Clinton Signals That She Is Ready To Dispatch With Sanders, Focus On GOP

[Purveyor]

Brooklyn, New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton, after splitting delegates with Bernie Sanders in Wyoming earlier in the day, told an audience on Saturday that her campaign is "on a path towards the nomination."

But, she said, she needs to become the nominee quickly so that she can direct all of her focus on Republicans.

Clinton did not mention Wyoming during her remarks, but her aides boasted publicly about splitting delegates with Sanders in the Cowboy State, something they did not think they would do going into the contest.

"We are on a path to the nomination, but I need to win big here in New York, because the sooner I can become the nominee, I can turn and unify the Democratic Party like I did with President Obama in 2008," Clinton said. "And the sooner we can go after the Republicans full-time."

The race between Clinton and Sanders has grown more acrimonious in the past week, with the Vermont senator saying the former secretary of state was not qualified to be president before walking back his comments.

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/09/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-republicans-new-york/index.html

[Barack_America]

1. The calls for "drop out, Bernie" always precede an embarrassing Clinton loss...

...very interesting.

[riversedge]

16. Splitting he delegates in WY was not an embarrassing loss for Clinton-.

[Barack_America]

17. The calls were before MI...WA...WI.

[bobbobbins01]

20. Precede being the key word there...

NY is what they are referring to.

[restorefreedom]

28. no, its called rigging. nt

[CorporatistNation]

36. TOTALLY ABBOUT RIGGING! THAT IS WHO HILLARY IS!

CANNOT STOMACH HER CRAP ANY LONGER! THERE IS AN INVESTIGATION GOING ON ABOUT THOSE BS SURROGATE VOTES HAULED IN BY SOME CLINTON OPERATIVE!

[restorefreedom]

38. investigstion? good. it all needs to be investigated. nt

[GreatGazoo]

24. Reading her remarks amid the spin I see "but I need to win big here in New York,"

That is very different than 'ready to dispatch.'

She lost in Wyoming and the 6 states before that. The gap is closing in NY, unlikely it will be the big win she admits that she needs.

[hollysmom]

2. She really doesn't like having competition.

and the media will just follow along declaring Sanders dead. The problem is he doesn't follow the plot line drawn out and media just can accept anything along the path, I mean it is hard enough they keep declaring Trump dead and he won't die, it is far too hard for them to accept another deviation. It would have been so much simpler for them if they could have just covered the march to appointment of he chosen ones - Clinton and Bush.

[jfern]

3. WTF is the hurry? They probably won't pick a nominee until July

And the general election is 7 months away. I guess she is just sick of pretending to not be a total 3rd way neoliberal hawk.

[Art_from_Ark]

10. I think she's also tired of having to commingle with the peasants

Like when they're ahead of her on the subway platform

https://www.facebook.com/ev.rom.5/videos/1063460743710569/

[Renew Deal]

22. Democrats are wasting money on the primary when they could be saving it for the GE.

[jfern]

23. Nope, having a chance at Bernie getting elected is not a waste

[Renew Deal]

25. Except that there isn't much of a chance.

And the goal isn't to win the primary. It's to win the GE.

You asked what the hurry is. This is it.

[jfern]

44. Bernie does better in the general election.

[restorefreedom]

29. then hillary should drop out now. nt

[Renew Deal]

31. The person with most votes and delegates

Genius!

[restorefreedom]

35. the one who cannot possibly win a ge. nt

[Renew Deal]

37. We'll worry about that when we get there

We will with with your continued support

[restorefreedom]

39. how can you say worry when you get there

when every poll shows bernie crushing the repubs ans hillary either winning by a hair or losing? add in the unfavorsbles, the untrustworthiness, the people she will surely lose with her destroy bernie strategy, and the fact that she never had millenials or independents to begin with? and lets not forget a legal could hanging over her head.

the most irresponsible thing the dems could do is nominate her.

[shawn703]

32. Nobody is telling Hillary she needs to spend money on the primary

If she thinks she has it wrapped up, why doesn't she forget about the primary and go to work on the GE now?

[Renew Deal]

43. It's not just that. It's the money wasted on Bernie's campaign.

[artislife]

40. Democracy involves more than one choice--by its very nature. nt

[passiveporcupine]

4. There is no rush in going after the republicans

remember that great quote:

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon Bonaparte

The longer we put off engaging with the Republicans, probably the better.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. what, like put him in the wood chipper?

