ran for the White House as a Democrat, missed dozens of votes that likely would have helped Vermonters. And, while he handily defeated his challenger, can Vermonters point to Sanders’ record and say definitively, “This is what he’s done for us?”

While he makes regular visits “home,” you are more likely to catch Sanders on Colbert, CNN or MSNBC than you are to see him talking to reporters here in Vermont. Evidently, microphones here don’t extend far enough.

Read more: https://www.rutlandherald.com/opinion/perspective/don-t-run/article_257ec5f4-7652-5191-b9d2-0d122f6c5a7e.html

NOTE: Yes, this is the same editorial that appeared in the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus. For anyone that is curious the Rutland Herald is the #8 newspaper in Vermont according to Agility PR Solutions. According to Wikipedia, it has a circulation of about 12,000.