Posted on 07/29/2015 10:50:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
A paper flyer hangs on a pole in New Hampshire advertising a “Young Americans for Hillary” party. It features a black-and-white photo of a young, Bohemian Hillary, and promises to include, in addition to “political discussion” and “a good time,” pizza, “Hillary swag,” and “young people.” Two days before the event, none of the RSVP reminders were torn from the flyer; a clear sign that just because Team Hillary may be ready for her coronation, not everybody else is.
Hillary Clinton’s likeability problem is no secret. Her favorability among Americans has been sliding since 2012; and a Gallup poll released last week shows her net favorability at its lowest since December 2007. Among non-leaning independent voters, for example, she lost 8 percent favorability in the last few months alone. These anemic numbers should be especially troubling to Hillary, since during her post-First Lady years, she has held numerous positions of high public visibility; including United States Senator, presidential candidate, Secretary of State, and global philanthropist. As such, by now she should have been able to solidify her public appeal as a respected “leader.” Instead, the more people find out about her and her style of “leadership,” the less they like it.
Still, her campaign handlers apparently believe a bounce back in the favorability polls is only a matter of Hillary letting her guard down, and sharing more about herself that makes her “relatable” to voters. However, after years of intentionally isolating herself from the media and the public, and carefully avoiding exhibiting any hint of a “normal” life, it is doubtful Hillary has the ability to relate to anyone outside the Washington Beltway and beyond well-defined Democratic interest groups that would vote for an automaton so long as it sported a “Democrat” label.
Therein lies Hillary’s real problem – she is no Bill Clinton.
Bill inherently understood how to relate to people, especially young people and independent voters turned-off by the stuffy, pretentious nature of Washington politicians. He was charismatic with a capital “C.” He also knew how to work the media, and used his media savvy to carry his charisma across the nation to connect with voters. He was the president who told jokes, loved fast food, and went on the Arsenio Hall show to play “Heartbreak Hotel” on the saxophone. He was a guy to whom voters could genuinely relate. Poor, blue-blood George H.W. Bush never knew what hit him in the 1992 campaign.
It is impossible to imagine Hillary having a “lip sync battle” with “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon, when even a five second “selfie” video of her “chilling in Cedar Rapids” comes off as painfully contrived and phony. The fact is, charisma cannot be faked; it cannot be turned on and off at will. You have it or you don’t. Hillary doesn’t have it. If anything, she has negative charisma.
Where Bill was “cool,” Hillary is cold.
Where Bill was smooth, Hillary is hard-edged.
Where Bill was approachable, Hillary is stand-offish.
Where Bill welcomed the media, Hillary hates the media.
Where Bill thrived among adoring crowds and candid exchanges, Hillary insists on tightly controlled environments with canned responses.
Where Bill was able to present his candidacy as the New Wave versus the Old School (George H.W. Bush), Hillary comes across as Old School; especially when contrasted with the many new faces offered to voters by the GOP (Jeb excluded).
Where Bill appeared to be anti-Establishment, Hillary embodies the Establishment.
These differences between the two Clintons will make all of the difference in this election. Bill won a close election against Bush I in 1992, by keeping the traditional Democratic base and interest groups together while pulling in new, young, swing voters. The coalition of traditional and non-traditional voters was enough to provide him victory. This year, nearly a generation after Bill’s win in 1992, Hillary will still be able to count on the support of the same traditional Democratic interest groups that helped elect her husband, but she will miss the surge of young voters who have grown disillusioned with Obama and with politics in general.
Where Bill won a close race in 1992 fueled largely by his energy and charisma, Hillary will likely lose a close race in 2016 because she has no charisma and lacks vitality. That is, of course, unless the Republican field, which now constitutes an exciting and diverse group of candidates, repeats the self-immolation it inflicted on itself in 2012; or if the GOP decides to nominate another establishment candidate to battle Hillary in the fall. That will level the playing field for Hillary considerably.
I was just a kid when I watched that presidential debate. I knew Bill had it when he came from out behind the chair and started working the crowd. World hasn’t been the same since.
Wasn’t she a Republican in those days?
BUZZ! The ONLY reason Slick Willy wasn't crushed in a landslide was because the non-communist vote was split between Perot and Bush.
Just as Mitt Romney was the prototypical smug corporate consultant brought in to lay you off, Hillary is the prototypical bitchy ex-wife who it was worth paying lots of alimony to get rid of.
Both Bill and Hillary Clinton are absolute scumbags.
Hillary is just pissed off that her VA-JA-JA has not been oiled up for 30 years. It is the same issue with Pelosi and a host of other hormone impaired females who are just mad because their nethers drip dust. Barbara Boxer, Barbara Mikulski and the list goes on. Old hags that have no other way to get their jollies but for the fact they can run over other people. They have swapped the pleasures of youth for the power over other peoples lives in their old age. Can you blame them for being mad? It must really such to put your belt around your Mao pantsuit and know your nipples will be itching all day. In Hillary’s case what makes it worse is that Bill is on some guys island loaded up on Viagra getting felash-E-Ho_HO-HO from some underage girl. “Hey babe, it pulls to the left, watch the incisors” says Billy.
Too harsh? Tough. I’m sick of all these morons.
Those nasty pants ought to be in the Smithsonian. In a hermetically sealed display case for the safety of visitors, of course.
...... “Where Bill was able to rape Juanita Broderick”.....
The was the worst post I’ve seen in a long while. You should be ashamed of yourself.
He won the Presidency the first election with 43% of the electorate. 49% for the next election. He never won a majority of voters.
Not too harsh, but not all 60+ year old women are “dried up.” I know of one, married for 41 years, that is having the best sex of her life now in her 60’s!!!
Bet she is not a liberal.
I've watched these types of women in power for many years. Ontological parsimony rules the day here. I can only surmise that they have some physical issues that have led to their mental issues.
I'm not ashamed at all except that I am ashamed that women like Hillary Clinton have been promoted to positions of power when they are obviously mentally ill. Why just today in the media Hillary lovingly dipped her fingers inside a a petri dish supplied by Planned Parenthood, cackled, then liked her fingers covered with the boney parts of the unborn but newly murdered to the TV cameras. Insanity.
This post a little too graphic? That's the problem with this country IMO, we long ago lost the ability to put clear eyes on the grotesque things that have ebbed in to our society, point at them, then say what they really are. Whether it is the sight of people hitting the ground on 9/11, the murder of a woman by an illegal in California, the butchering of the unborn, the practices of male homosexuals, the fact that Bruce Jenner is male, etc.
You use the word shame, the shame is that there is no shame anymore. Everything is equal.
Bill won a close election against Bush I in 1992
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Thank you Ross Perot.
yuck
Billy Jeff only got 43% and if the votes for Ross Perot had gone to President Bush 41 he would have gotten 58,848,371 popular votes to Billy Jeff’s 44,909,806
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