"dispatch" doesn't sound very pleasant.

[reformist2]

6. You could have said that Hillary is ready to bring Bernie to heel.

[riversedge]

7. Sanders did that to himself this week-by raking up all those Pinochioe's

[Surya Gayatri]

8. He brought himself to heel by gratuitously playing the heel! LOL!

The retractions and backtracking have been nothing short of astonishing.

That's where "tit for tat" cheap shots will get you.

[TMontoya]

11. Agreed

It certainly was not a good week at all for Bernie.

[riversedge]

14. Pinocchioe's are wood--he had lots for lunch this week. OUCH

[shawn703]

33. Except he won all primaries held this week

While Hillary was the loser.

[PowerToThePeople]

9. "I can turn and unify the Democratic Party like I did with President Obama in 2008"

Like how she showed up 45 minutes late, didn't even mention mention Obama for 650 words, and wore black to her concession speech.

Hillary is not a uniter. She wasn't in '08 and she won't be this time either.

That is why she must lose.

[reddread]

12. but that is a promise to support Sanders

Im impressed.

[PowerToThePeople]

13. True

I read the statement again and it does sound like she wishes to support Sanders' general election campaign.

[riversedge]

15. Hillary wore blue and nominated him at the Convention.

[geek tragedy]

18. Sanders will run hard through this month

Then his behavior will change due to his best states being behind him and having a massive 250+ pledged delegate deficit.

He'll be an issues-only protest candidate.

[B Calm]

19. After Bill kicked black people to the curb and patted his bad cops on the back, she

wants to get that behind her and focus on the GOP!

[Marrah_G]

21. She really is coming across as desperate

The more she says things like this, the more I am certain that Sen Sanders does indeed have a shot.

[Vinca]

26. Clinton will be longing for Bernie in a few months after the GOP hones in on her.

She would be wise to make sure Bernie stayed in the race as long as possible. The second he's gone the GOP will begin their mission to convince the American people Hillary belongs in the big house, not the White House. It's not going to be pretty.

[Docreed2003]

30. I've been saying this since last year...

And people seem to shrug it off. Sec Clinton is the one individual that will unite every single republican, and a strong percentage of independents, to get to the polls and vote against her. That doesn't even begin to take into account the fact that a large chunk of the left is either unenthusiastic or flat out won't vote for her. The GOP is currently on life support this cycle and a Clinton nomination will be like CPR to their cause

[artislife]

41. They can't wait to take the spotlight off themselves

She would be like fish in a barrel if she gets the nom.

[MisterP]

42. the people who say she can win are the ones who were sure Clinton'd win VT because

she's just so orgasmically awesome: the cultists were saying Obama would dissolve the GOP by 2010 (and thing is, he probably could've by displaying their utter bankruptcy and falsehood at every turn); every election they're chanting that "Dems will WIN" and then they're so shocked that everyone picks the whole-fat Republican instead of the skim UHT; meanwhile the tend is towards losing Democrats because that just leaves you with the conservadems and eager cogs in the political machine that don't ask for anything once they've pulled the lever

if they were wrong, they don't care, because if their DINOs lose they've been used to blaming backbiting Naderite lefties even before Nader didn't do anything in FL

after 11 Governors, 13 Senators, 69 Reps, and 913 state seats, and probably one Presidency, it's damn time we stopped letting Baghdad Bob run the party

[rogerashton]

27. Perhaps you mean "dispense with."

"To dispatch" is a transitive verb, taking a direct object. My dictionary gives the example, "he dispatched the animal with one blow." Is that what you meant to say? (But it can also mean to send for a purpose, e.g. to dispatch a message.) Recall, Rubio made the same mistake, using "dispell with" when he meant either "dispell" or dispense with."

Sorry to be a vocabulary fanatic, but the English language is a splendid tool, and I always regret seeing it misused.

[Surya Gayatri]

34. Well seen. Knew there was something wonky when I gave the headline a quick read,

but didn't stop to reflect further.

Like you, I cringe at erroneous usage.

But then, maybe he intended the third meaning below:


Simple Definition of dispatch

: to send (someone or something) quickly to a particular place for a particular purpose

: to defeat (a person or team) in a game, contest, etc.

: to kill (a person or animal) quickly