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CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 12:38 AM Apr 2016

Let's anticipate some of the CREATIVE attacks Hillary will unleash on Bernie!

Wolf Blitzer just repeated it, folks! Camp Clinton has now made it their mission to "disqualify and discredit" Bernie Sanders.

The attacks begin immediately--and they will be frequent and lethal!

Ohhhh...I can't wait to see what David "Hatchet Man" Brock and Blue Nation Review has in store for Bernie--assuming that they've been being kind, thus far.


The best offense is a good defense--so what will attacks will Hillary unleash on Bernie?

Any idea about what these attacks will be?

(I'll add my own guesses).

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Let's anticipate some of the CREATIVE attacks Hillary will unleash on Bernie! (Original Post) CoffeeCat Apr 2016 OP
How Hillary will attack Bernie: A two-pronged approach CoffeeCat Apr 2016 #1
he eats pizza with a knife and fork, he puts ketchup on his hot dogs, he walks roguevalley Apr 2016 #21
ER....Bernie voted against the Automobile bailout... rgbecker Apr 2016 #2
She'll go Rove on him. She'll call him dishonest and greedy. w4rma Apr 2016 #3
Turnstyle jumper! nt Bonobo Apr 2016 #4
Hahahahaha! CoffeeCat Apr 2016 #16
Tokens! He thinks they still use tokens in the subway. jillan Apr 2016 #5
I think you were joking but DebDoo Apr 2016 #56
He's uncomfortable around blacks jfern Apr 2016 #6
And he actually does comb his hair with a balloon. Gregorian Apr 2016 #9
He doesn't play Limbo properly -- even with assistance. pacalo Apr 2016 #19
Bernie Sanders put black women in chains angrychair Apr 2016 #49
As the junior Senator from Vermont, Bernie armed the Gangs of New York Voice for Peace Apr 2016 #7
Well we've already seen the calls ibegurpard Apr 2016 #8
Bernie is a anti-Israel, an anti-Semitic flamingdem Apr 2016 #10
Bernie wears Birkies! ZOMG cherokeeprogressive Apr 2016 #11
not just any bagel but a ham, bacon, egg, and cheese bagel azurnoir Apr 2016 #48
Isn't It The Other Way Around - The Best Defense Is A Good Offense..... global1 Apr 2016 #12
hmmm....good thinking grasswire Apr 2016 #33
Sanders hasn't released his long-form tax returns pugetres Apr 2016 #13
Bernie supports the ACA! Red Oak Apr 2016 #14
Well she is following same play book from 2008 so time for Gwhittey Apr 2016 #15
she can tell that story about being in bosnia SoLeftIAmRight Apr 2016 #17
He shuns the Senate barber! nt Bonobo Apr 2016 #18
He barbs the senate shunner! Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #39
He summers on the Senate's bum! nt Bonobo Apr 2016 #40
Bernie SheenaR Apr 2016 #20
His socks don't match Kalidurga Apr 2016 #22
Oh the horrors!! CoffeeCat Apr 2016 #26
Way ahead of you ... pacalo Apr 2016 #36
Bernie Sanders wears a pink tutu on the weekends. CoffeeCat Apr 2016 #23
While in SW PA, he better not call a gob a whoopie pie, is all I gotta say. (n/t) SMC22307 Apr 2016 #24
He hogs the basketball. pacalo Apr 2016 #25
He's a chucker! pokerfan Apr 2016 #52
Bernie's love child is a chucker ... pacalo Apr 2016 #54
this whole thread is hilarious! k and r! bbgrunt Apr 2016 #27
Disqualify? Good luck with that! longship Apr 2016 #28
By tomorrow, you will have a fairly good idea Segami Apr 2016 #29
Oh it's going to be so boring ... senz Apr 2016 #45
Same crap Mrs. Clinton did to President Obama. akbacchus_BC Apr 2016 #30
if she loses, that money stream will dry up grasswire Apr 2016 #34
Yup and thats what her campaign is SwampG8r Apr 2016 #59
He wants to confiscate your 401k? He gave aid and comfort to 911 terrorists? pa28 Apr 2016 #31
Probably just another rerun of "racist sexist complacent millennial Berniebros and the hellbound Betty Karlson Apr 2016 #32
Hillary's problem is.... Segami Apr 2016 #35
Bernie pees standing up! Disqualified! PonyUp Apr 2016 #37
he smoked the marijuana Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #38
And inhaled! Depaysement Apr 2016 #53
She will try to project her disfavorables onto Sanders, delrem Apr 2016 #41
He has Phish on his ipod. He wears sandals with black socks while gardening Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #42
It was a trained bird, AnotherDreamWeaver Apr 2016 #43
lol! senz Apr 2016 #46
You can tell what she will accuse him of next AgingAmerican Apr 2016 #44
Bingo! You seem to be using my 'rule of thumb' for Bushwhacks! Peace Patriot Apr 2016 #55
She's going to use the socialist/commie thing and the all-talk-no-action bit. senz Apr 2016 #47
they're already lining up their excuses and plans in Camp Bansalot. hobbit709 Apr 2016 #50
He hasn't done 2015 taxes yet hereforthevoting Apr 2016 #51
Nothing new, they'll use the same attacks that they already have.... daleanime Apr 2016 #57
He claims to know how to drive, but he can't drive a stick shift. grntuscarora Apr 2016 #58

