2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "The GOP will savagely attack Sanders" seems to be code-speak for [View all]SDJay
(1,089 posts)to directly attack SBS a few months ago, but they're certainly seeing it now. And yes, she will need those votes if she's the nominee, but I still think their approach would be to take him out as early as possible through some Super PAC or surrogate or whisper campaign or something not directly from HRC and then spend the next several months courting the SBS voters. That's IMHO a better strategy than going through months of a tough primary fight.
The point is this whole "We need to not put SBS on the ticket because the repukes will come hard after him" is bunk IMHO. They're going to "savage" the nominee no matter who it is, and I'd rather they try to paint SBS as some commie than have the soft middle listen to MONTHS of the Whitewater crap, the Lewinsky garbage, travelgate, BENGHAZI!!, the emails, yada yada yada.