He's never had a negative ad run against him on his life

[Skink]

Oh really? Guess being elected time and time again was just luck.

[cali]

1. Vermonter here. I've seen the negative ads. Hill is 'mistaken'

Heated Vermont Senate Race Blankets Airwaves


In the race to succeed Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords, self-made millionaire Richard Tarrant is shoveling piles of money into TV ads attacking his opponent, independent Bernie Sanders. And Sanders is firing back. The result: media saturation in a state so small that 200,000 votes would be a landslide win.

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6137684

[Corporate666]

50. Can you post a link to any of these negative ads???

[Corporate666]

55. In a GE, he would get eviscerated like nothing he's experienced before

The simple facts are

-His foreign policy positions are unpopular with the majority of Americans

-Most people don't realize he wants to raise their taxes

-The number of holes and false promises in his "free shit for everyone" platform would be highlighted by the GOP

...and he would never get elected. He hasn't faced that sort of criticism from HRC. She's been polite. Overly polite, IMO. She should have put him away months ago but she was trying not to make too many waves in the party. It came back to bite her in the ass. Now she's just running the clock and trying to ignore his tantrums but she's in a difficult position - if she puts him away now, she looks like a sore winner and if she doesn't, Bernie keeps turning up the volume on his petulance.

[Duckhunter935]

2. Once again she is lying

And she wonders why we find her so untrustworthy

[cali]

4. Why, yes. Yes she is.

[bahrbearian]

10. She can't help it. After all the years doing it ,it's natural. Can you imagine a conversation..

between her a Bill.

[Duckhunter935]

14. Lol

[pdsimdars]

19. You mean you think they talk to each other?? I hadn't even considered that one.

[LiberalArkie]

51. I had always thought that her/his secretary called his/her secretary to make appointments.

[Maven]

3. Child's play compared to the 'red scare' advertising blitzkrieg that would be unleashed against him

funded by billions of dirty GOP money, if he were the Democratic nominee for President. Not saying Bernie wouldn't be able to fight his way through it and win, but to compare a Vermont senatorial race against a relative unknown with a presidential race against the most loathsome political machine in modern history is foolish. That's why comparing matchup polls against Trump at this point in the game is also fairly pointless.

[Surya Gayatri]

7. Pre-school, compared to the Ph.D-level RW war that would be waged against him in the GE.

Comparing his and Hillary's polling against Drumpf at this stage is just plain silly. Nothing but ginning up a "horse-race" by the MSM.

[Rex]

8. Says the person that is pushing the thrown chair lie.

A few of you are doing this, so you have no credentials...all you demonstrate is that you are on the same level as some fanatical BS supporters.

I guess that is how you want to be viewed.

[Surya Gayatri]

12. Consider the "chair throwing" as a metaphor comparable to the "kitchen sink" meme.

[Duckhunter935]

15. But it was never really thrown, right

Answer yes or no please

[JoePhilly]

18. No, he only threatened to throw it.

Like any gentleman offering his chair to a lady might do.

[joshcryer]

28. The funny thing...

...someone wrestled the chair out of his hands, it wasn't like he had a bad idea and calmly changed his mind. Someone grabbed the chair and yelled at him to cut it out.

[Fawke Em]

43. Did you watch the same video I did?

Apparently not. He gave no resistance. No one "wrested" the chair out of his hands. They walked up and merely took it. He accepted the hug willingly.

[joshcryer]

52. Delusional.

[Alex4Martinez]

46. Did not. You raise a chair like you might raise a fist, as a gesture only.

Get over it.

[KPN]

21. The "socialism" shtick doesn't have any legs.

So what else have they got? Certainly not that he's opposed to the "establishment corruption";
no major scandals for running on decades; no experience/history championing free trade deals like NAFTA and the TPP, biased criminal sentencing measures, to banking deregulation; no imperialistic interventionism. and more.

By comparison, Trump and the GOP will easily paint Hillary as Obama’s third term while indicting her interventionist foreign policy, support of corporate trade deals, and funding ties with Wall Street -- not to mention her endless flip-flops, endless scandals, and $265,000 speeches to Wall Street bankers. He won't even have to mention "transcripts"!

Hillary has chosen to run as the candidate of continuity when voters are looking for change. She champions "incremental reform" while voters - particularly the young voters who have the most to lose via incremental change -- demand more. She presents herself and is more hawkish than Obama when voters are weary of never ending wars that result from interventionism. Bernie is clearly the better candidate, the "socialism/communism" labels notwithstanding.

[Retrograde]

39. Trips to Cuba and the Soviet Union, for a start

questioning whether he's a Real American. The lack of endorsements from Democratic congresspeople and senators, Burlington College, campaign donations, not a Christian ...

These are the people who questioned the patriotism of a man who lost three limbs in Vietnam, and successfully changed their followers' view of John Kerry from a principled man who opposed a war he experienced firsthand into a whiny crybaby who got a few scratches (never mind that he was still carrying around shrapnel from those "scratches", and that people who actually served with him testified to his bravery and integrity). These are the people who let the whispers that Obama was a secret Kenyan Muslim take on a life of their own. These are the kind of people who've been hounding Hillary Clinton since the 1990s - remember Whitewater? the White House travel scandal?

No, Sanders hasn't been in the arena when the gloves are off. Remember, truth is not an obstacle to GOP dirty tricks.