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
1. How Hillary will attack Bernie: A two-pronged approach
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 12:42 AM
Apr 2016

1.) Bernie hates puppies. All your puppies belong to Bernie Sanders now.

2.) Bernie will make chocolate illegal. Say good-bye to Milky Way bars and kiss those Lindt dark-chocolates goodbye. No more, says Bernie.



roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
21. he eats pizza with a knife and fork, he puts ketchup on his hot dogs, he walks
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 12:59 AM
Apr 2016

against the lights when he walked to work in the Senate (he does) and he doesn't take crap from Republicans.

 

w4rma

(31,700 posts)
3. She'll go Rove on him. She'll call him dishonest and greedy.
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 12:45 AM
Apr 2016

Maybe she'll smear him on his family life, somehow.

Think of any good thing about Sanders, and the smear attacks will attack those good things directly.

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

DebDoo

(319 posts)
56. I think you were joking but
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 05:02 AM
Apr 2016

I think she will go there, for real. She'll memorize a popular subway route, recite it as "proof" that she's a "real New Yorker" and he's not. For the next two weeks she's going to go after Bernie for not being a real NYer, like she is.

 

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts)
7. As the junior Senator from Vermont, Bernie armed the Gangs of New York
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 12:48 AM
Apr 2016

and laughed about it with Fidel Castro.

flamingdem

(39,321 posts)
10. Bernie is a anti-Israel, an anti-Semitic
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 12:50 AM
Apr 2016

self hating Jew! (This will be implied by having a plant offer him a bagel to see if he eats it with a fork!)

global1

(25,270 posts)
12. Isn't It The Other Way Around - The Best Defense Is A Good Offense.....
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 12:52 AM
Apr 2016

Hillary resorting to 'scorched earth' tactics speaks to me as a defensive move on her part. They're worried. Bernie poses a threat to them. So her campaign has made the decision to launch an offensive attack. Should we call this a 'pre-emptive' strike? Remember how that worked out for the Bush Administration. So I guess we're in for some 'Shock and Awe'.

One question - I hear that CNN will moderate the April 14th debate. Are they going to go along with Hillary's attack plan - or are they going to make her squirm?

 

pugetres

(507 posts)
13. Sanders hasn't released his long-form tax returns
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 12:52 AM
Apr 2016

because they show he decided to dabble in cattle futures and he made a FORTUNE! Which he is of course hiding in Panama.

