{"id":9149,"date":"2015-05-02T03:28:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T03:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9149"},"modified":"2015-05-02T03:28:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T03:28:09","slug":"socialist-could-do-hrc-a-huge-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9149","title":{"rendered":"Socialist could do HRC a huge favor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Bernie Sanders&#8217;s campaign for president next year is likely to produce a huge favor for the Democratic Party&#8217;s frontrunner, Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders is an unapologetic socialist. He&#8217;s an independent U.S. senator from Vermont. He&#8217;s going to attack Clinton from the left as the two of them seek their party&#8217;s presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>The favor? It will be that Clinton will be seen as the mainstream candidate and &#8212; perhaps &#8212; more palatable to the vast middle-of-the-road sea of voters who dislike extremists on either end of the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"j9RuHVao73\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/240740-socialist-to-snap-at-clintons-heels\/\">Socialist to snap at Clinton\u2019s heels<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Socialist to snap at Clinton\u2019s heels&#8221; &#8212; The Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/240740-socialist-to-snap-at-clintons-heels\/embed\/#?secret=nAXFxSb0An#?secret=j9RuHVao73\" data-secret=\"j9RuHVao73\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Republican candidates and members of the TEA party wing of the GOP try all the time to label Clinton as some kind of &#8220;closet socialist.&#8221; Well, she&#8217;ll be running for her party&#8217;s nomination against the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders has no qualms about extolling the virtues of wealth redistribution, which is a socialist tenet. Clinton doesn&#8217;t say such things &#8212; out loud, at least. That doesn&#8217;t stop her fervent critics from hanging the socialist label on her.<\/p>\n<p>So, look for Hillary Clinton to welcome Sanders&#8217;s attacks. She&#8217;ll parry them easily and possibly deprive her Republican foes a key weapon in their own arsenal against the probable Democratic presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders&#8217;s campaign for president next year is likely to produce a huge favor for the Democratic Party&#8217;s frontrunner, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Sanders is an unapologetic socialist. He&#8217;s an independent U.S. senator from Vermont. He&#8217;s going to attack Clinton from the left as the two of them seek their party&#8217;s presidential nomination. The favor? It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Socialist could do HRC a huge favor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[73,597,1336,1941,2140,3917,4302,4531],"class_list":["post-9149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-campaign","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-democratic-nomination","tag-gop","tag-hillary-rodham-clinton","tag-republicans","tag-socialist","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}