This is a Clinton vs. Sanders debate and I think Sanders is going to score some points.
Any questions about the email bullshit and the Benghazi bullshit will put Clinton on the defensive. Sanders has no manufactured scandals pushing him off balance. He gets to stay on message all night, while Clinton will always have a part of her brain trying to remember her canned responses to Benghazi and the emails.
But those will probably be raised right out of the gate and thus will get them out of the way.
Then Hillary has to deal with the ingrained habit of most politicians: triangulation. Trying to answer a question without answering. Being against the TPP while being for it but really being against it for the moment. Saying she will combat ISISBOOMBAH by saying how tough it will be to fight ISIS and how a seasoned hand is needed to guide us through the mess, and never saying exactly what she will do about ISISBOOMBAH. Then the usual "tax the rich more" pablum.
I think the only person so far who has said exactly what they would do about ISISBOOMBAH is Carly Fiorina. All the others are too chickenshit to commit to anything. Carly, though, said she would kick ISIS in the nuts, blast them with a bazooka, then smoke some cigarettes.
Sanders is a lot like Donald Trump. He has no filter. He doesn't triangulate. He just tells it the way he sees it from his perch in the Loony Tree. He's going to go down smooth with the Democratic voters who are just as sick of Establishment candidates as the Republican voters are.
Sanders differs from Trump in that he doesn't soften up later. He stays entirely on message. Sanders has been waiting his entire life to have the giant megaphone he has just been handed. And the country is at a point where they are ready to listen to the weird old geezer.
"I thought they said this guy was crazy."
There is no legitimate reason for a single question to be asked about Benghazi. Emails.......yes. Benghazi.....no.
Sanders is no more loony than any other person in the race. Characterizing him as such is done so out of ignorance or dishonesty.
Sanders will score....as he does nothing but stay on message and won't be a prick. Comparisons with Trump end when it comes to a lack of filter. Sanders has policy ideas, experience and doesn't shit on people.
