One Response To Barney Frank's Attack on Bernie Sanders
Many Progressives are apparently not buying into Barney Frank's lame attempt
to derail Bernie's candidacy. Woot and Huzza! 
IN RESPONSE TO BARNEY FRANK’S ATTACK ON SANDERS
by Cristóbal Reyes * Jul 24, 2015 * Young Progressive Voices
To be clear, this is not the reaction to an attack on Sanders’s viability as a candidate per se; rather, it is a condemnation of Mr. Frank’s suggestion that Hillary Clinton’s current lead in the polls and her “threat” to the Republican Party should grant her the Democratic nomination ipso facto.
While one is certainly entitled to one’s biases, it should nevertheless be considered independent of one’s inclination toward democracy and choice, rather than the dance with the devil from which the existing political system has yet to be freed. That being said, it is in the best interest of anyone crying foul over my choice of words that I rebut (read: rebuke) Mr. Frank’s points one at a time.
Consider, for example, his first contention:
Okay, so this is more of a thesis than an actual point, but it is nevertheless indicative of what I mentioned so colorfully earlier, so as to not be accused of misrepresenting the former congressman’s argument. He is explicitly calling on the powers that be to declare the winner of a race before the starter’s gun is fired. No other racers need apply. Debates will only, as Mr. Frank condescendingly puts it, make Ms. Clinton “spend most of her time and campaign funds proving her ideological purity in an intraparty fight,” otherwise known as partaking in the democratic process.
Right off the bat, he ignores that these so called intraparty fights are a common means to determine which candidate best represents their respective party. If one were to follow his logic, Mrs. Clinton should have been granted the nomination in 2008, given that she enjoyed a similar comfort in the court of public opinion before being routed by a formerly relatively unknown name.
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The fact that Barney is gay has absolutely nothing to do with my disappointment
in his choice to support Hillary over Bernie. NOTHING.
It has EVERYTHING to do with Barney now working for the industry he supposedly
"reigned in" with Dodd/Frank, and then failing to support the ONE candidate in this
primary race who wants to re-instate Glass/Steagal.
Barney's gayness does not render him somehow immune to any & all criticism of
his poor choice to support Hillary over Bernie in the Primary. 
