Looks like Bernie Sanders is getting $$ help from the rightwing.

[Sparkly]

And not just with phony scandals, rumors, investigations, smear campaigns and talking points against Clinton.

Big money interests allied with the GOP's most extreme economic elements are using a thin and transparent veil of "opposing" Sanders to actually try to convince Democratic primary voters not to nominate Hillary Clinton.
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It's not that the helpful notes from some of GOP's wealthiest benefactors for Bernie Sanders has gone unnoticed. Certain groups, like Karl Rove's American Crossroads, have even openly associated themselves with the socialist from Vermont. Claiming credit for Hillary Clinton's victory in Nevada not being sufficiently large (a point the Sanders campaign is also curiously making), Crossroads had this to say:
““American Crossroads and Bernie Sanders helped Nevada caucus-goers see right through Hillary Clinton’s manufactured zeal on immigration reform after spewing virulent Trump-like rhetoric—and that one-two punch shaved Clinton’s 50-point lead a year ago to a slim, single digit win,” Steven Law, Crossroads CEO and president, said in a statement.”

The type of "help" the Crossroads CEO is talking about has come from other dark-money funded conservative groups as well. Such "help" included an ad in Iowa from ESA Fund, a conservative Super PAC, highlighting Bernie Sanders' free college, free health care and tax-the-rich agenda to Iowa Democratic voters, under the hilarious cover of claiming that Sanders was "too liberal" for Iowa, hardly an insult for Iowa's primary voters on the Democratic side. The ad-buy, totaling $600,000 was backed by Ameritrade CEO Joe Ricketts and his son. The Ricketts family is one of the wealthiest in the world, with a net worth of $4.5 billion. Here's that ad.
general election.

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Hillary Clinton is the most vetted candidate in the history of presidential races, with the possible exception of Barack Obama, who had every stone in his life turned over for the crime of running for and being president while back. Bernie Sanders can't even hold up to the minor vetting of the primary process before we find out that his legislative record is replete with attempting to dump nuclear waste on a poor Latino community, voting with Republicans to protect gun-touting racist thugs on the US-Mexico border... and naming post offices.

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/2/23/bernies-billionaires-ugly-truth-alliance-sanders-wall-street

[w4rma]

1. Wealthy Cruz Donor’s Firm Pours Millions Into Clinton Campaign

http://observer.com/2016/05/wealthy-cruz-donor-pours-millions-into-clinton-campaign/

[Sparkly]

2. Looks like they want to beat Trump.

Wonder why they aren't supporting Sanders, then?

[w4rma]

5. How would this big neoconservative donor even donate *millions* to Bernie?

Bernie has no Super PACs to accept millions of dollars. It's obvious that he doesn't want their money.

[Sparkly]

8. By running ads.

[virtualobserver]

26. first they are trying to destroy Hillary, now they are funding her ....make up your mind.

[Sparkly]

32. Umm... what? They're helping Sanders.

[virtualobserver]

35. they are funding Hillary

[Sparkly]

36. Who is?

Please read my OP.

[virtualobserver]

38. Bush and Cruz donors are pumping millions into Hillary's campaign.....

Your responses in this thread are incredibly confused.

[Bill USA]

29. Bernie Sanders’s Conservative Fanboys (includes American Crossroads: Karl Rove co-founder)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/23/bernie-sanders-s-conservative-fanboys.html

[bkkyosemite]

3. She is the most vetted? Maybe that is the problem. People know her from the vetting.

[lagomorph777]

4. That's a whole lot of twisty pretzel logic.

It's like a James Bond plot with double-crossing triple-agents working 4 sides of one fence. Seriously, get a grip.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Ah propaganda

if it comes from the People's view, it is exactly that.

[morningfog]

7. People's view, lol. People's view is an old troll still trolling and still full of shit.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Ah, yes, Spandan Chakrabarti:

Chained CPI apologist, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-marans/three-arguments-progressives_b_2444866.html; Clinton AIDS gaffe apologist, http://www.nationalmemo.com/what-do-we-make-of-hillary-clintons-aids-gaffe/ ; TPP apologist, http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2015/3/17/the-tpp-education-project-preface-fast-track-secret-deal-nafta; and all-things Clinton all the time apologist. That guy.



