Things have come a long way.

...the 1994 Crime Bill was STRONG enough!

In 1995 Democrats recognized a flaw in the bill, that the penalties for crack cocaine were much higher than those for powder cocaine. So, they proposed reworking the bill to equalize the penalties by reducing those for crack cocaine. However, Sanders insisted that instead of lowering those penalties, the penalties for powder cocaine should be RAISED to the level of crack. Sanders wanted to make the bill stronger!!

attack anyone who tries to make people aware of it.

This isn't the only instance. The other day, for example, someone was attacking Bernie for voting the same way as Biden on some nuclear waste bill.

I don't get the argument, really. Like if you're trying to attack Bernie to support Biden, wouldn't it be better to find something bad that Bernie voted for, but Biden didn't?

Biden mentioned that the other day.

And when HRC mentioned it, PolitiFact fact-checked it and rated it True:

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/13/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-voted-against-brady/

Guns is the one issue I can think of where Bernie is weaker than a number of the other candidates.

That is why I find it a bit curious. I don’t think people are going to find the idea that Sanders advocates more “tough on crime” policies than Biden to be credible. And I think it’s difficult to paint him as inconsistent, particularly when he has been criticized as a dogmatist or inflexible.

from you. lol

Also the untruths. Bernie and his team have said he only voted for that bill because of VAWA. Now we discover that is not true.

I've defended others too, like recently when some right-winger attacked Warren over her college debt plan.

It's weird that you have an issue with me defending Sanders, he's one of our candidates, and right now, at least according to the betting odds, he's the favorite. Why wouldn't I defend the most likely person to be opposing Trump?

right now and after a few are knocked out they are not going to be rallying around Sanders. You mark my words 'undecided'.

positions.

history of attacking Democrats with double standards. The better analogy would be if Biden attacked Democrats, but hid or ignored that he voted for the same things that they did — then try to raise money over that lie or omission. Your current analogy isn’t even remotely the same thing.

I do like his voting record, it's the best in the field. I don't like that his campaign has people who voted for Jill Stein on it.

But regardless, I think we can all agree that it's silly to attack Bernie for casting the exact same vote as Biden, right?

false analogy. It’s wrong to smear fellow Democrats and mislead people into thinking that you are against something when you were really for it; right? Bernie is leading with the purism, and I think the term that suits this is “invites scrutiny.” He invites scrutiny by misleading.

it!

"I think we can all agree that it's silly to attack Bernie for casting the exact same vote as Biden, right?"

If, and only if that same standard is applied with equanimity. But it's not, and it's a fool's errand to pretend otherwise.

But sure, go ahead and pretend you fail to understand the obvious, your narrative appears to depend on it.

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attacking someone that didn't even have a vote on the bill while frankly lying about his reasoning behind voting for it.

It's not the vote. It's the hypocrisy.

Crime was astronomically high in the late-1980s/early-1990s. There were 2,000+ murders in NYC alone in 1990. Everyone, including liberals, were calling for tougher anti-crime measures at the time.

For those here interested solely in making Bernie's position on this then critical issue (Crime routinely ranked as the #1 concern of Americans in polls back then) appear extreme in retrospect, please note both Hillary's (super-predators, anyone?) and Biden's stances on this issue at the time. Thank you.

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Otherwise I'd be mowing the lawn right now.

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senators moved farther toward the center in the 1990s (following Democratic voters)), to keep from being primaried or tossed out in the GE, so did he.

It worked. He didn't have to give up his easy limo life and go find a job where he would hopefully still have as much free time as I-Sanders did in the senate.

And are now posting every single thing they find on it regardless of relevancy.