In a general election Republicans would also revel in informing the electorate that Bernie Sanders called for abolishing the U.S. military budget during the Iranian hostage crisis in which Bernie “proclaimed solidarity with revolutionary Iran.”

Even though Republicans have had no reason or incentive to attack Sanders the candidate and in fact have worked tirelessly to aid his candidacy, imagine their glee at informing voters that the Senator spent time in Nicaragua in 1985 and joined a Sandinista rally where the crowd chanted “Here, there, everywhere – The Yankee will die.”

There is little doubt that many, if not all, of Senator Sanders’ economic ideas are good; they just are not realistic in this political landscape. And, according to several highly-regarded liberal economists, Senator Sanders’ economic plans’ “numbers just don’t add up;” it is something Republicans would seize upon even if the media failed to report it.

The whole point of this screed is not to demean Senator Sanders, but to dispel the myth that his electability is far superior to Clinton in a general election. Not only is that not true, it is a fallacy along the lines of a democratic socialist single-handedly breaking up the banks, cajoling Republicans to raise taxes 36, 46, or 56 percent or appointing a SCOTUS justice whose first ruling will overturn Citizens United.

This column often bemoans the dumbing down of the electorate, but “dumb” or not, if Republicans attacked Sanders the way they attack Clinton, his electability would vanish. Because as political pundits around the country admit, “If you were designing the perfect target for Republicans, you’d create Bernie Sanders.” Fortunately for Senator Sanders, he will likely escape the unrelenting Republican attacks that would dispel his electability superiority as the myth that it is and put Donald Trump in the White House.