 

Gwhittey

(1,377 posts)
15. Well she is following same play book from 2008 so time for
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 12:55 AM
Apr 2016

“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in the interview, citing an article by The Associated Press.
It “found how Senator Sander's support among working, hard-working Americans, non-jew Americans, is weakening again, and how non-jews in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”

“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said

SheenaR

(2,052 posts)
20. Bernie
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 12:58 AM
Apr 2016

Refused to enter the numbers (4,8,15,16,23,42) when it was his turn to monitor the hatch.

That will have some votes be Lost


If you get this without looking it up, you're pretty awesome



Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
22. His socks don't match
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 01:00 AM
Apr 2016

He only has one pair of underwear
He thinks that money has no right of travel especially to Panama
He hates apple pie (look at him it's obvious he's a blueberry guy)
He doesn't own a tux and he will probably show up at those fancy shindigs in a casual suit
It wasn't really him holding the cat in that adorable pic
He gets the two for one specials with Jane
He yells a lot and uses his hands when he talks
He didn't sign the petition to send Justin Bieber back to Canada

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
26. Oh the horrors!!
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 01:14 AM
Apr 2016

This is it, isn't it? This is the big vetting that we've all been warned is coming for Bernie!!

Quick everyone! Get into crash positions!

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
23. Bernie Sanders wears a pink tutu on the weekends.
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 01:06 AM
Apr 2016

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

But for sure. That's what he does.

pacalo

(24,721 posts)
54. Bernie's love child is a chucker ...
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 04:40 AM
Apr 2016

& Bernie refuses to wean him! Child services will be notified.

longship

(40,416 posts)
28. Disqualify? Good luck with that!
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 01:21 AM
Apr 2016

Since Vermont, like many states, have not had party registrations for years.

Stupid, stupid, Hillary supporters. Why in the Sam Hell do you think states have open primaries????? It is because voters cannot declare a party when they register to vote, you dummies. That's the way in Vermont, and in Michigan, and in all the other open primary states. The voter chooses the party ballot when they get to the polls.

If you don't like it, tough shit. That's the way it works. If you don't like that Bernie has won nearly all the Democratic caucuses, tough shit! That's the way that works, too.

Yes, it is a messy affair, but it is what we have. That Hillary doesn't get to crown herself queen is not Bernie's fault. Just maybe it is that Hillary Clinton is a horrible candidate, just as she was when she lost (badly) to Barack Obama in 2008.

I only hope that the voters save us all from another Clinton presidency. The White House is not an inheritance. There is no entitlement. That is what this country fought a real revolution to secure for us.

No Queen Hillary!

 

Segami

(14,923 posts)
29. By tomorrow, you will have a fairly good idea
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 01:22 AM
Apr 2016

once they usher in their 'usual-suspect' Hillary shills to repeat the SAME talking points throughout the day........by that time, the messaging will be crystal clear........


 

senz

(11,945 posts)
45. Oh it's going to be so boring ...
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 03:25 AM
Apr 2016

That'll be our punishment for Bernie winning seven in a row, they're going to make us read the same nasty crapola over and over and over again. Maybe we could hand out talking point awards?

akbacchus_BC

(5,704 posts)
30. Same crap Mrs. Clinton did to President Obama.
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 01:22 AM
Apr 2016

Gosh, she can smell being in the White House again but many Americans do not trust her. Same old shit all over again and the republicans will oppose her more than they did during President Obama's Presidency or less due to her ethnicity.

The woman does not know when to leave politics and saunter off into the sunshine making millions of dollars for her speeches for the rich and famous, Wall Street anyone!

She does not have the working class on her Agenda!

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
34. if she loses, that money stream will dry up
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 01:47 AM
Apr 2016

She will have no power to dispense goodies in exchange for donations.

pa28

(6,145 posts)
31. He wants to confiscate your 401k? He gave aid and comfort to 911 terrorists?
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 01:30 AM
Apr 2016

When it comes to the Clinton campaign whenever I think I'm being too cynical it turns out I wasn't cynical enough. It'll end up being something more bizarre and offensive than anything I can fathom.

