2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary's 5 step plan to beat personal attacks.
Despite all that, Clinton aides and allies have reason to be confident Trumps personal attacks will backfire on him. Heres how they plan to make sure that happens
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clintons-five-step-plan-beat-trumps-personal-attacks
JonLeibowitz
(6,282 posts)✓Defeat Isis in Syria & Iraq
✓Disrupt & dismantle terrorist infrastructure
✓Harden our defenses
https://twitter.com/johnpodesta/status/667375199780806657?lang=en
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Rebkeh
(2,450 posts)It doesn't. Just so you know.
Rebkeh
(2,450 posts)While I agree with the first three approaches, they don't hold the necessary punch. They are, at best, supporting roles.
The third, while it would keep the issues at the forefront, it disregards that this isn't just a battle over policy. The bigger war is one about values and who matters, and it's one where progressives must prevail. We will, literally, make the planet unsustainable for human life if we don't get it together. Not to mention life in general. This is not a game to "win."
The last one - I don't trust her to actually follow through anyway so it's a non-starter. She aims to keep the government working for the few instead of the many.
The real problem is she has too much ego in this, while going up against someone with an even bigger ego. This fight can only devolve into a battle of wills, which is the last thing we need. Despite the popular opinion that ego is a strength, it's really not. It keeps the endless back and forth going. And going. And going....
She truly is more of the same.
actslikeacarrot
(464 posts)...low blows and such. But defeating attacks based on her policies and decisions over the years? Gets a little more gray area there.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)Let Trump be Trump
Pick your battles
Block his move to the center
Leverage Republicans turned off by Trump
Use the rest of the primary calendar to plant issue seeds
If Trump is the nominee then the GE will be about how many people are turned off by the whole thing vs how many will vote based on their fear and hatred of the other candidate. Thanks to our simplistic MSM, issues don't seem to matter in our elections.
The best shot for Hillary is for a strong 3rd party candidate to emerge on the Right. Possibly Trump doesn't get the nom and his people write him in. Worked in 1992 when Bill failed to get 50%+ of the vote but Perot took votes from Bush 1.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Clinton has the ability to stay on message while forcing her opposition to do nothing but attack. Even stories like this set the stage to entice Trump to attack. Truly brilliant how she stays on message and gets her opposition to flounder and attack. It all becomes about her and when others relentlessly attack her they constantly go overboard in their rhetoric.