How Hillary Clinton Will Fight Donald Trump’s Unpredictability

[BlueMTexpat]

http://time.com/4328519/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-unpredictable/

Taken together, the GOP has provided Clinton a playbook of things not to do: don’t stoop to Trump’s level, don’t ignore him until it’s too late, don’t merely call him sexist, don’t trust in policy above personality.

“Trump seems like a boorish insult comic, but he is actually incredibly disciplined about driving a single specific contrast narrative: Cruz is dishonest, Jeb is weak, Rubio isn’t up to the job,” says Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior adviser and message maven to President Obama. “The Clinton campaign and larger Democratic infrastructure needs to settle on a similar narrative and hammer it as relentlessly.”

Hillary Clinton has so far resisted the urge to jump into the fray. When Trump charged that she “enabled” Bill Clinton’s infidelity, she let the line slide and instead pivoted to hammer him for refusing so far to release his tax records. “When you run for President, especially when you become the nominee, that is kind of expected. My husband and I have released 33 years of tax returns,” Clinton told a crowd in Blackwood, N.J. “We’ve got eight years on our website right now. So you have got to ask yourself: Why doesn’t he want to release them? Yeah, well, we’re going to find out.”

In traditional campaigns, communications teams develop message plans and calendars to systematically relate their agenda to voters — and to sync up with advertising buttressing the themes. But running against Trump there is no “jobs week.” Rather, every day threatens to be dominated by whatever new insult or attack the former reality-television star dreams up. “A constantly reacting campaign is a losing one,” one Clinton ally says. “If you’re responding knee jerk, you’re going to need knee-replacement surgery by November.”

There are some good things at the link.

[Cha]

1. But, Hillary won't be dealing with the goprimary teabaggers that's DT's opponents were...

To be sure, Trump has provided Clinton with a bounty of potential attacks: his statements about Mexican immigrants, his comments about women and his routine shifts on policy will all be fodder in the months to come. But Trump’s opponents in the Republican primary were unable to make headway with similar material.

Hillary will be exposing him to the GE voters.. they won't take so kindly to sucking up trump's-the stupid burns.

Hillary Clinton has so far resisted the urge to jump into the fray. When Trump charged that she “enabled” Bill Clinton’s infidelity, she let the line slide and instead pivoted to hammer him for refusing so far to release his tax records. “When you run for President, especially when you become the nominee, that is kind of expected. My husband and I have released 33 years of tax returns,” Clinton told a crowd in Blackwood, N.J. “We’ve got eight years on our website right now. So you have got to ask yourself: Why doesn’t he want to release them? Yeah, well, we’re going to find out.”

Could ask BS the same.. but he's already lost.. so take your secret tax returns and hide them forever, mr and mrs BS.

Thank you for this, BlueMT~

[BlueMTexpat]

2. That is true.

She has already written off GOPer Teabaggers and their ilk, as represented by OTT self-styled Sanders supporters (I do not believe that the OTT zealots actually support Sanders so much as they hate HRC).

She appeals to ALL intelligent people of good conscience. I would like to believe that the majority of US voters are intelligent people of good conscience. In any event, her tactics so far have been winning ones and once her nomination is clear (after Jun 7, no matter what the Sanders camp says), she'll have so many surrogates who can attack The Donald on so many fronts that she can very easily stick to the high ground.

[Cha]

3. "In any event, her tactics so far have been winning ones and once her nomination is clear (after

Jun 7, no matter what the Sanders camp says), she'll have so many surrogates who can attack The Donald on so many fronts that she can very easily stick to the high ground."

Yes! Those who think Hillary can't beat DT are just employing "wishful thinking".. We'll see who is Madam President.

Hillary has tons of secret arsenals for truth against trump.. not in the least is President Obama.

Did you see where?..

Donald Trump’s longtime butler says President Obama should be 'hung', 'shot as an enemy agent'; reinforces ‘birther’ myth

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-ex-butler-president-obama-killed-article-1.2635075

[BlueMTexpat]

4. Racist birds of a feather ...

[Cha]

8. and he spread birther rumors just to prove it.. So DTs ran for President thinking if Obama

can do it so can I.. Rofl

[sarae]

5. So disgusting

Trump, his butler, and everyone who supports him. I have no respect for anyone who would get behind this racist piece of garbage.

[Cha]

9. trump campaign disavowed his ex-butler who now works as an historian @ Mar-Largo.. they're

evidently best buddies but .. he "speaks for himself.."

Here's a tweet of the ex .. I couldn't copy & paste, sorry.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2635073.1463078211!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/article-butler-0512.jpg

trump will be known by his big vulgar mouth and the company he keeps.

sarae~

[sarae]

11. This guy is shockingly ignorant and bigoted,

much like his boss. I'm still in disbelief that Trump is the Republican nominee...but I have faith that the rest of the American electorate is not as ignorant and has higher standards.

[Cha]

12. I know! that ex butler current historian of all things trump is one brainwashed

hopeless, head case.. some real issues.

kochs started teabaggers in 2010.. funded them to rage against President Obama.. be careful what you fund, kochs.

You Now have kochmonster..

[PATRICK]

6. One thing that should not be allowed

is that the media is moving seamlessly from enabling Trump in the primary to misquoting, misstating his positions to put them in a ridiculously favorable light. They did this to Gore. The Daily Howler seems to me to document the woeful status of many pundits- not just right wing ones- who set up fake narratives, sometimes simply through lazy fact checking or outright cute lies and characterizations.
The fact that this crap comes from left and right in the corporate media must not be tolerated- especially in fostering the hopeful delusions people will be encouraged to have about Trump- regarding jobs, wages, health care, his stand on war, etc.

A lot of that is happening already, this wishful thinking about the "maverick' Trump.

[BlueMTexpat]

7. The whole of the internet is already littered with TONS

of negative b***s*** about Hillary and almost every bit is about as far from the truth as it can be.

But haters gotta hate and some do here on DU, so far with impunity. The M$M is in large part responsible for letting RWers who are truth-challenged and their ilk - run amok.

We MUST continue to be vigilant and call them out whenever and wherever possible.

[Thinkingabout]

10. When she ignores his attempts of drawing her into his stupid statements he is not

Able to respond to her comeback. She just leaves him on his stupid meter, flopping in the breeze.