 

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
32. Probably just another rerun of "racist sexist complacent millennial Berniebros and the hellbound
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 01:39 AM
Apr 2016

sluts who lust after them, more "Berned-Out" converts who go online to post about their "Come-To-Jesus" moments (always the same talking points), and just a sprinkling of "TAX RETURNS" (while accusing him of a nasty tone whenever he mentioned Panama). Also 9/11 and a gender.

 

Segami

(14,923 posts)
35. Hillary's problem is....
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 02:06 AM
Apr 2016

if she wanted to stop Bernie, early on in her campaign, she should have come out swinging hard on Bernie.


BUT, she didn't and that miscalculation allowed him to hang around, introduce himself and continue promoting his progressive message to the masses.

So, if I may use a boxing comparison,......a pro boxer who trained hard to endure a solid 15 round matchup, might decide (as a strategy) to bait his hard-punching opponent into a rope-a-dope scenario, forcing him to expend vital energies early on. By the later rounds, his opponent's energy levels will have been quite depleted making him easy pickings for the challenger.

When you have your opponent on the ropes dazed, you never give them time to recover to clear the bees buzzing in their head......

The Clinton campaign going full throttle on Bernie at this late stage of the campaign, WILL be met with resistance from the Bernie camp and will be perceived by his supporters that the Clintons, DWS, DNC, Establishment et al...are all aligning together, attempting to steal this primary away from Bernie before the convention. This WILL ignite social media and all his supporters to drop their gloves and respond.......flame on!




delrem

(9,688 posts)
41. She will try to project her disfavorables onto Sanders,
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 02:57 AM
Apr 2016

and will try to claim Sanders' favorables as her own.

That's her only path.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
42. He has Phish on his ipod. He wears sandals with black socks while gardening
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 02:59 AM
Apr 2016

He does not follow the dealer's recommended maintenance schedule on his automobile.
He removed tags from a mattress in 1983.
He has repeatedly confused Jon Voight with John Savage.
He occasionally throws soiled cardboard pizza boxes into his recycling container despite repeated express instructions from his waste hauler utility not to do so.

 

AgingAmerican

(12,958 posts)
44. You can tell what she will accuse him of next
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 03:10 AM
Apr 2016

By watching what she is caught doing today. If she gets caught lying today, in a couple days her surrogates will accuse Sanders of lying. If it comes to light she took money from a bank, soon her and her surrogates will be accusing HIM of taking money from bankers. They don't care that the accusations will never stick. They just want to deflect and project everything back. It's very petty and dishonest.

Peace Patriot

(24,010 posts)
55. Bingo! You seem to be using my 'rule of thumb' for Bushwhacks!
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 04:49 AM
Apr 2016

It was a pretty useful 'rule of thumb' when we were trying to figure out what was really going on, during the Bush junta:

Whatever they say, the opposite is true; and, whatever they accuse others of doing, they are doing or planning to do.


More than useful. It was almost infallible. It sucks to find out that it is applicable to a Democrat, and to our benighted 'front-runner' and to a person that might end up in the White House. But I've found that it is applicable to Clinton. Again (go ahead and apply it to her words or deeds--it's uncanny):

Whatever they say, the opposite is true; whatever they accuse others of doing, they are doing or planning to do.


It's classic neocon (and, lo and behold, Robert Kagan, who wrote the blueprint for Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, is advising Clinton, along with Henry Fucking Kissinger).

I agree with everything you say, except that it's "petty." It's not petty. It's Stalinist.
 

senz

(11,945 posts)
47. She's going to use the socialist/commie thing and the all-talk-no-action bit.
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 03:34 AM
Apr 2016

She'll try to separate him off from normal patriotic Americans.

hereforthevoting

(241 posts)
51. He hasn't done 2015 taxes yet
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 04:05 AM
Apr 2016

He's soft on guns
He wants to legalize all drugs
He lies a lot
He doesn't care about the elderly
He is standing in between HRC and the WH

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