Clinton Supporters Desperate to Find Any Dirt On Sanders

As the 2016 Democratic Primary moves into April and the inevitability of a Secretary Clinton nomination wanes by the day her supporters are desperate to find any little bit of dirt they can on Senator Sanders and slow his momentum. This of course all flies in the face of their assertion that the race is over and Sanders can't possibly win Increasingly her supporters are grasping at proverbial straws to find any way to smear him instead of highlighting the strengths of their candidate.

Case in point, a post from a Clinton supporter on Daily Kos by the name of Bimmerella Zone entitled If Bernie Sanders Doesn't Support Fracking, He Should Check His Investments. In the article the author explains that Senator Sanders owns an investment called the Valic Mid Cap Index Fund. For those of you unfamiliar with what an Index Fund is it is a sort of Mutual Fund that allows you to track a broad segment of a market or even an entire market itself in one fund. A Dow Jones Industrial average Index Fund for example would track the Dow's progress so if it goes up you make roughly the same percentage gain the Dow does and vice versa. The article then goes on to list the components of the aforementioned fund and discovers an investment to a company known as Diamondback Energy Inc, which does engage in fracking.

So, just how much money has Senator Sanders put in to the fracking industry? Well, we don't know for sure as the info provided by OpenSecrets for the Sanders investment only shows a range of $15,001 to $50,000, but lets do the math anyway. The percentage of the fund that Diamondback comprises of is %1.4 so if the investment was $15,001 the amount that presumably went to Diamondback would be about $210.01 and if the investment was $50,000 the amount would be $700.

We're through the looking glass here people. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria... over at most $700 in what is probably a retirement fund like millions of other Americans have. It's like saying Sanders supports the oil industry because he puts gas in his small, red Chevy so he can drive to work.

In contrast last month Secretary Clinton was the beneficiary of a $575 a head fundraiser hosted by Alisa Wood, a partner at the international private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, a company that has literally made billions of dollars from fracking. If just two people showed up to this event Secretary Clinton would have received more money from fracking interests than Senator Sanders has indirectly, possibly unknowingly given.

This highlights not only the desperation of Secretary Clinton's supporters, but also their failing to understand why Senator Sanders supporters are so resistant to their candidate in the first place. On nearly every single issue in this race Senator Sanders is far more progressive than Secretary Clinton. Sanders supporters see a game that is rigged against them and though the blame doesn't all lie with Secretary Clinton she is a poster child for Establishment politics. The only area she may be more progressive is on guns, but even that is called in to question given her response to a debate question in 2008 on the subject in which she says she respects the second amendment and the rights of gun owners, which isn't much different from what Senator Sanders says on the issue.