Who are Republicans more likely to cooperate with? Bernie or Hillary? Discuss...

[Fearless]

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

1. What means this word "cooperate"?

[Fearless]

2. Legislate.

[Trajan]

36. As long as you are willing to gut Social Security, Food Stamps ...

... And eradicate public education, then the GOP would be GLAD to 'co-operate' ...

ANY democrat who did so would be hounded out of office ...

So, what's your point? ... Work with republicans to annihilate the Middle class?

Screw that ... And screw anybody who advises it. ..

[JPnoodleman]

3. Neither, they will do as they did to Obama...`

To them the White House is their property, whomever has a D next to their name and sits in that office will forever be seen by them as an fraud super mega ultra-Stalin/Commie/Satanic/Secret Muslim/Femnazi/Ultra-death-bot!

[JaneyVee]

4. The only thing Repubs hate more than powerful women is...

"Big gubmint socialism".

[Fearless]

7. So you're suggesting we vote for... Bernie then?

[JaneyVee]

14. If you're looking for gridlock, stagnation, and chaos, sure.

[elleng]

5. None of the above.

THIS candidate has DONE cooperation, but tptb didn't want that.

[JonLeibowitz]

15. Green tie? Lovin' the Irish look.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

6. Real Republicans, or the Teaparty?

I think the GOP traditionalists will work with either, equally.

I think the Teaparty will refuse to work either, equally.

Let's face it, if they thought Obama was a radical leftist...

Bernie will make their heads spin, and the only reason they need to hate Hillary is she is a woman.

[handmade34]

8. hmm

based on recent behavior, the Republicans will not cooperate with either Bernie or Hillary... which is why our primary focus should be on electing Democrats everywhere in all offices... not just the Presidential race

and we all must vote in EVERY election, not just every 4 years

[Doctor_J]

9. Who wants policies that are "halfway between Clinton and Ryan" to be imposed?

I have no interest in a president who will cooperate with the current republican party

[Fearless]

10. Which candidate will be able to find common ground then?

And what are the pros and cons of that common ground?

[Jarqui]

11. My guess is Bernie

Bernie Gets It Done: Sanders' Record of Pushing Through Major Reforms Will Surprise You
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-gets-it-done-sanders-record-pushing-through-major-reforms-will-surprise-you

I don't think Hillary has anything legislatively comparable

[JudyM]

34. Great article. Bernie's effective. Funny that Barney Frank thinks Bernie acts like he's smarter than

everyone else... Considering that's how Frank acts most of the time.

Pot...kettle...

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. He already does

[napi21]

13. Wow, what a question! IF the current crop of pubs keep their seats, then the answer is NEITHER!

Those dirtballs think it's horrible if you agree with a Dem. on anything. And YES, they would think of Bernie as a Dem.

IF those in Congress realize that their voters HATE the way they are doing business and that's why Trump is so successful because they HATE the establishment, they just might change their tactics. They COULD work better with Bernie because he was a Senator until he was elected to the presidency, OR they could work better with Hillary because she is more of a fighter.

[Live and Learn]

16. Hillary is more likely to cooperate with the Republicans.

Bernie will turn to the people and ask them to demand the Republicans cooperate.

[Ron Green]

44. THIS.

[bigwillq]

17. Neither.

Repubs don't want to cooperate with any DEM prez.

[Fearless]

19. So elect someone else entirely?

Between the two, pick one.

[bigwillq]

20. Hillary (nt)

[Fearless]

23. So you're saying that Republicans are more likely to work with her than Bernie?

[bigwillq]

25. Yes (nt)

[sadoldgirl]

21. That depends on the kind of legislation, does it not?

[DefenseLawyer]

22. For me, this is not a selling point for a Presidential candidate n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

24. They'll be too busy with IMPEACHMENT hearings and investigations to do any cooperating with HRH,

The woman they hate with a burning, visceral, passionate hatred. They LOATHE HER.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[840high]

42. Bernie has respect. She is hated.

[in_cog_ni_to]

43. And "hated" is putting it nicely! n/t

[speaktruthtopower]

26. On the issues..

they will cooperate more with her. She's closer to them ideologically and she's pragmatic. But it will be a nasty election with a lot of character attacks if she is the nominee and there will be wounds to heal.

If Bernie is the nominee they'll attack him as a "socialist," but not personally.

[uponit7771]

27. This is a very bad question for Sanders to address

[Fearless]

28. Why?

[uponit7771]

30. He has yet to outline how his revolution is going to get around a historically gerrymandered GOP...

... congress.

At the center of Sanders revolution is the pixie dust politics of the people influencing this GOP gerrymandered congress...

