When Trump insults Hillary or Bill during the GE Debate

[maxrandb]

she should just smile and laugh a little, and then say; "Is that all you got? look, I had ignorant, angry old white men insulting me and yelling at me for 11 and a half hours and they left the room with their tails between their legs...you're nothing!"

and then just brush some lint off her shoulder.

[seaotter]

1. Yes , her arrogance is one of her most loved attributes.

[artislife]

20. They don't get it, do they? smh. nt

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

25. Yeah, I don't get why it would be arrogant to depants Trump

Maybe you do.

[artislife]

29. I don't understand your post

But maybe that isn't a bad thing.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

30. Whatever

Apparently you are greatly disturbed by Hillary's "arrogance" and potential arrogance towards asshole Republicans like Trey Gowdy, Marcia Roby and Rump. I guess you have issues to work out.

Have a nice evening.

[artislife]

32. That's your reflection you are looking at. nt

[Vinca]

41. Bingo! We've got a winner here!

[RobertEarl]

2. Not going to work

The people like meanness. Trump will be hard to out-mean.

[Shankapotomus]

6. Not when it's directed at people with disabilities

When Trump goes mean Hillary just needs to bring that up.

Instead of hitting directly back she could take that opportunity to remind everyone of all the people and groups Trump has insulted.

[RobertEarl]

8. Didn't seem to hurt him

He's winning a lot of votes. He's not going to be nice to Hillary.

[Shankapotomus]

19. He'll have to win undecided voters

And when you're considering between which of two candidates will preside over a country made up of different groups where one has a long list of insulting most of them, you're not going to want to be the one who picked that guy.

[Svafa]

53. I don't think either of them would win over undecided voters. People have

very strong feelings about both Clinton and Drumpf. I imagine anyone not committed to either candidate would just stay home on election day rather than vote for one or the other.

[pampango]

16. The republican base likes "meanness", apparently above all else.

That does not seem to be the case with Democrats, if the tenor of our primary is any indication.

If independents also value meanness above all else, I guess the US will get the president it deserves.

[riversedge]

58. Love beats all meaness.

[artislife]

21. They ate it up when he went after Rosie O'Donnell. nt

[leftynyc]

34. His BASE ate it up

and they will continue to do so because they're imbeciles. Hillary or Bernie just need to reach the 10% of independents that actually decide elections. We all need to remember that while he's cleaning up in the gop nomination race, even there 60% of the base is voting against him.

[Chan790]

43. Our problem is going to be hemorrhage...

from tearing ourselves in opposite directions as a party. (This may also be the GOP's problem but I'm going to focus on our problem...because it's not our problem either if the GOP can't fix theirs.)

There is a solid 20% of Democrats (not DINOs, Democrats that also IDed to pollsters as having voted in 2008 and 2012 for Obama or having a favorable opinion of the President) that have consistently told pollsters they will not vote for Hillary, regardless who she is running against, if she's the nominee. Based on my own anecdotal experience, I suspect that number is about the same for Sanders.

So, we have a problem. We have a decisive amount of active Democrats that won't vote for Hillary, either because they believe the scandals or because she refuses to embrace Sanders economics...and we probably have a similarly decisive amount that won't vote for Sanders because they're economic-moderates (mostly center/center-right) and social liberals, so if they can't get Hillary, the GOP is their next best choice as long as that GOP nominee is socially-moderate, as Trump is perceived to be on many issues.

We may not just need the 10% that decide elections...we need that 10% plus another 20% of independents or GOP defectors.

[leftynyc]

44. I hear that every election season

That poor whites who wouldn't vote for Pres Obama because he was black, they wont vote for this one or that one for whatever stupid reason they come up with. Such people should be ignored because all they're looking for is attention. I honestly don't know even one person who will vote for donald (but I'm from NY where we know him best) and that includes republicans.

[artislife]

46. If I don't vote Dem, I will vote Green

I am poor, Latina and probably in your eyes, dumb.

But the party had this dumb, poor Latina vote every election I was eligible to vote. I am almost completely out the door.

[leftynyc]

47. Where on earth

did I call you dumb? If you think the greens are the way to go, knock yourself out.

[artislife]

48. The inference of this thread is that the people

who are not going to vote for h are dumb white voters. You seemed to be jumping in and agreeing. Just wanted to clear the air that not all are white and not all are going to not vote or vote Trump. There is another way for us to vote for a woman with principles.

