Bernie Sanders is qualified insofar that he has been involved in Gov't his entire life. What makes him unqualified is that he is a SOCIALIST.
Sanders' entire political career is a one off accident. Not unlike although much more successful as Jesse Ventura. Had Sanders not won that first election by an eyelash I don't know where he would have landed. As prior to that win he seemingly could not hold a job.
A good example would be my very good friend and childhood next door neighbor Russ Pry, who passed away last year. Rusty was an attorney who had been involved with local Democratic Party politics from the time he was a Freshman at Akron U. He became an attorney for the local Chemical Workers Union, then worked his way to become Chairman of the Summit County Democratic Party, then became Summit County Executive.
He was beyond outstanding at every job. He went from being a successful lawyer, to the being the best County Party Chairmen in the history of our county if not the state. Then went on to become the greatest County Executive probably in the history of County Execs anywhere. I almost forgot at age 18 he ran for and became a Village Councilman.
As opposed to Sanders' who was a failure and has been giving the exact same socialist speech for over 40 years. Sanders is a joke who does not deserve to be taken seriously. The only reason he is taken seriously is because of the internet and talk radio.
All you need to do is look at how Dennis Kucinich was disrespected by the DNC as opposed to the way they kiss Socialist Sanders' ass. You on the left should have gotten on the Kucinich bandwagon as his views are very far left and he is an accomplished politician who was also successful in his life outside of politics.
You’re consistent at least. You still have any goddamn idea what socialism is but, boy, can you type the word.
Ronald fucking Reagan didn’t deserve to get taken seriously. He changed political parties with his bullshit “the party left me crap.” He ratted on fellow actors, writers in Hollywood because he was gutless during the McCarthy era. He and fellow chicken hawk John Wayne were too gutless to go to war during Ww2 but, boy, did their careers get helped out. Even worse in terms of “shouldn’t have been taken seriously” was George W. Bush. That piece of excrement failed and had to be bailed out by his daddy’s friends. Just another great Republican of the modern age of conservatism.
As for Kucinich, he was an unmitigated failure as mayor of Cleveland. He got one thing right which was muni light. He appointed completely incompetent people in his administration. But he did learn and did a better job in congress. Of course he has gone off the rails now and then. Not to mention the Republicans you love in Ohio redistricted him out by forcing him to run against Marcy Kaptur.
As for being taken seriously no one here will take you seriously until you actually learn the definitions of the terms you throw around and do some research into various programs. The military your daughter was in is the single largest socialist system in the United States. You gonna bleat about that? Didn’t think so.