HRC Has 'No Interest' In Running Negative Ads Against Bernie

[big_dog]

WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Sunday that she had "no interest" in running negative television ads against her main rival for the nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

CBS News' "Face the Nation" host John Dickerson had asked Clinton whether she would pledge to refrain from running such ads. "I want this to be about ideas and about policies," she said. "I know Bernie. I respect his enthusiastic and intense advocacy of his ideas. That's what I want this campaign to be about, and I hope people who support me respect that."

For Clinton, it was a rare mention of Sanders' name. In the past, she has consistently avoided uttering his name when asked whether he posed a serious threat to her candidacy. She has suggested she would draw contrasts between herself and Sanders during the first Democratic presidential debate in October, and has stuck to criticizing her Republican counterparts.

Clinton's comments came after a super PAC closely affiliated with her campaign, called Correct the Record, sent an email to The Huffington Post last week making comparisons between Sanders and some of the more controversial comments made by Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party, in order to suggest that Sanders is too extreme to win the nomination.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-negative-ads_55fed111e4b00310edf76651

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Uh-huh.

[Skwmom]

23. Just like she said she was open to debates and sent her henchmen out to tell people to shut up. n/t

[hollysmom]

2. good because I would rather have a choice of ideas.

of course no controlling PACs

[PoliticAverse]

3. I expect to see some negative anti-Sanders ads run by some super pacs. n/t

[Le Taz Hot]

4. Funny how she didn't extend that

to PACs working on her behalf. Honest to goddess, these people actually think we're stupid.

[restorefreedom]

5. of course not

the clintons know how to outsource the dirty work.

[cali]

10. +1. Precisely.

[Catherina]

15. +1000 n/t

[AtomicKitten]

20. ++++++

[MissDeeds]

24. Yup

[Vinca]

6. Well, that's a shame if Bernie is going to raise a million a pop after they appear.

He could be hand over fist in dollars for the general campaign.

[morningfog]

25. She'll still instruct and coordinate nasty attacks with her SuperPACS

[Duckhunter935]

7. Funny she can't stop

The negative ads from the super PACS that she and her campaign are directly coordinating with.

[bahrbearian]

8. She would like to see more debates too. But woo, what can she do if her Pac's do the attacks.

She can't do more debates because ...

[cali]

11. she's so transparently full of.... it.

[HooptieWagon]

9. Of course...she has her surrogates do it for her.

Just as in 2008.

[reformist2]

12. That's what SuperPACs are for!

[cali]

13. how lawyerly. it depends what the meaning of the word attack is and

what the meaning of the word interest is.

[restorefreedom]

14. funny, sad and infuriating all at once. nt

[LittleBlue]

18. I disagree

It depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

16. A: Will you pledge not to attack? A: I know Bernie and I like him.

I love a straight answer.

[bvf]

19. What ever happened to the follow-up,

"Is that a 'yes' or a 'no'?"

[LittleBlue]

17. ...

[left-of-center2012]

21. Her PACs do the dirty work

so she can smile and deny, deny, deny

[Pope Sweet Jesus]

22. Instead, it will be her sleazy surrogates

and it has already begun with Brock, who's already immediately discredited and his Correct the Record SuperPAC should be discredited.

[Gothmog]

26. There is no need for negative ads in this race