RNC Chair 'More Comfortable' Running Against Hillary Clinton Than Bernie Sanders

[Bubzer]

Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said he is "much more comfortable" with the GOP nominee going up against Hillary Clinton than Bernie Sanders in the November general presidential election, saying the former secretary of state is not "likable."

"I think everyone that has analyzed this knows that Hillary Clinton is in the ditch," Priebus said Friday in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "We don't know how far in the ditch she's going to go, but she's not doing well. She's not even winning."

Blitzer responded, saying Clinton has won almost 2.5 million more votes than Sanders and a million more than GOP front-runner Donald Trump. But the chairman held fast, pointing to the ongoing federal probe into Clinton's private email server, which she exclusively used while serving as secretary of state between 2009 and 2013.

"I'd rather run against Hillary Clinton because she's defined, she's not liked. And you know, in a popular cultural vote in America, that's a really important question, and she doesn't do well on that question. I don't know what's going to happen with the FBI," he said.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/rnc-chair-more-comfortable-running-against-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-n557066

More good reasons to vote for Bernie

[MattP]

1. Yes trust the RNC

[Bubzer]

3. As if it was only the RNC... every republican I've talked to would come our in force againt HRC.

But, hey, laugh it up all you like. Hillary simply cannot win the GE.

[revbones]

8. So by your logic, when Hillary & Co says they would be excited to run against Trump

they're really scared to?

[SHRED]

2. The whole system is more comfortable with her

You've got Hillary paid heavily for speeches to the same institutions who crashed the economy with their hedge fund schemes and toxic mortgage-backed securities.

Her son-in-law worked 8 years in the hedge fund industry at Goldman Sachs before starting his own hedge fund group into which the Goldman Sachs CEO is invested.

And her campaign manager John Podesta (Group) handles PR (public relations) for billions of dollars in arms sales to the Saudis from such big players like Lockheed Martin.
You know Saudi Arabia?... the country responsible for 9/11?
Well the John Podesta Group is essentially a go-between that helps Saudi Arabia with their image to further sales growth in weaponry, etc.

The military industrial banking complex is powerful and they want her at the helm.

They are more comfortable with her as President rather than Bernie.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/07/washingtons-multi-million-dollar-saudi-pr-machine

[Dustlawyer]

4. The PTB want her. They run our government and our media and are responsible for the huge

gap in income inequality. Isn't that enough for average Americans to not support and vote for her?

[SHRED]

5. You'd think...but they apparently don't

Or they have no hearts.
Maybe both.

[Vincardog]

9. The GOP wants to run against her because win or lose their owners still WIN

[CajunBlazer]

6. Who is fool enough to believe RNC chairman? Again, you're clueless!

The RNC and the Republican candidates have been trying to tear down Hillary Clinton for months now. The Koch brother's PAC spent $1.5 Million attacking Hillary in one of the early primaries, NH I think, for being to close to corporate big wigs. Given that the Koch brothers are corporate big wigs, the commercials were obviously aimed at helping Sanders.

The RNC chair is again trying to booster Sanders because he knows Americans will never elect a Socialist, especially after they use all of the ammunition Sanders supplied their Swift Boat machine to paint him as a communist. They have hundreds of millions of dollars from the Koch brothers alone ready run commercials of how Bernie and Jane honeymooned in the Soviet Union, how he visited Communist Cuba and praised Fidel's government, how he visited the Soviet backed Sandinistas and praised their government, how he had the flag of the Soviet Union in his Burlington Mayor's office, etc., etc.

And if that doesn't work well enough, they'll lie. And because Sanders swore off PAC money, he will not have millions of dollars to fight back and clear his name.

Hillary hasn't brought all of this up because, 1) she doesn't need to beat Sanders and 2) she doesn't want to piss off Sanders supporters that she will need in the general election. The Republicans are praying that they have an opportunity to use all of the detective work they have been doing.

You may not believe this, but Sanders has not yet been vetted. But fear not, he won't be the nominee so he will remain unscathed.

[Bubzer]

7. Oh you dont have to listen to the RNC chariman...

There has been plenty of analysis for those bothering to look... republicans just don't just dislike Hillary... they hate her. Making her the candidate guarantees substantial republican voter turnout. The republicans are much more tepid about going up against Bernie.

[CajunBlazer]

15. Big deal, everyone hates Trump

And his own party hates Cruz and both should scare anyone from the moderates to the far left to death. Any by time they finish putting poor old Bernie through the Swift Boat grinder, everyone will hate the socialist/communist as they will brand him. Again you're clueless! You really are.

[Maru Kitteh]

10. ATTENTION DU. REINCE PRIEBUS IS NOW A TOTALLY TRUTHFUL AND RELIABLE SOURCE.

[uponit7771]

11. +1

[quaker bill]

13. An unreliable source can speak the truth

They may not do it often, but there is no rule against it.

Polling indicates that strong disapproval of Hillary is the only thing republicans unite about (@84%). The bulk of the rest only "disapprove" but not "strongly".

After this still not over primary season, it is not absurd for Priebus to want something that unites his party. Polling indicates that Hillary is the only thing which does it.

Perhaps it is not her "weaknesses" he favors, but the unity of purpose she brings to his party.

[Jitter65]

12. Now, just why would he say that almost as public announcement if that were true?

They really do want Bernie so bad they can taste it.

[quaker bill]

14. The polling of republicans

indicates that the one thing that could unite them is an all out effort to defeat Hillary. 84% of republicans "strongly disapprove" of Hillary, the rest merely "disapprove". There is nothing else that Republicans agree about more.

It was a recent you gov poll that went into this in detail for all the candidates.

[NorthCarolina]

16. Of course they are. The GOP has access to the same national polling

that everyone else has, and they all show Bernie defeating ANY of the GOP candidates handily, and with much higher margins than Hillary. In fact, as I recall the polls indicate that Clinton would likely lose to Kasich.

[DCBob]

17. Priebus knows some basic math and realizes there is no hope for Bernie..

so he might as well pretend they want Hillary to give the air of confidence... even though they have none. The totally fear Hillary and know she will trounce either Trump or Cruz in November.

[COLGATE4]

18. "Please, please don't throw me in that Briar Patch". nt

[JoePhilly]

19. + 100

[Demsrule86]

20. Right

if you believe that I have bridge to sell in Brooklyn.