She might not win, but we sure won't have to hold our noses.

[leftynyc]

49. So nobody called you dumb

thanks for clearing that up.

[artislife]

55. Not pointedly. nt

[fleur-de-lisa]

50. +! - Great response!

[busterbrown]

3. on the nail ..n/t

[Kelvin Mace]

4. Did you ever notice that Trump never looks at the people he's insulting in debates?

He makes them look at him, but never looks at them with anything more than a sidelong glance.

[patricia92243]

5. "Bless you heart" has already been used or that would be a good one.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Except that the Trumpster never shuts up...

to let anyone counter. He should have a RC muzzle on his face for debates. Have the moderator shut him down forcibly when it is not his turn to talk.

[Arazi]

9. Trump shut down HRC'S "sexist" accusation in less than 24 hoyrs

By bringing up Bills affairs. She's never attacked him since. Jeb never recovered from Trump's "low energy " comment

Trump has a formidable talent for finding a person's chink and then smashing it.

HRC has significant baggage and Trump's been friends with the Clintons for years so he personally knows it. I fear him in a debate with her frankly. She gets defensive and prickly when attacked like that which looks terrible

[Laurian]

12. I'm confident Hillary can handle anything Trump throws at her.

He, on the other hand, will be at a loss for a response to any substantive policy question.


The other Republicans have let him get away with shit because they didn't want to offend his supporters. They wanted to inherit them when Trump left the race. This will not be a concern for Hillary.

[greyl]

31. She blew her response by letting Trump change the subject.

I wish Hillary had ducked and come back with repeated jabs to his sexism.

[leftynyc]

35. Let him bring up Bill's affairs

We'll see which one looks better - the wife who forgave and worked to keep her marriage together or the clown who brought his mistress on a family vacation to Aspen and whose ugly, messy divorce played out on the front page of the NYC tabloids. She's going to make mincemeat out of him. Why should she have used the ammunition before the general? Donnie shut down nothing.

[maxrandb]

39. His recorded appearances on the Howard Stern Show

will be a fricking Gold Mine!

[leftynyc]

42. Again, that's only the beginning

There is mountains of dirt waiting to be unloaded. Hillary or Bernie will not be the sniveling cowards the other cons were. Neither of them has to worry about garnering the 40% of the gop base that supports donnie. Where on earth did people get the idea he's enormously popular? Even 60% of the gop continuously votes against him in the primaries.

[LittleBlue]

56. He won't bring up Bill's affairs so much as the sexual assault allegations

By the end, Trump will turn Bill Clinton into Bill Cosby. Especially with the Cosby trial going on.

[leftynyc]

57. Let him try

I stopped caring about imbeciles who can't distinguish between allegations and criminal charges a long time ago.

[Chan790]

45. Use that baggage to her advantage.

In a GE, it would be a bloodbath. It could only help her there though...people tend to like honesty as a change of pace from pols, even when they're saying honestly terrible things. I can't say like Hillary Clinton, but I have to respect that she does actually understand something most Democrats seem to not understand: Politics is bloodsport. If she's not responding now, I have to assume she's saving her ammo until she can nail him at point-blank range in a head-to-head fight.

Let him attack her...then respond not to rebut his attacks but reveal his greater malign complicity in what he's accusing her of.

"Oh yes, everybody knows my husband is a incorrigible flirt, but those prostitutes Donald is always surrounding himself with are like leaving candy lying around for Bill."

Whatever he attacks with...rebut it with his complicity.

If he accuses her of being a crook, rebut he'd know since he tried to bribe her. Low energy? That's because she's not into cocaine like the Trumps. Frigid? A lesbian? (These are the kinds of bombastic inanities I can see him resorting to) Her sex-life is not a qualification of office, but she sees why a serial-philandering pervert like him would want to talk about it.

Break out the purse-mouthed impression she did of him on SNL on a debate stage and it's all over...she'd be mocking him to his face and he'd utterly lose it. $50 says he'd call her a c*nt on national TV from the debate stage.

It doesn't matter how much the moronic end of the GOP likes him...his candidacy won't survive that.

[msongs]

10. or she could smile and say "i've been called worse on DU" nt

[maxrandb]

38. DUZY!!!

[giftedgirl77]

52. You win the interwebs today!!!

[world wide wally]

11. Just turn over your tax records,Donald

[yeoman6987]

17. I worry about her damn vote

That knocked Jeb out of the race. Somehow she needs to reduce the impact of that.