No bias there, nope, not a bit.

[frylock]

10. The People Spew.

[ibegurpard]

11. And Hillary is actually SEEKING IT OUT

So there's that.

[Warren Stupidity]

12. Speaking of rightwing horseshit.....

you might want to check your source for this vile nonsense.

Self delete would be the honorable thing to do.

[Sparkly]

13. More sources

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-01-19/republican-operatives-are-trying-to-help-bernie-sanders

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/23/bernie-sanders-s-conservative-fanboys.html

http://www.bustle.com/articles/143571-bernie-sanders-has-a-super-pac-supporting-him-but-its-not-what-you-think

Pick one.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. I thought Hillary was going to court the right wing- like "megachurch moms"?

Is the right wing bad again? I'm confused.

[Doctor_J]

15. So is Clinton

[AgingAmerican]

16. It "looks like" it?

Lol

[NCTraveler]

18. .

“American Crossroads and Bernie Sanders helped Nevada caucus-goers see right through Hillary Clinton’s manufactured zeal on immigration reform after spewing virulent Trump-like rhetoric—and that one-two punch shaved Clinton’s 50-point lead a year ago to a slim, single digit win,” Steven Law, Crossroads CEO and president, said in a statement.”

[demmiblue]

19. Unrec. for source. n/t

[Sparkly]

23. I linked four sources.

Scroll up for the other three. Or just do a search of your own -- it's there.

[Redwoods Red]

20. Spandex stinking up the joint again.

[Sparkly]

21. I'm sorry, I don't know what that means.

Would you explain, please?

[silvershadow]

24. Good. He needs the $. California alone costs enormous amounts of money. nt

[Sparkly]

25. They aren't contributing to his campaign directly, or

at least that's not what I'm saying. Maybe they are.

They just hope to run against him, so they're propping him up with "Wow, he's so so so liberal it's just terrible -- free everything, we can't have any of that!"

Read the articles and check out the ads.

They don't want to run against Clinton. They want to run against Sanders.

[Hekate]

27. And because his motives are as pure as Ivory Soap, like Nader he is happy to accept...

...so he can wallop anyone in the Democratic Party.

[KPN]

28. The People's View -- a Hillary shill site.

Nice try Sparky.

[Sparkly]

30. pick another, or use google

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-01-19/republican-operatives-are-trying-to-help-bernie-sanders

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/23/bernie-sanders-s-conservative-fanboys.html

http://www.bustle.com/articles/143571-bernie-sanders-has-a-super-pac-supporting-him-but-its-not-what-you-think

[brewens]

31. If you haven't heard, Hillary's vetting is still underway. Soon we may see results. n/t

[kaleckim]

33. The head hurts

Right wing groups are trying to help Sanders, which HE has no interest in, for whatever reason. Meanwhile, Clinton's team is actively courting Wall Street and business interests (her largest donors over her career and she has gotten more from Wall Street than all the other candidates combined). Now, could Wall Street be considered to be right wing? No, at least since the Queen entered the race. Now, corruption ain't corruption. Big link bout nothing.

[Punkingal]

34. Oh bullshit.

At least he isn't actively courting it like your candidate.

[Sparkly]

37. Well that's the thing.

They are showing their hand. They know Sanders is a weak candidate, so they're propping him up.

She is courting people with an ounce of sense who want to make sure Trump doesn't win.

[Punkingal]

39. And that's okay, because she is doing it.

Yet you post a critical OP about something Bernie is not even doing himself. I truly don't understand Clinton the logic of Clinton supporters.

[Sparkly]

41. I'll try again.

I'm not criticizing Sanders. I'm pointing out that he is propped up by right-wingers who would rather run against him than Clinton.

I am criticizing the notion that he's stronger in the GE than she is. This is yet more evidence to the contrary. They continually bash her (which his supporters pick up on and echo), and then spend money helping him.

That's all.

[ViseGrip]

40. And all that without taking a dime from their special interest bundlers.

[AgingAmerican]

42. The Peoples View! lol

I remember THAT website lol