Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

I forgot your stance on Wall Street. I'm not banging my head against that wall again.

But on the "any Republican would run with it," again, I think you're wrong. Cruz and Rubio surely would. But Trump was handed a gift when Bernie defined her as a corrupt Wall Street shill (and I notice that you keep using "Washington insider" and "corrupt bank shill" as interchangeable and I'm not sure you should). Trump (and other Republicans) up until that point kept pointing at Hillary as a Benghazi witch and a Washington insider. That may be because they were trying to win a primary for the right wing dumbass vote. But there is no way Trump, the ultimate rich guy jackass, gets to point at Hillary and call her a corrupt banker shill without Bernie pinning that label on her first.

Whatever. If you believe Bernie didn't hurt Hillary with the far left, I'm not going to convince you and I no longer want to try.

TM

I guess the question is, hurt her relative to what? Trump was far worse on her, and he didn't need Sanders to do oppo research. He has an uncanny sense of his opponents' weaknesses. I don't think Sanders was any rougher on her than any other generic Democratic primary opponent would have been. He may have been rougher than Martin O'Malley was, but that's because it wasn't a two-person race yet.

And the advantage of getting attacked in the primaries should have been that it helps you deal with it better in the general. She, uh, didn't.