Hillary gets creative trying to distance herself from SuperPac

[cali]

In other words she lied.

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The idea that there was Hillary Clinton just settin' up the ol' presidential campaign when along came this super PAC, unbeknownst to her, that decided to collect money on her behalf just for its own sake is risible. Support from Priorities USA, among other super PACs, was very much an effort on behalf of Clinton's team to get her elected. Clinton has even helped solicit donations for Priorities. From the New York Times in May:

Hillary Rodham Clinton will begin personally courting donors for a "super PAC" supporting her candidacy, the first time a Democratic presidential candidate has fully embraced these independent groups that can accept unlimited checks from big donors and are already playing a major role in the 2016 race.

Her decision is another escalation in what is expected to be the most expensive presidential race in history, and it has the potential to transform the balance of power in presidential campaigning, where Republican outside groups have tended to outspend their Democratic counterparts.

Mrs. Clinton’s allies hope that with her support, the top Democratic super PAC, Priorities USA Action, will raise $200 million to $300 million. That is on par with what the largest Republican organizations, such as the Karl Rove-backed American Crossroads super PAC and its nonprofit affiliate, spent in 2012.

Campaign chairman John Podesta has been personally courting Priorities donations, too. And then there's Bill Clinton.

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/02/11/hillary_clinton_didn_t_just_randomly_bump_into_her_super_pac.html


Pantsuit on fire.

[morningfog]

1. SuperPAC Lie number 2: she coordinates directly with Brock and Correct the Record.

[CoffeeCat]

2. I don't know who she's playing to

I suppose there's a campaign going on, and she has to continue flapping her gums. But seriously. Only her die-hard devotees will agree with and justify this crazy.

You can't rationalize away a SuperPac. You either have one or you don't.

[SamKnause]

3. Untrustworthy, establishment, right of center, candidate.

[dchill]

4. She is already compromised beyond any possibility of...

independent action, so why not just go for the money? Of course, that commitment was made a long time ago. Now there's no looking back.

[bigtree]

5. what's significant is how little of the money she's raised has been spent in this Dem primary

...against her Democratic opponents.

And, also the way the Sanders campaign has benefited from the republican expenditures against Hillary which, in some cases, match Bernie's own attack narrative.

NYT:

One recent online ad from the Republican super PAC American Crossroads has assailed Mrs. Clinton for her Wall Street speaking fees — echoing an argument Mr. Sanders often makes against her. Another conservative group, Ending Spending, bankrolled by the Wyoming billionaire Joe Ricketts, has begun a $600,000 campaign in Iowa highlighting Mr. Sanders’s promises to raise taxes on the rich and provide free public college tuition, calling him “too liberal for Iowa.” But the ad’s language and imagery, including a contented-looking superrich couple hugging in front of a mansion and expensive cars, has led some Democrats to believe it is actually meant to bolster Mr. Sanders...

In fact, more super PAC money has been spent so far in express support of Mr. Sanders than for either of his Democratic rivals, including Hillary Clinton, according to Federal Election Commission records.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/us/politics/bernie-sanders-is-democrats-top-beneficiary-of-outside-spending-like-it-or-not.html?_r=3

[TCJ70]

6. She did make it very clear last night, as if she had to...

...that she DOES NOT coordinate with SuperPAC's. I mean, who could possibly think otherwise...

[UglyGreed]

7. One has to know how to

dance the dance........