How is it he threw the first punch, he was asked directly if he said it or not> The same question should have been, imo, asked of her, rather than how does it make you feel? It ended up working against her in my mind, but I agree with you that it wont make any diff with their sheep.
You are totally right, the framing of each of their questions was BS, but I dont think that is what he meant by saying Sanders threw the first punch. The story goes that Sanders threw the first punch by dis'ing Warren on a different issue. There was some coordination among staffers to organize talking points against Warren saying that she appeals to the elites of the party. Sanders said it happened but did not condone that strategy. I am not sure what he did specifically to punish those staffers, if anything at all. Warren then used that dis as a reason to drop the Sanders doesn't think women can win thing as a retaliation to Sanders new aggressive campaigning.
My issues with this are
1) is appealing to elites really a dis so worthy of retaliation? Warren should have ran with it like Pete and said I appeal to everyone, but I think she overplayed the wine cave attacks and was unable to go this route.
2) Sanders admitted that there was a narrative that came from his campaign that he didnt approve of and came out against it, publicly squashing the issue.
3) Warren just seemed to be waiting for an excuse to drop the Sanders doesn't think women can win issue, trying to make it look like Sanders is a sexist. Given plenty of opportunity to publicly squash the issue she chose instead to be coy with it and let the issue stay ambiguous and relevant.
4) Warren fans are all to happy to jump on this bandwagon because many of them are 2016 Hillary supporters who blame everyone except Hillary for her loss. Comey, Trump, Russians and of course Sanders get most of the blame. If Sanders had only tried harder then Hillary would have got enough support to pull it out, they really hate that Sanders is still relevant and there are a lot of sour grapes there. Warren fans and Sanders haters are all to happy to say Sanders initiated this fight and was the aggressor.
5) Hillary pulled the sexist card on Sanders a few times and it worked. Remember the 2016 debates when Hillary kept interrupting Sanders and he said "Excuse me I am talking". Hillary rolled that into sexist male hushing female moment that really damaged Sanders at the time. Warren is trying to pull from memories on that but is more transparent in her execution. Both are obvious political strategies that dont sit well with certain people like me. Sanders is one of the biggest anti sexist candidates out there and to smear him as a sexist to further your campaign as a woman is selling out your own cause and shows a serious character and ethical flaw in my opinion.
