How the Clinton Scandal can bring down the Democrats

The Fiscal Times ^ | Rob Garver

[Din Maker]

In the nearly two-year smorgasbord of scandal (real and faux) that the Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign promises to deliver, last month’s brouhaha over her email was but an appetizer.

Not two weeks after she officially announced her run for president, Clinton has been informed that she will be hauled not once, but twice, before the House committee re-investigating the attacks on the U.S. compound in Benghazi in 2012.

The book, Clinton Cash, by conservative author Peter Schweizer, makes a circumstantial case for possible wrongdoing by Clinton, tying the timing of speaking fees paid to her husband and donations to the foundation to actions taken by the State Dept. that benefited the donors.

While Schweizer has no proof of any quid pro quos, the attention generated by the not-yet-published book has forced the Clinton Foundation into a defensive posture, and in the early going, things aren’t working out very well.

“In 2013, for example, only 10 percent of the Clinton Foundation’s expenditures were for direct charitable grants,” Davis writes. “The amount it spent on charitable grants–$8.8 million–was dwarfed by the $17.2 million it cumulatively spent on travel, rent, and office supplies. Between 2011 and 2013, the organization spent only 9.9 percent of the $252 million it collected on direct charitable grants.”

If these circumstantial allegations stick to Clinton, it can affect not only the presidential race, but also tilt the balance in the House and Senate.

[Din Maker]

Here are a couple of other points we need to remember folks:

#1. Hillary is so “yesterday” and even the people who once supported her are ready for a new, fresher, younger face. (There really is a certain amount of Clinton/Bush fatigue in America). But, more importantly..................

#2. By early 2016 when ObamaCare has decimated people’s health care and they are paying more money for less coverage or like one lady in CA who was forced to include pregnancy coverage for her individual policy at the age of 65 costing her $500 a month...... I think a lot of people who once loved Hussein Obama will come to hate him. The even better news is; Hillary is attached at the hip to Obama and that will not bode well for her when folks enter the voting booth.

[minnesota_bound]

#3 They did not mind the nearly 3,000 deaths and wounding of 11,000 people on 9/11.

They saw it only as an opportunity to undermine the United States.

[Phlap]

In my best voice There's a scandal with the Clintons? Who knew? lol!

[Political Junkie Too]

Here is a FReeper compendium from 2001 of Clinton quid pro quo that went largely ignored by the MSM though the Bill Clinton administration.

Clinton's Rogues Gallery: Appearance Of Quid Pro Quo

-PJ

[Boogieman]

True, but the hardcore progs, much like the hardcore conservatives, don’t constitute the whole Democrat voter base. If only the progs vote for Hillary, she won’t get near 51% of the vote.

[AZLiberty]

With any luck, Schweizer’s next book on Jeb will take down the GOP-e. I’d love to see Schweizer take on Obama for his third book, implicating all the Dems who knew Obama’s history from the get-go.

[MeganC]

By and large, women usually make decisions based more on how they "feel" about the matter at hand than they do by rational thought processes.

I'm a woman and I feel you're right! (-:

[arthurus]

No amount of poundingon the Clinton scandals will sway 10 million newly franchised ex wetback "citizens" from voting for Señora Bill.