I have to laugh when people claim Hillary Clinton has been "vetted" for two and a half decades...

[cherokeeprogressive]

in the context of whether or not Bernie Sanders would be torn apart by the press should he win the nomination. As IF Hillary Clinton wouldn't.

Here's something you can take to the bank: Should Hillary Clinton win the nomination, any and all "vetting" that has taken place from Goldwater Girl to Whitewater to Stockgate to Filegate to Travelgate to speeches in front of Goldman Sachs will be compressed into 30 second sound-bytes and played ad-nauseam 24/7 from the day Sanders concedes, to Election Day. Clinton supporters love to spout how Bernie Sanders and his supporters have made this the nastiest campaign in the history of ballots but I'll tell ya this... y'all ain't seen nothin' yet.

I'll even go out on a limb and predict an ad where Hillary morphs into Medusa as she's running across the tarmac with a box of FBI files under her arm, dodging sniper fire while a narrator talks in the background and when she gets out of the range of snipers it will be as she steps up to a lectern with the Goldman Sachs logo on it. The ad that follows will feature Carlos Danger shrieking on the floor of the House while under his lectern he's secretly taking selfies of his junk and texting them to underage girls while Huma and Hillary look on approvingly.

Hillary Clinton supporters like to use words like ugly and mean... the republicans will make ugly and mean look like Helen of Troy and a thousand ships will be ready to go to battle in her name.

Makes me laugh.

[mdbl]

1. Lots of baggage there

I expect it to get pretty ugly.

[tk2kewl]

2. and you didn't even cover the 90s

[amborin]

3. She has hardly been vetted at all; when they do serious OR, it will be a sight to behold;

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. I'm sure she'll be the focus of the next "October Surprise".

Yup yup.

[Dawgs]

5. Not only all of that, but they will make up much worse and claim it as truth. n/t

[JaneyVee]

6. She has been vetted. Bernie hasnt.

Which is why they want to run against Bernie. He will be hammered with his rape essays, honeymoon in USSR, praising Fidel, dodging the draft, raising middle class taxes, calling himself a socialist, zero foreign policy, the VA scandal on his watch, etc etc.

Not that any of that would matter to liberals, but indies will flock to the GOP. I can just picture the ads now: ominous voice, hammer and sickles, loop of him calling himself socialist and saying taxes will go up.

Its a wrap.

I'll stick with the "damn emails".

[Basic LA]

8. You beat me to it...

...and said it a lot better than I could. They'd paint him as the biggest commie Jew since Karl Marx, & a potential sleeper agent.

[Live and Learn]

9. Yet, she continually makes 'mistakes' that mean more vetting and possible indictments. nt

[yodermon]

11. somehow you think "she has been vetted" means "people will shrug off attacks & vote for her"

your argument just reduces to "Bernie is less famous". They will attack and smear ANYONE who is the nominee.

You say "vetted", I see "more historical ammo from which to draw for purposes of smearing her".

Her negatives are sky high *NOW*. Imagine when they really get started.

[cherokeeprogressive]

14. Bernie Sanders; draft dodger. That's funny.

Snopes > FALSE.

http://www.snopes.com/bernie-sanders-dodged-draft/

[djean111]

7. Also, it matters not one whit how thick her skin is - yeah, we get it, she really does not care -

but the new voters who hear about the baggage will be hearing this crap for the very first time.

I asked my grandson - almost 21 - what he knew about Bill Clinton - his immediate response was sort of a deliberately overdone Bevis & Butthead laugh, followed by "what was he thinking?" and "that's really irresponsible".

[vintx]

19. Not just new voters, anti-establishment / anti-DC insider independents too.

And that's A LOT of voters.

[Land of Enchantment]

10. LOL I do believe you might have a future in advertising~

I shudder to think that the republicans have volumes of negative information on her--enough for 10 candidates. The 90's were not pretty and I recall it WAS always something with them, the two-for-one- presidents.

[beachbumbob]

12. Too funny.more posts on Hillary not vetted...

I tell you this sanders has had little or no national vetting by the right wing...they are savoring that moment to reveal to the voting public...he would be the second coming of Stalin, Lenin, and Neville chamberlain....times 10....

[cherokeeprogressive]

13. Stalin x10. What a fucking idiotic statement. Stalin was responsible for MILLIONS of deaths.

TENS of millions of deaths. Re-education camps.

Bernie = Stalin x10 is so far off the mark only an idiot would make that claim.

[beachbumbob]

15. You are failing to understand how the right wing media will

Portray sanders....make no mistake about that....

[cherokeeprogressive]

16. Yeah. Stalin x10. Failing to understand that.

Many historians believe Stalin was responsible for as many as 60 MILLION deaths. So Bernie Sanders, so you say the media will claim, is responsible for SIX HUNDRED MILLION DEATHS.

Bernie Sanders is comparable to this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#Calculating_the_number_of_victims

Please get a grip. Hyperbole doesn't fit very well.

[cherokeeprogressive]

20. So bob... tell us where you stand on the murder of SIX HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE.

[LexVegas]

17. "Should he win the nomination" makes me laugh...

[cherokeeprogressive]

18. Stay classy my friend.

[Major Hogwash]

21. How many new Democrats will she pull with her into Congress?

A big fat goose egg.

What does that say about how the Republicans feel about her?

[cherokeeprogressive]

22. Remember...it's about "history" and "gender equality". She cares NOT about who comes with her.

Neither do her sycophants.