It’s officially silly season in the Democratic primary.
Hillary surrogates were out in force today across the MSM omniverse, pushing one clear and consistent message: Bernie Sanders is a no good very bad nasty evildoer of some kind.
But they had one little problem. They couldn’t agree on which baddie bad they had in mind.
First, and with great fanfare we had David Brock’s new multimillion-dollar plan to defeat Bernie in New York. Convince voters Bernie Sanders is Dick Cheney.
No, really.
They really think this is a winner for them. The idealistic utopian dreamer they’ve been yelling about for months is actually a neocon war profiteer ultra-conservative.
Worth every penny, that Brock!
Uh, swing and a miss, idiots. But the Mudslingin’ Follies weren’t done for the day!
When the giggling died down from their first failed inanity, they trotted out old machine Democratic retired Congressman Barney Frank to stump for Hillary.
And boy, did he stump.
His line of attack?
Bernie’s not Dick Cheney, no, the democratic socialist is actually infamous hard-right imaginary-socialist-destroyer Joe McCarthy.
Ah ha ha ha! Stop, Clinton hacks! You’re killing me here! I can’t breathe. The press responded likewise, with fits of delirious laughter at the utter idiocy of the smear attempts:
To summarize: Sanders, who has been painted as a near-communist by his rivals, is now the author of a second red scare. Okay, Barney.
What’s next? Tomorrow, Bernie is actually SATAN!!!! He uh...uses a fork and turns the heat up because he’s so darned OLD. Also free college is a deadly sin that will carry its promoters straight to HADES in a socialist-government-communally made hand basket!
All the while they will also have you know, mind you, that Bernie had best mind his tone.
Hello, Hillary HQ? Is anyone running this show? Are you even trying?
It’s this kind of utter stupidity — and the inability to even manage utterly stupid but at least coordinated smears by different surrogates in the same media cycle — that has helped a campaign with every institutional advantage in the book struggle for so long, so poorly to put away a genuine-left insurgent no one ever heard of from freaking Vermont.
Heckuva job, Brockie! Great work today. Keep it up!