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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[djean111]

1. Why wouldn't Bernie want to win? n/t

[arcane1]

2. Talk about desperate.

[roguevalley]

22. agreed. No one better scream about a title to an OP again.

PS Bernie is leading her nationally all month. That is all.

[Cali_Democrat]

28. Which polls are you looking at?

The last 100 or so polls I've seen show Hillary leading nationally, except for a Fox News poll.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_democratic_presidential_nomination-3824.html#polls

[Lucinda]

3. Good luck with that Bernie!

Thankie for the link Mr Wendel!

[mmonk]

4. We're so Republican don't cha know because Democratic Socialism

is so right wing and corporatism is so left and liberal.

[6chars]

5. we may be hearing less and less about this election

[NurseJackie]

6. Well, that helps to explain the obsession that many here appear to have with the transcripts. And...

... just looking at Bernie's poll numbers and the mere 7% chance he has at becoming the nominee, well, it certainly makes sense that he (or his campaign advisors) would be feeling immense pressure to "go negative" in the hopes of saving the campaign.

Frankly, it seems pretty clear to me that at this late hour, there's not much he can do to salvage his chances of becoming the nominee. The polling is pretty consistent, and we'll be able to tell in a very short while that he simply won't have the number of delegates needed to win.

It is even being reported that Sanders has accepted money from Conservative PACS that are attacking Hillary.

Wow. This is disappointing to see, but not totally surprising. I hope it's not true.

[FangedNoumenom]

24. If you think Sanders supporters are obsessed with the transcripts

Just wait until Trump and his supporters relentlessly hound her and her sycophants over them.

[NurseJackie]

26. It's just like Benghazi ... nobody cares except the haters. Nobody.

Sycophants? About whom are you referring?

[FangedNoumenom]

30. Whomever it applies to

(e.g. people that don't care one iota about her corruption or about the terribly unethical things she did to Haiti, Honduras and Libya, so on and so forth)

[NurseJackie]

32. Well...

Goodbye!

[FangedNoumenom]

35. Mmm.

"Pulling the cord" won't stop an idea whose time has come, I'm afraid.

[virtualobserver]

34. That link does not say that Bernie "accepted money from Conservative PACS"-you are being deceptive..

It isn't that you hope it isn't true, you KNOW it isn't true.

[fun n serious]

39. Bingo nt

[Fearless]

7. Ooh the reframing meme!!

[AzDar]

8. WHERE is there ANY evidence that Bernie's campaign in any way accepted/coordinated with these

PACs? Looks like more desperate Clintonian LIES to me...

[Luminous Animal]

9. Absolutely zero. Another pack of lies.

[nc4bo]

10. And smells like horse shit to me. The stench always coming from HRC Camp's direction. nt

[azurnoir]

13. It's from Spandan Chakrabarti who makes a living going after the "idealog Left" on behalf of 3rd way

[angrychair]

11. Excellent example

Of the condescension and crap that gets spewed around here "oh, I'd vote for Sanders if he were the nominee".
The tone and verbiage used in these type of OPs and the post to those OPs by HRC supporters are clearly indicative of how they really feel about Sanders and those that support him.

Not fooling anyone. It is very clear, given any other option, say Bloomberg, you would make that vote before circling that bubble for Sanders.

[grntuscarora]

12. Bullshit.

seriously, this is bullshit.

Her refusal to release transcripts is fair game, especially seeing as how Sanders released his. And nowhere in your link http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/26/politics/hillary-clinton-pac-ad-speech-transcripts/index.html is there evidence of a direct relationship between the GOP ads and the Sanders campaign, other than they both would like HRC transcripts released, as would most of America.

Grow up.

[beam me up scottie]

14. LMAO! Did you read the comments?

The kos diarist lied and cited SPAMDAN (teh Peepuls View!) as a source, now they're being eviscerated by Kossacks.

[arcane1]

23. Even the poll is clearly, obviously loaded. And poorly spelled too.

Is Sanders Using Acts of Desperation?

