All Bernie needs to do is to drag the primary out and let Hillary defeat herself
Hillary is so out of touch and has such poor judgement that it is just a matter of time till she crashes and burns, that her scandals and mistakes consume her. And Bernie will be the only one standing. Hillary is her own worst enemy.
Just look at how Hillary handled Ashley Williams. This article says that it may have cost her the election:
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/02/there-goes-the-firewall-hillary-clintons-response.html
In addition, the more people know of Bernie the more his support goes up, and because its a movement not just a candidacy it has more solidness and momentum. And when Hillary's electability argument collapses, Bernie will get even more support.
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Ultimately, people who already supported her will just say, "Well, that was a long time ago, and it was a crazy time all over America."
I would be very cautious about overestimating its utility. Now, if it were used in ads (which I doubt very much Bernie would allow), then it could have time to hurt her in other primaries, but SC is sewn up as far as I can see. And that's okay. You win some, you lose some. The important thing is fighting a principled fight.
Now, the transcripts--those could hurt her. The more she stonewalls, the worse it looks, especially when the Times (who is in the bag for Hillary) calls her out on it. On the other hand, if she releases them, and if they contain the kind of language that's been reported so far, it may hurt her even more. That's one case where Hillary is her own worst enemy.
Another angle that Bernie's campaign has surprisingly not exploited (and I say surprisingly because to me, at least, it would not constitute a "negative attack"
is the Walmart connection. I was hoping for months that Bernie would keep mentioning the Waltons and Walmart because he was laying a trap, so to speak. He would keep hammering on that point, and when the time was right, he would say: "and here's why that matters so much: my opponent has received $353K in campaign contributions for this cycle from Alice Walton. And you know what? She likes to say I'm soft on guns. Guess who the biggest gun dealer in this country is? You guessed it. Walmart." -- before going on to also discuss how Walmart exploits workers in low wage zones abroad, has cost jobs here, pays starvation wages, and engages in union busting par excellence. Oh, and how they've faced multiple class action suits for discrimination against female employees! So much for Hillary being the "feminist" choice.
Walmart could be a crippling blow.
