Why if there are smears and we know there are smears is there a problem with anyone raising money to challenge the smears?

they're only smears or libel or slander if they're false.

There may be exceptions to truthiness out in the vast wilderness of the Net during this campaign, of course. On all sides.

"If I can't have it, NO ONE WILL HAVE IT!!!!"

It's childish, short sighted, and ineffective--but Trump thanks them, nonetheless.

have already turned our government into a plutocratic oligarchy.

We are fighting for saving the safety nets, jobs, homes, retirements, infrastructure, Social Security, Medicare, and decent health care.

The Rich and Powerful have been cutting these programs back for decades and some are just ok with that.

By the way, if you lose the General, it's on you. You can't crap on the Left and expect them to like it.

You're trying to play spoiler (your last paragraph, with its dire, ineffectual threat, makes that entirely clear).

You're angry that your candidate didn't bring it home. You want to "blame" someone.

This isn't about "the rich and powerful." It's about who gets the most votes.

The Democrats will decide who their standard bearer is--and it will happen very soon.

You know you are backing a losing candidate and already looking for a scapegoat. We've told you all along that many republicons will vote for Sanders but will never, ever vote for Clinton. That has nothing to do with us "spoiling" anything. There are many many people on both sides that don't like your Establishment with it's corrupt culture and will support the anti-Establshment candidate, Trump or Sanders, you decide. But the hubris of the Clinton campaign thinking they can be rude and disparage the Left and then demand that we vote for your candidate.

I am angry, angry that Democrats can turn their backs on the 50 million Americans living in poverty and support the Rich Fat Cats.

Next Tuesday, that will become even more evident than it already is.

Everybody believes what they see on the internet.

This must stop. Now.

The stuff has popped up here, too!

At the end of the day, this is all going to shake out with a nominee who will be the first woman nominated by a major party in the history of our nation.

It will bump along for a while longer, and I can wait. But the end result will be the same.

Come out, come out and own it.

I have a couple of ideas who it might be.

On the issues lately. Hillary has been in Connecticut recently talking about gun violence.

... "smearing Bernie" and "lying about Bernie"? Weird, huh?

I remember some back and forth just this morning trying to debunk the FACT that NY affidavit ballots were already a federal law and was not a construct of any law suit. The poster was trying to tell me the law suit filed on Primary election day in NY, was settle law and the receipt of the affidavit votes were proof...duh

Then we have the continued mis information about Super Delegates.

Lots of shit the Bernie Bros are tossing around as if it were fact. They swarm the social media and other sites with the idiocy, and non wonks don't know better and read it thinking it's fact. Why is everyone so worried that lies are being cleared up?

He launches online smears. Everything that weasel says is a lie.

Message discipline among your "supporters": Team Clinton has it, because they're paying good money for it.