They backfire because Bernie is the real deal. Even people who disagree with him say that he is "sincere" and "authentic". He keeps it on the stuff that matters, while refusing to talk about stuff like Hillary's use of a private email server and account while at the State Department (because the people have critical issues that need talked about), when just about every other politician in the world would've used those damn emails to their political advantage.

That's why when people see/hear attacks on Bernie, they immediately examine the accuser (and their motivations), making is easy for attacks on Bernie to backfire.

I think it started with something, something Hugo Chavez? Ugh.

Then maybe Sexist?

Well, that didn't seem to get much traction, since Voting-age women under the age of 35 now favor Sanders by 20 percentage points over Clinton.

And we can't forget Racist dog-whistling (talking to disaffected Trump supporters). Which is a ridiculous examine-the-accuser-type implication, especially when we consider that

Hillary was dog-whistling to beat the band in 2008.

From The Nation;

Clinton has a history of using dog-whistle politics when it suits her, and it’s painful to remember the ways that she wielded her whiteness as a weapon during the 2008 primaries. There was that interview with USA Today when she, in an effort to explain why she still expected to win the nomination despite recent defeats in Indiana and North Carolina, said the following: “I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in the interview, citing an article by The Associated Press. It “found how Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.… There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said. The audio from that interview was especially upsetting, because of the way it sounded as if Clinton were saying that “hard-working Americans” and “white Americans” are synonymous. That earlier slip makes it easy to meet her current repeated promise to champion the interests of “everyday Americans” with one of those side eyes. Who does she mean this time around? On Sunday, the multiracially cast video that Team Clinton released to announce her candidacy hits a lot of the right notes in terms of communicating inclusivity. There’s the glowing black couple preparing for the birth of their son, the adorable black child talking about dressing up as a fish for an upcoming play. But beyond the symbols, Clinton will need to make sure she avoids galling missteps this time around. I’m thinking also of her insistence during one 2008 debate that Obama reject—not “denounce” but “reject,” she was adamant about the language—any forthcoming support from the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan. Sure, it’s understandable that Clinton would scramble for whatever points this might win her from a segment of the American public, those “hard-working Americans” she would later claim to have in the bag. But by acting as if the Nation of Islam were the one-dimensional bogeyman it’s made out to be in the mainstream, as opposed to a more complex purveyor of a brand of black self-reliance that’s an indisputable part of this country’s history, Clinton showed she was willing to stoke irrational fears. At that time, the Clinton Foundation office had chosen 125th St. in Harlem as its home and was situated not even a block from a street named after Malcolm X. But Obama had to not just denounce but reject the Nation, or else risk his blackness becoming even more of a liability? Yes, because it could have been a way for Clinton to get the edge she so desperately needed.

Say it ain't so! (psst, backfire).

Oh, and Gun nut

Here's my response to that.

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They need to be thankful that Bernie doesn't make an add on this one, or have it cued-up every time he goes on TV.

And there's more backfires to come.

The Clinton campaign has trotted out Chelsea to tell us that Bernie Sanders Would Take Health Care From Millions.

Which is already producing a giant backfiring sound.

I'm sure I'm missing a lot of stuff. Help me out in the comments.

Just remember, ALL ATTACKS ON BERNIE BACKFIRE😆