2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: NYT TO HRC: STOP LYING ABOUT SANDERS. [View all]Jarqui
(10,122 posts)Just as she is a weather vane when it comes to policy, she'll stop lying when her handlers tell her it's costing her votes.
Everything she's done is to win votes. Lying, deceptions, dirty tricks, David Brock, etc have always been on the table as options for her that she has used many times over.
Since the media wasn't calling her on her lies, she kind of said "hey, if they're letting me get away with it, why not?"
Looks like that party is over for the moment. She went so far, not even the media who is in her corporate pocket could collectively ignore it when folks like Axelrod or Michael Moore are calling her out on it in social media.
She will not entirely stop it. She never has. She'll reign it in until the heat dies down and go for other slippery tactics in the interim.
You'd think the Clintons would have learned by now how badly lying about stuff goes for them. I guess it's like the saying: you can't teach an older dog new tricks.