Is Bernie Sanders the presidential candidate that the liberals deserve but will never have?

Courtesy of Yahoo News:  

Sen. Bernie Sanders isn’t afraid to be called a socialist. In fact, the Vermont Independent proudly labels himself a Democratic socialist. 

“Do you hear me cringing? Do you hear me running under the table?” Sanders said rhetorically when asked if Democratic socialist is an accurate description. 

Sanders is so delighted with his brand of politics that he said in an interview with “The Fine Print” that it would be a “damn good platform” on which to run for president. 

"If the American people understand what goes on in countries like Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and other countries, they will say, ‘Whoa, I didn't know that!’” Sanders said, pointing out that health care is considered a right, “R-I-G-H-T,” among even the most conservative politicians in Denmark. 

Sanders described his credo as a fight to protect America’s working class from what he sees as the threat of an approaching “oligarchic form of society.” 

“You have today in America more income and wealth inequality than any time in this country since 1928 and more than any major country in the world,” Sanders said. “So, you got the top one percent owning 38 percent of the wealth in America. Do you know what the bottom 60 percent own? 2.3 percent.” 

“You know what that is?" he said. "That's called oligarchy."

Sanders goes on to say that while he would really like to run for President he is not sure that he has the support to make a real run at the office.   

“Look, it's easy for me to give a good speech, and I give good speeches,” he said. “It is harder to put together a grassroots organization of hundreds of thousands of millions of people prepared to work hard and take on the enormous amounts of money that will be thrown against us.”

And then there's Hillary.  

One of Sanders’ most likely competitors, should he choose to seek the Democratic nomination, is Hillary Clinton. And while Sanders praised Clinton for a successful career, he was critical of the Democratic Party’s seeming coronation of the former secretary of state. 

"She has accomplished a lot of very positive things in her career, but I'm not quite sure that the political process is one in which we anoint people,” Sanders said. 

Though he stopped short of criticizing Clinton directly, he said she is not a sufficient champion of his message for the middle class.

Look I like Bernie I really do.

With his unruly crop of gray hair, and his fierce eyes, he reminds me of my college Anthropology professor who always came to class in a rumpled suit and bed hair, but was incredibly brilliant and gifted at holding the attention the drowsy student in his early morning class.

However he will never be elected.

Never.

And since I have lived through the pain of the 2000 loss of Al Gore, and the eight years of George W. Bush, I am simply unwilling to support a candidate for purely ideological reasons.

Yes, Bernie Sanders would be an incredible choice for the country, and yes I think he is up to the job, but I also realize that his courageous pro-socialism stance makes him almost as hard to elect as an Atheist.

Which by the way I would ALSO like to someday vote into the Oval Office.