Republican Operatives Try to Help Bernie Sanders: "We'll win every state if Bernie's their nominee"

[Recoverin_Republican]

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-01-19/republican-operatives-are-trying-to-help-bernie-sanders

Republican operatives are having a strange crush on Bernie Sanders.

During Sunday night’s Democratic debate, the Republican National Committee made the unusual move of sending no fewer than four real-time e-mails to reporters defending the self-described democratic socialist from attacks by Hillary Clinton or echoing his message against her. Based on their content, one could be forgiven for thinking the RNC communiques came from the Sanders campaign.

One RNC e-mail, which was titled “Clinton’s Misleading Health Care Attack,” defended the Vermont senator from what it described as “the Clinton campaign’s inaccurate remarks on Sanders’ single-payer plan,” and quoted news articles that featured rebuttals of her arguments. A second message countered Clinton’s attacks on Sanders over gun control by pointing out her gun-friendly statements in the past. Two other e-mails sought to bolster Sanders’ case that Clinton is too close to Wall Street and the drug industry.

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Meanwhile, American Crossroads, a group co-founded by Karl Rove, is airing an ad in Iowa bolstering a core tenet of Sanders’s case against Clinton: that she has received large sums of campaign contributions from Wall Street, and therefore can't be trusted to crack down on big banks. “Hillary rewarded Wall Street with a $700 billion bailout, then Wall Street made her a multi-millionaire,” a narrator in the ad says. “Does Iowa really want Wall Street in the White House?”

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“In Iowa, American Crossroads is helping Bernie Sanders by depicting Hillary Clinton as a Wall Street insider,” Jack Pitney, a political science professor at Claremont McKenna College, wrote on his blog.
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[Xipe Totec]

1. Jan 19? I think by now they must realize they cut their own throats. nt

[revbones]

2. Wow, going back to Jan for junk articles

Times must be hard in the Hillary camp...

[ebayfool]

8. LOL! I noticed that too. n/t

[Recoverin_Republican]

13. this is JUST like the GOPers on Discussionist. ANything more than a couple weeks old is prehistory

to them. My dog has a better memory than that. [font size="+1"]LOL![/font]


Are you another GOPer for Bernie (i.e. trying to "line him up" for the kill!)

[revbones]

16. Well you guys are so good at ignoring Hillary's history

We don't want to bother you with the awesome history of Sanders. It might make you cry.

[litlbilly]

23. ran out of meme's of the day, so they post this crap. getting funnier

[Kalidurga]

3. Don't care

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017338851

[liberal_at_heart]

4. Election results are showing that Bernie is getting a lot of Independent voters and even some

Republican voters. Can Hillary say the same?

[NCTraveler]

10. Point well made. Republicans aren't into Clinton. Nt

[Fawke Em]

12. No comment on the plurality of Independent voters?

There are more of them than in either party, individually.

Many are looking to vote for someone who's not establishment. They'd prefer Bernie, but could go Trump if the Democrats offer them one of the most insider candidates to have ever run.

[Recoverin_Republican]

21. "independents"

[Recoverin_Republican]

18. I had suspected in open primary states GOPers were coming over to vote for Bernie.. lining him up

..for the kill. You're proving my point. thank you!

[mak3cats]

5. Bullshit the first hundred times this was posted, and still bullshit. Trash thread. (eom)

[NCTraveler]

6. Trump Sanders would be a very interesting GE.

Two candidates that haven't been vetted in any meaningful way. Strange times.

[Jarqui]

7. That article is nearly two months old ... fyi nt

[Recoverin_Republican]

20. reprise

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511491383#post13

[Jarqui]

26. Why not give the old thread a kick? nt

[bunnies]

9. And everyone knows how correct republicans are.

lol. Go with that.

[Art_from_Ark]

17. I get the sense that "recovering Republicans"

tend to fall off the wagon a lot.

[bunnies]

19. Just a small relapse. Quitting is HARD! nt

[beam me up scottie]

22. LMAO!

[litlbilly]

24. he says he recovering, im not so sure:) I dont believe it for a minute

[Chasstev365]

11. BS!

Trump and Cruz are unelectable and they know it! Republicans want Hillary because her negatives are so high, but if they must deal with a Democratic president, they would want Hillary because her views are closer to theirs.

[grossproffit]

14. Bookmarked!

[Ed Suspicious]

15. Hillary thought that as well. How's that working out for her?

[JFKDem62]

25. They keep making one foolish decision after another. Overestimating their candidates

and underestimating ours.

[Cobalt Violet]

27. they are stuck in 1984

It's not the same world.

[oberliner]

28. This article is two months old

From January 19.

[Warren DeMontague]

29. ZOMG O NO THIS IS HUGH IM SERIES!!1111

CALL CONGRESS RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!

[whatchamacallit]

30. Your "recovery" is incomplete