Will receive the coveted Gold-plated Knitting Needles statuette:
Cited as the Democrat candidate "Most Likely to Unravel."
Posted on 06/12/2015 5:12:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
Hillary Clinton had one of the worst campaign rollouts in living memory. Her low-key (to the point of inaudibility) announcement video came in the midst of a months-long period of deeply damaging stories about her mania for secrecy (the private email server), which she indulged even at the expense of the law and national security, and her cavalier acceptance of favors in the form of donations to the Clinton Foundation.
As these stories mounted, Clinton seemed oddly disengaged. She neither answered questions nor attempted to change the subject. Some Republicans began to get smug. "She's a terrible candidate," they said (your humble columnist may even have let these words slip herself). "She doesn't have the skills of her husband," they said, even predicting that, "This woman will never be president of the United States."
This week, Mrs. Clinton demonstrated that Republicans should wipe the smiles off their faces. On Saturday, June 13, she'll deliver a do-over of the announcement speech, and if it's anything like the talk she delivered at Texas Southern University, it will be fierce and effective.
The Texas speech, tartly described by Democratic strategist Doug Schoen as a "clean hit" on her Republican opponents (meaning all upside and no downside for the candidate), was dishonest and divisive. She denounced the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act decision, falsely claiming that it invalidated laws permitting ballots to be translated into languages other than English. She implied that the decision, along with voter ID laws passed by a number of states, are intended to suppress voting by African Americans and other minorities. Hans Von Spakovsky, writing in National Review Online, points out that minority voting is up even in states with voter ID laws -- and why shouldn't it be? Voter ID laws prevent only non-citizens from voting.
Clinton's task is to solidify the base that elected Obama twice. She has the woman angle, and for some identity politics fans, that's a big advantage. As for the rest of the Democratic electorate -- Hispanics, other minorities, the young, the single, government employees, union members and African Americans -- it's less clear that her XX chromosomes can do the trick, particularly after eight years of a Democratic president. Even some African Americans, the Washington Post reports, are feeling disillusioned. A 23-year-old Jacksonville, Florida, grocery clerk, noting the economic torpor of her neighborhood, told the paper, "What was the point? We made history, but I don't see change."
Clinton is deploying the "They Hate You" strategy that has worked well for Democrats for decades. Policy is almost irrelevant; the point is to convince key groups to turn out in large numbers for Democrats because they've been persuaded that Republicans are haters.
Quoting the late Barbara Jordan, Clinton told the black audience, "She famously reminded us that when the constitution was written it left most of us here out. But generations of Americans fought, marched, organized and prayed to expand the circle of freedom and opportunity. We should be clearing the way for more people to vote, not putting up every roadblock anyone can imagine." Note the word "us." Multimillionaire, international celebrity Hillary Clinton claims membership in an oppressed class due to her sex.
Republicans often let this sort of thing go, scarcely bothering to contest the libels because they figure the black vote is lost anyway. Rand Paul and a few others have broken this mold, though in Paul's case, only to pander.
Republicans can deny that voter ID laws are about voter suppression till they bore everyone into a coma. It won't have an impact. But that doesn't mean they should surrender. What they should be concerned about is not any particular issue but rather their image as the party of haters.
I would love to see all of the Republican candidates staging multiple events in places like Detroit, Baltimore and Cleveland. They should be asking what Hillary Clinton proposes to do about improving the climate for small business. They should demand to know what Democrats have done to improve the schools -- or rather, draw attention to the fact that Democrats stand in the way of improving education for poor kids. They should demand accountability for the millions of taxpayer dollars intended for poor families that wind up in the pockets of the well-connected and the well-heeled, while praising the work of churches and other private groups. The shame of the cities belongs squarely in the Democrats' laps.
Even if it doesn't yield a single new African American voter, it's worth doing for two reasons: 1) because it will improve the image of the Republican Party, and 2) because it's right.
Have you seen Jeb's? Sadly, the only candidate so far that I've seen have any success at getting his message out and his name front and center is Bernie Sanders (I puked in my mouth a little there).
Why should the Republicans follow the 80/20 rule?
Spend 80% of their effort trying to appease 20% of the country...while totally ignoring the 80% majority.
Well, the 80% believes in things the elites don’t like - and they send out Republicans to bully and pacify them, not to support them.
It does not help that the GOPe has gone out of its way to alienate not just the voters described in the article, but also, and more importantly, the millions of true conservatives who have stayed home in recent elections.
The American electorate was turned off by Mitt Romney’s tone deaf and gaffe-prone candidacy that seemed to alienate a large segment of society. GOPers however, were quite satisified with Romney. That shows how out of touch the Republican establishment is.
If you are not a big corporate executive campaign contributer, a K Street lobbyist, or a member of the country club set, the GOPe does not care about you.
What she is doing is NOT politics.
It’s divisive, inflammatory, fear-mongering, mendacious demagoguery.
But it AIN’T politics.
Maybe she’s Madam DeFarge ... taking cues from the disaffected, rabid, criminal misfits who kick started the French Revolution.
She’s a/$#@^&! (Fill in your own insult) and what’s worse is when they say she doesn’t have bj’s charm. Charm?! The pos is a rapist conman.
He probably raped her. But since she’s so damn fugly she thought it was foreplay.
REALITY CHECK Democrat ranks have been decimated. At last Nov's 2014 midterms, all of their rising stars were wiped out...very few survived down-ticket....including the luckless candidates Hillary and Bill stumped for.
Stupid Democrats actually thought showcasing Michele, the Clintons, Pelosi and Reid on the campaign trail was a winning strategy.
