Blatantly false smear jobs that people believe now include

[Godhumor]

Dirty coin flips won Iowa

All polls are bought and paid for

Prominent supporters are being strong-armed into supporting a certain candidate

One candidate is paying him or herself through the campaign


Conspiracy theories can be fun, I agree. But we're hitting a whole new level of derangement.

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. People love dirty laundry, and when they can find it...

They will create it.

[UglyGreed]

2. Well when you have

David Brock on your side people tend to question your ethics

[Godhumor]

3. The ability to believe everything without questioning anything

Is not an admirable one.

[UglyGreed]

9. I question everything

and not blind to corruption, be it Democrats or Republicans. When we blindly follow our leaders we end up in a mess like Iraq. Remember both Democrats and Republicans would attack those who opposed that war at one time

[JaneyVee]

4. Alex Jones territory.

[msanthrope]

17. My thread on the latest hoax got locked. nt

[obamanut2012]

20. wtf for real?!

[msanthrope]

21. Is anyone surprised? nt

[obamanut2012]

24. Not really

Did you see Kos laid down the law? Going to GE footing as of March 15.

[msanthrope]

25. we should go to ge footing 5 seconds after the Louisiana primary is over.nt

[sufrommich]

5. You forgot:

All Clinton endorsers are bought and paid for or afraid. Oh and Hollywood stars are really Bernie supporters but will be punished if they admit it.

[NCTraveler]

6. Ratfucking works on LIV's.

It's proven.

[Vinca]

7. And, don't forget, Bernie is a sexist Commie with a mysterious stay on a kibbutz

that surely must have amounted to no good.

[Persondem]

8. Hardly blatantly false ... spreading a different sort of manure?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/09/politics/bernie-sanders-kibbutz-volunteer-israel/

[Vinca]

14. You're forgetting the mystery part of it.

That was a hot topic of conversation here for a little while. As I recall it was suggested he was back in Mother Russia honing his socialist Commie skills. Demon Bernie. He's a bad, bad man.

[Persondem]

16. But not 100% false as Sanders did stay at a kibbutz. The OP is about things that are

"blatantly false" and he did go to the USSR right after one of his marriages.

[karynnj]

15. Read your own article

Note the title refers to a SOCIALIST kibbutz. Why, because the Israeli kibbutz movement is seen as either a neutral or a positive -- ie brave pioneers working on the land.

Please point to even one NON-SOCIALIST kibbutz in that time period? The very definition was that it was a communal or socialist organization.

Now imagine if Joe Lieberman or Chuck Schumer had gone to a kibbutz in their youth -- and they might have volunteered -- would you see sensational titles that they were at a socialist kibbutz ... rather than all the nearby capitalist kibbutzim?

[Persondem]

18. Quote with link to follow

"The kibbutz belonged to the Israeli political party Mapam, which in the 1950s had been a communist, Soviet-affiliated faction. Kibbutz members had admired Joseph Stalin until his death, and they would celebrate May Day with red flags. They spoke of controlling the means of production, taking from each according to his abilities and giving to each according to his needs."

http://www.timesofisrael.com/50-years-on-bernie-sanders-still-champions-values-of-his-israeli-kibbutz/

[SheenaR]

10. 2

All polls are bought and paid for

Prominent supporters are being strong-armed into supporting a certain candidate

The first? Not all, but some are definitely bought and paid for. This is as old as polling itself.

The second? Tulsi Gabbard? Is she making it all up? What you call a smear job is exactly what she went through

[That Guy 888]

12. Speaking as a racist, sexist, homophobic, childish, Berni-Bro that doesn't understand that politics

...is a contact sport.

"I feel your pain."

[dana_b]

27. yeah, evidently when it's against Hillary, it's untrue but

when it's Bernie - of course it's all true!!

[yardwork]

13. You forgot: Exit polls can't be trusted because the electronic voting machines are rigged.

Also, Hillary stole Massachusetts only because Bill was there with a bullhorn and a Hillary pin, which is a felony. (Disclaimer on this - I think it was a mistake for Bill to do that, but what are you gonna do about the Big Dog. At most it affected one polling place. And it made some Bernie supporter's year to get to photobomb the former prez.)

[asuhornets]

19. It's like the twilight zone. n/t

[Alfresco]

22. It's similar to the poisoned minds of Fox News viewers.

[Doctor_J]

23. You forgot some

[link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511412120]
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511412120

[spyker29]

26. Don't forget the Union Bosses

Forcing us fearful members to support Hillary.