Story highlights Issac Bailey says Bernie Sanders signals he's getting into the muck of political combat

Bailey: Why is it OK for him to adopt pro-gun industry stances representing Vermont?

But not OK for Clinton to cultivate Wall Street ties when she was a senator from New York?

Issac Bailey has been a journalist in South Carolina for two decades and was most recently the primary columnist for The Sun News in Myrtle Beach. He was a 2014 Harvard University Nieman fellow. Twitter: @ijbailey The views expressed are his own.

(CNN) A few weeks ago, "Saturday Night Live" produced a hilarious skit showing Hillary Clinton morphing into Bernie Sanders, in light of the fact that Sanders' challenge has pulled her further to the political left.

After Sanders took the leap Wednesday night to deem Clinton "unqualified" for the presidency, it's time that "SNL" reprise that bit, but this time showing the reverse -- because Sanders 2016 has become the mirror image of Clinton 2008.

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"I don't believe that she is qualified if she is ... through her super PAC, taking tens of millions of dollars in special interest funds," he said before a large crowd at Temple University.

"I don't think that you are qualified if you get $15 million from Wall Street through your super PAC," he went on. "I don't think you are qualified if you have voted for the disastrous war in Iraq. I don't think you are qualified if you've supported virtually every disastrous trade agreement, which has cost us millions of decent-paying jobs."

In this one speech, Sanders forfeited the supposed high road and went on the kind of full-frontal negative attack he has long claimed he was above.

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