While there are many threats to her prospects she cannot control, like an FBI investigation, she could surely butter up Bernie SandersBernie SandersTop Sanders aide: DNC needs a “unifier” as chair Wasserman Schultz fights to keep her job DNC chair: I’m “focused on doing my job’ MORE and stop bleeding support from his impassioned supporters”.
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Last October, Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi covered the House Republicans’ Benghazi Committee and its 11-hour grilling of Clinton, and he wrote a very memorable piece soon after.
Those idiots represent everything that is wrong not just with the Republican Party, but with modern politics in general.
The combative Sanders campaign (on Tuesday they asked for a review of voting in Kentucky, looking possibly to add just a single delegate to their totals) isn’t necessarily getting a free pass from voters. Most importantly, Linda Tripp gave Starr tapes of conversations with Monica Lewinsky that led to Bill Clinton’s impeachment. The former president developed a reputation, which was well deserved, for adopting a “triangulation” posture and taking advice from the likes of Dick Morris. That might make it hard for them to influence the future course of the Democratic Party. He didn’t; Tom DeLay did. There were no delegates at stake in the Democratic primary. It wasn’t overly complicated: Dems may have been annoyed by the president triangulating, but they were far more disgusted with Republican extremism.
Almost two decades later, consider how Donald Trump is shifting his focus to the 2016 general election: Trump is attacking Hillary Clinton over her gender; he’s blaming her for ’90s-era sex scandals; and in a line of attack that no sane person should consider normal, he’s suggesting that she might have had something to do with Vince Foster’s death. You’ve heard the cliche, campaigns are always about the future? “Democracy, and respect for the voters of California, would suggest that there should be a vigorous debate in which the voters may determine whose ideas they support”, he said in a statement released by his campaign.
The question of how Clinton and Sanders will reconcile, keeping left-of-center voters together, obviously matters. More than half of them now believe Clinton will be the nominee. The Clintons and their supporters have dismissed the charges as baseless and politically motivated.
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Clinton’s supporters are more likely to favor the Democrat, whomever it might be, or even if he or she is unnamed. And the Clinton-Trump pairing is also tighter than the Trump-Sanders contest – a point Sanders has been making. He once called Paula Jones “a loser” and said of Monica Lewinsky, “People would have been more forgiving if he’d had an affair with a really attractive woman of sophistication”. More than nine in ten Clinton voters favor Clinton over Trump and would vote for the unnamed Democrat. Almost eight in ten also would vote for Sanders if he were the nominee. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the GOP nomination. While Bernie himself has said he’s sick of talking about the emails, both Bernie and his supporters will not let the super PACs go.
