Trump promises to obliterate Clinton’s record

[UCmeNdc]

Donald Trump turned his attention to the next phase of his run for the White House — and his next opponent, Hillary Clinton.

The general election, he suggested in an interview, will not find him dialing back his scorched-earth approach to winning.

“Her past is really the thing, rather than what she plans to do in the future,” Trump said. “Her past has a lot of problems, to put it bluntly.”

Through this wild GOP presidential primary race, Trump has dispatched his opponents with insults, slurs and scornful nicknames.

“I haven’t devoted any time, effort, energy to Hillary yet. I haven’t started on that process because I’ve been focused on the nomination, which is probably wise,” he said. “With Hillary, I will be starting the process as soon as this is over.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-promises-to-obliterate-clintons-record/2016/05/03/7caabb82-10b6-11e6-8967-7ac733c56f12_story.html?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_politics

[pipoman]

1. Sadly, it is the result of nominating someone with sooo much baggage....

[DookDook]

2. And when people try to point this out, they're told they're just helping the GOP.

Ugh, everyone gets to relive all those scandals again, yeah cattle futures and travelgate!

[pipoman]

10. Bernie has taken it easy....whomever is the Rethug candidate will not....

[vintx]

20. Yep. They have no reason not to. Hillary is already very disliked.

Bernie couldn't go after her too hard because he has to appeal to people who mostly don't care about her awful record and her immense load of baggage. She's got a D by her name and that's all that matters.

Who out of those who don't already support her will respond negatively when he starts attacking her?

[pdsimdars]

21. We don't have to look back that far, she's made a bunch of them more recently . . heard of the FBI

[JaneyVee]

11. What about this baggage?

As seen on twitter

[pipoman]

12. Bernie has one page, Hillary has a 6 volume set...

[Miles Archer]

15. What about it?

His baggage...or anyone else's...doesn't negate hers.

It would be really, really easy to underestimate how much the GOP loathes Clinton, how they have hammered home a repeated meme of her as the "bogeywoman" or whatever you want to call it, the guaranteed end of civilization as we know it.

And whether they like it or not, Clinton carries no small amount of baggage, and it's all going to come out, in magnified and exaggerated and documented-with-YouTube-clips form.

Look at what they did to Kerry...the Swift Boating, people like Michelle Malkin saying he shot himself to get the Purple Heart...

IF Clinton gets the nomination...IF the #CallItSkinner crowd takes their victory lap...people like the Kochs and Sheldon Adelson are going to throw OBSCENE amounts of money into the Trump machine, and there will be an army working 24/7 to fan the flames of what's already out there.

And the worst part of this is that Clinton knows it.

So yeah, by all means, copy and paste as much anti-Bernie content as you'd like. It's not going to move Clinton forward by a single inch.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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IF Clinton gets the nomination...IF the #CallItSkinner crowd takes their victory lap...people like the Kochs and Sheldon Adelson are going to throw OBSCENE amounts of money into the Trump machine, and there will be an army working 24/7 to fan the flames of what's already out there.

Koch and Adelson won't give Trump a red cent. The former won't give him a red cent because his protectionist inclinations will kill his business and the latter won't give him a red cent because he isn't going to put the fate of his beloved Israel in the hands of someone as mercurial as Trump.

The Goldwater-Johnson race is the analog for this one and all the big money went to the latter.

[Miles Archer]

19. There are two options

1). The RNC and its money machine will take the loss and let Trump crash and burn

or

2). They'll go for the throat

I don't think there's an analog for this one...we haven't seen this before.

If you're right, you're right, and there's no way the Republicans will rebound...not in the 2020 election cycle, maybe longer after that.

I just don't think we can can compare this to anything that's happened in the past.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. The moneyed class will stay as far away from him as possible.

Last thing they want is a revolution be it from the left, the right or any place else.

[Miles Archer]

26. I just posted this in LBN...

...Adelson's in.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141440033

[libdem4life]

27. Twitter???? From the folks who routinely Kill the Messenger.

Going downhill, I'd say.

[coyote]

3. Well that shouldn't be too difficult

[virtualobserver]

4. Bernie has given her a free pass....imagine what will happen after the Trump barrage.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. I can't wait to strip the bark off that bastard and make David Duke his running mate.

[Fumesucker]

6. Takes me back to the cartoon of me yute

[cali]

7. He is in for a rude surprise.

She'll decimate him. He is completely undisciplined and incapable of switching gears. And she'll slaughter him in the debates.

[Miles Archer]

17. Maybe, but Karl Rove crap like "McCain's illegitimate black baby" works with some voters.

The other thing to consider here is that the more rabid Trump supporters just...don't...listen.

They listen to what they're fed by Trump, and that's about it.

"He is completely undisciplined and incapable of switching gears."

100% true. But if stumbles across a gear that works and Clinton blinks, he's going to hammer that gear all the way to the Oval Office.

The challenge I'm facing is that I simply don't like her or trust her. It makes it hard for me to have confidence in her.

That, and the fact that there is no shortage of people who want to see her fail.

I'd like to see her change, to become more aware of the world outside of her own personal ambition. I don't expect to see that any time soon.

[pdsimdars]

22. Why do you even bother with the "bernie" avatar image?

[cali]

23. Lol. Because I've been one of his strongest supporters

But I've known from the get go that the house never loses. And the dem establishment is the house. Bernie is my Senator. I love the guy, but REALITY is where I come from.

[JaneyVee]

8. We're on it!

[Sparkly]

9. Maybe he'll make up some more nicknames, too.

And nobody can think of ANYthing bad to say about Bernie.

[Jitter65]

13. Sounds like you are cheering Trump on with this. nt

[NWCorona]

14. Trump was the only person to make Hillary back down from her attacks.

[Dem2]

16. Of course if Bernie was nominated he would kiss his butt hole and submit

I can't believe the arguments some people here make implying that he somehow would take it easy on Bernie.

[cali]

24. Disgusting. And about as insightful as a stinking pile.

[libdem4life]

28. Kissing butt holes? The level of Potty Mouth around here is disgusting. Ugh.

[Tarc]

29. All of which would easily be turned aside by Hillary. Or Bernie, if that miracle comes about

Can you imagine the first time there's a head-to-head debate? Or even worse for Trump, one of those town hall style ones? That bluster works great when you have a red meat audience and Neal Cavuto moderating your debate. On neutral ground against a single opponent, there will be no place to hide, no time for snide facial expressions while 8 other candidates rip each other apart.

Al Gore got some guff just for sighing once during a debate; Trump's antics will get him crucified by the media.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

30. He's got a lot to work with. Hillary's accumulated a lot of toxic baggage.