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I mean, one person who really needs to answer for his history is Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders needs to answer for his votes against the Brady Bill, against immigration reform, in favor of gun manufacturer immunity, and in favor of the Minutemen border vigilantes.
Bernie needs to his personal history of avoiding responsibility, not paying child support, using unemployment to finance his activism, and of not voting.
Bernie needs to answer for his history of misogyny, his "bitch teachers" essay, his anger than teenage girls were not sexually available, his confessed fantasy of beating women on their knees, his claim cancer is caused by female frigidity, his claim women fantasize about rape
Bernie needs to answer for his history of nepotism from forcing the city of Burlington to hire his wife in a no-competition position created for her to paying her a percentage of all his campaign ad expenditures to voting for Sierra Blanca & getting her a paid directorship on it
Bernie needs to answer for his missing civil rights record. Yeah, he got arrested for some work on desegrating college housing & claims he went to the March on Washington. Mitch McConnell has a deeper record of 60s civil rights work, so that is nothing. What has he done lately?
In all his years in the House of Representatives, Bernie Sanders introduced on bill that falls into the Civil Rights subject line - prohibiting discrimination of victims of abuse. It did not become law. ONE BILL 
In all his years, he introduced on resolution for an amendment to the Constitution that falls into the Civil Rights subject line. It bans corporate campaign contributions. It did not go anywhere.
Of course, that is not the entirety of his civil rights record, only the entirety of his legislative record. There is also his advocacy of discounting Southern Black voters from the "Deep South" & his belief that most drug dealers are Black & white people don't know from ghettos
Voting Rights is also a Civil Rights issue. Let's look: After all, Brie says he has a long history.
What was he doing before he ran for Prez?
Postal service (supporting unions) and trying to overturn Citizens United. Worthy, but no.
What was he doing before he ran for Prez?
Postal service (supporting unions) and trying to overturn Citizens United. Worthy, but no.
But yes, after he decides to run for Prez he does something. A bill to make Election Day a holiday & automatic registration. Nice, but nothing happened of course. Because OTHER people introduced stronger bills
and his House record is empty except for a bill to move elections to the weekend. Needless to say, nothing became law because no bill Bernie introduced became law (well, naming post offices) because he is ineffective
So that's Bernie's long Civil Rights record. Don't show the bills from other people that he voted for. The presidency is about leadership and Bernie leads on nothing and has accomplished nothing. Why? Because he is unlikable, self-righteous, and spiteful
When I see Bernie, I don't just see a ranty, bitter man. I see the opportunity cost to progressive values for all the years his incompetent, lazy ass was occupying seats that could have been held by any average person who would have performed so much better
He has wasted 30 years, costing VT and Democrats an effective legislator, perhaps one who would not vote with the Republicans to sustain a filibuster of immigration reform.
And that's before last week's obscene revisionist history of the Memphis sanitation workers strike as nothing to do with civil rights or in Bernie's exact words, " quote-unquote civil rights "
