2016 Postmortem
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Hot Air. NewsMax. WashTimes. Fake transcript memes. Email conspiracies. Judicial Watch. Monica Lewinsky. Unsourced rightwing memes.
What progressives are using as sources and topics on DU?
Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)That's the line we were sold.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)Call it a night.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Shes proven over the past 25 years she can handle any bullshit the rightwing throws at her. People, especially Democrats, like that about her. Hence, her million vote leads.
Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)cheapdate
(3,811 posts)having a Democrat and not a Republican in the White House.
Just a guess, though.
Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)....why does it matter? This is a sure thing.
cheapdate
(3,811 posts)that there is reason to be optimistic, while also recognizing that the outcome is not certain?
I think she only gave her expectation. I don't recall her saying anything about a "sure thing".
Maybe it's more a case of guarded optimism. or prudent expectations.
complain jane
(4,302 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)she wasn't the nominee then either.
JPnoodleman
(454 posts)Doesn't mean they were great.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)'Everything has already been thrown at Hillary, that's why she's the greatest! Nothing will stick in the GE'
If that's the case, why even waste time with this whiny OP's?
salinsky
(1,065 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)If we used a right-wing source against Bernie they'd get all verklempt, have the vapors, and hyperventilate.
ContinentalOp
(5,356 posts)without them screaming "red baiting!"
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Renew Deal
(81,866 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Purveyor
(29,876 posts)😃
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)I didn't know he was still in the polling busines after his humiliation in 2012.
Renew Deal
(81,866 posts)Then suddenly they get accurate at the last minute
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)"Unnamed sources confirm that Hillary actually killed Vince Foster".
cheapdate
(3,811 posts)oasis
(49,393 posts)They cannot forestall the "INEVITABLE".
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Yeesh.
CorkySt.Clair
(1,507 posts)Indictment fantasies seem less likely to be realized and Hillary is expanding her lead in Cali.
ronnykmarshall
(35,356 posts)The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)endlessly.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)and sometimes it's damn hard to tell them apart.
Sid
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)bigtree
(85,999 posts)...in so many ways, that republican campaign against Hillary became the Sanders campaign itself, and lost in greater numbers than Hillary lost against Obama's historically attractive run for president.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Koinos
(2,792 posts)Loki
(3,825 posts)and evaluate where they are getting all their information. Very astute observation bigtree, thank you.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)I can say I am Olivier Martinez but I assuredly won't be waking up next to Halle Berry tomorrow morning.
opiate69
(10,129 posts)ContinentalOp
(5,356 posts)BERNIE
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N is for Nobody likes Hillary #DropOutHillary
General election, she can't win it
Hillary is a liar
A
Z
Independent voters!!!!
herding cats
(19,565 posts)The site admin are letting everyone vent their spleens here in hopes we (average mundane readers/posters) will realize the lunacy being espoused, while some work through their emotions.
Think about it, nothing goes unchallenged, and any person who knows politics knows a hit piece already when they see it. Which leads to my point, these RW talking points that're being tossed about are teaching those of us who don't participate the GDP fray what to say to counter them in the general election cycle.
After reading here on DU, there's nothing any Republican in the wild can toss at me I can't counter. Hell, they'll mostly be amateurs by comparison. I'm gonna be ready to caucus hostile red districts after this primary season.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)that Hillary will not be electable because of all this baggage.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)The media just hasn't unpacked it yet, but here's a taste, from a progressive blog in California:
Calbuzz spelled this out back in January and even some of the laggard MSM have begun to understand the facts. David Corn of Mother Jones argued that the big problem for Bernie would be that hes a socialist and Republicans would attack him on those grounds.
Thats way too naïve. Sanders would be bludgeoned hammer and sickle as a dead-beat dad with an illegitimate son as an atheist, commie, pinko out to raise your taxes, crush your religious freedom and your right to bear arms, weaken the military and appease the Russians, set criminals free to rape your daughter, take away your home, round you up and ship you off to live on a vegan commune with leather-clad lesbians and gays in charge.
For starters.
Jerry Roberts is a California journalist who writes, blogs and hosts a TV talk show about politics, policy and media. Former political editor, editorial page editor and managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, he serves as student adviser for the Daily Nexus newspaper at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of Never Let Them See You Cry, a biography of Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Phil Trounstine is the former political editor of the San Jose Mercury News, former communications director for California Gov. Gray Davis and was the founder and director of the Survey and Policy Research Institute at San Jose State University where he created the Silicon Valley and California Consumer Confidence Indices. He is co-author of Movers and Shakers: The Study of Community Power.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Broward
(1,976 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)SheenaR
(2,052 posts)Kick your own thread since nobody responded for hours. Cool move.
See, I helped ya now too.. Good luck with this
QC
(26,371 posts)particularly to attack a Jewish candidate, but never say never.
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)"progressives" and the right wing are the opposite sides of the same coin. They believe their cause to be so noble that any tactics used to win the propaganda war is justified.
SheenaR
(2,052 posts)It has nothing to do with nobility. It has to do with basic rights that American citizens should have that they do not have. It has to do with a corrupt system, and nobody can deny the government is corrupt, screwing the middle class left and right.
When a candidate makes those issues front and center, people like me will not settle. We will not play nice. By any means necessary, these issues must be addressed.
Sorry if that bothers people. I suppose Susan B Anthony, Thomas Jefferson, et. al should have been more polite and have toned it down
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)floriduck
(2,262 posts)WhiteTara
(29,719 posts)at any cost and need an excuse to hate the woman in the race.
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016 (Ballotpedia)
http://ballotpedia.org/Hillary_Clinton_presidential_campaign,_2016
And, for good measure, check this out. Remember, if it has a Patent it isn't tinfoil!
The Groundwork: The stealthy, Eric Schmidt-backed startup that's working to put Hillary Clinton in the White House
(Adam Pasick &Tim Fernholz October 2015)
http://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-working-for-hillary-clinton-campaign