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Hillary Clinton’s ‘Secret Weapon’ Could Escalate Campaign Rhetoric
The Wall Street Journal ^ | December 25th, 2015 | By Peter Nicholas

Posted on 12/25/2015 11:53:46 PM PST by Mariner

A new and more combative phase of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign opens next month when she sends her husband out to stump for her in important early states.

Waiting for him will be businessman Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner.

The former president has been a low-key figure since Mrs. Clinton entered the race for the Democratic nomination in April, offering private advice and helping her raise money at closed-door fundraisers. In January, the campaign intends to showcase him in public forums in Iowa and New Hampshire, two states where the front-runner is locked in a tight race against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Speaking to supporters recently, Mrs. Clinton described her husband as a “secret weapon.”

Throwing Mr. Clinton into the mix could further escalate the rhetoric between the Trump and Clinton campaigns. In the 2008 presidential race, the former president would bristle at criticism directed at his wife and got in hot water when he suggested Barack Obama’s victory in the South Carolina primary was less significant because of the large African-American vote.

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I think Trump is the only candidate capable of going on the offense against Team Clinton.

He's also going to take some hard shots.

1 posted on 12/25/2015 11:53:46 PM PST by Mariner
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Trump should invite Catherine Willey, Juanita Broderick and other Clinton rape victims to appear with him and tell their story. Trump should then slam the lying rapist and his lying wife.

Clinton also testified under oath that he engaged in phone sex at night with Monica Lewinski from the White House while Hillary was nearby in bed.

If Trump will hammer the sick, perverted, lying Clintons he will win in a landslide.

2 posted on 12/26/2015 12:01:30 AM PST by detective
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To: Mariner

I wouldn’t say it is because Trump is capable, it is because Trump is the only candidate who is WILLING to go on the offense against The Clinton.


3 posted on 12/26/2015 12:04:19 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Mariner

I think Bill is going to pretty well much sit this one out. Oh he’ll probably put in a good word or two for Hillary, but should he get actively involved while Trump is still active, the Clinton name will be dragged over and over again into the manure piles they have left behind.


4 posted on 12/26/2015 12:10:46 AM PST by Fhios (How about we call it a a war on sharia law?)
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To: Mariner

An impeached and disbarred sexual predator and serial rapist is the Democrats’ “secret weapon”??

Let that soak in for a couple of minutes.


5 posted on 12/26/2015 12:13:53 AM PST by kaehurowing
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The shameless adulterer and rapist stumps for the pathological liar ....great team

How any America can vote for this scum is beyond me .
If they do they should lose both citizenship and rights to vote at all . Some things matter . Hillary’s lies and deceit matter , and no one , no electorate , should have the right to let her off the hook for what she’s done ....


6 posted on 12/26/2015 12:36:45 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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Trump should then slam the lying rapist and his lying wife.

You forgot "lowlife". There should be room in there for "Arkancide" and "Fort Marcy Park", too.

7 posted on 12/26/2015 1:14:12 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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Trump should go after the Clintons for “Arkanside”, Vince Foster, the banks they looted, Paula Jones, Johnny Chung and all their other criminal acts. Trump can also bring up the murder of Ron Brown, the Khobar Towers bombing, the embassy bombings, the attack on the U.S.S Cole and don't forget that ugly as sin Monica Lewinski and the many six figure no show jobs Clinton got for her.

Keep up the pressure until they're both crying uncontrollably and begging him to stop.

Then really turn up the heat.

8 posted on 12/26/2015 2:35:09 AM PST by detective
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You can bet Trump already has a dossier on each of Bill and Hillary’s affairs. Trump is the most strategic genius I have ever observed. He has studied the game and is ready to play hardball when necessary. But he has also studied “The Art of War” and knows that a fight within your enemy camp is far better than fighting your own battles. I don’t think Bill & Hillary’s facade marriage will survive Trumps strategic onslaught of rumors, accusations and documented facts.


9 posted on 12/26/2015 2:37:29 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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Pubbies should round up some trashy looking hookers and pay em to follow Bill to each of his campaign events and at each event they ought to look the part wearing blue stained dresses and all yelling for Bill to come and get it!!!


10 posted on 12/26/2015 3:05:05 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Rubio is a liar, Jeb is worthless, Go Cruz)
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To: lentulusgracchus

“FBI files.” “Sandy Burglar.” “China nuke-launch tech.”


