2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Bernie Sanders smear campaign has begun [View all]RichVRichV
(885 posts)Hillary claims she is going to raise billions of dollars, has her own super pac, and has multiple pacs backing her. So where do you think all that money is going to go?
She's not just going to run constant ads of her kissing babies and hugging bunnies. Nor is she going to use that money to buy off diebold. That money and those pacs are to go on the offensive.
Sure you think it's there for her Republican challenger in the general, and I'm sure she'd love to save it all for that. But the simple fact is it's there to get her elected. If she's threatened in the primaries she's going to use those resources. Once she truly feels threatened she will go negative, just like virtually every other politician in existence.
Now do I believe all these attacks are coming from Hillary right now? No. It's still too early for her to go really negative, and there are lots of groups who don't want to see Bernie gain steam. The Democratic power structure, controlled by centrists, see Bernie as a direct threat to them . That's who I think is giving McCaskill her walking orders. The corporations and media see him as a threat to thier cash cows obviously. Even O'Malley and his pacs are after Bernie. He can't run an effective campaign of being left of Hillary if Bernie is already running an effective campaign left of his.
The simple fact is whether Hillary is running an attack campaign now or not, she will before this primary season is over. To think otherwise is naive and goes against her past actions.