Scarborough: Bill Clinton Sounds Like a ‘Loser’ in His Attack on Sanders

‘It’s like a softball pitch’

BRZEZINSKI: “Joe, the same — similar response that Donald Trump had to Nikki Haley. Yes, yes, we’re angry.” 
SCARBOROUGH: “You’re damn right I’m angry and it —“
BRZEZINSKI: “Doesn’t work anymore.”
SCARBOROUGH: “It was just a powerful moment for Bernie Sanders. I mean, Bill Clinton got the laugh lines, but, Sam Stein, you don’t have to be a political expert to know who’s in a better position there — the establishment candidate deriding the outsider for saying he’s angry or the outsider that says, yeah, you know what? I am angry. It’s like a softball pitch. I — I mean no disrespect to Bill Clinton, I really don’t. And I’m not talking about him generally, but specifically in that scene when I hear those words coming out of a politician’s mouth, I know I’m listening to a loser. I’m listening to somebody that is losing, that’s saying, ‘Oh, they’ve got better slogans, oh, they’ve got better this, oh, their polls may be a little higher now or, oh, they may be more angry. But —‘ I mean, I’ve heard that form of that speech a thousand times and it’s never good for the one giving it.”
STEIN: “No. You said it was a softball, it was. I mean, it played right into Bernie’s message. It couldn’t have been delivered by a better person for Bernie, either, a former president, someone who has gotten fairly wealthy after his presidency, the most establishment figure in the Democratic Party. So, I think the contrast was clear. But the problem I think for Bernie and for Trump is that they are quite reliant on turning out voters that either, A, haven’t come and turned out before in Trump’s case or, B, in Bernie’s case, tend to be much more young than the traditional Democratic voter. And if you look at any of the polls on the Democratic side he is really doing exceptionally well with young voters but as we all know, young voters aren’t the most reliable people in the world. The good thing for Bernie is that if he does win in one or both of these two states the fire hose of money and support that will come to him post winning will be immense —“
BRZEZINSKI: “Yeah.”
STEIN: “— and he can maybe translate that into something incredibly fortuitous for his campaign. It will challenge Clinton’s [indecipherable] — I know you put up the South Carolina numbers and she does have a significant advantage in South Carolina, but you can see where he is just bringing in millions of dollars on a weekly basis just online and building a really robust post New Hampshire campaign. It becomes a drawn out primary fight which we never anticipated.”

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