Desperate for a Win-Sanders Shifts to Attack Mode-Looks to GOP Ads for Help

[MrWendel]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/26/1491785/-Desperate-for-a-Win-Sanders-Shifts-to-Attack-Mode-Looks-to-GOP-Ads-for-Help

By Skywatch



Down in the polls and desperate for a win on Super Tuesday, the Bernie Sanders campaign has decided that their best hope for upending Clinton in March is by going on the attack against her.

CNN is reporting that Sanders in a stump speech in Minnesota at this hour, is attacking Clinton on a decision not to release her wall street transcripts to the public, a tactic that he hopes will provide some leverage to his campaign just days from super Tuesday when 11 states will go to the polls. Even more disturbing is a report that a coalition of Sanders-aligned Progressives are fully supporting a number of GOP ads that are airing which are hitting Clinton on her decision not to release her wall street transcripts. It is even being reported that Sanders has accepted money from Conservative PACS that are attacking Hillary.

Most troubling for Sanders is his promise not to go negative in this campaign, a promise he is now more than willing to overlook in order to shift the focus on the Clinton campaign and help his own cause.

Republicans realize that a Clinton surge that would propel her to the nomination is their worst nightmare for the General Election, and so once again as they did in the Benghazi hearings, have concocted another scheme that they hope will derail the Clinton campaign.

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[stonecutter357]

1. K&R!

[Thinkingabout]

2. Even more reasons to GOTV, I will be voting on Tuesday.

[FloridaBlues]

3. I'm not surprised not the kindly grandfather image he wants you to believe

Look at the two people running his campaign

[SunSeeker]

4. So much for Sanders’ promise to stick to the issues and not to go negative.

[taught_me_patience]

5. He's starting to play with fire now

and is teetering on the edge of getting burned. He needs to step back and consider the political ramifications of this no hope strategy on his future in politics. Continue on, and he's liable to completely be shunned by all colleagues and the party machine.

[Satch59]

6. His anger on Hardball...

Was a little window (or big) into how his peaceful image maybe isn't all that? Granted, Matthews was hounding him on how he's going to get his agenda through but he was quick to anger and seemed almost surprised that he was being challenged. He didn't seem to handle challenge well and that wouldn't bode well for Trump's trash talk campaign in the GE.

[fleabiscuit]

7. One should be careful what they wish for.

To hope that our HRC would have a shred of something nefarious or embarrassing on video or in transcripts is a 'yuge' mistake.

Again, I learned you can get paid for what you know. BS has not given any paid speeches to the financial industry. Might put a big bite right in his rear end.

[comradebillyboy]

8. I imagine the speech transcripts will be nothing-burgers

just like the amazingly boring emails. Hillary is very cautious and I seriously doubt the speeches differ very much from her public pronouncements except for her throwing in a few polite compliments for her host and guests.

[sdaz]

9. Does anyone else find this interesting?

http://www.rnaction.org/site/PageNavigator/endorsement_microsite.html

[kjones]

11. Interesting! nt

[kjones]

10. Every day more comes out, and every day I like less. nt

[Cha]

12. He's so Desperate!

[PrimaryProjection]

13. It sucks, we're meant to be on the same side

I feel like democratic primaries are getting nastier... we're on the same team!

Well not Bernie, he's not a Democrat technically is he?

[ismnotwasm]

14. This, I've noticed

Sad to watch