Hillary Clinton Suggests Sanders Has Largely Avoided Scrutiny...Trump cartoon...

[Iamaartist]

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/05/22/clinton0522/


Hillary Clinton suggested Sunday that Democratic rival Bernie Sanders has not been thoroughly tested in the campaign, and that this could affect his chances of winning what will likely be a fierce general election campaign against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.

“I don’t think he’s had a single negative ad ever run against him,” Mrs. Clinton said of Mr. Sanders in an interview to be aired Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press. “And that’s fine. But we know what we’re going into, and we understand what it’s going to take to win in the fall.”

Mr. Sanders has repeatedly cited polls suggesting he would fare better than Mrs. Clinton against Mr. Trump in the general election. It’s a key part of his argument, in the closing days of an intensifying primary season, that his candidacy should get serious consideration from Democratic voters and officials despite trailing Mrs. Clinton in votes and delegates by significant margins.

Mrs. Clinton’s supporters have said for some time that polls between Mr. Trump and the Democratic hopefuls are misleading because while Mrs. Clinton has been the target of harsh Republican attacks, Mr. Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, has largely escaped such scrutiny.

But Sunday may be the first time Mrs. Clinton herself has made the argument so directly, according to a transcript of the Meet the Press interview released before the program aired. “I have been vetted and tested, and I think that that puts me in a very strong position,” Mrs. Clinton said.

Mrs. Clinton suggested she was concerned that Mr. Trump was seizing this period, when he has all but wrapped up GOP nomination and the Democrats are still fighting it out, to legitimize his campaign despite the many inflammatory comments he made during the primaries.

“My campaign is not going to let Donald Trump try to normalize himself in this period,” Mrs. Clinton said. “And I do not want Americans, and you know, good thinking Republicans, as well as Democrats and independents, to start to believe that this is a normal candidacy. It isn’t.”


Mrs. Clinton was asked separately about whether she would meet the demands Mr. Sanders might make of the Democratic Party given his strong showing in the primaries, should she be the nominee.

True BS Avoided Scrutiny....he didn't have to take the attacks she did ....more to story.......

[Her Sister]

1. TOTALLY WE CANNOT ALLOW THE NORMALIZATION OF TRUMP

NOR THE NORMALIZATION OF RACISM!

nor the normalization of BULLYING!

and everything that MAKES AMERICA AWFUL!

and everything that MAKES AMERICA SUCK!

[Iamaartist]

3. You said all how true that is .....we cant ..and we will fight for our Dem rights....

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[DemonGoddess]

2. K&R!

She's absolutely RIGHT! We cannot allow normalization of what we all know to be racism, misogyny, and xenophobia.

As to the vetting? She's absolutely right on there! Sanders has not been vetted. He's been handled with kid gloves.

[Iamaartist]

4. K&R

[Nay]

5. That's because the media and other candidates did their absolute best to

totally ignore him, though. And any candidate, at any time, could have run an attack ad against him. I think they all hoped he would go away. They thought his being a democratic socialist would kill his candidacy without any effort on their part.

[BobbyDrake]

7. I'm sure that's a winning argument over in the Bernie Group, but I don't think it will work here.

When the original argument is "The media didn't vet Bernie properly" and you respond "Well, because they ignored him," that's not exactly the forceful rebuttal that you seem to think it is. In fact, it's much closer to being evidence proving the original argument than it is to being evidence against it.

The media wanted a horse race in both primaries and did everything in its power, including giving Bernie Sanders a free pass on his record and history, to make it happen.

[Iamaartist]

6. Hillary is the best....2016

Everybody is jealous of her .who isn't for her because we got the smart one the most experience,of candidates to be a president and a person to be proud of to run our country... without fear...

[beachbum bob]

8. sanders never been vetted on the national stage by the media...the rightwing media especially...they

were hoping sanders could pull an upset and then they would destroy him in the lead up to general elections and it would be so simple and effective he would lose even some blue states to trump....and trump would squash him in most the others

but those are the facts and we know many around here have a disdain to the facts

[Iamaartist]

9. I agree.... right wing media....I feel the same way..