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Jill Stein is just promoting herself with the recounts
Political Ref ^ | 11/26/16

Posted on 11/27/2016 2:02:32 PM PST by TheRef

11/26/16  

Jill Stein is just promoting herself with the recounts

Stein knows Hillary can't win. The recounts are designed to stoke anger and Stein hopes to gain followers.

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Some have speculated that Jill Stein is doing Hillary's work, but that's unlikely

If Jill Stein was doing Hillary's work, it's unlikely that Stein would be insulting her as a hypocrite, phony and a corporatist sellout on Twitter. But she has insulted Hillary and the Democrats plenty on Twitter tonight.

The Stein Scheme: Get in front of an angry mob and become their hero

It looks like Stein is trying to capitalize on the anger of Hillary supporters by calling for a recount, which Hillary was not going to do on her own, and harnessing the anger of disappointed Democrats for her own purposes. It's an obvious opportunistic play on the part of Stein.

 

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Clinton would not call for a recount on her own because there is no chance of overturning the results of the election. Stein knew this and simply did what Clinton would not do because Stein has nothing to lose. She already caters to radicals and is not viewed as a serious candidate, so she risks nothing by calling for pointless recounts.

The upside: she galvanizes the radical left behind her and likely garners some more support in four years. The downside: the media and Democrats continue to view her as a marginal candidate, which they already do, so its nothing new and is an acceptable loss.

Stein did not expect, however, that the remnants of the Clinton campaign would embrace her recount effort. It is not aimed at winning and everybody knows it so why would Clinton do it? Clinton's embrace of this recount undermines Stein's attempt to represent the hero of the angry left.

Clinton wants to deprive Stein of that street cred because if Stein becomes another Ralph Nader, a third-party candidate who can get real votes, it threatens the Democrats. So Clinton's people are going to join Stein in this effort to share in the credit for irritating Trump, which is what the angry left wants right now. They are just doing it to blunt Stein's ability to peel away votes from Democrats. It's not about 2016. It's about 2020.

Stein responds to Trump's almost certainly accurate claim that she is just promoting herself

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1 posted on 11/27/2016 2:02:32 PM PST by TheRef
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To: TheRef

The bitch should share a cell with Soros and Hitlery!


2 posted on 11/27/2016 2:06:49 PM PST by Redleg Duke (Time for a new party for We the People, to restore a two-party system!)
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To: TheRef

Busted! Jill Stein’s Election Recount Is Being Paid For By a Bot!

http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=50879

Roger Stone on Twitter: “Jill Stein “recount funded by Soros

https://mobile.twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/802230392493404160


3 posted on 11/27/2016 2:08:11 PM PST by Democrat_media (bots are donating to Jill Stein's website for the recount. Soros behind big scheme)
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To: TheRef

Yep, about time people picked up on this.
The best part is Hillary is likely figured this out and her head is exploding !


5 posted on 11/27/2016 2:09:18 PM PST by Bulwinkle (Alec, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
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To: TheRef

Her animosity could all be a show. If she really hates her that much why would she spend millions to possibly install her as President should the recounts make her the victor in all three states? No there is more at play here than her simply wanting to promote herself, because her name will become a footnote only in history.


6 posted on 11/27/2016 2:10:45 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Redleg Duke
I demand a recount!


7 posted on 11/27/2016 2:11:20 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Redleg Duke

Or the space next to them on the gallows...


8 posted on 11/27/2016 2:11:34 PM PST by rightwingextremist1776
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To: TheRef

Those twitters don’t sound all that insulting to me. I think she’s just playing Hildabeast’s game.


9 posted on 11/27/2016 2:14:54 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Robert DeLong

Jill knows Hillary won’t win the recount. She is winning on publicity. Everyone is talking about her now.


10 posted on 11/27/2016 2:16:51 PM PST by ari-freedom (The Social Justice War is over and we won!)
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To: TheRef

Largest deficit made up in a state wide recount was 700, Hillary needs 10,000, 30,000 and 70,000, Everybody needs to relax


11 posted on 11/27/2016 2:17:14 PM PST by Emergencyawesome
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To: Redleg Duke

She is a Left Wing Nut


12 posted on 11/27/2016 2:17:17 PM PST by Jimmy The Snake
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To: TheRef

This makes little sense.

Before the election, Jill Stein was warning that Hillary is very likely to get us embroiled in a major war. (I do not disagree with her on this.) So, why would Stein demand a recount that only has the potential to benefit Hillary? Why not demand a recount of states that were close, but went to Hillary?

Ah, well, I want to chalk it up to the fact that Stein is a total kook... but people usually have underlying motives for everything they do, even if the logic is not immediately apparent to others.


13 posted on 11/27/2016 2:19:28 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom
"So, why would Stein demand a recount that only has the potential to benefit Hillary?"

Follow the money. With Soros and Hillary bankrolling this with, basically, unlimited funds, some of it will be "permitted" to stick to Green Party/Stein's hands.

14 posted on 11/27/2016 2:22:07 PM PST by BlueLancer ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
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To: TheRef

If Jill Stein really gave a sh!t about Hillary Clinton she would have dropped out of the race a month before Election Day and endorsed her.


15 posted on 11/27/2016 2:23:24 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: TheRef

At least she isn’t doing it on FR.
Like you are, for example... via the Twitter and Facebook links in your post.


16 posted on 11/27/2016 2:27:16 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: BlueLancer

Soros’s whore!


17 posted on 11/27/2016 2:27:22 PM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: TheRef

She’s being funded by Soros. The goal isn’t to win the recounts, but to delay certification beyond 12/13 so Trump doesn’t have 270 EC votes. For Soros, creating chaos is the “fun part of what I do” (his actual words).


18 posted on 11/27/2016 2:28:59 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: TheRef

Soros-paid commie moron. There used to be laws against communist agitators like her.


19 posted on 11/27/2016 2:31:11 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: exDemMom

Agree. I suspect her motive lies in what comes next for her, personally. “Follow the money”.


20 posted on 11/27/2016 2:48:30 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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