Yes most definately

Maybe-Going Negative Doesn't Help

No-He is invincible

[beam me up scottie]

25. LOL! Now there's some CRACK journalism! As in put down the pipe, SpamDan and friends!

[UglyGreed]

37. I read the comments

[beam me up scottie]

40. Kossacks are not known for suffering fools gladly.

This dude's not the first clueless individual to get pwned after posting drivel.

[UglyGreed]

42. .

drivel and then..........drivel out

[Carlo Marx]

15. Boring smear.

The sleazy Clinton machine threw a tantrum during the fall when Sanders released an introductory ad, where he was described as an "honest" politician. Hearing honesty brought into the campaign triggered Clinton hacks to declare the ad " negative." Sanders asking for transparency from Clinton regarding her cozy relationship with the banking industry is not "going negative."

[djean111]

16. Newsflash - everything except fawning praise for Hillary has been deemed "negative". n/t

[NurseJackie]

29. "Cozy relationship" ... No, it's not negative at all.

and

[seaotter]

41. These look "cozy" (and Gold{m}an)

Yup.

[Ron Green]

17. Your posts are full of crap.

That's all.

[libtodeath]

18. Not one fact being presented but nice try.

[berningman]

19. What a steaming pile eom

[angstlessk]

20. So basically, attack ads by GOP PROVES

Bernie is in bed with billionaires who put out those ads???? I do believe I saw the word desperate a few times!

[Dragonfli]

21. Wow. I think the record has just been set for how many indisputable lies can be put in an OP

I congratulate you on your success!

[jfern]

27. I'm sick of the Hillary camp's pants on fire lying like this

Just because your candidate is a compulsive liar doesn't mean you need to be.

[virtualobserver]

36. you can almost smell the "Brock" on this post.

[Nanjeanne]

31. OMG - someone posted a blog to Daily Kos - named SKYWATCH. Such an investigative journalist!!!!!

HAHAHAHA. Skywatch - click on name - and just check out their recommended list of other unbiased blogs:

83% !! Hillary SURGES in 538 MA Predictions!!
CLINTON 49-44 IN WBUR Mass. poll
The good news for Sanders: Massachusetts is very white and very liberal. Now the bad news
by motorized 82/82 New 38 Recs
Clemson/Palmetto Poll: Clinton +50 in SC!
Hillary Leads Bernie By 16 Percent In Texas (Emerson College)
Harry Reid Endorses Hillary Clinton
NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll SC: Clinton 60% - Sanders 32%
Hillary's Best Ad yet!!!
Super Tuesday PPP Polls
Bombshell CNN Investigation: Bernie Sanders has Raised Millions From Lobbyist and Big Business

And this section is priceless!

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.

Click on the link about Sanders-aligned Progressives and you get CNN with a report about Republican SuperPAC that has nothing to do with Sanders and no factual info about anything to connect the two. What a surprise!

Click on the link for details on Sanders accepting money from Con. PACS - which I assumed would be to real information - and you get . . . another blog with no real facts - but some really funny opinion if you want a good laugh. This blog must be a real winner - it has 16 likes already!

Seriously? This is what Clinton supporters need? You have virtually all the mainstream media touting Hillary's inevitability with no mention that any of the "pundits" saying these things are actually donors or advisors to her campaign. Do you really need SKYWATCH's blog about "someone" who said "something" that "some people" are saying about . . . ?

[MaggieD]

33. He's definitely desperate all right

[mindwalker_i]

38. "Bernie's going NEGATIVE-AHZI"

WAAAAAAAAAAAA!

I, for one, am fucking sick of this shit. Any time Bernie talks about Hillary's record, he "mansplaining," "going negative," etc. "AND HE PROMISED NOT TO DO THAT!" Conveiniently ignored are all of Hillary's negative comments, along wiht any fucking discussion on policy.

So please, go pound sand!