Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumI woke up this morning with a theory about why Hillary does not release the transcripts to her
Wall Street speeches.
She knows she will pick up a lot of votes from people in conservative states on Stupid Tuesday. (Apologies to all the intelligent Sanders voters especially in Colorado, Maine, Minnesota and above all Vermont who vote on that day.)
She also knows that she will pick up fewer votes if she releases the transcripts.
Hence, she is waiting until after Stupid Tuesday, resisting the pressure to release the transcripts until she gets the conservative votes from the South.
Until I woke up this morning, I figured the transcripts probably aren't that bad.
Suddenly today, I see a strategy, sneaky to my mind, but very plausible.
It's just a theory. We will find out after Stupid Tuesday.
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)The Hillary voters I see here wouldn't change their minds no matter what was in those speeches.
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)If hay were made out if them. The point isn't to sway our fair and foul colleagues in camp weathervane, but to show the country what we've known. She's socially progressive, but her price tag is as heavy as string theory.
nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)the transcripts would show to the rest of the world exactly what you say.
but, i don't think it's fair to say she's socially progressive in any way. she didn't support gay marriage. she doesn't support medical marijuana. there's no sense that she'd roll back mass incarceration.
and especially on abortion, she tacks right and shames progressives into adopting HER compromised position in order to appease the RW.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)She is the American Chamberlain appeasing the American NAZIs.
It won't work.
Bernin4U
(812 posts)Why would she?
She's already moved the goalpost to outside of the stadium. Bernie could badger her all he wants, and it won't change anything.
The ONLY way it happens is if/when:
1. She's in the general.
2. The Repub (Trump?) challenges her, agreeing to do it himself as well.
3. There's absolutely nothing in there that could be damaging.
She has no reason to do it now. It won't change much anyway. But (assuming it's all fairly benign) she will keep it in her back pocket, wait for Trump to make a big issue of it, then try to stick it in his face.
Think "the Benghazi Bounce". She was made a hero for doing little but sitting there and acting belligerent.
bernbabe
(370 posts)Mufaddal
(1,021 posts)Money makes the world go around, the world go around, the world go around...
Cabaret
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Sleazeball stuff like this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1316021
And more sleazeball stuff like that:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511329207
In between fluffy, cotton candy speeches(her crew loves to use as proof), I'd bet the farm there are more two-faced hypocritical Hillary speeches where she strokes the egos of her 1% er BFFs and lies to those of us on the outside of her inner circle of high dolla consorts. Just like she did with MoveOn.
The woman is a liar and proves to us all everyday that she always was.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Ditto to her being a liar.
Nyan
(1,192 posts)And then going over the details with Goldman executives so they could confirm afterwards.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)So sad that so many on this website are totally bamboozled by Hillary.
Hillary is all about fear.
Bernie is all about solidarity with the middle class in America.
I'm with Bernie.