Posted on 08/21/2015 1:14:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
Bill and Hillary Clinton have for years looked into the nearest camera and said, "It's just politics." Every attack from every direction has been deflected with that. Even now, as more and more information comes out about Hillary Clinton's email server, the standard Clinton talking point has returned: "It's just politics."
Unfortunately for Hillary, she is no Bill. She lacks his charm and aw-shucks manner. She lacks his smile. Right now, she even lacks him. Bill Clinton has gone into hiding, and no one wants to sail down to Jeffrey Epstein's "orgy island," where Bill allegedly likes to hide out. Mrs. Clinton has instead sent out a series of befuddled and befuddling spokesmen who have tried their best to confuse the situation only to get confused themselves.
When that failed, Mrs. Clinton herself tried to defuse the situation and only made it worse by retorting to a reporter that she did not wipe her servers with a cloth and she did not know technically how to wipe a server. But the server was wiped clean.
"It's just politics" does not work when the public realizes it is actually about national security. Chinese hackers have hacked the Office of Personnel Management and obtained the private records of millions of Americans, including those who applied for security clearances. IRS records have been hacked. Current Secretary of State John Kerry claims the Chinese or Russians may be reading his government encrypted emails.
In this environment, Hillary Clinton would have us believe her private server was no big deal. In this environment, Hillary Clinton and her campaign have written and rewritten the story of her server as the story has evolved.
First, Hillary Clinton said she was confident she had never sent any classified information from her email address. News reports declared otherwise, and so Clinton had to retreat. Her next position was that she was confident she had never sent classified information from her email address that was classified at the time she had it. Again, we now know that is not true.
Hillary Clinton now again has retreated, moving the goal posts with her. Now she has declared the legal standards are not as the hicks and rubes who make up America's television experts understand them. Of course, those television experts are also congressmen who helped write the laws and lawyers who have represented people dealing with classified information. Here, too, Hillary Clinton is wrong.
Never fear, Mrs. Clinton has moved on already. She says she is not under investigation and has never been subpoenaed. Again, facts contradict the reality she has chosen to inhabit. The House of Representatives has subpoenaed her, and the FBI is investigating her. Hilariously, Mrs. Clinton's campaign team now says she is not being investigated, just "her conduct" is being investigated. Once she declares it depends on the meaning of "is," we will have come full circle.
Over the past month, Mrs. Clinton's poll numbers have gone into a free-fall along with the number of people who trust her. Vice President Joe Biden is thinking of getting into the race now. Some of President Obama's campaign team is pushing Biden, and the vice president reportedly is actively considering it.
This is not the Clinton campaign Democrats were expecting. The leaders of the party rushed to have a coronation, stocked Mrs. Clinton's coffers with hundreds of millions of dollars and decided to sit back and let the GOP self-destruct. In fact, the GOP keeps looking like it wants to self-destruct in an intra-party slug fest, but every time they pass premature victory to the Clinton team, the Clintons pass it right back with gusto.
At this point, it is apparent to many observers that the Democrats may be stuck with Hillary Clinton. They arranged all the deck chairs exactly as she commanded, oblivious to the iceberg into which she was sailing the Democrats' ship. The problem for Hillary Clinton is that her husband's playbook demands she claim "it's just politics," but that only works for him, and most voters realize it is actually about national security.
Mark my words!
If it comes down to Hillary v Trump.... the GOPee will chose Hillary rather than let anyone espousing an actual conservative agenda win the presidency.
Trump is our only hope at this point.
We hang by a very slender thread my friend!
“If it comes down to Hillary v Trump.... the GOPee will chose Hillary rather than let anyone espousing an actual conservative agenda win the presidency.”
Sadly I agree. They know that if Trump becomes president, then he basically runs the party, and a LOT of people, the ones that keep writing hit pieces, will be looking for work. Hillary, like any Democrat president simply would not have that type of power over the Country Club.
I predict that the Third Party run will not be from Trump, but rather from the Country Club, trying to stop Trump from winning after he gets the Republican nomination.
I had not considered that!
You are brilliant my FRiend!!!
Unfortunately for her, those old tricks are not working
“My hunch is Hillary knew she was breaking the law during her tenure as SOS but figured the old Clinton tricks would work to get her out of whatever heat she may find herself in.”
Evidence indicates that Hillary lives in a world so focused on herself that she probably never gave a moment’s thought about peripheral things like the need for secrecy. Not sending an email she wanted to send because it contained something that would delay it or make it illegal was never considered. What she wants right now takes precedence over any other consideration. Inside the aging liberal is a two year old raging to get out.
But is he really?
Thanks, but actually nothing new for The Establishment. They did PRECISELY that to make sure that Oliver North never made it to the US Senate. They ran a legitimate conservative (traitor) third party, and he threw the election to the Democrat. North would have won otherwise.
These are EVIL people, they need to be DRIVEN OUT of the political world.
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