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The Hillary Myth
Weekly Standard ^ | May 14, 2016 (dated 5/23) | Fred Barnes

Posted on 05/14/2016 5:08:28 AM PDT by libstripper

Hillary Clinton sounds like Paul Ryan on the economy. She says she’s for "strong growth, fair growth, and long-term growth." She would abandon the slow-growth economics of President Obama and return us to those wonderful days in the 1990s when husband Bill was in charge. This is a different Hillary Clinton from the one we've seen in debates with Bernie Sanders, her socialist rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. It's the centrist-at-heart Clinton whom conservatives and Republicans eager for an acceptable alternative to Donald Trump can vote for.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption; election; hillary; trump
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Fred really lays it out here and concludes it's essential to vote for Trump.
1 posted on 05/14/2016 5:08:28 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: libstripper

No, Fred Barnes is cheerleading for Hillary.

Jim Rob says no to #NeverTrumpers.

Try reading before posting - RIF on Weekly Standard.


2 posted on 05/14/2016 5:13:05 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: libstripper

It’s the centrist-at-heart Clinton whom conservatives and Republicans eager for an acceptable alternative to Donald Trump can vote for.

I’m sorry but there are no words for this level of deceit or stupidity. There is little to NOTHING that Hillary would do that differs from bozo.


3 posted on 05/14/2016 5:14:37 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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Neocons are now writing Hillary is a centrist-at-heart.

I’m laughing so hard I’m falling from my chair!

Hillary however, is no laughing matter.


4 posted on 05/14/2016 5:16:37 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: libstripper

May I slightly disagree with your conclusion of Fred Barnes’ article? Just by substituting one little word.

Fred grudgingly lays it out here and concludes it’s essential to vote for Trump.

I am not completely seated on the Trump Bandwagon yet. I am still holding on the hand strap, looking for that seat.
To one of Trump’s biggest selling points is, he is the only candidate who has actually signed a paycheck. A paycheck from his bank account.


5 posted on 05/14/2016 5:19:22 AM PDT by Tupelo (we vote - THEY decide.)
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To: goldstategop

Come now.... Fred is not cheer leading for hillary

Fred is holding his nose and advocating the reality that is Donald Trump. Fred is capitulating


6 posted on 05/14/2016 5:20:57 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: Tupelo

You can’t read as well, huh?

Here Barnes writes Hillary is an acceptable alternative for conservatives and Republicans to vote for.

This is NOT acceptable on FR. If you want to peddle #NeverTrumperism, please do it elsewhere.


7 posted on 05/14/2016 5:22:22 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: libstripper

Hillary promoting Wanderin’ Bill as the reason for the prosperity of the 1990’s and not the Republican Congress that Willie and Hillie begat 2 years after their election? Hubris - it’s not just for breakfast anymore!


8 posted on 05/14/2016 5:22:54 AM PDT by Bernard (The Road To Hell Is Not Paved With Good Results)
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To: libstripper

On foreign and national security affairs, he’s [Trump] a rookie, which is worrisome.

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And Obama, a one-term Senator, wasn’t? Also, Trump listens & takes advice while the narcissistic, anti-American Obama doubles down when he’s hurt the country or looked like a wuss. Obama was a rookie & unqualified on everything except warming a back bench & voting ‘present’.

Overall, good piece by Fred.


9 posted on 05/14/2016 5:23:31 AM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: libstripper
You should have included the first few sentences from the second paragraph in your excerpt:

Only there's a problem: This Hillary Clinton is entirely mythical. She doesn't exist.

Then there wouldn't be such a need to read the rest of the article to know its main point.

10 posted on 05/14/2016 5:23:40 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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This is a different Hillary Clinton from the one we've seen in debates with Bernie Sanders, her socialist rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. It's the centrist-at-heart Clinton

Trump: Hillary is a Leftwing extremist!
Hillary: I am not! I'm actually a Centrist.

Sanders: See? She's a stooge for Wall St!
Hillary: I am not! I dream of a socialist revolution!

Trump: I told you! She's a radical Leftist!
Hillary: I am not! I love Big Banks and I support the rich!

Sanders: OMG! She's as bad as Trump!
Hillary: I am not --!

11 posted on 05/14/2016 5:24:08 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
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To: bert

Another illiterate who can’t read:

“It’s the centrist-at-heart Clinton whom conservatives and Republicans eager for an acceptable alternative to Donald Trump can vote for.”

Barnes says very clearly who he endorses. You’re reading #NeverTrumper Weekly Standard all wrong.

Never means Never for them - including their staff.


12 posted on 05/14/2016 5:25:13 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: libstripper

The Clintons are criminals. That should make it easy.


13 posted on 05/14/2016 5:25:34 AM PDT by marron
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To: libstripper
Hillary is of course counting on nostalgia for the Bubba myth for her economic plan, which is no different than Obama’s nor Sander's.

Millennials who are attracted to Sanders never learned the facts or the reason behind the grand ole days of Bubba the Animal.

14 posted on 05/14/2016 5:27:07 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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No conservative and Republican should vote for her.

Kristol and Barnes have decided since their third party talk isn’t flying, they’re going into the Clinton camp.

Thanks but no thanks.


15 posted on 05/14/2016 5:28:36 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Sir Napsalot

Bubba was a centrist. That’s why I voted for him in 1992.

Hillary is completely the opposite.


16 posted on 05/14/2016 5:29:45 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: goldstategop

You only read the first sentence huh?
Or is it that some nuances of the English language fly right over your little head?


17 posted on 05/14/2016 5:32:49 AM PDT by Tupelo (we vote - THEY decide.)
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To: Tupelo

Speaking of nuance, Barnes, writes, “Hillary Clinton sounds like Paul Ryan on the economy.”

That’s the first sentence you apparently missed.


18 posted on 05/14/2016 5:35:18 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: bert

Yes
I must say I am pleasantly surprised by the article.
The source,WS, is highly suspect and Barnes buddy Kondrachy is a big time notrump.
But the article does ‘grudgingly’ admit that Trump is a better, necessary, choice for president than either hrc
OR a 3rd party candidate.


19 posted on 05/14/2016 5:38:54 AM PDT by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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To: goldstategop

Read the whole damn article. The part where he says all that is a myth should tip you off. But apparently it does not.


20 posted on 05/14/2016 5:39:44 AM PDT by pas
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