Sure Bernie has moved Hillary left in her positions...

[Buddyblazon]

But if you don't think she's going to snap right back to her original positions as soon as she doesn't depend on landing true liberals to score primary delegates....you're naive. As soon as Bernie is gone she'll go right back to being a DINO. Thems the facts.

[djean111]

1. Hillary would laugh long and loud at the notion that she has actually moved even one

millimeter to the left. And she will go where she wants to go - even further to the right - if she is the nominee.
And, if president, happily a lot more conservative than Obama.

Anyone who says different is a fool or a liar.

[AzDar]

2. She's a LIAR. Can't trust a shape-shifter...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. He has certainly stimulated her CYA responses.

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. "Them IS".... and it's a bit tragic that we have to keep belaboring....

... that all-to-obvious fact.

[LibDemAlways]

5. Hillary is your basic standard issue politician. She says

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whatever she thinks she needs to say to fit the situation. That's why she's so closely guarding the content of those speeches. Doesn't want her adoring fans to know the love poems she whispers to corrupt banksters behind closed doors.

[Bettie]

6. I know you meant banksters

but "banisters" gave me a much-needed giggle today.

Doesn't make you less right.

[aidbo]

12. Corrupt banisters have a lot of splinters and are not securely attached to the stairs.

Do not slide down a corrupt banister.

[LibDemAlways]

24. Blame auto correct and the fact that I was late for an appointment! 😊

[HereSince1628]

7. If she's moved her left someone must nail her shoes to that spot

and make sure that the shoestrings knotted so she can't undo them

Then we've got to keep her and her advisers away from edged-tools so she can't cut herself free.

But I don't think any of that's really necessary, because she's really moved nothing but her rhetoric.

[geek tragedy]

8. She'll snap back only if people stop lobbying and pressuring her.

The GLBT movement turned up the heat on Obama after he won election, and they achieved significant victories because of this (and he also improved his legacy greatly by responding to that pressure).

You should never think she's a given to do the right thing, or the wrong thing.

[peace13]

9. People should not work to support a politician..

..and then have to stop and take time to go back and beg her to do the right thing. Huge waste of time and energy. Especially when we have one who already is willing to do the right thing.

[geek tragedy]

11. sorry, the work doesn't stop when the pol wins. every president, no matter how noble, will

face intense pressure from multiple directions on every issue.

people who don't compromise don't get anything done. so, no matter how pure, whoever is president needs to negotiate and compromise to get things done. so when they're trying to get things done, that's when issues advocates need to be most on their game

[peace13]

16. I hear you.

Better to start with one who has more of the same value set. Unless of course time is no issue or one is a lobbyist.

[geek tragedy]

19. yes, very true. different candidates have different sensitivities to pressure.

That's the major reason to vote Democratic always, in my opinion.

Democrats are sensitive to pressure from labor and liberal activitsts.

Republicans are sensitive to Heritage Action and the Chamber of Commerce and the NRA.

[lumberjack_jeff]

10. He's moved her left in her language. Nothing more. n/t

[Skwmom]

13. She is counting on that message to woo Republican votes (though I don't think it will work).

[Bettie]

18. I wonder about that

I am related to a startling and scary number of Republicans (and people who think that party is "too liberal&quot and I can not think of a single one of them who doesn't hate Clinton (any of the Clintons) with borderline insanity.

I'm talking foaming-at-the-mouth, skeeter style derangement.

If she were running against a pedophile serial killer, they would vote for her opponent.

This is not even about Clinton, it is about unreasoning hatred. She will not get many (if any) crossover votes, no matter how far she tacks to the Right.

[geek tragedy]

20. they may hate Trump more after the convention.

There's even talk about whether the GOP would be better off throwing the election than (a) letting Trump be their nominee or (b) letting him take over the party permanently if he were to somehow win the White House.

[Bettie]

21. They are pretty evenly split

between Trump and Cruz.

They see Trump as a giant middle finger to unions, educated people, and "libruls".

The religious whack-job faction loves Cruz because he will "get rid of" non-Christians and "the gays" and turn our country into a "Christian Nation"...apparently, by doing all the things Jesus was not for.

Have I mentioned that I tend to avoid my family and my in-laws?

[geek tragedy]

23. Ugh. Hopefully they live long and healthy lives

and refuse to vote in the fall.

[aidbo]

14. I remember..

[ibegurpard]

15. Don't be ridiculous

He hasn't moved her anywhere. She's simply lying.

[vintx]

22. This. nt

[PonyUp]

17. Money trumps her left. n/t