2016 Postmortem

It's just my intuition, but I think Bernie will be a wonderful money-manager.

Allen Gear, a Republican member of the Board of Aldermen since 1979, looking back over Sanders’s tenure as mayor, says, “He’s done things I don’t think we Republicans could have done, because the two traditional parties in a town like this are very close. We interact with each other on business over coffee, over tea, crumpets and marmalade, if you will, and it would have been very hard for us, us being Republicans, if we had the Chief Executive’s spot, to have done some of the things Bernie has done ... He’s taken a lot of very Republican ideas and put them in place. Such as combining all of the garages of the various city departments and putting them into a single public-works department, initially a Republican proposal, to gain efficiency in handling city rolling stock ... He’s put a lot of modern accounting practices and money-management practices into place that are good Republican business practices ... And he has surrounded himself with some very talented, vigorous people.”


http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/bernie-sanders-mayor/407413/

Democrats have a reputation for spending a lot of public money. But Bernie is by nature a frugal person. He is not going to try to buy people or countries or big business.

He will run the government with pinching pennies in mind. That's my take on him, and one of the things I like about him.

This is not a religious or ethnic stereotype but rather what I see when I look at Bernie. He could care less about having the latest necktie of the fanciest suit. He spends what he needs to spend and no more. That is my take on him.

He probably would have been a very good businessman if he had wished to go that direction. He is fair in his dealings and does not waste.

Feel the Bern!

I think Republicans will learn to like Bernie once he is in the White House. He is going to ask the smart questions about where the money goes.