Did Clinton just finally figure out how to hit Trump?

[Doctor Jack]

Hillary Clinton may have cracked the code on how to land a real blow to Donald Trump. He has proven a maddeningly elusive target for Republicans and Democrats alike. But on Thursday in San Diego, Clinton delivered what was easily her toughest speech yet on the presumptive Republican nominee, deploying a potent combination of her well-known policy wonkishness with a surprising dose of ridicule.

“It’s clear he doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about,” she urged, and added, “If Donald gets his way, they’ll be celebrating in the Kremlin.”

It’s too early to know for sure whether it will work, and if she becomes the Democratic nominee as expected she’ll need to repeat the message a few thousand times before November for it to stick. But Clinton’s performance, the latest and most effective in a series of putative “opening salvos” of the general election, was immediately hailed by Democrats as a welcomed change for a candidate who often struggles to transcend policy minutiae.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/did-clinton-just-finally-figure-out-how-hit-trump

[question everything]

1. Hoping for the Daisy ad

from the 1964 campaign.

[DesertFlower]

22. i remember it. LBJ was my first vote. back then

had to be 21 to vote. i was 19 when JFK ran -- so upset that i couldn't vote.

goldwater scared the hell out of me and many others.

[MFM008]

2. Sure seems like it

His reply was to come out and scream "pathetic"

[Doctor Jack]

5. She ripped Donald Trump a new asshole

I finally got to watch the speech on youtube and his response was weak. Go on twitter and whine like a piece of shit. A few more attacks like this from clinton and he will be whimpering in the corner like an overweight, bald child.

[Jitter65]

3. No, she has been waiting. And this is only the beginning, there is much more out there for her to

use going back to 1980.

[Doctor Jack]

6. Her campaign said they have enough opposition research to "burn trump towers to the ground"

I suspect he will be comatose by July

[greyl]

4. Isn't it just that's she's only powering up her attacks against him?

I doubt it was hard for her to figure out, and I didn't feel like she was outside of her typical comfort zone. She displayed similar quick wit and fearless frankness toward many at the 11 hour HSC on Benghazi hearing.

[Doctor Jack]

7. I'm sure she hasn't even started yet

Its like the first shell fired by the allies on D-Day.

[DesertFlower]

23. i watched about 10 hours of it. she did great.

[RussBLib]

8. Trump has provided SO much material

Frankly, it doesn't seem so hard to fight Trump using his own words against him. The GOP contenders couldn't do it because a lot of them agree with a lot of Trump's crap.

When we get into the wider American audience, however, Trump's words should be enough to sink him, but I still think that attacking his businesses is a winning strategy too.

[Doctor Jack]

9. Him losing the election isn't enough

His brand and all of his businesses need to collapse as well. Him and his companies are nothing but a drain on American society.

[sarae]

11. I agree.

I want him to be completely and utterly ruined; I loathe him like I've never loathed anyone before. I honestly don't see a difference between Trump and Hitler. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that he's murdered people.

[Doctor Jack]

12. As he has said, he could and his supporters would still follow him

Goosestepping all the way

[msongs]

10. "Oh Donald, the things you say are so....silly" that will get his goat nt

[C_U_L8R]

13. Trump is just a dumber meaner Sarah Palin

With too much money and no decency or common sense. And definitely no filter. A thin skinned loose cannon who loves the sound of his own voice a bit too much. I sense more and more people will see him for the gross buffoon that he his.

[Doctor Jack]

14. Fatigue will set in

His abrasive, "tell it like it is" style will become tiring and flat out annoying to the people that aren't currently sacred shitless by it. The new style is often refreshing at first but the slower people among us will see why no other politician acts like him, because it is stupid and scary. As the election approaches, having a wild eyed, loose cannon, non-expert in every area will start to become more and more of a bad idea to more and more people.

[C_U_L8R]

15. Palin has word salad

Trump is a whole shmorgasborg.
The man is a mess of misfiring synapses that don't add up to drumpf.

[Doctor Jack]

16. During the primaries, i watched a few of his "speeches" on primary nights

I was hoping he was going to announce a 3rd party run early on so i watched him a few times. My god, talk about incoherent nonsense. I have never seen anything like it. Anyone that claims what he says make any sense to them probably needs a psychiatric evaluation. He could say "apple home ran folder purple mousetrap up" and his supporters would cheer wildly and say it was the greatest policy speech they have ever heard.

[athena]

17. I found that his "speeches" put me to sleep.

In fact, it wasn't just Trump; all the Republican candidates put me to sleep.

It was weird. I would try watching the debates, expecting to get really angry, but instead, I would fall asleep in my chair after at most thirty minutes. Same thing with the "speeches." A total lack of coherence seems to have that effect on me. It puts me into a dream-like state, which leads to a very peaceful sleep.

[Doctor Jack]

19. Rubio and Cruz weren't any better, thats for sure

I remember after new hampshire, i tried to listen to one of rubio's speeches on primary night. The media was billing him as the "republican Obama" at the time. I was expecting him to rip off obama's style and maybe have some generic, feel good speech to appeal to a broader audience. Instead it was a bunch of "we need to embrace Christian values in schools and kick homosexuals out of the army and blah blah blah stupid bullshit blahalahalalala". None of them ever came close to making an even vaguely coherent speech. Just more of the crazy bullshit that we have heard since Barry Goldwater.

[sarae]

20. The reason this election is so depressing...

is stuff like this:

He could say "apple home ran folder purple mousetrap up" and his supporters would cheer wildly and say it was the greatest policy speech they have ever heard.

It gives me such a powerless, hopeless, desperate, feeling to think that our future could be determined by morons like that.

[Doctor Jack]

24. They will all be dead of old age soon

In the last year, i have lived in utah and texas. I have only met a handful of trump supporters (everyone else thinks he is a massive jackass) and none were younger than....80 years old. Its the death throes of a generation that is rapidly losing their grip on this nation. Besides a few frat boys that get upset because women refuse to have sex with them, trump's appeal is mostly limited to people that were in their 20's and 30's when the Klan was still a powerful and influential force in their town. Why do you think he is polling at around 39%? Because there aren't enough angry, dumbass, retiree white people to sweep him into office.

[JustAnotherGen]

28. They are young in New Jersey

Just able to vote going up to Senior Citizens. There is a segment of millenials and gen exers that he appeals to. I don't care why he does. I just want them to stay off my lawn.

[SharonClark]

26. Yikes! Never thought anyone could be dumber and meaner than Palin

When do you think he'll be on Dancing with the Stars?

[nruthie]

27. Great response. Also true.

[DemonGoddess]

18. I think that what's going to happen

is he's going to continue having ongoing Twitter wars with Warren, while HRC verbally eviscerates him. I expect he'll meltdown about it, because both are strong women, which he really doesn't seem to like.

[Doctor Jack]

21. He thinks all women need to make him dinner

What is this with women trying to be a part of the government? Who's heard of a woman having a job, let alone working in government? In Trump world, such things won't be allowed.

[Her Sister]

25. I think she knew all along but could/would not because there's the 2nd Place candidate

whose feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelings she needed to contend with and coddle.

[JustAnotherGen]

29. She's known all along

And the fact is -

He's too emotional and erratic for the job. To me that was the best part about SOS Clinton's speech yesterday. Aside from her strong policy clarification - she pointed it out -

America needs a strong centered individual who doesn't get overly emotional and temperamental in the position of leadership.

[LiberalFighter]

30. As one person replied here she still had to deal with Sanders.

But even then it really would had been too early. The Republicans couldn't get it done mainly because there were too many candidates in the race.