2016 Postmortem

RBInMaine

(13,570 posts) Sun Sep 25, 2016, 09:57 AM Sep 2016

Hillary's goals: Show that Trump is INCOMPETENT, DANGEROUS, and a LIAR. And stay on OFFENSE.

Anyone who thinks you win a presidential debate by "ignoring" the opponent and hoping he will just "hurt himself" is SORELY mistaken, has no understanding at all of electoral politics, and especially doesn't understand Trump who is a first class bullshit artist.

Americans want STRENGTH in a leader. They don't want a jelly-spined weakling. She must project STRENGTH from beginning to end.

The psychology of Trump is that he is a mega-narcissistic spoiled brat liar who thinks he is the smartest man in the room. The narrative about Trump that our side has been been pushing and which is seen born out in the polls is that Americans doubt his qualifications and in find him to lack the temperament to be president. These narratives must be PUSHED HARD and COMPOUNDED. But the one area where we haven't hit him enough is his ENDLESS LIES because the media has refused to challenge him on those HUNDREDS of LIES. Hillary is brilliant and must find ways to super glue his LIES to him and destroy his credibility.

So every time he tries to bring up the emails, she fires back with, "I have released 55 thousand emails and 33 years of tax returns. Where are your tax returns Donald? What are you hiding? What are you afraid of? And don't hide behind an audit because you can release all the many years not under audit." Also, a lot of things like, "So you say you stopped being the leader of the birther movement in 2011. You know that is not true. You know you continued to voice doubts every year since and you refuse to apologize for it." Etc. Etc. Punch, punch, punch.

Also, super-glue him to Putin, the Russians, and attack him bigtime on using his foundation as a slush fund, and especially use that he bought a 6 foot painting of himself. That's a good one!

She has ENDLESS amounts of ammunition to prove to the nation and the world that Trump is OUT OF HIS DEPTH, DANGEROUS, and a total LIAR and FRAUDULENT CON MAN. She must trap him and box him right in, not let him off the hook, and make him and his mega ego SQUIRM.

I think she will. She is a masterful debater. She is brilliant. And she is TOUGH. She needs to go in for the jugular and knock him off script. Period.