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Why Is Hillary Clinton Even Running? ... VDH
PJ Media ^ | 12 Apr 2015 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 04/13/2015 1:06:35 AM PDT by Rummyfan

That is not as stupid a question as it first sounds. Ostensibly we know her four ready answers.

I. Who Else?

One, there is no other credible Democrat who could run for presidency. The senior party leadership — Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore, John Kerry, and Dianne Feinstein — is shrill and buffoonish. They all have either tried before and failed, or are ossified has-beens — or both. There are no up-and-coming governors with distinguished records of executive success. There are no young charismatic Democratic senators — other than the well-preserved, 65-year-old Harvard populist Elizabeth Warren — out to make a name, who can speak well and mirror image a Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, or Mario Rubio. Congressional-district gerrymandering that encourages ethnic chauvinism and hard-left polarization has almost ensured that there will not be another minority star, like Barack Obama, who can win crossover votes and statewide office as a springboard to the White House


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; hillary; hillary2016; hillaryclinton
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To: VRWC For Truth

Good Grief!

Please don’t use that word in connection to The Beast.

Some people are trying to eat breakfast.


61 posted on 04/13/2015 6:31:45 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: Artie

I believe that hospital records indicate Chelsea was expelled from some sort of orifice in the Hildebeeste’s nether regions. The only real question (IMO) is of how Web Hubbell managed to survive getting Chelsea in there in the first place ...


62 posted on 04/13/2015 6:37:57 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: catbertz
She’s an honorary nominee, like Kerry or Bob Dole.

Gore, McCain....etc.

When has the "it's my turn" candidate ever won? The candidate that wins always that memorable moment when they break out of the pack and crystalize the public's attention. Regan had "I'm paying for this microphone". BJ had "it's the economy, stupid", Obama had the hope thing. They all seemed fresh and relevent at the time.

Hillary is more like a national urinary tract infection that keeps flaring up.

63 posted on 04/13/2015 6:57:16 AM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: Rummyfan
Hillary likes to ‘live well’ that's why she's an eternal money grubber AND why she wants to be President. ...

Her campaign is about manipulating people into thinking she's ‘caring’. It's the same scam democrats play on blacks every election - with the same results: they're no better off and liberal elites are in power.

It's how Democrats want to play the middle class - for fools..

Some suck-up reporter needs to ask her how she's going to ACCOMPLISH something... what she'll DO...

64 posted on 04/13/2015 6:57:24 AM PDT by GOPJ (Hillary Candidacy Like "Weekend At Bernie's" They'll Prop Her Up until Election- H.Hewitt)
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To: Rummyfan
We've had the negro's turn. Now it is the vagina's turn. But neither GOP negroes or vagina's count.

American politics has become a joke reported by fools, run by buffoons, voted in by morons, with ballots "counted" by crooks.

65 posted on 04/13/2015 7:05:45 AM PDT by Gritty (It's obvious to me 'racism' is 99% fake and hatred of religion is 98% real - Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Rummyfan

Despite her many flaws, weaknesses and corruptions, she can still win. She begins with a bedrock base support of 40% of the voters. If the Republicans throw up a weak RINO like Jeb, she can take it.


66 posted on 04/13/2015 7:23:21 AM PDT by lurk
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To: VRWC For Truth

With Hillary, that is a well-traveled pathway.


67 posted on 04/13/2015 7:39:46 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

Did Hillary EVER pay all the vendors she still owed at the end of the 2008 campaigns?

She owed many people quite a bit of money.


68 posted on 04/13/2015 7:41:50 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Slyfox

the ZOMBIE democrats will vote for whoever is the “D”.

Saw it with Obama TWICE. WWII vets who despised his commie ways and still voted for him via some contrived personal validation excuse.


69 posted on 04/13/2015 9:04:11 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: 9YearLurker

That’s what makes for horse racing.


70 posted on 04/13/2015 9:27:18 AM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: longtermmemmory
Well, it looks like people are waking up because her numbers are not running in the right direction. And no amount of glad-handing and baby-kissing will put trust back in the genie bottle for her.

I would venture to say that Hillary may get an obama-backlash vote unless she can turn things around. Which I highly doubt.

71 posted on 04/13/2015 9:42:35 AM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: gogeo
Hillary is running for office, not against anyone. She believes that it is her turn to be tyrant and out of all the people who have ever done it before none of them did it right. She is the one who will take the people of the world to the promised marxist utopia. Only she can do it because she is The One. She is the Mother Goddess who will bring peace and joy and love to the masses. She is the only one who can bless us and caress our hearts with the balm of love. (Cue the new age music)

All these other peons who are throwing their names into the plate are just pikers and whoa to any of them who get in her way.

72 posted on 04/13/2015 9:52:55 AM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: ridesthemiles

Did Hillary EVER pay all the vendors she still owed at the end of the 2008 campaigns?

She owed many people quite a bit of money.

* * *

That doesn’t surprise me. Carpetbaggers usually leave town in arrears. And who’s going to sue the Clintons to pay up?? You’d wake up in some park or other. (Or, maybe, not wake up....)


73 posted on 04/13/2015 11:21:15 AM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
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To: catman67
O'Malley is a typical tax-and-spend liberal, with the emphasis on tax.

That's an asset in a Democrat primary. Hell, it's a requirement.

74 posted on 04/13/2015 11:37:05 AM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!")
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To: Rummyfan; All

I went to Wal-Mart on my extended lunch hour today. Two young (early 20s) Black men, employees of Wal-Mart, were getting the shopping carts out of the stall in the parking lot. As I opened my door, I heard one say:

“You know, her husband was President back in the nineties........

I started walking toward them (intentionally) on my way into the store, and he continued.....

“Now she say she runnin’ for President.”

The other young man said: “Ain’t nobody gonna vote for her.”

The first young man said: “I don’t want her in there; uh uh.... I don’t want her in there.”

I turned around and said to him: “Ain’t that the truth, I don’t want her in there either.” He grinned real big and said: “I know that’s right.”

True story folks. I was encouraged.


75 posted on 04/13/2015 12:04:58 PM PDT by Din Maker (Anyone considering Gov. Susana Martinez of NM for Prez in 2016?)
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To: Rummyfan

76 posted on 04/13/2015 5:24:48 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Slyfox
Oh, that's her thinking, all right...but I believe her campaign strategy by necessity is to go negative, big and fast. Her campaign will talk about hopey changey and unicorns and those sexist repubs.

Nobody will know what she wants to accomplish because her campaign will be to keep those wascally wepubs from office.

77 posted on 04/13/2015 6:22:32 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: gogeo
She will have a rather short honeymoon.

Obama is still in the honeymoon. Once he decides she is toast that will be it.

She will be dissed for a second time.

And then Slick will be cosbyed.

78 posted on 04/13/2015 7:20:52 PM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: Slyfox

I would pay good money and hire a babysitter to see that.


79 posted on 04/13/2015 7:38:30 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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