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Chan790

(20,176 posts)
45. Use that baggage to her advantage.
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 09:48 AM
Mar 2016

In a GE, it would be a bloodbath. It could only help her there though...people tend to like honesty as a change of pace from pols, even when they're saying honestly terrible things. I can't say like Hillary Clinton, but I have to respect that she does actually understand something most Democrats seem to not understand: Politics is bloodsport. If she's not responding now, I have to assume she's saving her ammo until she can nail him at point-blank range in a head-to-head fight.

Let him attack her...then respond not to rebut his attacks but reveal his greater malign complicity in what he's accusing her of.

"Oh yes, everybody knows my husband is a incorrigible flirt, but those prostitutes Donald is always surrounding himself with are like leaving candy lying around for Bill."

Whatever he attacks with...rebut it with his complicity.

If he accuses her of being a crook, rebut he'd know since he tried to bribe her. Low energy? That's because she's not into cocaine like the Trumps. Frigid? A lesbian? (These are the kinds of bombastic inanities I can see him resorting to) Her sex-life is not a qualification of office, but she sees why a serial-philandering pervert like him would want to talk about it.

Break out the purse-mouthed impression she did of him on SNL on a debate stage and it's all over...she'd be mocking him to his face and he'd utterly lose it. $50 says he'd call her a c*nt on national TV from the debate stage.

It doesn't matter how much the moronic end of the GOP likes him...his candidacy won't survive that.

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Yes , her arrogance is one of her most loved attributes. seaotter Mar 2016 #1
They don't get it, do they? smh. nt artislife Mar 2016 #20
Yeah, I don't get why it would be arrogant to depants Trump ProudToBeBlueInRhody Mar 2016 #25
I don't understand your post artislife Mar 2016 #29
Whatever ProudToBeBlueInRhody Mar 2016 #30
That's your reflection you are looking at. nt artislife Mar 2016 #32
Bingo! We've got a winner here! Vinca Mar 2016 #41
Not going to work RobertEarl Mar 2016 #2
Not when it's directed at people with disabilities Shankapotomus Mar 2016 #6
Didn't seem to hurt him RobertEarl Mar 2016 #8
He'll have to win undecided voters Shankapotomus Mar 2016 #19
I don't think either of them would win over undecided voters. People have Svafa Mar 2016 #53
The republican base likes "meanness", apparently above all else. pampango Mar 2016 #16
Love beats all meaness. riversedge Mar 2016 #58
They ate it up when he went after Rosie O'Donnell. nt artislife Mar 2016 #21
His BASE ate it up leftynyc Mar 2016 #34
Our problem is going to be hemorrhage... Chan790 Mar 2016 #43
I hear that every election season leftynyc Mar 2016 #44
If I don't vote Dem, I will vote Green artislife Mar 2016 #46
Where on earth leftynyc Mar 2016 #47
The inference of this thread is that the people artislife Mar 2016 #48
So nobody called you dumb leftynyc Mar 2016 #49
Not pointedly. nt artislife Mar 2016 #55
+! - Great response! fleur-de-lisa Mar 2016 #50
on the nail ..n/t busterbrown Mar 2016 #3
Did you ever notice that Trump never looks at the people he's insulting in debates? Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #4
"Bless you heart" has already been used or that would be a good one. patricia92243 Mar 2016 #5
Except that the Trumpster never shuts up... Wounded Bear Mar 2016 #7
Trump shut down HRC'S "sexist" accusation in less than 24 hoyrs Arazi Mar 2016 #9
I'm confident Hillary can handle anything Trump throws at her. Laurian Mar 2016 #12
She blew her response by letting Trump change the subject. greyl Mar 2016 #31
Let him bring up Bill's affairs leftynyc Mar 2016 #35
His recorded appearances on the Howard Stern Show maxrandb Mar 2016 #39
Again, that's only the beginning leftynyc Mar 2016 #42
He won't bring up Bill's affairs so much as the sexual assault allegations LittleBlue Mar 2016 #56
Let him try leftynyc Mar 2016 #57
Use that baggage to her advantage. Chan790 Mar 2016 #45
or she could smile and say "i've been called worse on DU" nt msongs Mar 2016 #10
DUZY!!! maxrandb Mar 2016 #38
You win the interwebs today!!! giftedgirl77 Mar 2016 #52
Just turn over your tax records,Donald world wide wally Mar 2016 #11
I worry about her damn vote yeoman6987 Mar 2016 #17
I don't understand the point you're making world wide wally Mar 2016 #22
I didn't know that Bill was running. longship Mar 2016 #13
The lint video is odd looking to me. Looks like a dandruff problem. nt Logical Mar 2016 #14
No offense, but she will have a better retort. HuckleB Mar 2016 #15
Funny rock Mar 2016 #18
I think we'll see she has a good, snide sense of humor flamingdem Mar 2016 #23
She’s already playing it happy, warm, and calm, she’s heard it all before. lindysalsagal Mar 2016 #24
Clinton will eat his lunch, racism and all. Hoyt Mar 2016 #26
Didn't she steal that one from Obama - who was brushing off her smears? djean111 Mar 2016 #27
Because it's all Wrestling right? NowSam Mar 2016 #28
That's not a tactic that will work. SheilaT Mar 2016 #33
Let him rant and rave leftynyc Mar 2016 #36
I don't think you fully understand him. SheilaT Mar 2016 #37
I'm NYer and have been leftynyc Mar 2016 #40
Trump "Bill's a cheater" Hillary "My husband and I worked on our marriage through the good times TeamPooka Mar 2016 #51
...Bernie will just laugh it off, and say "See? He doesn't even know who he's running against!" KamaAina Mar 2016 #54
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