Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
One of Brody’s coworkers on the Clinton campaign told TPM of the hire: “It’s a really smart move by the Sanders campaign. Tyson literally wrote the book on Bernie’s oppo.”
Well, I suppose Guccifer wasn’t available.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am SO Berned out.
"Sanders’ campaign manager Faiz Shakir confirmed the news with New York but added that the campaign would not “engage in mudslinging or character assassination.”
“That said,” he continued, “one of the reasons we hired Tyson is to prepare this campaign for whatever false accusations and allegations are leveled against us.”
Somebody sure is stuck in 2016.
sigh
Next Bernie is gonna hire the guy that Donnie hired to do the head count at his coronation.
How about tasking the Clinton staffer on digging up your tax returns, Bernie?
I don’t have a problem with a candidate, any candidate, hiring an oppo researchers, especially if they’re lucky enough to find one who has a head start from prior work.
What I do have a problem with is coming out of the gate trying to spin the oppo found as “whatever false accusations and allegations are leveled against us”.
I hate to break it to all the sparkle ponies but oppo research doesn’t help fend off false accusations, it’s to prepare the candidate for what’s found so that s/he is ready to address it when it surfaces.
Oh, and it can also serve to let the candidate know that s/he isn’t viable because of the wealth of shit found in her/his past. Of course, a campaign which hires as its press sec someone with her history may not care.
I agree, as long as the oppo is focused on the candidate from the opposite party.
But with Bernie, that could be either the Democrats or Republicans, I guess…
Bank on it, Bernie will once again go out of his way to trash Dem candidates.
Some of Sanders’ other recent hires have been odious. In contrast, this seems to me like a big whatever.
I think this guy and Sirrota just show thatBernie’s getting ready for a sharp elbows primary. It doesn’t mean that he intends to be the first to go negative, just that he is preparing to win that playing field if necessary. I prefer my Democratic nominee to be planning how to win the election, not counting on a rose-strewn path to a coronation. Because we all know that trump will fight dirty; he knows nothing else.
I’m not a Bernie fan and will be voting for someone else in the primaries but these hires don’t bother me.
Given his formal hiring of Sirota (who’s been trashing other candidates while posing as a disinterested “journalist”), I think you’re correct.
It is interesting to observe how some supporters of Candidate X get so upset when opposing Candidate Y actually does things to try to win the election.
It does not matter who Candidate X or Candidate Y is. This is a general phenomena.
I personally hope that who ever comes out of the nominating process is the political equivalent of street fighter because that is what we are going to need to defeat the Republicans now and in the future.
The Joey Bidens of the world ain’t gonna cut it anymore.
Y’all help me out here. He hired an opposition researcher to defend him against opposition research conducted by others?
Can was just bulk freight ship him and his whole campaign staff back to 2016?
Short answer/ill explain in full later: that hire won’t do him a lot of good.
It’s a good hire, but his problem is still there, someone can still use that attack book
More diversity in the Sanders campaign, I see. (Sorry, I couldn’t find the snark font.)
Sanders is really making it hard for me to smile and be nice. He is showing all the signs of ambition. He makes noises that indicate he is sensitive to the damage his supporters did before, but…
Ah, hell. I can’t. Sanders is going to deliver Trump another victory, and his supporters will once again spread misogyny and hate accross the party with an arrogant sneer.
Fuck Sanders.
We’ve already seen from the reaction of Hillary fans that Sanders isn’t allowed to hire her critics, so I naively assumed that hiring one her former staffers would be deemed acceptable. lol
yes please!!!