Thanks for that info.

And now the new story is that she doesn't control who supports her, a seeming attempt at framing the story away from how she fell for the bait from Hillary Clinton's allegations, which in hindsight, she should have decline comment of.

What's that old adage: "Better to be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt"?

In this case it would be: "Better to be thought an asset than to out one's self and remove all doubt."

facts of who she has hired and where money has come from

depends on his awareness of Putin’s tactics.

Falling for her?

no mames, of Russian influence in someone's campaign. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your point of view, Gabbard seems to have fallen for the premise and rushed in to deny that she's a Russian asset.

Hillary said a female candidate and did not say a name. Everyone just came to the conclusion. This is the big difference between Republicans and Democrats. Democrats will call out another Democrat while Republicans will shelter another Republican no matter how heinous the crime or indiscretion.

At this point, they should know what they are falling for so what does that say in reality?

She is polling at 1%.

What little support she has is primarily Rs causing havok, other state actors with a spattering of actual Ds.

Can't control that she registers as a D and runs for POTUS.

They like to chase the latest shiny thing.

She’s cute, she’s a vet, and she’s anti-war. I sent one friend articles with background on Tulsi. He withdrew support and is back with Bernie. He is now posting things on FB showing she’s a Russian asset (people don’t like being fooled). The other friend, who I don’t know as well, just posted about the weird cult she belongs to with a comment that he was surprised by all of this.

So, she’s lost 2 supporters that I know of.

If she looked like Betty Friedan, most of the people who are fawning over and defending her wouldn't give her the time of day.

Truth.

giving her all of this publicity, even if it is negative.

She was irrelevant and marginal until Clinton turned the spotlight on Gabbard.

People like her benefit from working in the shadows and putting on a good show. Hillary destroyed that. From here on, everything Gabbard says and does will be scrutinized differently, as it should be.

share of the vote in 2016 than in the previous election. So it’s important to shine the disinfectant light on them.

Once again, Hillary played the bad cop roll so none of the candidates had to. She’s always ready to take one for the team

Was right to point out that Russia was grooming a female candidate
Hillary did not give a name and there are many femLe candidates
So why did people jump to the conclusion it was Tulsi?
Could it have been because of what Tulsi says?
That’s why I did
There’s a photo of a Jill Stein with Putin and Jill took votes from Hillary
I think a third party candidate helped Bill Clinton
A third party candidate helped George W Bush
It’s better to get it out there now that people should examine Tulsi more carefully

As I posted elsewhere, it was obvious.

No other candidate had ever had such charges leveled at them before. Anyone who follows this stuff at all knew HRC had to be talking about TG, the only one who has had the Russian claim made about her and plenty of times. Heck, you could probably find it in a hundred DU posts. No such accusation has ever been leveled against Harris, Klobuchar, etc. Anyone who claims that Hillary was being "it could be anyone" vague has their head in the sand.

... the founder of Convergence Targeted Communication, and late of SKDKnickerbocker. He claims to have worked for Bernie Sanders in the past.

I remember SKDKnickerbocker from researching campaign operatives in the past.

He seems to be, at least nominally, a Democrat. What justification is there for calling him a smear campaigner? Does anyone know any more about him or these firms?

https://convergencetargeted.com/team/

Just because someone is a Democrat doesn’t mean they won’t take money to run propaganda. Money is tempting to everyone

From the Hawaii Free Press:

I believe the Democratic Party has a responsibility to deny or rescind Tulsi Gabbard's candidacy, if ANY of this is true.

Gabbard was polling so low that she obviously was not going to win anything, or even exert any influence over the primaries. Her threat to flounce from the primaries was ludicrous; no one would have cared. But now, with these accusations from Clinton, Gabbard is getting more publicity than her campaign could pay for. The very fact that Clinton -- who so many people irrationally hate -- is dumping on Gabbard will get her supporters. The best possible strategy was simply to ignore Gabbard and watch her faded away, but now she has legs.

What I see is that Gabbard is getting more publicity than she could otherwise muster and she's now in a perfect position to cast herself as a warrior speaking truth to power, fighting against the entrenched Democratic establishment. I've seen signs of this among people I discuss politics with, who seem to see something in her that I've missed. I really don't get the appeal, but I think this will end up helping her more than hurting her.

And if her name comes up again, it will always have the issue of Russian support for her will always be attached to it.

We'll see soon enough.

they should have just let her campaign run its coarse and move on.

... Prompt a third party run.

And that Tulsi Gabbard has hired one of their ilk to work on her campaign. They're like an opportunistic infection on our body politic - and a very pernicious one at that. This is just one more reason why it would be far better to impeach Trump now, so that he is immediately taken out of the 2020 race. The clear and present danger that Trump poses to our democracy is just too great to do otherwise. With this many Democratic candidates in the race, Trump and the Russians are having a field day slicing and dicing up the Democratic field, sowing chaos and division, in order to weaken the Democratic brand overall. Maybe Hillary had a stroke of genius - let's face it, she IS a genius - to throw out the anonymous bait, so Tulsi would take it.

One of the posters in this thread mentioned a CULT - which I kind of suspected at the last debate, the way she bandied about the term "regime change wars", suggesting that it had some kind of special significance within her particular brand of anti-war ideology. Can anyone enlighten me on this cult aspect?

politicians in American history, are regularly second-guessed here as bumblers who don't have a clue what they're doing?

If this is true, we need a campaign to out her completely. What she might be doing with foreign govt. support is illegal. Vote for Tulsi of Trump, both hacked by Russia.

This is just my opinion. I do not waste my time elevating or lighting a flame for the primary prospects of candidates polling at the bottom of the barrel. "Engage Radio Silence"

What else has she DONE that ties her to Russia?

Conditioning for veterans service is absolute as fall back excuse. The real marks Fundies and Evangelicals who eat lies for breakfast are the target audience for the trolls.

As Jesus is said to have charged his executioners “They do not know what they are doing”. Actually that seems to be a common problem.

Read her responses carefully. She's repeatedly asked if she disavows them and just repeats the same formulation. Nobody thinks she controls the bots but that's the only thing she denies.

I think Democrats should be careful and wary around her.

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