Legal group submits plan to depose 7 top Clinton, State Dept. aides in email battle

[Jarqui]

46. "Jarqui, you actually don't know." I think we've got a darn good indication

Bernie has been running for office since the early 70s - often against two opponents (Dems and GOP). Forty plus years of that and many elections is one heck of a lot of scrutiny.

I'm sure the GOP will pull dirty tricks. They could float Hillary had sex with a gorilla or Bernie had sex with a goat. In others words, BOTH candidates are equally exposed to the potential of their dirty tricks.

The difference is Hillary has a deep library of scandals, lies, deceptions & flip-flops and is exposed to innuendo of quid pro quo with the Clinton Foundation or the email scandal, etc. Bernie doesn't have much of that crap in his background. And the problem with that type of crap is they can join real dots of evidence to trick folks into believing it far more than those who would fall for the pure wild allegation without any evidence like the gorilla/goat nonsense above.

The GOP can milk Hillary's email scandal all the way to the election - that 8-10 weeks of testimony coming up starting around mid July. The Benghazi report is coming out. The FBI and two Inspector General reports are likely before the convention. They can milk the Clinton Foundation stuff all the way to the election and there are troubling facts there that led to a subpoena ... so folks are much more prone to fall for it. they also can remind folks of all the prior scandals like Whitewater (Judicial Watch got some new stuff on that recently) or Travelgate or Cattlegate, etc. They've been researching Hillary for about 18 months on top of the research they had on Bill's years in the White House and Hillary in 2008. There is probably some stuff that will come out once she's nominated - far more likely of it happening than Bernie because they've been gunning for her for so long.

Again, Bernie doesn't have any scandals going on in his life and no major juicy scandals like that in his past. He's an honest guy not worth much money whose ex-wife still likes him and has few lies, flip-flops, deceptions or scandals in his past. It's not that the GOP won't try. They'll do their best to smear him just like they would Hillary. But he's very likely to have less trouble because he's starting out with so much less trouble from his past.