Posted on 05/21/2016 11:43:43 AM PDT by pabianice
She'll rely on an outside group to pummel him, while keeping her distance. New research says it'll work.
...This year, in her coming face-off with Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton needs to do what George W. Bush did back then (with the swiftboaters): Find a way to take the opponent down, hard, but without voters connecting her to the attacks.
Meanwhile, the candidate who benefited from the swiftboating, President George W. Bush, suffered no real blowback from ads that smeared a decorated war veteran on his behalf. Votersother than angry Kerry supportersdidnt hold Bush responsible for the sketchy commercial that did so much to ensure his reelection. That explains why Clintons anointed super PAC, Priorities USA, will be the one hammering Donald Trump throughout the summer and fall, rather than Clintons own campaign. The covert assault began this week, when Priorities unleashed its first two televised attack ads hammering Trump in the battleground states of Ohio, Virginia, Florida, and Nevada. They show Trump swearing, promising to defund Planned Parenthood, assessing a womans fat ass, and talking about blood coming out of Megyn Kelly.
Brace yourself for months more of such ads: Priorities is sure to continue using Trumps own words against him, in various and damning combinations. And why wouldnt they? He makes it so easy, and its all right there, on Twitter and on tape, ready to be spliced into something that sounds even more revolting than the original.
(Excerpt) Read more at newrepublic.com ...
Right as in Trumps very funny ‘I don’t remember’! On the campaign trail referring to a WaPo reporter. Hand gestures and such.
We vets got loads of laughter from the allegation that Bush’s reserve record was incomplete and thus fraudulent. Johnny, EVERYONE’s reserve service record is incomplete. When I turned 60 and went to the reserve base to apply for my military retirement after 28 years in the service as an officer, the computer system reported that I had been discharged as a seaman apprentice in 1985 after 17 years of service. Took a while to get it straightened out.
She doesn’t have to attack Trump. She has an entire media empire that will do it for her. She also has the republican party to help.
Yep, every hack comedian and Hollywood celebrity will be doing the attacking for Hillary.
Even Sun Tzu would have difficulty knowing how to attack Trump.
It won’t be anything worst then the Republican party has thrown at him.
Wow, mine was a link in 1998 on Drudge Report, called "The Whitewater Files".
NO, because the ‘Butcher of Benghazi’ the ‘Rape and Sexual enabler’ has nothing to stand on, on the other hand, Trump has a whole wide vault of issues to stand on:
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/pay-for-the-wall
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/healthcare-reform
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/us-china-trade-reform
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/veterans-administration-reforms
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/tax-reform
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/second-amendment-rights
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform
Most of Trumps voters don’t care about what he said about some stupid woman because.....they’ve probably said the same or worse about them.
Nope, all will FAIL. No sword shall prevail over Trump. However, I will say this - This election is going to be one hell of election run that we will witness.
It's the Clinton MO... they hire goons to do the hitting them pat themselves on the back for being so polite. Think: mafia boss with aires... thinking he's not a goon because he likes fine wines...
As far as the debates go the Clintons will hire focus groups to find out what works, then speech writers to give it zing.
None of it will be Hillary...
The 'tone' in DC is phonies riding pollsters... Can Hilary take down Trump in a debate? Maybe. Not by herself. She and her band of paid professional... maybe 40 - 50 people and the companies that train them... yeah, maybe. Too bad Hillary doesn't have people to move her mouth for her when she's 'on the job'... that's when it all falls apart.
Also moderators are liberal butt kissers who get their 'questions' from democrat operatives... they get to 'pick and choose' between them. Operatives put in self serving questions to so butt kissers think they're soooo smart to spot them...
It's a joke but the so called journalists see their queen as Hillary... or any democrat cause they're a bunch of flakes... not even the 'snow' type.
The press will get the respect they deserve... ZERO... and the game will go on..
The 2004 Swift Vet campaign was effective because 1) the charges were serious, and 2) the charges were true.
And the leftists still feel the sting.
“suffered no real blowback from ads that smeared a decorated war veteran on his behalf.”
I quit reading after that.
Horseface was a decorated war veteran like I’m a black female lesbian named La’Quin’Ta who self-identifies as a short jewish man.
Once the left has a narrative, any evidence that contradicts it is seen as a lie. The stronger the evidence, the more of a threat it is, so the more vile a lie it is considered.
There are so many many examples of this. From the failed AGW narrative to the failed narrative of Trayvon Martin to the failed narrative of socialism being a good idea to the failed narrative of violent cultures just needing to be treated nicely to cause world peace. It is almost the defining characteristic of being a leftist.
I’d give FR a lot more credit for the Swift Boat Vets’ story getting out than to George Bush!
Also, like others have said, the vets told the truth about Kerry’s lousy example of serving in a war!
Please tell more truths about Trump. Weighing the good and the bad about him, it always favors the good. Go for it, Hill.
But she won’t. She will lie. There is nothing truthful about her.
Trump exudes leadership and winning on the campaign trail. Hillary, on the other hand, has loser written all over her.
The leftists always characterize the effort that way to avoid reporting the more devastating charge -- that Kerry worked hand-in-hand with Vietnamese communist leaders to spread phony anti-US war crimes propaganda. His efforts poisoned the reputations of American troops and helped to enable the communist genocide in Southeast Asia.
That's what makes him a "war hero" to the other side.
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