Posted on 04/14/2015 5:15:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Please forgive me, but I'm singularly unimpressed with Hillary Clinton in general, but especially as a Democratic presidential candidate. I'm neither smug nor complacent about the likelihood of defeating her, but I am incautiously optimistic.
I hope I'm not wrong; the country can't take four more years of the same disastrous policies.
Frankly, I'm a bit surprised that Hillary appears to be the anointed candidate with virtually no one in the party surfacing to challenge her for the nomination. If she was ever a good candidate, her time has clearly passed, because the mythical image that she has invested so much energy cultivating for herself has mostly been shattered by reality.
Perhaps the main reason the Democratic Party can't come up with anyone to challenge her is that for six or seven years, it has put all its eggs in the Obama basket. Live by the sword, die by the sword. The dirty little not-so-secret secret about Barack Obama is that whatever personal popularity he enjoyed (past tense), it never spread throughout the party.
Not only has he failed to have coattails for other Democratic candidates but also he's been an affirmative liability, as the congressional elections of 2010 and 2014 resoundingly demonstrated. President Obama has been a party to himself, having sucked the party dry of whatever goodwill it once had.
I don't want to underestimate the extraordinary ability of Republicans to squander golden opportunities, but if the Democrats are lethargic, unimaginative and arrogant enough to nominate Hillary, the Republicans start off with an immediate advantage -- especially if they nominate a younger, vigorous candidate.
Why is Hillary such a terrible candidate, you ask? Let me count the ways, in no particular order, as many of them vie for top seating.
--Her main qualification is she believes it's her turn; she's entitled. It's not about what she can do for her country; it's about what her country owes her.
--Obama has been a dreadful president. Our economy and foreign policy are both in tatters. Our health care situation is barely managed anarchy. America's fiscal position, now and projected, is abysmal. People are out of work in record numbers. And never have Americans been more polarized.
--Obama's record necessarily taints Hillary Clinton for multitudinous reasons. Her husband's enthusiastic defense of Obama at the Democratic convention may have saved his presidency. Whatever policy differences the Clintons had with Obama, they effectively buried them there. If that weren't enough, Hillary was an integral part of Obama's administration as secretary of state, where she not only embraced his regrettable foreign policy but also contributed to making it worse. Though certain news reports alleged Hillary didn't agree with Obama on isolated policies, she has been vocally supportive of his policies when speaking on her own behalf, from Obamacare to Israel to "women's rights."
--Hillary cannot credibly claim that her economic policies would foster growth. She'll try to tie herself to her husband's economic record, but this century, she opposes all of the things that saved Bill Clinton's economy from Bill Clinton's policies, such as the forced controls on spending imposed by the Newt Gingrich Congress. Even if Hillary pretends to be a deficit hawk, there is no way she can disentangle herself from Obama, the most reckless spender in the history of the executive office. (And no, the reinstituted Clinton tax rates have not ignited growth but further stymied it.)
--Hillary is unlikable (see the latest poll numbers), conspicuously insincere ("I don't feel noways tired"), untrustworthy (see the latest poll numbers), arrogant ("What difference, at this point, does it make?"), elitist while pretending to be "dead broke," yet masquerading as a champion of the middle class and poor -- and liberal New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said, "Her paranoia, secrecy, scandals and disappearing act with emails from her time as secretary of state have inspired a cascade of comparisons with Nixon."
--She is scandal-ridden -- pick any era, from Travelgate to the present -- with Benghazi, the flushed emails and the sordid foreign campaign money.
--She fully intends to throw gender in our faces for the next decade. I trust that Americans are tired of the Democrats' identity politics always being placed above the national interests and -- to borrow a Democratic prop -- the good of our children. This country is going bankrupt, and that's going to affect every group, not just feminists. Besides, women don't primarily vote based on gender -- thank goodness. Also besides, Hillary lacks authenticity as a fighter for women's rights, considering that she was the combat war general in charge of husband Bill's "bimbo eruptions."
--She has none of Obama's faux charisma; in fact, she has almost developed a sort of reverse charisma. Not even a fawning, wagon-circling media can alter this.
--She says she wants to bring people together "into a nice warm purple space where we're actually talking and trying to solve problems." Nice try, but in the polarizing department, she's a close second to Obama.
--They say she's experienced, but bad experience is not a plus. Her record is shrouded in negativity.
--She's a permanent fixture in Washington. She makes insiders look like outsiders, yet she'll expect us to believe she wants to work for change. Speaking of which, how can she plausibly stump for change when she's wholeheartedly embraced Obama's policies? Then again, how can she afford not to promise change, given his terrible record?
--On top of all this, the Democratic base doesn't even like this woman.
