Will Hillary go after Bernie personally tonight?

[cali]

My guess is "hammer and tongs".

And I wouldn't be surprised if O'Malley joined her.

I don't know if it's the politically advantageous thing for her to do, but it's not the honorable thing to do. Just the Clinton way.

I hope I'm wrong.

[firebrand80]

1. Yesterday I said no

The more I think about it, I think she will. It's too her advantage to have people think "well, all politicians have scandals, Bernie had that one data thing."

[Cali_Democrat]

2. If someone went into my unlocked house and stole my belongings

I would confront them.

[Agschmid]

3. No.

No point, he is going after himself at this point.

He hasn't really been campaigning, his rally size has reduced, NH is a must win and he is just ahead.

At this point they are both their own worst enemies.

[fredamae]

4. At this juncture

she would be quite Foolish to do so. People are Leaving the Dem Party over this-People are Shifting from HRC to Sanders and he has raised a LOT of money Because of this.
So, IF they Don't want to re-energize calls for an investigation into HRC/DWS/DNC and make Cause to Boost Sanders Donations....Again....they maybe ought to rethink that strategy. In my opinion.

[JaneyVee]

5. "The Clinton way" is to not steal data from other campaigns.

[cali]

19. The Clinton way is crony capitalism and corruption and lies. Decades of it.

[NurseJackie]

6. Hasn't he already done enough damage? Why pour salt in the wound?

[emulatorloo]

7. No.

Mods will bring it up. O'Malley will go after the DNC as he is on record about the number of debates.

[HereSince1628]

13. He's on the bottom, punching up at either Clinton or Sanders

raises him up to seem an equal opponent.

On the other hand, punching down looks bad. When Clinton isn't threatened she knows not to do that.

[okasha]

8. Why should she bother?

[LexVegas]

9. Meh...why punch that far down? nt

[Snotcicles]

23. Why let a substantive discussion go unsoiled right? nt

[Proserpina]

10. The REAL question is: Will Bernie go after DWS and Hillary?

and the answer is....the lawsuit continues. Bernie will go after them in the court of law, where it will do the most good, leave the greatest impression, and make change.

And he isn't going to take any guff, either. She can try, and suffer the consequences, if she's foolish enough to think there's anything to be gained by making herself look less.

[bkkyosemite]

11. He said it was wrong. She goes after him

all he has to do is say...well the FBI is not investigating me!

[Snotcicles]

24. Nah I think Bernie is more Marquess of Queensberry. nt

[emulatorloo]

12. No

Mods will bring it up. O'Malley will go after the DNC as he is on record about the number of debates.

[TheBlackAdder]

14. As someone in IT for 35 years, and a neutral Democrat: I wouldn't. That will backfire big time!

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Hillary is already under scrutiny for data breaches on a privately hosted server, while she was S.O.S..


If the case is made that the 'corrupt' Bernie team accessed data, from a computer system that is managed by a professional IT Firm, that would just highlight the susceptibility of the data that was housed on her locally hosted server--one managed by a single IT guy.


Just a hint: It takes a team of servers and a staff of people to properly secure a system, and even then, with poor protocols, lax quality assurance, miscommunications, poor system design, etc., stuff will still be breached. If you place that data on a public cloud server, you might as well post it on a highway billboard, because it's up for grabs by hackers.


IMHO, she would be a fool to raise this topic, as there will definitely be a response coming back.


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[Hiraeth]

28. ^^^ this ^^^

[Nyan]

15. I suspect she will

I don't know about O'Malley though. I'm guessing he will choose not to. Since he's not so happy with DNC either.

[LettuceSea]

16. I hope you are wrong, but it wouldn't surprise me

It would be incredibly counterproductive for her to do so, but for a career politician, her political instincts are pretty terrible.

[SDJay]

17. Has There Ever Been a Primary Debate

Where one of the candidates had pending litigation against his/her party? I don't know the answer, but I certainly don't remember such a circumstance.

It's going to come up - it almost has to. Hillary will define herself and her campaign in a lot of ways to the dozens of people who are actually watching on the last Saturday night before Christmas.

Then whatever happens will get totally lost in the vacuous news cycle that is next week, and only real devotees to the primary process will know or remember what happened.

Of course, it won't be lost on the repukes, so whatever Hillary decides to do it absolutely needs to be the correct choice.

IMHO, she should give a basic, slightly dismissive answer to the whole thing and leave it alone.

[MisterP]

22. "IMHO, she should give a basic, slightly dismissive answer to the whole thing and leave it alone"

isn't it weird that her harshest critics can run the campaign better than the people she's paying millions to do so? no floundering when asked on Wall Street, no hamfisted voter-database manipulation, no footmen with ropes, and above all no shrill intimations of felonies (which are immediately met with REAL, non-bullshit lawsuits)

of course, to us government collusion with the people defrauding us out of our homes and people broken by ridiculous wars are *issues*, things we face every day: to her they're networking and growth opportunities

[SDJay]

25. I'm Not a Necessarily a Harsh Critic of Hers

I will vote for her if/when she becomes the nominee, but I do agree that it's very strange how she manages to step in it so often. You would have to think that after decades of this, she'd be more sick of constant scandals - fake or not - than almost anything else in the world. That's why I don't get why she doesn't just diffuse them as quickly as possible. I think her whole email fake scandal crap could've been brushed aside relatively quickly if she hadn't continued to dodge, hide the ball and stonewall, and that's just one example. If she jumps in with both feet on this, I'll be stunned. She of all people should know what it feels like to be the target of completely fabricated bullcrap.

Now, when it comes to DWS, I am most definitely a harsh critic. She's the reason I am currently unaffiliated. I will re-register as a D so I can vote in the CA primary on June 7, but on June 8 I will go back to unaffiliated and remain that way until there's new leadership at the DNC. DWS sets the whole standard for stepping in it at every possible turn.

[MisterP]

32. agan it's a bubble--they think that they won each of those flaps

[okasha]

30. She will say that she can't comment

on a matter under litigation.

[Fearless]

18. Let her try.

[LuvLoogie]

20. The moderator willl bring it up.

The candidates will joke about it. The debate will move on.

[Nyan]

33. I sure hope so

I just don't want things to get ugly. For everybody's sake.

[NowSam]

21. It would be foolish for her to do so

I believe it only brings her own email server scandals front and center again. I hope Bernie stays on message and brushes aside the smears from the Camp Clinton Schultz.

[Leftyforever]

26. I hope she does.... the best defense is a good offense applies

feel the Bern!!

[NCTraveler]

27. Sanders is doing a solid job of going after himself.

Over the last two weeks he has gone from fighting for things to fighting against everything. He left message and it ain't pretty.

[Trajan]

31. Why does anybody think she benefits from this?

Bernie is personally blameless ...

She has been taking a BEATING in the electorate over this ...

What basis does she have to attack him? ...

This is completely backwards ... She'll be lucky if he doesn't shut down her campaign tonight

[morningfog]

34. I hope she does and I expect Bernie to be prepared.

[bigwillq]

35. Yes

And Bernie will do the same. Martin, too.

In politics, everything is personal.

[redstateblues]

36. Nope. She doesn't need to

She's winning. She stays above the fray. If Bernie wants to be angry he will not look Presidential

[cali]

37. That ain't what's going on.