Posted on 06/10/2015 6:43:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
Almost exactly two months after Hillary Rodham Clinton's official announcement that she's running for president, she will give her first "official campaign announcement speech," on June 13, according to her Twitter account.
In other words, the Clinton campaign wants a do-over. Her first rollout was the most disastrous nonfatal presidential campaign debut in modern memory, so she wants another.
Her initial announcement video in April -- which most outlets accurately reported as her official announcement -- was well done. After that, everything went downhill; a steady stream of news stories and damning allegations about her family foundation and tenure as secretary of state has dogged her almost daily.
Her best moment since announcing was when she was captured on grainy security video at an Ohio Chipotle franchise buying a burrito bowl. ABC News and MarketWatch dubbed it an "adventure." Bloomberg's Mark Halperin explained that Clinton's excellent adventure was "fun" and "new." "We've never seen her get a burrito before."
Put "Burrito Day" in the win column.
Those leads have nearly evaporated. Bush, whose rollout has also been less than stellar, now trails Clinton by 8 percentage points, according to CNN (but only 3, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll). Walker and Rubio are 3 percentage points behind her and Paul is 1.
Worse, the public is souring on her, like a carton of milk left out in the sun. More Americans now view her unfavorably rather than favorably (50 percent to 46 percent), her worst polling performance in 14 years. Fifty-seven percent believe she is untrustworthy, and fewer than half (47 percent) said she cares about people like them. Remember back in 2008 when her image took a beating in her bruising primary fight with Barack Obama? Her image is worse today.
She reminds me of Fred Thompson in 2008 or Rick Perry in 2012. Her best day in the polls was the day before she announced.
But fear not, the Clinton campaign has conveniently found a strategy that says none of this matters very much.
Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman report in the New York Times that the Clinton team has turned its back on a "nationwide electoral strategy," opting instead to reassemble the Obama coalition of 2008 and 2012. To do that, Clinton needs to run to the left and pick polarizing fights that galvanize low-information and hard-to-motivate voters.
Carville's right that it is a big change in doctrine, but it's unclear whether the doctrine is right. So far the entire theory rests on the precedent of one candidate: Obama. "If she won," Martin and Haberman write, "it would suggest that the so-called Obama coalition of young, nonwhite and female voters is transferable to another Democrat."
As I've been writing for a while, I'm extremely dubious. Here are four reasons. First, Obama didn't really run as a polarizing figure in 2008. He ran as a post-partisan reformer who would end gridlock and fix the failures of the two-term incumbent (as did George W. Bush and Bill Clinton before him).
Second, Obama was a very good politician without much baggage (that the media were willing to report on). Clinton is a mediocre politician with mountainous baggage. Third, Obama's coalition has never been transferable to any other cause or politician, despite the president's best efforts. And last, Clinton is running to stay the course.
The Obama veterans around Clinton boast of their willingness to break with the practices of the past. But it looks more like they can't break out of their own Obama bubble, running the same plays for a very different quarterback.
What her campaign needs is a DNR tag on the chart.
She needs to go back to wherever the hades she came from.
This retread already has quite a few miles.
Running for president as a Democrat is easy. You just to go minorities, women, gay/transvestite/whatever, poor people, and tell them you’ll sharpen their axe, and help swing it at whoever they blame for their troubles.
The news media will report that you are progressive, and the people’s candidate, meanwhile, reporting that your Republican opposition is “polarizing” and “divisive”.
That's the picture with Hillary & Huma ordering while wearing their sunglasses. Someone commented what's with the sunglasses ... are they planning to rob the place?
If I bury my head in the sand will this woman go away?
Think about it.....her whole career, she’s needed a do-over....
You mean, Do over, and over, and over, and over, and over....etc.??
Who on earth are those 46 percent who view here favorably? Are there really that many Americans who are that stupid? That’s not a good sign…...
She’s past the ‘do-over’ state, she’s ‘DOA’ and needs to take her sex craved partner and her millions and go away, FOREVER!!!
Maybe a “reset”
I think she’s been “done-over!”..... what she needs is a felony INDICTMENT!
She needs to go! Anyone else with that much baggage would be in prison. Her and the rapist both belong behind bars. Where is the RINOs? Why is there no charges being brought up on her and all this corruption.
And you're already guaranteed 240 electoral votes right out of the starting gate. People forget this. Hillary only needs to really campaign in a small handful of states.
She would look good in orange........................
You can’t unscramble an egg...................
Oh, if she changes her haircut again, that’ll do it. Short, long, bangs, straight back, manly, fancy. Spin the wheel, pick one and have some photos taken. That’ll change everyones’ minds about her.
With that much junk in the trunk Hillary the Flying Buttress needs @zz replacement surgery. Her @zz be so big she got to carry euros in one pocket and pesos in the other.
Where’s the obligatory photoshopped pic of Hillary in an orange pantsuit prison uniform? haha, would love to see that one!
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