The big issue that will hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign is her age—she will turn 69 less than a month before Election Day 2016. And the Republican field so far—Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul—are 15 to 20+ year younger than her. And she has not aged well, either.
I suspect that's the plan. Then we get Jeb vs hillary, and it doesn't matter. The elite puppet-masters will have already won.
“Anointed candidate” makes you think about what they are planning. I know they are not believing they will lose, no matter the candidate.
Well, she’s seeking to beat Ronald Reagan’s election record. Is it just me, or is Obama an anomaly in the Democratic Party in terms of age, it seems like he’s younger than a great deal of the politicians in that party.
As Hillary struggles in the polls the Marxist left will demand an alternative. Unless the Clinton machine can ruthlessly suppress all others, and perhaps then can, otherwise Fauxahauntis will get in to the race.
I think that David Limbaugh is spot on about Hillary being stale and brittle as a democratic candidate, but as his brother says, “...it’s very difficult to beat Santa Clause.” All Hillary needs to say is, “the Evil Republicans will take your free stuff away. I’ll make sure you keep your free stuff... I’ll even give you more free stuff.”
She now looks like a dried prune yet is still as grating, unexciting, and unlikeable as ever.
A big name dem hasn’t so far came forward with indications of joining the democrat primary.
These people have and maybe you’ve heard of them.
Jeff Boss....
Vermin Supreme...
Robby Wells....
Potential Candidates that have taken some action
such as a PAC, exploratory committee, etc.
Lincoln Chafee.....
Martin O’Malley....
Jim Webb.....
Others have made some noise about running but haven’t taken action.
We’ll see.
These reasons outlined by Mr. Limbaugh are exactly why Mrs. Clinton has no chance of winning the Democrat primary. It will be O’Malley or some, as yet, unknown candidate.
She fully intends to throw gender in our faces for the next decade
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OK I’m a woman and I’ll let you in on a little secret.
1. If its a woman they want as president, offer them Sarah Palin..if they object then, they don’t want a woman, and they are sexist...
2. since they want a woman and therefore are rejecting a man because he is a man...they are sexist...
Very good articulation there. Great analogy.
but O has yet to endorse her...
and I’m sure Bill is getting out the documents to expose O...all those documents the Clintons agreed to put away if O promised Hillary would be POTUS next..
The field is empty but so is the political backing...
Hilary will lose, Santa Claus or not. If ISIS starts beheading people in the week before the elections and Iran is out there developing nukes, Hilary will get creamed.
While I have heard it said that Wisdom is reflected in Good Judgement which can only be gained through experience and unfortunately experience is the product of bad judgement. For many this is true and so bad experience is only a liability when one refuses to learn from it, as Hillary does.
Yeah but the idiots who voted for that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave to reelect him because he needed them, will vote for her. You can count on it
People from MO and AR may be unimpressed, but not the monolithic liberal voting bloc which controls more than 350 electoral votes.
First, the MSM would be loudly trumpeting all the ills of the economy that are being swept under the rug for the sake of Obama, so it would be easier for her to run as the Fixer of Middle Class Problems.
Second, Romney would not have gotten any farther with Iran than Obama has, because Iran doesn't want to negotiate, it wants a nuclear bomb sitting on a missile that's pointed at Tel Aviv. The difference is that Hillary! could claim that she can get a peace deal with the Iranians unlike "cowboy" Romney, and enough LIVers would buy it.
Third, Romney would have tinkered with Obamacare but wouldn't have gotten rid of it, so instead of having to run on Obamacare, Hillary! could run on claiming that she "understands" health care better, and would make the system "more fair for the little guy."
Fourth, she could be playing on black resentment that "their guy" wasn't re-elected, getting more blacks to vote for her as Payback to Whitey. (Choosing a black female progressive like Atima Omara as her VP nominee would be a huge step in that direction. Omara would be a threefer: black, female, and young.)
Fifth, she should have known, given the 2010 election, that it would have been fairly easy to "pull a Perot" and work behind the scenes to get a third-party candidate to peel off enough Tea Party voters to have her win in a three-way race. Neither Cruz, Walker, Jindal, nor Rubio would have fallen for it, but it isn't too hard to imagine someone--Rand Paul, Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, perhaps Ben Carson--taking the bait and getting upwards of 10% of the vote, thereby gutting Romney in close states like FL and OH.
Finally, four years would be long enough for people to forget how they rallied to vote for the First Black President. Obama being out of the White House would help the "I want my vote to be historical" crowd to care more about electing the First Woman President, while his being in the White House, as is the case now, reminds people that voting for race or sex instead of quality and character results in low quality and low character.
Hillary! has to play the hand she and her husband dealt her, but she must wonder "what if" the Clintons would just have skipped the 2012 convention...
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