Posted on 10/11/2015 1:08:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You win the presidency, Richard Nixon supposedly observed, by tacking to the right in the primaries and to the center in the general election. Hillary Clinton seems to be following that strategy except, as a Democrat, she is tacking to the left.
This strategy has risks, as Nixon, who lost the presidency once and won it once by narrow margins, understood. Your right- or left-wing stances in the primaries can hurt in the general.
As happened to George McGovern, the leftward-tacking Democratic nominee in 1972, whom Nixon beat with 61 percent of the vote. In the four decades since only Ronald Reagan in 1984 came close to that percentage.
Hillary Clinton, whose husband ran McGovern’s fall campaign in Texas (he won 33 percent there), seems to be taking the same risk. Presumably she does so with open eyes, aware that it might hurt her if nominated, but is more apprehensive about the primary fight than she was seven months ago, before the revelations about her private email server.
On immigration, for example, she promises to go at least one step further than President Obama. She endorses that his orders effectively legalize not only “dreamers” — persons brought into the country illegally as children and who meet certain conditions — but their parents.
That latter order has been put on hold by a federal judge. But that doesn’t faze Clinton. “I will not be deporting parents. I will not be breaking up families,” she told a Telemundo interviewer earlier this month....
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Much of her tackiness have risks for November
I’m almost beginning to feel sorry for this poor woman.
Her advisors and handlers, as well as her family, should have long ago brought out the crook and pulled her off the world stage. I think she’s gone totally ‘round th e bend……..
Hillary’s one ‘talent’ is the ability to make up lies as she speaks. Bill Clinton depended on Hillary’s ability to make up lies as she speaks. This is all she has. She prefers lies to truth. Lies have given her power. Now she expects citizens to believe anything out of her mouth and to vote for her? Hillary! Hillary! Pantsuit On Fire!
The truly sad thing is, many people WILL vote for her……….
You can all “tack” your way to hell.
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