THE FACTS ARE THESE The treasure trove of "The 2014 Midterm Democrat Demolition Derby" and down-ticket state wins have yet to be fully- mined, but this we know:
<><> DEMOCRAT LOSSES MADE HISTORY---top to bottom.
<><> midterms were a massive and awesome rejection of liberals;
<><> Southern Democrats control not a single governorship, US senator or legislative chamber,
<><> Democrat losses stretch from the Carolinas westward to Texas,
<><> 110 Of 140 Southern States election districts went Republican.
<><> GOP's House majorities are so huge and solid NBC's Chuck Todd says Dems can't recapture losses until 2022.
<><> Some pundits say Republicans have a 100-year majority;
<><> when the next US Senate convenes, 30 lock-stepping Democrats who voted for Obamacare are gone.
<><> Ark and Ill (Clinton hometowns) have Repub governors---important in a prez race b/c guvs control party machinery.
<><> Unprecedented MINN 6th Congressional district---every single House and Senate district went Repub
<><> GOP now controls the MINN State House.
<><> Ohio's historic GOP statehouse takeover (Gun Control is toast)
<><> Ohio's Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, Secy of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer--all R---Sup/Ct - 6 R/1 D
<><> Britt Hume sez: "latino vote is zilch"---"over-50" is significant 30% voting segment.
<><> Republicans unified control: gov/legislature in 23 states (Ntl Conference of State Legislatures factoid).
<><> Repub governorships: Florida, Tx, Ill, Ohio, Mich, MD, Wisconsin, NC, GA, Mass.
<><> GOP holds every congressional seat in Arkansas; first time in 141 years...
<><> Environmentalists fogged out---suffered huge losses.
<><> Gun Control Candidates blitzed.
<><> "War on Women" became a ntl joke.
<><> Clinton's labeled politically useless---most candidates they flacked lost.
<><> Montana, So/Dakota and West/VA Dems were forced to retire; no hope of getting re-elected,
<><> Arizona House recount race went Republican.
<><> AZ Republican McSally wins last open House seat (Dem Gaby Giffords seat),
<><> Repub McSally's win gives GOP 5-4 advantage in AZ congressional delegation,
<><> Repubs hold 247 House seats (Dems 188), the largest GOP advantage since the Truman admin after WWII.
<><> 73 percent of LA's white voters say told they "strongly disapproved" of the president.
<><> Republicans hold the largest House majority in 83 years.
<><> Republicans holds 68 of 98 state legislative chambers.
<><> 2015 Republican grip on state government has not been seen since the 1920s.
<><> Republicans hold or share control in nearly every state (7 states' legislature and Governor are Dem-held).
<><> 12 states, including Missouri, Arizona, Arkansas, NC will push income tax cuts and fiscal reform.
<><> Illinois’ new Repub Governor’s top priority is reforming its nearly-bankrupt public pension system.
<><> Vermont Democrats allied w/ VT conservative Repubs to ward off voter backlash
<><> controversial and seemingly incompetent VT Democrat governor did not get the requisite votes to stay in office.
<><> VT poised to install Vermont's first Republican governor in over four years
<><> Republicans now control two-thirds of the state legislatures.
<><> Since Democrats lost power, approval of Congress has risen 6% under Republicans.
Will receive the coveted Gold-plated Knitting Needles statuette:
Cited as the Democrat candidate "Most Likely to Unravel."
Someone needs to ask Hillary about Global Warming... Maybe her lying shill - the fake journalistGeorge Stephanopoulos can chime in - it’s an ABC story after all ...
FLASHBACK: ABC’s ’08 Prediction: NYC Under Water From Climate Change By June 2015
She needs villains, manufactured or real.
She needs victims, imagined or real.
She can only win by division, not by unification.
She needs issues to villify because she can’t run on her political record. There are too many Libyas and Benghazis, Egypts, that are foreign policy failures. Too many actions and trips that benefitted the Clinton Foundation.
{Hillary waves to the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, “Hi there, glad you are back.”}
Gore and Kerry kept re-introducing and re-branding themselves when they ran, because the public didn’t like what they were selling.
Gore, 6 remakes, IIRC.
Kerry, 4 remakes, IIRC.
That picture gives me nightmares.
Cruz & Walker need to deploy a bit of this as well.
The left, demonstrably, hates Christians and Christian values.
They won’t be getting the votes of those that fall into this category no matter how “inclusive” they are,
and they might as well inform the base and the fence sitters what’s at stake.
That would all be great if Republicans differentiated themselves from Democrats after being elected.
Even if it doesn't yield a single new African American voter, it's worth doing for two reasons: 1) because it will improve the image of the Republican Party, and 2) because it's right.
The ONLY reason to do this is because it's the right thing to do for the sake of black people trapped on the democrat plantation. Other than that it's a waste of time and energy. Blacks fall for democrat lies... that's not gonna change.
And still we have obamacare!
She was a total ass in college, she got disbarred during the Nixon mess; she was an embarrassment as First Lady; she was an idiot as Senator of New York, she was an idiot as Sec of State; and now she wants to be POTUS...NOPE, she's not what America needs, America needs to be rid of her and her ilk....
Nice rap on Hillary---she's all that and more.
All of the Clintons creep me out---they have no human emotions at all---just political ambitions and their unrelenting greed.
Sorry to say....we'll never be rid of these parasites....now they're grooming their kid for politics.
They remind me of the ghouls in the Night of The Living Dead movie....you beat them back but they just keep coming.
When will they get it? "Stay out of our govt."
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