Why do Clinton & company always scream loudest about the exact things they are most guilty of?

[mhatrw]

Sanders has a (union) superPAC!

Sanders went to DSCC retreats and even USED THE POOL!

Sanders' supporters are big, big bullies! All they ever do is bully and demean people who don't support their candidate!

Sanders' campaign uses dirty tricks!

Sanders and his supporters use race and gender to divide people!

[Phlem]

1. It's a Republican tactic.

Republicans use it all the time.

[RufusTFirefly]

11. Yup. As when President AWOL accused decorated soldier John Kerry...

... of having a questionable military record.

Or when Beltway Boy Scout Al Gore had to keep fending off accusations of dishonesty from frat boy fuckup's campaign. Mind-boggling.

But hey, that's how the Big Lie works.

And the Republicans don't have exclusive rights to this diabolical but effective technique.

[Ned_Devine]

20. It's the same with them saying he's not reaching out to the AA community

I mean, she's got the history of promoting mass incarceration and he has a history of marching for civil rights, but he's the one with the problem. This whole thing stinks to high heaven. I truly can't stand the Clintons or the party machine. It's gross.

[onecaliberal]

2. She has conservatives operatives she is taking advice from. Typical Rovian tactic.

[dchill]

3. I call it distractionprojection.

And it's usually a lie.

[99th_Monkey]

4. Preachers learn that in seminary

when you're at your weakest point in your sermon, you're supposed
to pound the pulpit the hardest.

[grasswire]

17. haha you can see this with Cruz, son of a preacher

He thumps the podium to make his points.

[msongs]

4. thanks for listing sanders supporters tactics lol ddin't know the one about the pool tho nt

[mhatrw]

8. weird how your post tied for 4th! nt

[revbones]

6. One word: Projection

It's a common right-wing attack. "We're corrupt, so let's brand our opponent as corrupt!"

[Vincardog]

10. + Bingo

[tularetom]

7. Its called "projection"

Accuse your opponent of doing the things your are guilty of doing yourself.

[Avalux]

9. I'll join the others in this thread - PROJECTION.

Accuse your opponent of doing the very thing you do. It confuses people and takes the heat off you.

[litlbilly]

12. Its just like something 3rd graders would do. they have to make shit up so go

after Bernie's strengths and try and show them as weakness. It simply will not work.

[GoneFishin]

13. Projection. People who believe that dirty tricks are totally acceptable cannot even fathom that

other people would choose to avoid using dirty tactics for ethical reasons. They assume incorrectly that everyone is as sneaky as they are.

[mhatrw]

19. I really think it is more purposeful than that. It's basically a preemptive mantra, IMHO.

If all they ever do is point their fingers at Sanders and his supporters and accuse them of bullying people and dividing people by race and sex, it leaves them free to do exactly what they accuse Sanders and his supporters of doing without any fear of reprisal.

[GoneFishin]

35. That's certainly the case with some of them. That is a known Rove tactic, a source for many of them.

The most famous case of this is accusing the media of being "liberal". This gives them open license to bully the media more and more to the right without any danger that they will be called on it because "everyone knows the media is liberal".

[Fumesucker]

14. It's a form of Swiftboating

Since Sanders is strong where Clinton is weak they attack his strengths...

[NRaleighLiberal]

15. Pro....jec....tion! n/t

[grasswire]

16. they got nothing of their own to talk about

How many times do you ever hear them talk about policy??

[HooptieWagon]

18. It's ok if you're a Republican.

[John Poet]

21. "Projection Misdirection"

It IS a very Republican tactic.

Quite Rovian, trying to bring Bernie down closer to their level

of the sewer

[bbgrunt]

22. it's what all republicans do.

[TIME TO PANIC]

23. What do you expect? It's what republicans do.

It's text book projection.

[Impedimentus]

24. Often it's playing the victim card

FOX has mastered the technique as have the Republicans. It immediately change the focus of the issue to the other side.

[mhatrw]

27. Yep. It's like the player who keeps hacking you and running over you on the basketball court

while insisting that you are the one who is fouling on every single play.

[retrowire]

25. knr nt

[asuhornets]

26. Projection,Projection....n/t

[ucrdem]

28. There there.

[mhatrw]

37. Yes, it's just good, effective machiavellian political strategy.

And yes, I am just pointing out the obvious.

[highprincipleswork]

29. Funny. What other political group does that all the time?

[Live and Learn]

30. She learned well from Rove. Too bad some of her supporters didn't and are falling for it. nt

[corbettkroehler]

31. Karl Rove Showed Us How It's Done

This approach is straight out of the Karl Rove playbook. In 2004, he accused John Kerry of being a coward when Dubya had used his father's influence to take multiple deferments and serve in the National Guard while Kerry volunteered for dangerous duty in Vietnam.

Karl accused John Kerry of being a New England elite when Dubya had attended some of the most elite universities in the world.

The definition of the strategy is simple: when calculating your candidate's weakness, accuse the opponent of the same weakness as often and loudly as possible. In 2004, it worked beautifully because Kerry seldom responded. Sanders has begun to respond but, for purposes of Super Tuesday, it's too little too late.

Governor Ed Rendell explained the proper approach in his book A Nation of Wusses: How America's Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great. My mind also turns to Governor Deval Patrick's speech at the 2012 convention when he said most persuasively that it's time for Democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.

[Dem2]

36. You beat me to it

It's the one smart thing Karl Rove ever did

[Major Hogwash]

32. Because they did it first!

And did it more often.

[tk2kewl]

33. yup... we suck but he sucks too

[Bluenorthwest]

34. That's a sharp tactic and almost always works, look at 'the clergy' which screams about how others

are super sinful and make entire careers out of attacking LGBT when they are very, very regularly found to be sexual predators abusing kids and poor women. They are very often found to be financially corrupt. And yet no matter how often this happens, the next 'man of God' is allowed to stand up and rail against other people again, as if they have standing.
Look at the Catholic Church. Everyone including Oscar knows what they have nurtured and done. Horrible things. But Francis rolls into Congress and attacks LGBT and Americans say 'well that's his job after all' instead of saying 'that hypocritical fucker is using LGBT to distract from the fact that his own peer group is full of predators'.

When people shout about the sins of others, always and instantly inspect them for the same failures, you will very often find far worse.