Hillary Clinton is in real trouble so she's going to the mattresses against Bernie Sanders. Unfortunately the mattresses belong to David Brock so they're memory foam and scented with lilac and madness.
A top surrogate for Hillary Clinton is prepping a new attack in an intensifying and increasingly personal war against rival Bernie Sanders — calling on the 74-year-old to release his medical records before the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 1.
Clinton defender David Brock — founder of the Correct the Record PAC, which coordinates directly with Clinton’s campaign — is expected to hit the airwaves this weekend from Charleston, the scene of the third Democratic debate on Sunday night, and challenge Sanders to cough up a clean bill of health and doctor’s note in the next 16 days, according to a Democrat familiar with his thinking who was not authorized to preview any strategy.
That might be a better line of attack if Hillary Clinton wasn't living in a glass house as far as health and age are concerned. Instead David Brock has decided to play up age and health in a race where his candidate is old and has been associated with all sorts of medical problems.
At best this comes down to two old and sick Democrats arguing which of them is older and sicker.
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ campaign is fundraising off a report that an ally of rival Hillary Clinton plans to demand Sanders release his medical records.
“With just two weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses, the super PAC coordinating with Hillary Clinton’s campaign is reportedly launching one of the most desperate and vile attacks imaginable: they are insinuating Bernie is too old and unhealthy to be our next president,” Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver wrote in a fundraising email Saturday.
Being realistic here... Bernie Sanders would be well in his 80s at the end of a two term presidency. He could possibly still be in the best of health by then. Or not.
It is a desperate attack. But the Clintons are capable of viler than this on their day off. Wait until David Brock starts dumping his oppo folder on Bernie's weird personal life.
“Let me be very clear with you: Bernie is in excellent health,” Weaver wrote of Sanders, who is 74. “But this personal attack is another example of a sickness in our democracy when it is so easy for millionaires and billionaires to buy up candidates and elections.
“We are just three points behind in Iowa, but closing every day,” he added. “We can’t let super PAC attacks on Bernie’s health and health care plan scare people away from voting for Bernie.”
I have no idea what billionaires have to do with Bernie Sanders being old. But it's not like this campaign season is remotely rational anyway. So we're now debating whether the country would be better off with a candidate on the way to 70 or a candidate about to hit 75.
Can't we just focus on the issues? Like who's going to send more Americans to gulags and destroy more of the economy?