Hillary Clinton Has 'No Interest' In Running Negative Ads Against Bernie Sanders

[portlander23]

Hillary Clinton Has 'No Interest' In Running Negative Ads Against Bernie Sanders

CBS News' "Face the Nation" host John Dickerson had asked Clinton whether she would pledge to refrain from running such ads.

"I want this to be about ideas and about policies," she said. "I know Bernie. I respect his enthusiastic and intense advocacy of his ideas. That's what I want this campaign to be about, and I hope people who support me respect that."

For Clinton, it was a rare mention of Sanders' name. In the past, she has consistently avoided uttering his name when asked whether he posed a serious threat to her candidacy.

Video: Mrs. Clinton wouldn't have said the dishonest Sanders smear her Super PAC said on her behalf

Ok, let's call that an apology and hope that we won't see further smears from Mrs. Clinton's camp against other Democratic candidates.

[Thinkingabout]

1. Call this a truce, no more smearing of Hillary by Bernie supporters.

[Pope Sweet Jesus]

2. We'll see how long that last.

Bless you, sister.

[Thinkingabout]

3. Thank you

[morningfog]

6. Why should it last? We don't even get the dark money

from the superPACs. Hillary has no problem sending them out to do her dirty work, even though it is probably illegal.

[portlander23]

9. Yes, probably illegal

The manner in which she's coordinating with her PACs is untested by the courts. I take her phrase "people who support me" as referring to her PACs. She cannot safely say that she will instruct her PACs to back off.

Now, this may be me reading into things, but let's see if she's learned her lesson. I assume she did not enjoy the blowback or Mr. Sanders raising $1.2m over the blunder.

[morningfog]

4. There is a difference between the campaigns and their supporters.

Unaffliliated supporters have no obligations whatsoever. They are just regular free speech citizens. *most* DUera are not affiliated with a campaign.

What Hillary ignored is her SuperPAC with which she coordinates, had already gone negative. There is no distinction from the campaign.

[portlander23]

7. I concur

Let's focus on policy differences.

[CentralMass]

5. Notice, she did not day "I will not run negative ads against Bernie Sanders"

[morningfog]

8. It was a warning more than anything.

Especially since she's already started going full red bait.

[portlander23]

10. Parsing

Yes, I did notice the phrasing while listening to the interview on C-Span radio. I say let's give her the benefit of the doubt. You have to admit that going negative on Mr. Sanders blew up in her face, so you'd think she'd not be eager to do it again.

[TheFarS1de]

11. TL;DR

They got caught red handed . They won't make the same mistake next time .

[Fumesucker]

13. Well, they'll *try* not to make the same mistake again

There are so many amateur sleuths out there beating the factual bushes that it's getting more and more difficult to come up with something that someone somewhere can't figure out and blast to the world on Reddit or Facebook or even DU.

[TheFarS1de]

14. I do understand ...

a voter base with a good knowledge of social media and technology must be an absolute nightmare to keep under control . I will await the next attack and will look for the false hand wringing as they all discredit personal attacks but allow the attack to go unchallenged .

They just care sooo much

[reformist2]

12. Notice how she admires his "intense advocacy of" his ideas, not the ideas themselves.

She's a careful wordsmith, and like a good Clinton, she doesn't like to lie. You just have to read between the lines to figure out what she's saying.

[99th_Monkey]

15. That's what her Super-Pac is for

and her feigned "disinterest" is required by law, since
they are not supposed to communicate; yet no one really
believes that or takes it seriously on the ground.

[Indepatriot]

16. More "wiggle room" in that statement than at a Vegas belly dancing convention....

[tularetom]

17. So she has fired that slimy David Brock and disbanded his sleaze bag PAC, right?

I guess they just forgot to mention that part of the story, since she is so opposed to negative ads and stuff.