Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders Gets Some Outside Help He Didn’t Ask For ~NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/20/bernie-sanders-gets-some-outside-help-he-didnt-ask-for/
Senator Bernie Sanders often boasts that he has no super PAC supporting his candidacy and he has vigorously tried to keep any from forming. But he has been getting some unsolicited if mischievous help from Republican groups actively promoting the Vermont senators surging campaign.
America Rising, a Republican political action committee, reacted with glee on social media on Tuesday to a CNN/WMUR poll that showed Mr. Sanders with a large lead over Mrs. Clinton in New Hampshire, sharing the news with BREAKING qualifiers and links to news stories.
Karl Roves American Crossroads recently created an ad parroting Senator Bernie Sanderss critiques of Mrs. Clintons ties to Wall Street, made repeatedly last week in the days before Sundays debate.
All of it, of course, is intended to get under Mrs. Clintons skin and promote the Democratic candidate they believe would be weaker in a general election. Republican groups and super PACs have spent nearly $5 million targeting Mrs. Clinton so far this cycle. Theyve yet to spend a dollar on advertising attacking Mr. Sanders.
The Clinton campaign released a statement saying this support only furthers their argument that Mrs. Clinton is the candidate the Republicans are most afraid of facing.
The Sanders argument falls apart when the G.O.P. spokesman is trying to help him and the Republicans run ads trying to stop Hillary Clinton in the primary, said Jennifer Palmieri, the communications director for the Clinton campaign, in a statement. She asserted that Mr. Sanders was taking his cues from Mr. Rove, though the senators Wall Street attacks predated the Rove ad.
The effort on the right to attack Mrs. Clinton from the left has actually been underway for a while, with groups like American Crossroads and America Rising targeting digital content criticizing Mrs. Clintons positions on the Keystone oil pipeline, for example.
The idea is to make her life difficult in the primary, Colin Reed, America Risings executive director, said last year.
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)The M$M would love the ratings a Trump/Sanders showdown would bring.
They'd love the ratings either presidency would bring.
Only on their deathbeds would they regret what they have done.
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)It's hateful how they try try try to influence us!
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)SunSeeker
(51,657 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)a flock of pigeons landed on the stage............too bad it was only a flock of rethugs.....eh?
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)He's also gotten some public high-fives from the Bircher/libertarian frackers themselves..thr Koch bros.
He's gotten all kinds of help in doing to the Great Dem Party what they did to the GOP with the KOCH owned TeaParty.
How bout that!
Friends in high places.
Thank god for the Dem firewall, The blessed Superdelegates. No wonder he is trying like mad to bully them into giving up their vote to him.
Its not going to work.
The Dem Supers were put in place to prevent exactly what Sanders, Rove, & the Koch Teapartists have been dreaming of since their coup of the once reasonable, Republican Party.
The Supers are the strength of the Dem Party against nefarious usurpers.
Hillary 2016..Madam President, & the Dem Party prevails against them all.
LisaM
(27,826 posts)The number of articles linked to from Judicial Watch is really disappointing. You'd think DUers would be a little more discerning.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)This 2015/16 campaign has proven that.
Hillary is indeed the only true Dem in the race, that's been proven also.
We'll get her to the Presidency. No one slinks in to destroy the Dem Party and succeeds.
Never.
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)Republican Operatives Try to Help Bernie Sanders
Picking your opponent is an age-old political manipulation tactic.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-01-19/republican-operatives-are-trying-to-help-bernie-sanders
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Just sayin.
A concerted effort, one might say.
Perhaps.
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)GOP super PACs give Bernie Sanders a pass
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/gop-super-pacs-give-bernie-sanders-pass
Republicans seem to be more concerned about facing off against his Democratic opponent.
GOP super PACs and outside groups have already spent about $5 million attacking Hillary Clinton, while they have spent $0 hitting Bernie Sanders, according a Democratic source who tracks media buys.
The only attack ads against Sanders this cycle have come from a super PAC tied to Martin OMalley, the third candidate in the Democratic race, according to the source.
still_one
(92,366 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)That's what happens every time the rats scatter.
They'll hunker down till the leader of the pak (PAC?) signals its safe to emerge.
Its the nature of being busted.
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)Who is it all about? Guess who is missing. Not a peep about???
https://www.americarisingpac.org/ http://www.americancrossroads.org/
Loki
(3,825 posts)Glad people are starting to pay attention. This is Rovian and it's so obvious.
Look at the date this was published!!
The Right Baits the Left to Turn Against Hillary Clinton
By ASHLEY PARKER and NICK CORASANITI MAY 16, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/us/politics/the-right-aims-at-democrats-on-social-media-to-hit-clinton.html
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)To help themselves by "helping" BS.