Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday afternoon went on a Twitter rant about his Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton, saying that a person “cannot be a moderate and a progressive.”
When reporters asked Sanders on Tuesday if Clinton was a “true progressive,” the Vermont senator responded that she was on “some days.”
“Except when she announces that she is a proud moderate, and then I guess she is not a progressive,” he said.
On Wednesday he shared some more thoughts:
You can be a moderate. You can be a progressive. But you cannot be a moderate and a progressive.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 3, 2016
Most progressives that I know don’t raise millions of dollars from Wall Street.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 3, 2016
Most progressives I know are firm from day 1 in opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. They didn’t have to think about it a whole lot.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 3, 2016
Most progressives that I know were opposed to the Keystone pipeline from day one. Honestly, it wasn’t that complicated.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 3, 2016
Most progressives I know were against the war in Iraq. One of the worst foreign policy blunders in the history of the United States.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 3, 2016
Earlier Wednesday, Clinton called Sanders’ comments a “low blow” and argued that she would “win by a landslide” if the election were focused on their records.
Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon further defended the former secretary of state during a CNN interview.
“It’s a personal attack, to question Hillary Clinton’s commitment to progressive values when she’s made a career out of fighting for women and children,” he said.
Fallon also repeated a line that Clinton has used before against such claims: that she’s “a progressive who likes to get things done.”
Moderately progressive?
As someone who has “socialist” as part of his political label, Bernie might not want to focus too much on the technical meaning of those labels.
Progressively moderate is more accurate.
True, especially someone who has been all over the place on the extremely important progressive ssue of gun reform.
She was for Keystone?