All weekend looong, I’ve seen Hillary’s surrogates, from Gloria Steinem to Bill Clinton going into attack mode. They’ve attacked Bernie for not being pure, because he helped the DNC raise money for democrats…..DEMOCRATS, (not himself) 9 years ago. (I’m clutching my pearls as I’m typing, and believe me, it isn’t easy). But the targets of the most vitriolic attacks have been Bernie’s supporters. Young men have been described as Bernie bros who “have said some terrible sexist things, and been rude”. (Again, I’m clutching my pearls) I’ve never heard of young men who support anyone be rude before. These young men must be from another planet!!! I’ve certainly never heard any Clinton supporters say anything rude or obnoxious about Bernie Sanders. They’ve never told me that he’s just some old socialist hippie, too old to be President. So, I am just shocked to know that young men are being rude and obnoxious in their enthusiasm for their candidate. I wonder where they learned such behavior. Certainly not in our so civilized society. Bill Clinton, YES, THAT (I never had sex with that woman) Bill Clinton, even complained that young men were being sexist!!!. 😱 He didn’t have a cigar at the time.
But the main targets of the Clinton machine have been have been the young women who support Bernie. (full disclosure I’m in my mid 50's and I’m quite flattered that the Clinton’s think I’m too young to know what I’m doing) I’ve heard these young women are just horny and looking for a good lay, or that they are niave and don’t have a clue what they are doing. I’ve even read the young women threatened with going to hell for not supporting Hillary Clinton!!!
You know a campaign is in trouble and in a deep panic mode when it begins to attack the supporters of another campaign that is growing exponentially. The last time we saw this from the Clinton’s they were dismissing black voters for supporting Barrack Obama. Of course, Barrack did win the black vote, but that alone didn’t put him in the White House.
I’m not the least surprised by any of these attacks by the Clinton machine. If there is one thing that the Clinton’s know how to do exceptionally well, its going full bore NASTY. But I am surprised that none of them seem to realize that they are NEVER EVER going to get young people to support them by shrewishly lecturing them or dismissing them. I’m not really sure what their ultimate goal is in attacking all of these young supporters of Bernie Sanders. Are they trying to drive them away from politics by showing them how nasty and dirty and hypocritical politics can be??? It ain’t working and it’s making Bernie’s supporters more determined than ever to vote for the man who isn’t nasty, dirty and hypocritical. Whatever they have been trying to do this weekend, it has backfired on them just like one of Wylie Coyote’s acme rockets, and it’s left them in the air grasping at nothing.
Attacking supporters has NEVER been a good strategy, but you see it often when a campaign has gone into full panic mode, and that’s exactly where Hillary’s campaign is. Dry mouth, flop sweat panic. Can she pull herself out of this spiral downward, I don’t know. But she’d better start trying and stop attacking the young people who are supporting Bernie. It’s most likely making other young people curious about Bernie Sanders, and when people find out about Bernie, they start supporting Bernie.