Posted on 04/29/2015 11:10:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON - There's an old, common sense saying about never putting your eggs in one basket. Yet that's what Democrats have done by overwhelmingly bowing to Hillary Clinton's vaunted ambition to be the next president of the United States.
But the polls of the last few weeks suggest that Clinton's coronation campaign, with all of the trappings of pomp and power that preceded it, is coming apart at the seams.
The former secretary of State's precipitous decline was first noticed in March in a national CNN poll that found her unfavorable numbers were rising, and perceptions of her as honest and trustworthy were falling.
Her slide in the polls began with disclosures that her use of a personal and secret email system throughout her four years at State, and her decision to delete every email she deemed of no interest to anyone, especially to any future investigations.
Overall, 51 percent of those surveyed said her actions raised very to somewhat troubling issues in their minds, and the same percentage said she did something wrong, while 47 percent said she did not.
As the email scandal drew increasing attention to her obsessive secrecy, public doubts about her character and candidacy grew. And her poll numbers began to fall.
By April 2, a Washington Post-ABC News survey found her numbers were "continuing their steady erosion" -- with her favorable rating dropping to "a pedestrian 49 percent, compared to 46 percent unfavorable."
It was the first time Clinton's favorability rating had fallen below 50 percent since April 2008, "when she conceded the Democratic nomination for president to Barack Obama," the Post said.
Then came this month's explosive disclosures that the Clintons' vast, $2 billion global charitable foundation raised huge sums of money from rich foreign governments, some with business deals requiring State Department approval on her watch.
That has sent her character ratings into a nose dive, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll.
"American voters say 54 - 38 percent that Clinton is not honest and trustworthy," a lower score than any of the top Republicans seeking their party's 2016 nomination.
The same poll found that the voters were split 47 to 47 percent about whether "she cares about their needs and problems." And by a 53 to 43 percent ratio, they support a Congressional investigation into her private email use for official business while at the State Department.
"Yes, she is a leader, but can she be trusted? Mixed reviews for Hillary Clinton on key character traits," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll.
When details of Peter Schweizer's book, "Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich," leaked out to the press, the Clinton family foundation and Hillary Clinton's campaign attacked its findings as little more than a partisan hack job.
But their strategy failed on every count because of the richly-detailed research in the book, and the fact that the story was embraced by the liberal news media, including The New York Times and the Washington Post -- under an unusual agreement with the book's New York publisher HarperCollins.
One of the biggest revelations that was pursued by the newspapers and other media powerhouses dealt with several business tycoons in the Canadian mining industry who have been major donors to the Clinton's foundation.
"Members of that group built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as Uranium One," the New York Times reported last week.
"Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States," the Times said.
The headline that ran in the Pravda website, the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin, touted the sale as "Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World."
Because of the sale's implications for national security, it had to be given the green light by several government agencies, including the State Department headed by Mrs. Clinton.
Between 2009 and 2013, Canadian records show that the Clinton Foundation benefited from four donations that totaled $2.35 million from Uranium One's chairman, the Times reported.
But those contributions "were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors," the Times noted.
Soon after Russia was about to obtain a majority stake in Uranium One, Hillary's husband, Bill Clinton, "received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian bank with ties to the Kremlin that promoted the uranium stock deal.
These and other tawdry disclosures that were reported in Schweizer's forthcoming book have led to a reaction that Hillary Clinton has never had to deal with before: her friends in the liberal media criticizing her shady ethics.
In her op-ed column in the Washington Post, headlined "Sloppiness and greed -- Hillary Clinton's clash of money and ethics," Ruth Marcus said this:
"You don't have to be a political strategist to lament that the Clintonian approach to ethics seems always to err in favor of taking the check."
The Times said Mrs. Clinton has some explaining to do, "because this problem is not going away."
It certainly isn't. There's another shoe to drop and it's Peter Schweizer's scandal-filled book that's due out soon. If the public thinks Hillary's polls are tumbling now, wait 'til they read the rest of this sordid tale about a couple for whom ethics is a dirty word.
You will pardon me if i have a sudden attack of Schadenfreude.
Enjoy it while you can. The liberal media wont be bashing another liberal democrat like this for another 50-100 years.
1) “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
A. Karl Marx B. Adolph Hitler C. Joseph Stalin D. Barack Obama E. None of the above
2) “It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few...... And to replace it with shared responsibility, for shared prosperity.”
A. Lenin B. Mussolini C. Idi Amin D. Barack Obama E. None of the above
3) “(We).....can’t just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.”
A. Nikita Khrushev B. Joseph Goebbels C. Boris Yeltsin D. Barack Obama E. None of the above
4) “We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.”
A. Mao Tse Tung B. Hugo Chavez C. Kim Jong II D. Barack Obama E. None of the above
5) “I certainly think the free-market has failed.”
A. Karl Marx B. Lenin C. Molotov D. Barack Obama E. None of the above
6) “I think it’s time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched.”
A. Pinochet B. Milosevic C. Saddam Hussein D. Barack Obama E. None of the above
and the answers are ---
(1) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004
(2) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007
(3) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(4) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(5 ) E None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(6). E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005
Want to know something scary? She may be the next president if you don’t forward this to everyone that you know.
Going after the Clintons gets you a trip to Ft. Marcy Park.
The only reason the MSM is doing this is because she won’t talk to them. They minute she does, the MSM will go back to worshipping her.
Sadly, she still swamps in the polls the likely GOP nominee, Jeb Bush. Oh, I hear Freepers avow, he is not the most likely nominee? I hope they are right.
Did her liberal friends in the media promote Obama because he was a viable alternative to hillary?
The filthy hypocrite will go around making out she is a caring populist. In reality, she is a vicious, mean, elitist, controlling, selfish marxist.
Hillary’s To Dos:
Profit $100K on cattle futures
Blame obscure video for Ambassador Stevens’ murder
Delete emails under subpoena
Accept bribes from foreigners
Do you trust me now? - HRC
Yeap that and being a gay halfrican/muslim.
Why isn’t Bubba with her every step of the way?
Thanks for posting.
The Left wants the fake indian. That’s why they’re battering the old hag.
Besides, they know that the people are more wary of dynastic presidencies after the Bush disaster.
They perceive, perhaps correctly, that Hitleray won’t do as well in the general election as the fake indian.
...SHE WOULDN'T RECOGNIZE THE TRUTH IF IT BITE HER ON ONE OF HER CANKLES
it is possible this is calculated by the msm to ‘get it all out of the way now’ so that she will get to say during the primaries that ‘This issue has already been dealt with- I took a pounding by the msm and my liberal colleagues already, I don’t need any more from you folks when this has already been settled- you are just rehashing old issue because you are sexist- Had I been a man running, you never would have brought any of these old discredited allegations up”
4 died in Ben-gha-zi.
Where’s Neil Young?
It will be Elizabeth Warren. Bet on it.
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