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Hillary Clinton just doesn’t get it: She’s already running a losing campaign
Salon ^ | April 12, 2015 | By Bill Curry

Posted on 04/12/2015 4:22:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Hillary Clinton joins the race for president today. If you believe the leaks from her staff, and there’s no reason you shouldn’t, she’ll do it in a video released at noon as she herself flies high above the nation in a chartered plane. She and her top advisors, all smart people, must think it’s a good idea. It doesn’t feel like one. SNIP

Barring a Jeremiah Wright-level crisis, a presidential candidate gets just two or three chances to make her case to a big audience. Her announcement is often her best shot. That Hillary passed on hers is unsettling. If she thinks she doesn’t have to make her case real soon she’s wrong. If she thinks she can get by on the sort of mush Democratic consultants push on clients she’s finished. On Thursday the Q poll released three surveys. In two states, she now trails Rand Paul. In all three a plurality or majority said she is ‘not honest or trustworthy.’ You can bet the leak about her $2.5 billion campaign will push those negatives up a notch.

Clinton seems as disconnected from the public mood now as she did in 2008. I think it’s a crisis. If she doesn’t right the ship it will be a disaster. In politics it’s always later than you think. Advisors who told her voters would forget the email scandals probably say this too will pass. If so, she should fire them.

Clinton needs a real challenge and a real debate, not just a sparring partner; not some palooka to dance her around the ring for a couple of rounds, but a real fighter. She needs the debate. We all do. But who will bring it?

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; hillary; hillaryclinton; hitlery; lewinsky; pantsuit
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Wait! Wrong "Hillary Announcement"...Someone fire that staff volunteer and murder their cat...


61 posted on 04/12/2015 6:28:58 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Squantos

That comparison is a horridly unfair to Nixon.


62 posted on 04/12/2015 6:30:45 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Hildebeest’s likely savior is is the abysmally ignorant, shallow, undiscerning, and dependent American electorate.


63 posted on 04/12/2015 6:34:50 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: Morpheus2009
I have a feeling that someome else running Democrat could beat her.

Yeah, it really is hard to forget the unknown junior Senator whose lifetime claim to fame was community organizing, who came out of nowhere and knocked her right out of the race.. and I would say he did that quite easily. Clinton has way too many years (mostly negative) in the body politic.

64 posted on 04/12/2015 6:36:43 AM PDT by corlorde (Oath Keeper)
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To: wastoute

Be kinda cool if she flew over throwing turkeys out the door.


65 posted on 04/12/2015 6:46:53 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: wastoute
Speaking of fly-over country (Iran), what ever happened to her plane?

66 posted on 04/12/2015 7:01:53 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Starboard

Yes, and it’s hard for me to understand why the democrat party doesn’t want to promote a more decent person than Hitlery.


67 posted on 04/12/2015 7:16:47 AM PDT by abclily
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To: Pollster1

Nah, those people have no chance gaining acceptance from the left. They are big rich guys.


68 posted on 04/12/2015 7:20:56 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ole crusty britches is one woman’s champion.
How many did she do her best to ruin after bill used his bentness on them?
Sometimes girls nearly as young as Web and Hillary’s daughter.


69 posted on 04/12/2015 7:21:24 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: VRWC For Truth

Now that’s what I’m talking about!


70 posted on 04/12/2015 7:23:27 AM PDT by StormEye
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To: blueunicorn6

More like, the so-called “friends” of ours that helped take care of Benghazi were rabid and followed their instincts to take care of our embassy later. If someone raped a bad guy to death, I wouldn’t trust them or want to be anywhere close to their company. I would not be surprised if it was some of the same guys who killed Gadaffi coming back to bite us from behind.


71 posted on 04/12/2015 7:25:11 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Joe Boucher

it would appear that this country is now up for sale. The Hill is talking about raising billions for her run and the so-called political experts are saying that this is the way she will win. I guess that it really is about the money and not the country that is important. Sad to hear.


72 posted on 04/12/2015 7:25:44 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Reagan said, "Government is the problem." And it certainly is!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Ask Jimmy Carville what he thinks, he might have something to add about the Clinton family.


73 posted on 04/12/2015 7:26:59 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She wants the money left over after losing


74 posted on 04/12/2015 7:29:32 AM PDT by Thibodeaux
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To: abclily
Yes, and it’s hard for me to understand why the democrat party doesn’t want to promote a more decent person than Hitlery.

They are terrified the female voter will simply tune out if Hillary is not the nominee, It's "their turn." The DNC really has no choice but to stick with Hillary - she's the only candidate palatable to all of their hate-filled factions.

75 posted on 04/12/2015 8:25:55 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
not some palooka to dance her around the ring for a couple of rounds, but a real fighter.


Memories.

76 posted on 04/12/2015 8:36:48 AM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Dear Salon,

You have no clue. Hillary is guaranteed the Presidency. It does not matter how she runs. She is the chosen one of the Global Oligarchs. So yeah, next year about this time, you will trot out Michael Moore who will state, she could lose. Just like he did for Obama. You really do not understand the situation. We have no choice. Never did. McCain made sure Obama won twice.

77 posted on 04/12/2015 8:52:02 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Interesting comments at Salon. Nothing positive about Hillary at all, just that Republicans are eeeeeevillllll.


78 posted on 04/12/2015 10:08:17 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Squantos
"according to Dowd" Now you've done it! Rules, you know.


79 posted on 04/12/2015 10:15:10 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

80 posted on 04/12/2015 10:18:14 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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