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Also, it helps to get the Democratic message out to the 40% of the nations viewers, as this message would get carried to the hundreds of media outlets and dozens of networks that generally tow the FOX (contrary) viewpoint. You know, that stupid, fair reporting need that implies that equal weight must be applied to both sides of a discussion. FOX would not be able to cut Sanders out.


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Two armies of angry supporters having to be kept physically separated, finger-waving rants, endless interruptions, slack-jawed moderators wondering what the hell they'd gotten themselves into, and all the Hillary supporters sitting at bars drinking Cosmos and enjoying the unexpected present.

Count me in!

that it still really is tRump vs. Secretary Clinton. tRump doesn't really care about BS, he cares about the free TV exposure, the national audience. Anyone that doesn't realize that tRump is going to be spending the majority of his time attacking Secretary Clinton is naïve.

And that's going to leave BS in a bad spot ... he can either trash Secretary Clinton, defend Secretary Clinton or ignore tRump and just do his own infomercial. No matter what he does, he will piss off a good group of people.

So yeah, be default, Secretary Clinton will probably come out of this a winner, even by not being there.

He just made wisecracks and needled his opponents in the Republican debates. He had the audience laughing and eating out of his hand as he make jokes about the other candidates and got them so rattled that they reacted by saying stupid things that made them look bad.

Trump will use the same tactic against Sanders, and keep poking at his weak spots. Sanders can't help himself, he'll arrive preloaded with bitter recriminations and a thin skin, and Trump will make him look like a doddering fool.

and quoting every attack Bernie has made against Clinton.

And that he'd rather run against Sanders than Clinton.