CNN talking about Hillary's comments insulting young voters.

[jillan]

Hillary surrogate doubling down saying they feel sorry for ANYONE believing Bernie.

Niera somebody said that.

Hillary and her campaign surrogates are making it harder every day to support her.
I've been one of these people that have gone back and forth between Bernie or Bust and of course I'll vote for her in the GE.
Yes. Insulting my intelligence is really going to earn my vote.

And she wonders why she has a likability problem?


Moving closer and closer to #BernieOrBust. I cannot vote for somebody who has zero respect for me.

[daleanime]

1. That's basically the whole thing, there will never be any attempt on her part....

to earn your vote, because it already belongs to her. So part with it willingly.

[FlatBaroque]

2. #NeverHer

[Kip Humphrey]

3. Hillary's strategy of "If we insult them, they will come support us" seems a bit odd to me.

[JudyM]

4. It's not about what makes sense, it's about impulsive defensiveness, whether that means insulting

or lying.

Poor judgment, rinse and repeat.

[onecaliberal]

5. I've had people tell me straight out, they don't need us.

I guess they'll be pulling votes out of their ass. You'd think someone who struggles with 67% of the country believing they lie would try harder with people. She's NOT entitled to my vote, morally for me, it's not possible.

[enigmatic]

15. Hillary's campaign wants the Reagan Democrats of the party

Not the millennials or the progressives. The former Republicans that have infiltrated the Democratic party because the GOP has become the Crazy Party are her base, not Democrats.

[onecaliberal]

16. There aren't enough of them left to get her across the finish line with a positive result.

[enigmatic]

17. w/o the independents, absolutely

which is why the Democrats will lose the GE if she's the nominee.

[onecaliberal]

18. Indies will NEVER vote for her.

[Baobab]

19. trickle down doesnt work, though

unless you mean trickle down in the polls.

Hillary's economics doesn't work for America.

[enigmatic]

20. yep

And if she wins the Primary she will immediately move to the Right and try to push those failed economic policies to try to win the GE. And it's also why she'll lose, too.

[jillan]

6. She'll tell us we have to vote for her because of the SCOTUS. Michelle Alexander has a phrase for

people who use fear to get you to vote for them (she was using it in the context of Dems taking the black vote for granted.)

It applies here as well.

That is "emotional blackmail".

[Baobab]

21. thank you, i was trying to remember that phrase...

writing it down.

[GreatGazoo]

7. I worked on a campaign for a major software maker

that is not well liked. Their attitude toward the customer was 'if they don't want what we are selling then they are just stupid.'

I think this "feel sorry" thing is very similar. Maybe it is living inside the bubble of monopolistic power that engenders this tone toward those outside the bubble.

[Land of Enchantment]

8. Yesterday she was on Meet the Depressed (which I NEVER watch) and I heard her comment about feeling

sorry for the 'youngins' who support Bernie. For someone of her political savvy to be so unaware of the enormous numbers of 'new voters' and to diss them in such a manner was astounding. We're talking about younger people who have never voted because they have not been inspired by a candidate enough to even bother to register to vote. The young adults who are now in their late 20's to early 30's have come out in droves to register this time around and when added to the youngest (18-22) are going to constitute a huge block of the millennial vote of the future. IT is unbelievable she would choose to alienate them. It's as if the Clinton Campaign is stuck in their daddy's political era and unaware how drastically the world has changed.

[BernieforPres2016]

10. I posted a thread yesterday on the YouTube reaction to Hillary's comments

The video is up on YouTube. At last look, there were well over 600 thumbs down and something like 28 thumbs up. The comments below the video were absolutely brutal to Hillary.

[Land of Enchantment]

22. Thanks--I'll look for it. Time here has been limited recently. nt

[roguevalley]

13. I don't think she has political savvy. She's losing this election just

like last time. She doesn't have a clue what she looks or sounds like. She's in a bubble and will never emerge. She's a terrible candidate and truly, she's showing what a terrible person she is.

[BernieforPres2016]

9. One thing the anti Bernie or Bust crowd never mentions

If Hillary is elected President, the Democratic Party is gone for progressives for at least another 5 years, and probably for 8 or more if she wins a 2nd term. It's probably already too far gone, but if Hillary is elected we can expect to see a post election effort to further marginalize progressives (the few that they can find) in retaliation for Bernie's campaign.

And if Hillary was to win and serve 2 terms, we probably have Chelsea's entry into politics to look forward to. In 2024, Chelsea will be close to the age that Bill was when he won the Presidency in 1992. My guess is we would see the junior NY senator Kirsten Gillibrand getting a spot in Hillary's administration, a caretaker appointed to fill the balance of her term, and Chelsea running for her Mom's old Senate seat in 2018.

[SoapBox]

11. Arghhhh.

There is a post at the top of LBN how she's confident she can win.

Then one of the Bots says that Bernie has hired "psycophants"...definition: "a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite."

[jillan]

12. We're parasites now? We should make a list of every name they have called us &

post it all over twitter while including @HillaryClinton in the tweet.

[Else You Are Mad]

14. I guess...

Hillary knows that she lost the millennial vote, so she has to double down and pander to the baby boomers by using this 'damn kids these days...' Strategy.

I really think Hillary doesn't realize how she is on thin ice with the millennials & that scares me about the GE and her actual chances of winning if she gets the nomination.