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The Hill: Clinton Campaign Fears Trump’s ‘Scorched Earth’ Strategy
breitbart.com ^ | October 15, 2016

Posted on 10/14/2016 11:51:59 PM PDT by Helicondelta

The scorched-earth playbook employed by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is stirring alarm among allies of Hillary Clinton, with some fearing the negativity will depress turnout on Election Day.

Some Clinton supporters say they’re concerned that voters are nearly fed up with the constant accusations and name-calling that has defined the campaign.

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To: Helicondelta
Some Clinton supporters say they’re concerned that voters are nearly fed up with the constant accusations and name-calling that has defined the campaign

Oh, SO concerned! Poor dears!

Wait until the trials begin.

41 posted on 10/15/2016 4:32:56 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Look out kid, they keep it all hid)
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To: Helicondelta

What’s sad about this is that Trump held off and tried to stick to serious national issues, but the Dems lose on those issues, so the sex scandal attacks began in earnest. I think he should turn it around on them:

“They hit me with these lies and filth, because they don’t want you to think about where our good jobs are going. John Podesta, Hillary’s campaign manager, talked about how they had conspired to produce a “compliant and unaware populace.” They don’t want you to think about health insurance premiums going up 40 and 50% in 2017. They don’t want you to think about who is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in the Middle East due to their policies. They don’t want you to ask questions about the deaths of 4 brave Americans in Benghazi, or why Ambassador Stevens was turned down over 600 times when he asked for more security. They don’t want you to think about why our relations with Russia are going into the toilet. It is a lot easier for them, you know, if you all are “compliant and unaware”.

I’ll admit: I went along with it. I was an insider, and I played that game well. But, eventually, if you have a conscience, you realize you have to speak up. Like John Adams, the Establishment wants me to shut up. Well, I won’t. But even I know, I can’t do this myself. You out there, you are aware too. Dig into it even further. Learn more. Talk to your neighbors and friends. Then you have to vote, and they do too, to save our country. We can either lose our country, and its freedoms, or we can Make America Great Again. It is up to you.”


42 posted on 10/15/2016 4:42:07 AM PDT by Paul R.
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To: TalBlack

I don’t think that covers it, at all. There hasn’t been an OPPOSITION candidate to the Democrats since Reagan. The intervening pubbies didn’t fight, not because they were weenies, but because they were on the same side.


43 posted on 10/15/2016 4:49:36 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Helicondelta

Alternate title: “Clinton takes the High Road?”

Yeah, right.


44 posted on 10/15/2016 5:05:33 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Helicondelta
The scorched-earth playbook employed by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign

IOW he isn't rolling over and playing dead like a wimp GOP candidate should
45 posted on 10/15/2016 5:23:13 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: Helicondelta
Vox Day's book.

SJWs always lie.

SJWs always project.

SJWs always double down.

46 posted on 10/15/2016 5:57:35 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: ronnie raygun
Make no mistake they are prepared for this and Trump, if he does win better go after these bastards with a vengeance

Trump's Attorney General will be a busy man. Every time I hear the Big O do something stupid, I wonder what other shady things are going on.

47 posted on 10/15/2016 6:04:14 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
One would assume Hillary would genuinely fear a multitude with pitchforks coming after her. Her inauguration will bring down the government.


50 posted on 10/15/2016 6:26:37 AM PDT by null and void (America is sick. We will find out if the disease is fatal come November.)
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To: Cololeo

Well the way I see it is......she started it. She started talking about how he is unfit to be President and got nasty about it. He’s just proving that she is absolutely unfit.


51 posted on 10/15/2016 6:38:53 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Helicondelta
Annnnnd....it's working!

Here is how worried they are: When Cankles went on the Ellen Show, Podesta's cabal groupthinked the cheesiest subliminal I have ever seen:

"Now it makes you want to turn off the news. It makes you want to unplug the Internet or just look at cat GIFs," Clinton said to laughter.
A zombie casting a spell on the rest of the zombies. Also I noticed Ellen's face looks like the bottom of one of her crepe-soled sneakers...
52 posted on 10/15/2016 6:45:17 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (PS - Vote Trump. Vote Coal.)
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To: Helicondelta

Brietbart click bait.

Story is here:
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/300936-trumps-scorched-earth-becomes-new-worry-for-clintonworld


53 posted on 10/15/2016 6:51:40 AM PDT by upchuck (Trump to the White House!! Hillary to the Big House!! h/t Jim Robinson)
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To: upchuck

Everyone needs to remember that one of the contributing writers on “The Hill” is Brent Budowski, who we now know from Wikileaks was working hand in hand with the Clinton campaign.


54 posted on 10/15/2016 6:57:22 AM PDT by digger48
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To: Wildbill22

Clinton (and indirectly Obama) are the ones with the motivation for a “scorched earth” tactic in order to avoid jail if Trump is elected.”””

Look hard at the list of people who have been killed in the wake of the Clinton’s path thru life in politics.

That is about as ‘scorched earth’ as it can get—short of atomic bombs.

The dysfunctional “Family Clinton’ makes Bonnie & Clyde look tame.


55 posted on 10/15/2016 6:59:47 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Helicondelta

I believe the idea of a ‘scorched earth’ as a political tool originated with the Clintons . . . so perhaps they are being hoisted upon their own petard!


56 posted on 10/15/2016 7:24:53 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Helicondelta

This is the new meme from the presshole/Clinton campaign.

Hillary went down this road first.


57 posted on 10/15/2016 7:26:44 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: dr_lew

For the first time, the Dems have to deal with a GOP candidate that fights back.

Yeb! would be in the fetal position by now.


58 posted on 10/15/2016 7:28:09 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Helicondelta

“Psychological projection is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.”


59 posted on 10/15/2016 7:51:57 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: Daffynition

Beautiful cat!


60 posted on 10/15/2016 7:58:00 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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