So wasn't Hillary Clinton supposed to be taking the gloves off?

[mhatrw]

Why are she and her supporters still playing rope-a-Pope?

[SoLeftIAmRight]

1. the clintons know that they will not win a dirty war

they tested the water - and made a fast retreat

[Voice for Peace]

2. They may have lost that war when Bernie responded

With his excellent opinion of presidential quaifications. I believe that terrified them.

A lion.

[riversedge]

4. You underestimate Hillary at your own peril.

[Voice for Peace]

13. Ok thanks for the ominous tip

[Sky Masterson]

3. If the gloves don't fit you must aquit

If the gloves don't fit, she aint gonna do shit.
If the gloves don't fit, she can lie about it
OMG!! Hillary killed Nicole Simpson!!!

[surrealAmerican]

5. It turns out that, when she takes those gloves off ...

... you just see her fingerprints all over everything.

It doesn't really help.

[Fuddnik]

6. Every time she tries to untie the laces, the knot gets tighter.

[Jitter65]

7. That's a charge made by the BS supporters to start a street fight, makes BS look fierce

That is was Bernie was doing with his rant against HC about being qualified for POTUS. It played well for some but others can see it for what it really was. Pretend you are being attacked or threatened, then rail against your imagined attacker, play the victim who is going to fight back. Jump out in the street or alley and shout, You know the nasty kid on the block that feels ignored so he walks up to someone and says "you want a piece of me?" All the while making the kid walking away going down the street or alley looke scared and cowardly. If you ever lived in the "hood" you are familiar with all these antics.

[Dem2]

10. No it wasn't pretending, on TV last night Tad directly said

...that they expected to be broadsided, they expected a street fight, so their response to what they perceived Hillary's campaign to have said was already scripted well in advance. There was no denial. They didn't even hesitate for a microsecond to verify what they saw in those headlines of those articles, they jumped immediately without thinking.

[Vinca]

8. Hillary was stopped in her tracks . . . the smear plan had the brakes put on.

She's playing a risky, risky game because Bernie has never brought up the real negative issues re Hillary. The GOP will, but Bernie has been throwing her softballs this entire campaign. Since it's pretty clear she's got the numbers, all she and her supporters are doing at this point is alienating potential voters.

[thesquanderer]

9. Maybe we'll see the gloves off at the debate.

Or maybe she's been too busy dealing with the latest Bill disaster.

[killbotfactory]

11. Having her campaign question attack his qualifications...

and then when he responds in kind, spinning that into some kind of sexist attack against all professional women isn't hardball?

[mhatrw]

12. Clinton and her supporters are ever persecuted and always victims.

That's been her whole campaign from the start.

Smear->Provoke Response->Claim Victimhood

Rinse & Repeat

[MisterP]

14. wasn't she supposed to be TAKING off as well?

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

15. Well she made a trial run at that...

And Bernie sure did give her such a spook she backtracked and said, "yes, he is qualified".

Haven't heard any more negative attacks from her. No, "he's not a democrat", or "he caused the deaths of Sandy hook kids"...

[Ken Burch]

16. She doesn't need to take the gloves off:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

17. She exchanged her brass knucks for iron gauntlets and calling lace gloves.