# If Bernie Sanders gets elected as president... **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 12, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-bernie-sanders-gets-elected-as-president/724957 "2015-07-12T17:52:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-bernie-sanders-gets-elected-as-president/724957/81 "2015-07-15T16:28:24Z")
Just for the fun of it, I few of my friends (also Canadian) did it. One had Bernie Sanders 95%, the other Bernie Sanders 86%. So then for fun, to find out archnemesis US politician, we did the quiz again taking the same priority but taking the answer which was must repulsive. I had Rick Santorum 96%. My friends had Rick Santorum 92% and Marco Rubio 96%. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-bernie-sanders-gets-elected-as-president/724957/82 "2015-07-15T16:43:18Z")
> [@RagingxMarmoset](#): > > I love guns and shooting, but the NRA can go fuck itself. You’re missing my point. Bernie Sanders is no more for gun rights than Chuck Schumer or Dianne Feinstein. And trying to make him out to be is text book _“The Big Lie”._ ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-bernie-sanders-gets-elected-as-president/724957/83 "2015-07-15T16:47:22Z")
[QUOTE=Cheesesteak] No, you don’t get to play the “both sides do it” game with me. Proposals that merely nudge our policy towards those of major European countries get Republicans screaming socialism. [/QUOTE] Oh, well, if I don’t get to do that… Wait! Sure I do! Because in this case it’s true, and even if it wasn’t, I can play any games I like anyway. You, however, aren’t allowed to play ‘let’s build a strawman’ game (I have thus arbitrarily decreed it!), since I didn’t say anything about Republicans OR nudging our policies one way or the other, nor was that even the gist of my post. > [@](#): > > Of course, Bernie Sanders isn’t proposing our government own or control any means of production and distribution, but he’s routinely called a socialist. I don’t give a flying fuck what he’s called. He’s not advocating the socialization of the means of production or distribution, so he’s not a real socialist IMHO. He’s a liberal with pretensions. And regardless, that wasn’t my point either. I DID think that the colonel sanders thing was funny, but I’m willing to concede that it probably didn’t even get a small smile from anyone. Oh well…c’est la vie. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-bernie-sanders-gets-elected-as-president/724957/84 "2015-07-15T16:47:54Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > You’re missing my point. Bernie Sanders is no more for gun rights than Chuck Schumer or Dianne Feinstein. And trying to make him out to be is text book _“The Big Lie”._ I took his point to mean that the NRA is neither a reliable nor accurate arbiter of who is for or against gun rights. ---
**Author:** ![RagingxMarmoset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@RagingxMarmoset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RagingxMarmoset)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-bernie-sanders-gets-elected-as-president/724957/85 "2015-07-15T17:20:27Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I took his point to mean that the NRA is neither a reliable nor accurate arbiter of who is for or against gun rights. This is the correct interpretation. I do not support Sanders’ stance on gun ownership, but I support the NRA’s position even less. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-bernie-sanders-gets-elected-as-president/724957/86 "2015-07-15T20:20:43Z")
> [@Steven9001](#): > > [http://imgur.com/9JeXVHy](http://imgur.com/9JeXVHy) …Bernie’s gonna usurp Ho Chi Minh’s rightful place in [an old 1959’s stock photo](http://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/the-chairman-of-the-presidium-of-the-soviet-supreme-nikita-news-photo/104416847)? Help me out here. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-bernie-sanders-gets-elected-as-president/724957/87 "2015-07-15T20:42:29Z")
97% Sanders 90% Clinton 77% O’Malley The rest are in the 30% and below range, and I wouldn’t vote for them if my life depended on it, which it does, and which is why they could never get my vote. On anything. Go, Bernie!! ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-bernie-sanders-gets-elected-as-president/724957/88 "2015-07-15T21:12:43Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > He does call \*himself \*one, so I think ya gotta let that go. He repeatedly says he is a Social Democrat, not a Socialist. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-bernie-sanders-gets-elected-as-president/724957/89 "2015-07-15T21:24:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > He repeatedly says he is a Social Democrat, not a Socialist. Not that I ever heard. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-bernie-sanders-gets-elected-as-president/724957/90 "2015-07-15T23:01:25Z")
OK, [he calls himself a democratic socialist](http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121680/bernie-sanders-democratic-socialist-not-just-socialist). ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-bernie-sanders-gets-elected-as-president/724957/91 "2015-07-15T23:40:53Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > This [bullshit](http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2015/07/12/gun-control-crowd-still-sour-over-sanders-view-on-second-amendment-n2024288) that the leftist media is pushing, trying to make Sanders look like a [gun rights hero](http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/7/10/bernie-sanders-spars-with-arlington-gun-control-activist.html) is pure propaganda! The first link goes to [Matt Vespa](http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa) at [townhall.com](http://townhall.com). If you’re so far right that you consider him leftist, you probably might want to avoid the media altogether. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-bernie-sanders-gets-elected-as-president/724957/92 "2015-07-16T00:27:32Z")
This is yet another reason I’d like to see a Schweitzer candidacy: I’d love to see how the NRA would justify the inevitable F rating they’d give him. Because at this point, it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that they would. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-bernie-sanders-gets-elected-as-president/724957/93 "2015-07-16T06:05:28Z")
Bernie 95% Hillary 87% O’Malley 69% Christie 34% Jeb! 33% Randy 30% P.T. Bridgeport 27% and then it starts to drop off… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-bernie-sanders-gets-elected-as-president/724957.md?page=4)