2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThat noble fighter of corrupt wall street is charging bernie
with, among other ghastly things, attending DSCC events to raise money for democrats.
Here's a diary from kos about Hillary exposing Bernie's corruption. Thank goodness dear Saint Hillary is saving us.
Alright, here we go
.ready for the full bag o tricks from Camp Hillary?
Hillary Clintons Campaign Seeks to Portray Bernie Sanders as a Deceptive Candidate
As Senator Bernie Sanders returned to New Hampshire this morning after appearing in a Saturday Night Live skit, Hillary Clintons campaign was trying to cast him as a high-dollar fund-raiser of lobbyists and as an unethical exploiter of veterans, clergy, union workers and older people.
In a news release sent to reporters as Mr. Sanders made his way to a rally here, the Clinton campaigns communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, said, It seems the Sanders campaign has shifted from insulting and dismissing people who dont support him to falsely claiming their support. Despite being called on deceptive campaign tactics and misleading ads for weeks now, Sanders has now chosen to mislead voters on a veteran and veterans groups support. Enough is enough voters deserve better.
And this beauty:
And some reports have emerged questioning Mr. Sanders purity on the campaign finance system he incessantly bashes as corrupt. On Sunday, MSNBC reported that Mr. Sanders attended a lavish fund-raiser in 2007 to benefit the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee that included as guests government relations executives who were directly employed by corporations such as the financial firms Blackrock and Prudential Financial, or the defense contractor Raytheon. Others represent large Washington law and lobbying firms, such as DLA Piper, Patton Boggs, and Akin Gump.
They really want to stick to talking about high-dollar fund-raisers, especially since it was for the Democrats? And, after they have been complaining all campaign about how Bernie never raises money for the Democrats? LOL, oops! Please proceed, Secretary.
So, lets get this straight:
Hillary wants to run, RIGHT NOW, at this point in time, on integrity and selling out to rich people?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Talk about Karl Rove tactics? THIS is Karl Rove tactics 101, and has it ever been tried in a Democratic primary before, to attempt to prop up a candidate already SEEN as having integrity problems, and selling-out-to-the-wealthy problems?
Unbelievable. What is Hillarys end-game here, even if these cheap-shots DO garner a victory? Act nice to Bernie voters, and watch them roll over to her? Really?
Do you see why many of us here have been declaring Hillary the very, very worst candidate that the Democrats could put up? Ive never seen a candidate constantly looking for better ways to lose votes. Wow.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/7/1481416/-Is-this-what-Hillary-Panic-looks-like-NY-Times-story
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)For the younger folk, that was the rallying cry of the original feminists back in the 60s.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)Can we nominate Sanders and simply not have to see nor hear from her again?
If we nominate Sanders, it can be hoped that he won't give her a consolation prize in his administration and she'll spend her days as a private citizen.
Metric System
(6,048 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)The LGBTQ movement never gained anything from an increment.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)Should he not be nominated, he'll still be serving the public.
Clinton serves the oligarchy. I think she should do so privately.
cali
(114,904 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)You can't make this shit up! Is this a parody? Her desperation is causing a meltdown even greater than '08. No wonder the establishment is panicking and looking to replace her.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)for Team Hill.
Personally, I think I need more popcorn. The "masters of the universe" seem to have lost their glamour.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)I imagine the personell dynamics at Team Hill have to be causing him great distress. First of all, he's saddled with a candidate who's a pathological liar, and continually shoots herself in the foot, and otherwise is a constant source of unnecessary drama. Then there's her husband, not content to play second fiddle, constantly telling people how to run a 1990s campaign. Then there's the entourage of aides and advisors, all on their own power trips, trying to boost their status with the Queen in competition with each other, all those egos have to be pacified. On top of that are unhappy bundlers wanting to turn off the spigot, and party elites openly speaking of finding an alternative candidate. It's probably hell inside campaign HQ.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)I even saw a documentary where they were quoted on this. This is their core philosophy.
Their calculation is that if you lose the race, you're out of the game. There will be time later make it up to those you ran roughshod over, if you feel like doing so.
So, the Clintons do have a track record of winning. The tragic flaw is that by the time they declare victory, they have compromised and sold out so much, and smeared their opponents around them so badly, that their "victory" is completely tarnished.