2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: David Axelrod on Chelsea's attack on Bernie: "It wasn't an honest attack" [View all]SDJay
(1,089 posts)of the Clinton campaign shooting itself in the foot. Given its propensity to do this along with all of the hate that's been pent up for more than 20 years from the nutballs in Repuke land, this is what makes me nervous about Hillary in the GE. I'm concerned she'd just add speed and size to any snowball that comes rolling down the hill, no matter how silly it may be at the beginning. Before you know it you have a media-fueled feeding frenzy and an imploding campaign. It's not that she hasn't been the victim of a lot of idiotic and totally fake 'scandals' over the years, as she has. The whole family has. It's that she brings some of them on herself (like with this dumb move) and adds fuel to the fire of many of these pretend 'issues' that she didn't start.
I just don't see Sanders doing that. When 'issues' or 'controversies' have popped up with him in the past, he gives them their due attention - which is hardly any at all - and dismisses them summarily only to move on to what he's trying to say. If Hillary handled this crappola the same way, she'd still be leading in the polls by a huge margin, IMO.