Kristen Gillibrand on CNN with Anderson Cooper.

[madaboutharry]

I just saw her interview on CNN with Anderson Cooper. He was questioning her about this article Biden wrote in 1981, which was nearly 40 years ago, in which he wrote about women working outside the home. She attacked Biden about it in the debate last night.

She admitted to Anderson that she read the article only a couple of weeks ago.

So basically she, or her team, was trolling through the internet looking for something controversial on Biden. That feels so opportunistic and dirty to me.

She has worked with Biden for years and she knows what kind of man he is.

I also think it is hypocritical. Someone needs to remind Gillibrand of her past positions on gun rights. Is she the only one who is allowed to change one's views?

[pangaia]

1. in my view she is just an opportunist

she also happens to be one of my senators

[PatSeg]

3. That's the impression I get as well

Gillibrand does whatever is good for Gillibrand and will apparently throw anyone under the bus if it serves her. Unfortunately, I don't think her kind of raw no-holds-barred approach is serving her very well, but she insists on doubling down. Perhaps she is getting lousy political advice, but she's turning a lot of people off.

[hlthe2b]

2. Never miss an "opportunity"... Just another "Franken" thrown in her lap, I guess.

[rzemanfl]

4. No going to say what I think. n/t

[thesquanderer]

5. She was looking for her Kamala Harris moment,

especially since this debate was probably her last chance to try to break through. I'm almost surprised she didn't preface the attack with, "I know you're not sexist, but..."

It was a lousy argument, but really, so was Harris'.

Harris at least benefitted from a commanding presence that Gillibrand lacks, and also from being able to present that she felt aggrieved having grown up as a black girl in a segregated neighborhood. Gillibrand didn't have any such angle to work, having grown up a privileged white girl.

In the end, honestly, I think they're both opportunists. But Harris wears it better.

[crazytown]

6. Gillibrand telegraphed her line of attack before the debate.

It was the shock value of "that little girl was me", that gave Harris a break through. In comparison, Gillibrand had nothing.

[pangaia]

8. "I know you're not sexist, but..." LOLOL

I am glad she votes with dems.. but for the most part i find her rather silly...

[George II]

7. I'm not impressed with her.

[wasupaloopa]

9. If you are in your 70's like me and Biden you lived

in times before accepted ideas evolved to what they are today.

Very few of us held the evolved views back then but we have evolved and no longer have to older views.

Some still want to rerun to the past but Biden and I don’t.

So you can’t do anything but say we held different views in the past.

[wyldwolf]

10. Apparently she didn't even read the article but relied on a staffer to spin it for her.

[Blue_true]

11. Campaigns research their opponents' histories.

There is nothing dirty about that, calculating yes, but dirty no.

[emulatorloo]

13. Deliberately misrepresenting something is Rovian. Whatever it takes, I guess.

[Blue_true]

14. One of the unfortunate things for politicians is that unlike sausages and hotdogs,

we get to see how they are made, and there is a lot of unpleasantness.

[emulatorloo]

15. This was beyond "unpleasantness"

Link to tweet

Have a great night.

[Blue_true]

16. A good politician, like a Mafioso, is going to draw blood on the slightest opening.

That is just the way it is.

[Trenzalore]

17. It was awkward and rehearsed

Harris hit points because she seemed genuinely upset about the position he took and she was the first person to take a swing at him.

Gillibrand telegraphed this for a week before the debate. I read an article she was planning on going after him over something he said in the 80s a few days before the debate.

She isn't good at the national thing and needs to go back to the Senate.

[Blue_true]

19. Can't say that I disagree with anything that you wrote. nt

[emulatorloo]

20. Uh huh. Fortunately her dishonest mafia-style hit was a big fail.

[Trenzalore]

18. Gillibrand played a weekly squash game with Franken and hung out with him in social circles

She wouldn't take his phone call to give his side of the story before she led the charges to call on him to resign.

McCain says if you want a friend in politics get a dog. She is probably one of the most blatant examples of that maxim.

[Trenzalore]

12. They are all opportunist

Gillibrand just happens to be one of those politicians that has no ability to hide it.