They gop haven't in the last 4 years with weaker numbers, they wont in the next 6 years with even stronger numbers

[Fearless]

31. Not only is everything you've just said false, it doesn't even answer the question.

Why is the Republican party more likely going to be able to work with Hillary than Bernie, as per your previous statement suggesting that?

[uponit7771]

32. Please outline how the left has influenced this GOP gerrymandered congress to do anything...

... I'll wait.

.. and no, Hillary isn't outlining a plan to work with the GOP congress she has already said she'd work around them and Sanders will soon follow her lead

Reality doesn't suck

[Fearless]

35. I asked you which one Hillary or Bernie, the GOP would be more likely to work with.

I did not ask which candidate was more likely to work with the GOP.

There is a big difference there.

[uponit7771]

37. Ok, you're right... I'll address the OP.. NIETHER.. they don't have to.. the fact that you're

... asking this question as a SBS supporter establish's what i've said about his campaign.. its good marketing.

You should already know that this congress will do nothing they don't want to do for the American people.. they haven't because they're gerrymandered.

They can LITERALLY burn down a pediatrics oncology ward on prime time TV painted with Joker Face and STILL be voted back into their seats because the way the districts were digitally gerrymandered...

There's only one other time in US history that congress has been this much gerrymandered and Sanders knows this...

But he's chided others for compromising ...

I'm not compromising my stance against pixie dust politics

[Fearless]

39. Ok, so your answer is neither. So are you suggesting another person would be better?

[uponit7771]

40. No, that's my main beef with Sanders... he proffers that the historically gerrymandered GOP congress

... can be dealt with at all while their track record shows they'll spend 24 billion dollars in shutting down the government

Vs outlining how he can go around them and marginalize them to nothingness...

If Sanders were willing to admit that he and others in the past, including Obama, have had to scrape and scratch and claw and compromise with what they've had because they have had a lot .... then it being easier to support his agenda.

But no..

His agenda depends on people not knowing any of these and just being bad at "the establishment"...

Hell, if he said he'd put their ass's in jail I'd be all in...

That'd be revolution and something Americans can support

[notadmblnd]

29. this is interesting

none of his Sen­ate col­leagues, on either side of the aisle, think he could ever be elec­ted pres­id­ent of the United States; most of them even be­lieve he shouldn’t be.

But rather than earn­ing the frus­tra­tion and ire of his peers in the vein of oth­er Sen­ate hard-liners such as Sen. Ted Cruz, Sanders has man­aged to be re­spec­ted — even liked — by much of the cham­ber, ac­cord­ing to mem­bers on both sides of the aisle. The Ver­mont in­de­pend­ent ac­tu­ally has much more in com­mon with Sen. Tom Coburn, the now-re­tired “Dr. No,” whose hard-line op­pos­i­tion killed many bills in the Sen­ate but also earned him the re­spect of his col­leagues on both sides of the aisle.

Sanders also has been able to work well with his col­leagues. He’s passed bi­par­tis­an le­gis­la­tion and forged strong re­la­tion­ships with mem­bers of both parties in nearly 25 years on Cap­it­ol Hill. But most of all, mem­bers say, even when Sanders is ideo­lo­gic­ally an out­lier, he lets oth­ers know where he stands. He’s not the type to sud­denly stab a col­league in the back. And that’s earned him re­spect both on and off the Hill.

“A lot of people here talk about what they be­lieve in, but they don’t act on it,” Sen. Mark Warner said. “He al­ways acts on what he be­lieves. “¦ We can agree or dis­agree, but you know where he stands.”

Law­makers on both sides of the aisle, in­clud­ing Sanders him­self, point to last year’s deal to im­prove the dis­astrous, scan­dal-rid­den Vet­er­ans Af­fairs De­part­ment as a high­light. After weeks of ne­go­ti­at­ing with a cadre of Re­pub­lic­an col­leagues, Sanders helped pass the deal on a 91-3 vote in the Sen­ate. “In a pretty dys­func­tion­al Con­gress I helped pass, in a bi­par­tis­an way, the sig­ni­fic­ant vet­er­ans bill, which in­creases health care to vet­er­ans and lowers wait­ing times, and I’m proud of that,” Sanders said. “That was a sig­ni­fic­ant step for­ward.”

http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/71225/bernie-sanders-is-loud-stubborn-socialist-republicans-like-him-anyway

[geek tragedy]

33. Neither. nt

[one_voice]

38. Neither. We have to work on down ballot elections.

If they think Obama is some left wing commie extremist, they're gonna think the same about either of them. They're complete assholes (the republicans).

[thesquanderer]

41. If you want to vote for someone the Republicans will cooperate with...

...you'll have to vote for a Republican.

As for Hillary vs. Bernie, I think Bernie has a slightly larger chance of flipping R seats to D seats, in this and subsequent congressional elections.