[KPN]

40. Lol. Sanders will shrug those events off.

They will have no impact on his broad base of supporters. Sanders has a broader base than Hillary or Trump. That's not going to change.

If you think Hillary is a stronger candidate in the face of GOP onslaught, you are fooling yourself.

[SheilaT]

42. Bill Clinton went to Moscow while a college student.

It was a big deal for part of the 1992 campaign.

People need to get over thinking a trip to the Soviet Union means someone is a Communist.

I went with a group to Leningrad and Moscow in 1976, and when he learned of my upcoming trip, my older brother who had some sort of job that required a security clearance pitched a fit telling me I could cost him his job. I laughed in his face, and said if the government was that stupid, he should look for work elsewhere.

Needless to say, he did not lose his job. I sincerely doubt our government had any clue that his sister went to the evil empire. Even though we have the same, somewhat uncommon last name.

Of course, those who think foreign travel implies something bad, are often those who never travel outside their own county in the first place.

[Retrograde]

45. But you and I are rational people

Of course, those who think foreign travel implies something bad, are often those who never travel outside their own county in the first place.

I think those are called Trump voters. I think people in national politics need some time abroad, if only to see a little of the world from a different perspective. But then I'm not planning to engage in Rovarian smear tactics.

[imagine2015]

27. Hillary can't beat him. Trump hasn't even started on her. He's waiting to see if she's nominated.

[pdsimdars]

20. Yea, and of course they wouldn't campaign hard and negative against Hillary . . .

with all the ammo they've been building up for decades. It's their dream scenario, finally to unleash it all.

[Cal Carpenter]

25. Aaaah, red-baiting by hypothetical proxy

I'm impressed!

[TDale313]

29. ...

[imagine2015]

38. How successful was the "Obama is a black power communist born in Kenya" propaganda blitz?

Didn't work out very well for the right-wing, did it?

[Arkansas Granny]

5. I'm pretty sure she was referring to this campaign.

CHUCK TODD:

You don't think Bernie Sanders' been vetted? You don't think this one long year of campaign, your campaign against him, has vetted him?

SEC. HILLARY CLINTON:

Let me say that I don't think he's had a single negative ad ever run against him. And that's fine.

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-may-22-2016-n578291

YMMV

[Duckhunter935]

6. Yes, we all know non of the superpac

Ads were negative

[GreatGazoo]

9. um... (?)

[joshcryer]

24. Oh my.

That ad is hilarious, because there's no way it brings anyone to her side. It's like they meant for it to be low hanging fruit.

[dsc]

37. did it run somewhere

if so where. I would like dates, locations dollars spent etc.

[hellofromreddit]

16. From this campaign

http://www.mediaite.com/online/hillary-ad-mocks-sanders-for-being-obsessed-with-talking-about-wall-street/

[Arkansas Granny]

26. Hoo, boy. That was brutal.

[Duckhunter935]

32. yes, it proves once again she is just a liar

[anotherproletariat]

17. Don't bother the Sandroids with facts...they make up the version of the stories they like.

And Hillary was right, no one has bothered to fund negative ads against Sanders because he has never been a threat to her getting the nomination, only to her unifying the party.

As this article points out, there are MANY angles of attack that could have totally brought Sanders down. I wonder if it might be time for some Democrats to bring them up:

Too Easy: How Republicans Would Tear Apart an Unvetted Bernie Sanders in the General Election

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/5/19/this-ends-now-the-bernie-sanders-opposition-research-the-media-refuses-to-release

[cali]

34. It's the hillarians who wouldn't know a fact if it kicked them in their posteriors

And who swallow the silly lies that hilly utters day in and day out.

[TimPlo]

11. So what HRC people are saying

Is that Clinton sucks at organizing a group of people to win a election. That she can only run things that are lies, like calling Sanders Racist right before SC primary? She sucks at finding people that are smart enough to find stuff to run against Sanders but Trump is smarter than her and will be able to vet Sanders better than HRC could?

[pdsimdars]

22. Sure seems like her own people don't have much confidence in their candidate.

[frylock]

23. That's what I'm reading.

[RoccoR5955]

13. She should change her name to HilLIARy! n/t

[joshcryer]

30. This campaign is absolutely nothing compared to 2008.

[Vinca]

31. The last guy to run against him spent millions in advertising trying to take him down

and, although I don't remember much of it now, I doubt it was all positive.

[frylock]

33. #HillLies

[Attorney in Texas]

49. this ^

[uponit7771]

35. or the NRA

[Joob]

36. LOL Hillary campaign and their SCARE tactics. Such a GREAT Quality to have!

[beachbumbob]

41. Sanders still lost to Hillary with out going after him or his record...

[riversedge]

44. OP is deceptive "I don't think he's had a single negative ad run against him," Clinton said

Chuck Todd and Hillary were discussing this primary season when that comment was made and your
OP talking about him running as a Senator was not the context.

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/hillary-clinton-questions-trump-s-level-success-n578246

[Kip Humphrey]

47. Hillarians need to believe their own fear mongering.

Gee, I wonder why that is.

[Attorney in Texas]

48. So CNN was wrong? http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/27/politics/hillary-clinton-ad-bernie-sanders/

Hillary Clinton launches closing ad against Bernie Sanders

[Alex4Martinez]

53. The HRC campaign would by now have thrown any unslung poop.

There's no poop to hurl.

Bernie's clean.