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Sanders lacks the pitbull mentality needed to dethrone the sociopath, Clinton. She's such an easy target, yet he chickened out when given the chance to bounce on the serial liar. If he wants to win this thing he needs at least remedial course on Machiavelli and politics, otherwise he's going to get his clock cleaned in short order and good.
She's such an easy target, yet he chickened out when given the chance to bounce on the serial liar.
Right now Sanders is running for the Democratic Party nomination, not the general election. Like it or not, the Clintons are Democratic Party royalty. Sanders is running for the votes of people who generally like Hillary Clinton, sad as that may be. Sanders will lose much more than he will gain by succumbing to the urge to play smash-mouth politics with Clinton. He should stay on message, stick to the issues, and let Clinton come after him rather than go after her.
My sense is that is correct, Dan. Sanders needs to take the high road with HRC. Others will do the Hillary bashing for it. I don't see him getting any political points for doing so and it could hurt him in the end. If he gets the nomination, he will need lots of HRC voters, as well as women. The risk of alienating them isn't worth the possible gain, IMHO. Let Trump savage HRC. But notice he is not really doing that yet and he is pretty savvy as a persuader as well as an entertainer.
I'm with Malmo. Sanders won't get the nomination if he never lays a glove on her, no matter who else does the dirty fighting on his behalf. Democrats are hardly going to listen to the likes of Trump or the rest of the ghouls running for the Republican nomination - Clintonistas are unnaturally loyal. You'll need more than rational argument to convince these sad meatheaded hero worshippers.
If he wimps out of trading blows with Clinton, she'll win. Moreover, if by some miracle he defeats her by going easy on her it may not play well later. But that's all academic if he can't kick the shit out of her now. He should go on the attack. No one else will, and it may play better coming from him.
There are ways to confront with without appearing confrontational. That's part of the art of debate, which involves rhetoric as well as logic. In debating being overly confrontational is seldom a winning strategy.
Bernie is presenting himself as out of mainstream mode, not only with respect to substance but also function. They go together. I think he is savvy enough politically to get this. The Senate is actually very collegial.
Sanders lacks the pitbull mentality needed to dethrone the sociopath.
Chaffee brought up Clinton's lack of ethics. And when Anderson asked her to respond to that, she smiled and said "no", thinking she was being clever. Well it turns out she was because instead of challenging that awful reply, all the other dummies on the stage just stood there and smiled.
And the emails!
So many missed opportunities that to me it seemed ... scripted ... a Clinton coronation was last night's "debate."
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Sanders lacks the pitbull mentality needed to dethrone the sociopath, Clinton. She's such an easy target, yet he chickened out when given the chance to bounce on the serial liar. If he wants to win this thing he needs at least remedial course on Machiavelli and politics, otherwise he's going to get his clock cleaned in short order and good.
She's such an easy target, yet he chickened out when given the chance to bounce on the serial liar.
Right now Sanders is running for the Democratic Party nomination, not the general election. Like it or not, the Clintons are Democratic Party royalty. Sanders is running for the votes of people who generally like Hillary Clinton, sad as that may be. Sanders will lose much more than he will gain by succumbing to the urge to play smash-mouth politics with Clinton. He should stay on message, stick to the issues, and let Clinton come after him rather than go after her.
My sense is that is correct, Dan. Sanders needs to take the high road with HRC. Others will do the Hillary bashing for it. I don't see him getting any political points for doing so and it could hurt him in the end. If he gets the nomination, he will need lots of HRC voters, as well as women. The risk of alienating them isn't worth the possible gain, IMHO. Let Trump savage HRC. But notice he is not really doing that yet and he is pretty savvy as a persuader as well as an entertainer.
I'm with Malmo. Sanders won't get the nomination if he never lays a glove on her, no matter who else does the dirty fighting on his behalf. Democrats are hardly going to listen to the likes of Trump or the rest of the ghouls running for the Republican nomination - Clintonistas are unnaturally loyal. You'll need more than rational argument to convince these sad meatheaded hero worshippers.
If he wimps out of trading blows with Clinton, she'll win. Moreover, if by some miracle he defeats her by going easy on her it may not play well later. But that's all academic if he can't kick the shit out of her now. He should go on the attack. No one else will, and it may play better coming from him.
There are ways to confront with without appearing confrontational. That's part of the art of debate, which involves rhetoric as well as logic. In debating being overly confrontational is seldom a winning strategy.
Bernie is presenting himself as out of mainstream mode, not only with respect to substance but also function. They go together. I think he is savvy enough politically to get this. The Senate is actually very collegial.
Sanders lacks the pitbull mentality needed to dethrone the sociopath.
Chaffee brought up Clinton's lack of ethics. And when Anderson asked her to respond to that, she smiled and said "no", thinking she was being clever. Well it turns out she was because instead of challenging that awful reply, all the other dummies on the stage just stood there and smiled.
And the emails!
So many missed opportunities that to me it seemed ... scripted ... a Clinton coronation was last night's "debate."
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