[world wide wally]

22. I don't understand the point you're making

[longship]

13. I didn't know that Bill was running.

I thought it was Hillary and Bernie.

And it ain't over yet.

[Logical]

14. The lint video is odd looking to me. Looks like a dandruff problem. nt

[HuckleB]

15. No offense, but she will have a better retort.

[rock]

18. Funny

But, whatever she does it'll be Hillaryous!

[flamingdem]

23. I think we'll see she has a good, snide sense of humor

plus right is on her side and everyone knows Donald is a bore, well boorish, I have to admit I watch him to see who he insults next.

[lindysalsagal]

24. She’s already playing it happy, warm, and calm, she’s heard it all before.

That will make him even meaner.

I never doubted she could handle tRump. It's the 1% and the banks I worry about.

[Hoyt]

26. Clinton will eat his lunch, racism and all.

[djean111]

27. Didn't she steal that one from Obama - who was brushing off her smears?

Obama gets that dirt off his shoulder

One day after getting attacked by Hillary Clinton and George Stephanopoulos-- a former Clinton senior political adviser and communications director posing as a journalist-- in the ABC News debate in Pennsylvania, Barack Obama brushes it off.

[NowSam]

28. Because it's all Wrestling right?

Welcome to 2016 politics where the conversation is all about how to one up your opponent rather than champion the causes that matter to the people like:

Peace - not war
saving the planet from man made climate change, fracking and other horrors, clean water and air
Single Payer Healthcare
$15 Minimum Wage
Making College affordable
ending the oligarchy
Expanding Social Security
Ending the for profit criminal justice system
you know, stuff like that. One issue stuff

But I know, bringing the campaign into the gutter makes great TV. More Bread! More Circuses.

Bernie, please save us.

[SheilaT]

33. That's not a tactic that will work.

He's a total blowhard, and he won't stop yelling long enough for a response. What happened in that room a while back was about as much like what Donald will throw at her as a pee-wee football match compared to the Superbowl. He will pound, and pound, he will make incredibly offensive sexist remarks and then will pretend he said nothing wrong, while she fumes.

She won't be able to brush him off. Worse yet, a lot of people who might have been undecided before any such "debate" will come away thinking the Donald was masterful and dominated the event. They won't be tuned into nuances, although with Trump there are no nuances, so that won't matter anyway.

He's a pig, and I despise him, but his brand of sexism and chauvinism all too often prevails. I know. I'm only a year or so younger than Hillary, and I've known plenty of men like him. As I often say, it's sometimes a wonder the murder rate isn't higher than it is.

[leftynyc]

36. Let him rant and rave

While his BASE will eat it up, they don't decide elections - independents do. All his ranting will do is make the gender gap that much more glaring. Lazio tried to "bully" her - he started losing control right after that. She can't show any fear (and she wont) - she'll go toe to toe with him.

[SheilaT]

37. I don't think you fully understand him.

He will say things that are so despicable, that those of us who understand him (more or less) will totally discount his bullshit, but many out there will not. They will take his statements as normal. Meanwhile, she'll be looking around for support. She'll have it from the Democratic loyaltists, but not from anyone else. So she'll be out there, floundering, while he keeps on punching, saying his crap over and over. That is NOT a winning strategy.

Oh, and the independents will listen to him, and too many of them will decide he makes sense.

You just don't get it.

[leftynyc]

40. I'm NYer and have been

watching donnie for decades. If even one of those sniveling cowards on the right running against him had stood up to him early - instead of being so afraid of alienating his base - this would not be happening. Hillary will never let that happen. It's you that doesn't get there is MOUNTAIN of dirt on donnie that hasn't even begun being used (trump university is only the beginning). He's like all bullies - stand up to him, never back down and he'll go completely off the rails. He's been very successful with the GOP BASE - and even 60% of them are voting against him. Stop chowing down on the propaganda that he's enormously popular - he's not and never will be.

[TeamPooka]

51. Trump "Bill's a cheater" Hillary "My husband and I worked on our marriage through the good times

and bad. We didn't just divorce and move on to another marriage or three just because we hit a rough patch."

[KamaAina]

54. ...Bernie will just laugh it off, and say "See? He doesn't even know who he's running against!"