Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumTexas: Clinton 59% Sanders 10% O'Malley 3% Undecided 28%
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251737085BOOM!!!!!
Cha
(297,692 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Gotta love that brain-trust behind Bernie, those guys are genius!
Cha
(297,692 posts)riversedge
(70,306 posts)ha --I had just run across this article and I recognized words--I was going to post it. It fits here.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-10-28/bernie-sanders-brain-trust-says-he-can-beat-hillary-clinton
The Sanders Brain Trust's Plan to Beat Hillary Clinton
Top aides Tad Devine and Jeff Weaver lay out his path to victory. Step one: Take the gloves off.
John Heilemann
October 28, 2015 5:19 AM CDT
Hillary Clinton Brings Tough Wall Street Talk to Stephen Colbert's Show
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton chats with Stephen Colbert on Oct. 27, 2015.
On Colbert, Hints of Hillarys Comic Gift
Is Hillary Clinton Playing the Victim Card vs. Bernie Sanders?
The pizzas ordered in by the Bernie Sanders brain trust had just been delivered to the DoubleTree hotel near the Des Moines airport when the talk turned to Hillary Clinton. It was after midnight this past Saturday, a few hours after Sanders, at the Iowa Democratic Partys annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner, had used his speech to launch his most sustained and systematic critique of Clinton thus far. Without once mentioning her by name, Sanders indicted the front-runner by implication as an ideological shape-shifter, inconstant in her fealty to progressive principles, often and conveniently arriving late at liberal positionson campaign finance reform, gay rights, the Iraq War, and Wall Street regulationthat Sanders had held consistently for many years, even when they were broadly unpopular.
Now, at the DoubleTree, three members of the Sanders high commandcampaign manager Jeff Weaver, communications director Michael Briggs, and field director Phil Fiermontewere reflecting on what Clinton's record might say about her character. All agreed that Sanders and his staff believed that Clinton had moved to the left on numerous issues, from the Trans-Pacific Partnership to the Keystone pipeline, for purely political reasons: to foreclose daylight between her and Sanders. I asked Weaver if he thought that made her, as some longtime Clinton critics argue, a craven hypocrite and opportunist?
A craven hypocrite? Weaver replied, grinning slyly. That's a little bit harsh, don't you think? Then he added, with a chuckle, Look, she'd make a great vice president. We're willing to give her more credit than Obama did. We're willing to consider her for vice president. We'll give her serious consideration. We'll even interview her.
Look, she'd make a great vice president.
Weaver was at least half-joking, or so it seemed to me. But even in jest, his comments were telling: about both the darkening assessment of Clinton among Sanders's people and their heady confidence that they can beat her. ...................
In a series of interviews last weekend in Iowa and since, Sanders's lieutenants provided me with a wide-ranging and at times detailed account of their strategy for the three-month sprint to the first two must-win contests. That strategy is premised on the notion that their campaign has shifted into a new gear, moving from what Weaver calls the introductory phase into the persuasion phase. This new phase will be more aggressive, hard-edged, and focused on driving home contrasts between Sanders and Clinton. In other words, it will be more negative. J................
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Hillary's got nothing to worry about LOL
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Thats the day the republican party DIES!
Gothmog
(145,567 posts)I wonder if Sanders will cross that threshold
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,241 posts)the national "Democratic" Party. Very little that happens in those states will have any bearing on what happens nationally.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)of course
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)mcar
(42,375 posts)katmille
(213 posts)After all, though we had W and Goodhair Perry (I borrowed that from Molly Ivins), and now Perry clone Greg Abbott, we also had Molly and Governor Richards (loved that woman!) and now we have Cecile Richards and Wendy Davis and Leticia Van de Putte. We have the Castro brothers, Julian and Joaquin. We had LBJ and Lady Bird. (Please forgive us for Ted Cruz and John Cornyn). Maybe we can make up for our sins by giving Texas to Hillary next March!
riversedge
(70,306 posts)Would love it if you could do that. Saw it tweet.
Oct 27 Texas Dixie Strategies state Poll: Likely Democrat Primary voters->Clinton 58.73%, Bernie Sanders 9.72% http://cbsloc.al/1MAP9aS #p2