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BlueMTexpat

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15. Thank you, Her Sister.
Sun Apr 3, 2016, 10:28 PM
Apr 2016

This article is actually performing a service that our M$M has not. Hillary's campaign doesn't need to use this at all. But for the GOP, it's a windfall and the slightest incident will be magnified, spun and disseminated so widely and swiftly that Bernie won't know what hit him or even where to start to put things into context.

The GOP will throw everything they can at whoever is the Dem GE nominee. Whatever they have thrown at Hillary generally has fizzled out, although it doesn't stop them from continuing to exploit debunked or toothless crises such as emailgate and others. After 25+ years of relentless RW scandal-mongering, she is still standing. Proudly.

But Bernie hasn't been vetted at all. Some of these incidents (e.g., attending an anti-US rally in Nicaragua) will be fodder for GOPers to gleefully flood the airwaves and newsprint with. RW radio will literally slaver in its excitement to paint Bernie in the worst light possible.

I believe that top GOPers (and certainly Rove) actually know all these things already - and more too - but are deliberately holding their fire in the hope that Bernie will somehow eke out the Dem nomination.

Bernie really doesn't even have a clue what would await him. And Jane would not be spared either.

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