11 posted on 12/26/2015 3:11:18 AM PST by 4Liberty (Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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“An impeached and disbarred sexual predator and serial rapist is the Democrats’ “secret weapon”??...”

A lot of stupid women would love seeing Bill Clinton as “co-President”. They don’t care if raped women, used Monica Lewinsky as a humidor or was impeached. He’s their hero.


12 posted on 12/26/2015 3:25:52 AM PST by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on behalf of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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To: Mariner

I suspect Cruz will and maybe Christie. I think ‘the war on women’ becomes our ammunition at that point. She can’t win on her own merits but this is still going to be a mistake. Probably an inevitable mistake.
The other issue with him is the same with Bush. People are sick of dynastic rule. Its already an issue with her and it will grow. Bill campaigned for Obama in 08 but theres no way to measure if it really helped or not. After seeing the crowds Obama drew i suspect little if any.


13 posted on 12/26/2015 3:26:20 AM PST by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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To: 4Liberty

The Republicans had their chance at Clinton. The could have gone after him for taking money from China for technology and they could have done a much better job at focusing the impeachment proceeding on perjury. They could have released the “evidence” to the public instead of allowing it to be kept under wraps and viewed only by Congress in a private room where most Congressmen and Senators refused to go. Without a public airing of the evidence, the American people could not develop an informed conclusion independent of the media campaign to destroy Ken Star. Regardless of their ineptness, the House did its job by voting for impeachment. The RINOs in the Senate failed in their job so Clinton was acquitted. Conservatives can say what they want about Bills crimes but in the end he was tried and acquitted. After his acquittal most American voters didn’t care anymore.

Add to the bungled trial in the Senate the fact most people who were voting age at the time remember the economy did well during his term in office. It may have been the momentum of the Reagan years or it may have been he had the good fortune to ride the internet boom. Regardless, he was in office at the time and gets the credit. Finally, he did work with the Republican Congress to produce a balanced budget in his last two years, an accomplishment his successor squandered. Again, for those who remember, Clinton gets high marks for managing the public purse well, particularly when compared to his two successors.

Clinton may have actually committed high crimes and misdemeanors but in the end the Republicans in the Senate gave him a pass and the history books are written by the victors. Most Americans who lived during the Clinton era believe the story the impeachment was a partisan witch hunt. The history younger people are taught in school is that Clinton was a victim of a partisan witch hunt. No attacks on Clinton by Trump or anyone else nearly two decades after the the impeachment will change the perception of the majority of the American people, particularly when the mainstream media, academia and the entire Democrat political machine will go to bat for Bill. Attacking Bill to attack Hillary is simply a losing proposition and waste of time. Hillary will have to be defeated on her own record, not Bill’s.


14 posted on 12/26/2015 3:37:00 AM PST by Soul of the South (Tomorrow is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: tired&retired

You are correct! Donald J Trump has been actively planning this for almost four years! He took out a trademark on “Make America Great Again” within days of Mitt Romney’s loss to Obama. He took the Old Post Office from the Obama GSA! The GOPee is toast! :-)


15 posted on 12/26/2015 3:40:34 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: Mariner

Hillary’s internal polling must be really bad. Billy of the bent penis hasn’t got the Mojo he once had. Plus I think he would rather be on Pedophile Island.


16 posted on 12/26/2015 3:51:40 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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Hillary’s internal polling must be really bad. Billy of the bent penis hasn’t got the Mojo he once had. Plus I think he would rather be on Pedophile Island.


17 posted on 12/26/2015 3:51:45 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Mariner

Hillaryous Rotten Criminal has William Jefferson Criminal do a dress rehearsal. Bring on the golden boy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz3lJX92ly0

The greatest crime couple in American history is going down.


18 posted on 12/26/2015 3:56:17 AM PST by PGalt
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The Donald should send out a few “Hide Your Interns” tweets, just to get people’s minds renewed as to what they’d be putting back in the White House....if THAT isn’t a war on women, I don’t know what is!

If revenge is a dish best served cold, then it would be about now that numerous women could speak out against the sexual predator and his accomplice.


19 posted on 12/26/2015 4:08:12 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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I get confused sometimes....remind me, which Bill is Hillary married to? Bill Clinton or Bill Cosby?


20 posted on 12/26/2015 4:09:01 AM PST by Fred911 (YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
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