Hillary to the sixteen Trump primary opponents:

[pnwmom]

That speech I gave today? This is how to defeat Donald Trump.

Too bad none of you had the balls.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/08/25/hillary_clinton_s_alt_right_speech_is_reminder_she_s_in_the_lead.html

Why Hillary Clinton’s Alt-Right Speech Was Such a Good Sign for Her Chances in November

Donald Trump has spent the past few days attempting to convince a certain set of voters—i.e. college-educated white ones—that he’s not the racist he’s been made out to be on the campaign trail. On Thursday afternoon, Hillary Clinton offered a rather brutal rebuttal to that claim by reminding everyone of all the evidence to the contrary.


“From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia,” Clinton said at a rally in Reno, Nevada. “He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party.” She then went on to list—at length—the many times that Trump either espoused, embraced, or generally gave a platform to the ethno-nationalistic words and ideas of the conservative movement that calls itself the alt-right.

SNIP

By drawing a bright line between Trump and the GOP nominees who came before him, Clinton is continuing her outreach to more mainstream Republican voters who remain uncomfortable with what they have seen and heard from Trump over the past year. The simple fact that, with 74 days until election day, both candidates are tailoring their appeals to the same set of voters—white Republican voters—suggests that Clinton does not have a lot to worry about.

[grossproffit]

1. She's got brass ovaries.

[pnwmom]

2. For sure!

[Skidmore]

7. Big ones!

Trump has just brought a toothpick to fight with. He wil not know what happened to him when it comes time to debate.

[mercuryblues]

10. to be fair

with his small hands a toothpick is the only weapon small enough that he can hold.

[Orsino]

13. Titanium. n/t

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Wasn't Doofy Donald just complaining...

That Hillary wasn't giving speeches?

Hey, Don...Boom! Goes the Dyno-Mite!

[pnwmom]

4. Now he's saying she's a bully.

Poor baby.

[LonePirate]

5. Trump is calling someone else a bully? How did he not spontaneously combust by uttering those words?

[tblue37]

8. I bet he WISHES she would just take a nap now! nt

[Wounded Bear]

6. Different audience...

Repubs have been iching for a candidate like Trump for several cycles. There's been a near universal complaint that their candidates have not been conservative enough. Trump was kind of inevitable, I now think.

[Hortensis]

9. None could have given it, though. They are all hard right --

in a party that is now farther right that it has ever been in its history. Dysfunctional, batshit-crazy right, which is why it's melting down.

I believe Kasich has only been posturing as a moderate. He's been an active member of profoundly corrupt and corrupting ALEC since its inception and the setting of its extremist anti-government agenda.

Even Bush, who's the most genuinely moderate relatively speaking, for instance wanted to bring back public shaming of females who got pregnant outside marriage (and of course of their children and families). That shocker alone would have killed his candidacy 50 years ago, but today's party rejected him as too "establishment."

[pnwmom]

11. I think you're right, and about Kasich only. He was like Reagan -- posing as a genial guy,

but really as far right as most of them.

[Hortensis]

12. Adopting the Medicare expansion until it was time to

dismantle all public healthcare involvement probably wouldn't have carried him through the revelations of other aspects of his history. His comments to and about minorities are extremely revelatory and a real hoot. As cluelessly limited as the rest of that crowd.