Posted on 03/11/2015 6:37:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the wake of Hillary Rodham Clinton's fairly disastrous press conference at the United Nations on Tuesday, there's only one conclusion shared by all parties: This was not how it was supposed to go.
This was supposed to be the month Clinton led with her chief selling point: her gender. She had put together a whole "I Am Woman, Hear Me Bore" speaking tour in which women's issues -- particularly the women's issues that poll well among women who care a lot about women's issues -- would be the main subject.
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation unveiled a big foofaraw over Hillary's "No Ceilings" campaign. What a wonderfully convenient theme for Mrs. Clinton's massive and mysterious foundation, given that smashing the "highest glass ceiling" -- i.e., the presidency -- is the central rationale of her planned presidential bid. It was just a coincidence that the tax-exempt foundation with her name on it happened to be rolling out a big light show on that very subject during the rollout of her presidential campaign.
It was all carefully scripted, because everything Hillary Clinton does is carefully scripted. Normally, that's a figurative expression. But with Clinton, when things are carefully scripted, they are literally carefully scripted.
On Monday, Hillary had a "No Ceilings" event at the Clinton Foundation. After her opening remarks, the Associated Press reported, she declined to take any questions. "When she sat down to lead more informal conversations with invited speakers, participants appeared to be reading from teleprompters."
I'll give the AP reporters a pass on this odd locution since they at least conveyed the truth to the reader. But for the record, a dialogue between people on a stage in which they read from teleprompters is not an "informal conversation" -- it's a play.
The trouble for Clinton is that, despite all of her preparation, all of her coordination, the world is going off her script. And for a woman who thinks off-the-cuff speaking is switching from her prepared remarks to her prepared note cards, that's a scary place.
That is surely why she set up her own private Internet server. Four times at the U.N., Clinton said she had created her "home-brew" email system simply for "convenience."
"I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two," she said.
Never mind that it's much easier to set up two email systems on one device than it is to set up a whole dark server hidden from the government. And leave aside that a woman who travels with a very large entourage on non-commercial flights could probably manage two devices.
I'm sure she's right. She set up the server for convenience -- but not the convenience of sparing her the load of an additional 4-ounce phone. When you want to hide what you're doing, a private server is definitely the way to go.
Hillary has only two comfort zones: deep in a bunker or high on a pedestal. Drag her out of the former or knock her off the latter and she's at sea.
In her very brief press conference Tuesday, she essentially admitted to the transgression she's been accused of for the past week. She admitted to deleting thousands of emails. She turned over the public emails she deemed safe to give to the public and kept the rest, saying they were private, anointing herself to be the sole arbiter.
"I fully complied with every rule that I was governed by," she said. And: "I have no doubt that we have done exactly what we should have done."
This hints at the attitude that binds her and her husband: the belief that they are governed solely by what they choose to be governed by and what they do is right because they have done it.
The problem for Hillary is she can't sell it. That's why she prefers everything to be scripted. For example, Mrs. Clinton needed to tell the public not to ever come looking for any more email from her, including the allegedly private ones she chose not to share. So she claimed they no longer exist.
"At the end, I chose not to keep my private, personal emails -- emails about planning Chelsea's wedding or my mother's funeral arrangements, condolence notes to friends."
Clinton's vast marketing division has been toying with rolling her out as the "Grandmother in Chief." Well, here's a tip: Grandmothers save that kind of stuff.
“Women’s issues”? Gimme a break. She was the ramrod to manage Bill’s bimbo eruptions by destroying lives of women.
The worst part of that premise (true as it likely is) is that even before the tough question, she was already spinning completely transparent cr*p. Spewing self-defeating, easily disproven claims was her best-case scenario.
And you wonder why Elizabeth Warren—despite the obvious threats from the Clinton camp!—has been very coy about a Presidential run.
Soon Hillary will have a "No Sealings" event at the Trey Gowdy Hearings.
As in no sealed records, no sealed servers, no sealed testimony.
How does Private Citizen Hillary march into the UN and use Security Council Facilities for her Personnel business ? Will the UN campaign for Hillary and do they support her Breaking US Laws ?
That’s beyond hilarious.
So who do you think would win in a Cruz/Walker debate?
I'm looking forward to seeing that debate. I want to see how articulate the two of them are when faced with good questions (in the unlikely event that we get good moderators for the GOP debates). Speaking well on your feet is important, and I hope to see that skill from Senator Cruz, from Governor Walker, and from a third republican but I've forgotten who that was.
Liberal media outlets will host six of the nine 2016 GOP presidential debates that the Republican National Committee (RNC) will sanction...
1. Fox News
August 2015
Ohio
2. CNN
September 2015
California
3. CNBC
October 2015
Colorado
4. Fox Business
November 2015
Wisconsin
5. CNN
December 2015
Nevada
6. Fox News
January 2016
Iowa
7. ABC News
February 2016
New Hampshire
8. CBS News
February 2016
South Carolina
9. NBC/Telemundo
February 2016
Florida
The three pending debates are:
Fox News
March 2016
TBD
CNN
March 2016
TBD
Conservative Media Debate
Date TBD
Locations TBD
Love the last line,Grandmas keep those kind of emails
what no cookie receipes on her email?
Maybe some Tammy Wynette songs, though.
I don’t see the debate schedule as nearly as much of a problem as the sequence of the primary elections.
There should be no blue wall states in the first 20 contests.
So true. Watching Hillary yesterday at her presser was uncomfortable. She is about as appealing as a dead bird. I cannot imagine her getting elected President.
After a century of Progressivism and Gibsmedat voting blocs getting "free" money from the public treasury for supporting the "right" politicians and their policies, now the chickens have come home to roost and our culture and government are out of control. It's now like the gang of bank robbers killing each other over the spoils. It hardly matters who wins in the end.
"Absolute corruption corrupts absolutely"
So who do you think would win in a Cruz/Walker debate?Scott Walker, if nominated, will stomp her to dust in a debate. Unlike most “leading” Repubs, he’s not in awe of her or any other democrat.18 posted on March 11, 2015 at 10:04:39 AM EDT by ScottinVA
Any Cruz-Walker debate would precede any Clinton/Waker (or Clinton/Cruz) debate. So if it came down to that prior question controlling the R nomination, that is one thing.I support Cruz, and think that Walker has a lot going. But there is a rock-scissors-paper issue involved. The winner of a Walker/Cruz debate is not necessarily the one who will win a debate with Clinton. I suspect either would, but then Romney mopped up the floor with Obama in the first debate - and we know how that worked out.
We have an interesting tradition in America. We have “debates” in which there is a “neutral” moderator chosen by the same people who chose one of the participants in the “debate.” So just being “better” is not good enough for the other “debate” participant - you have to be better. Much, much, better. If you’re not as much better than your opponent than Reagan was better than Carter, you could easily lose the election.
And you have to be fearless.
And as a Cruz supporter I have to say that Walker is not obviously disqualified by those criteria. Give Walker the same positions Cruz has taken on the IRS and the border, and my preference would be a Walker/Cruz ticket. As VP candidate, Cruz’s debate skills would be valuable. And then promote Cruz to SCOTUS at the first opportunity.
Good idea. And I don’t want a Super Tuesday.
The first few states should go in order of the highest percent of GOP votes in the last presidential election. We might place a primary/caucus in the states delivering the most electoral votes in the last presidential election at some key points. Races should be at least several weeks apart.
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