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The astonishing weakness of Hillary Clinton
The Week ^ | July 31, 2015 | Michael Brendan Dougherty

Posted on 07/31/2015 7:28:54 AM PDT by Zakeet

Hillary Clinton is as unpopular as she ever has been. Her favorability ratings have fallen to just 40 percent. Her campaign is already heading south, even though she has serious advantages over everyone else in the campaign, both Democratic and Republican.

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Hillary Clinton has never won a competitive election. This can't be repeated enough. She beat Republican Rep. Rick Lazio for her Senate seat in 2000. And she defeated a mayor from Yonkers in 2006. In her first competitive race, the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, she began as a heavy favorite and she lost.

What has she done to improve her chances in that time? She's aged well, I guess. And she served without distinction as secretary of state. The most notable addition to her CV was her strenuous support of military intervention in Libya, which has left that nation in ruins and vulnerable to ISIS. In turn, Libya has left Clinton with a new scandal about her home-brew email server and the deletion of thousands of emails that congressional oversight might have used against her.

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Clinton just seems like a mismatch for the party and the moment. The center-left darling of Wall Street talking up issues of inequality. The former Walmart board member posing as savior of American jobs. The "Smart Power" leader whose achievement at state was wrecking a nation and turning it over to Sunni terrorists faster than George W. Bush. A champion of women who pretended the leader of the free world was the victim of his intern. The wife of a man who flies on the "Lolita Express" with a porn star that was booked for "massages." The vanquisher of a Yonkers mayor.

Is this really the best the Democrats can do? Yes, and that should worry them.

(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; clinton; democrats; hillary

... she's aged well, I guess ...

1 posted on 07/31/2015 7:28:54 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

And that’s one of her better pictures!


2 posted on 07/31/2015 7:30:34 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Zakeet

“Astonishing weakness”???

Astonishing to whom? She’s a terrible candidate whose only executive assignment ended in disaster and whose policy preferences, to the extent that they are known, are anathema to normal people.


3 posted on 07/31/2015 7:30:45 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain)
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To: Zakeet

Stay tuned for the article on Jeb Bush’s “astonishing weakness”.


4 posted on 07/31/2015 7:31:23 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain)
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To: Jim Noble

About a month ago....I sat and watched a review of some Iowa Democrats and they asked them to name anything of significance that she’d done as Secretary of State for four years. It was an awful quiet 30 seconds. They nudged folks and they just all admitted there’s nothing in her resume for four years of work. I think that really says a lot about her real weakness. Other than talking to focus groups...she has nothing much to contribute.


5 posted on 07/31/2015 7:35:25 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Zakeet

Wait for it... new Comeback Kid.

(Or Comeback old goat?)


6 posted on 07/31/2015 7:40:15 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - ever.)
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To: Zakeet

Hillary went from selling her dirty underwear to having five large homes.

Weak?

She’s already won.

The only way she loses is if her assets have to be forfeited and she does some prison time.

Does she look excited at her campaign events?

She doesn’t care if she wins. She’s campaigning to cover-up the money she took from Libya.

“How did I afford all this? Why, from campaign contributions.”


7 posted on 07/31/2015 7:42:42 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Zakeet

She’s like Al Gore without the charisma.


8 posted on 07/31/2015 7:51:57 AM PDT by youngidiot (God help us.)
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To: pepsionice

About a month ago....I sat and watched a review of some Iowa Democrats and they asked them to name anything of significance that she’d done as Secretary of State for four years. It was an awful quiet 30 seconds. They nudged folks and they just all admitted there’s nothing in her resume for four years of work. I think that really says a lot about her real weakness. Other than talking to focus groups...she has nothing much to contribute.


I saw that embarrassment.

Hitlery is certainly not appealing to most young people or middle aged people or older people, either. LOL

She is a nasty, old, selfish, power hungry, elitist and most people see it. And those are her good points.


9 posted on 07/31/2015 8:01:27 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: epluribus_2

It was cumback. The news had it wrong all those years ago.


11 posted on 07/31/2015 8:06:18 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Zakeet
Hildabeast is not nearly as smart as the liberal media would have you believe ... crafty perhaps, but not particularly smart. My position, although hardly anyone I know agrees, she withdraws at some point late this year or early 2016. She's damaged goods and her poll numbers will continue to decline.
12 posted on 07/31/2015 8:18:25 AM PDT by BluH2o
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To: Zakeet

SOME of Cankles ‘accomplishments’ :
-- Fired for lying/obstructing justice during Watergate investigations
-- Stated she was Named after Sir Edmund Hillary (before he was even known)
-- Cattle futures deal
-- White Water (Huge sordid list of scandals)
-- Hillary Clinton is mentioned 36 times in a fraud indictment against Webster Hubbell (Castle Grande)
-- Secretive, oppressive “HillaryHealthCare”
-- Vince Foster / taking files from his WH office
-- WACO and Janet Reno lovefest
-- Ron Brown
-- Number of times Hillary Clinton says "I don't recall" or its equivalent in a statement to a House investigating committee: 50. Number of paragraphs in this statement: 42
-- more than 900 FBI files
-- Who hired Craig Livingston (WH Security)
-- 'Vast Right-wing conspiracy'
-- Rose Law Firm billing records (Castle Grande development scam)
-- Travel gate
-- Created BJ Clinton ‘Bimbo Eruptions’
-- Left White House with WH furniture/silverware
-- Left the White House “dead broke”
-- Billy BJ being a rapist
-- 2000 Senate campaign, Hillary falsified statements to the Federal Election Commission about a large donation to her (from Peter Paul)
-- 2008 Presidential campaign (Hillary Clinton fundraisers..Norman Hsu, Hassan Nemazee , Sant Singh Chatwal, all jailed)
-- Huma Abedin - ties to Muslim Brotherhood
-- Hillary Paid Men more than Women on Her Own Staff!
-- ‘Reset Button’ Russia
-- Lied about being shot at in Bosnia
-- Hillary Clinton’s Syria/Libya/Israel/Egypt/Iraq/Iran/Palestine/ Ukraine/Poland/ Czech Republic/ Baltic states / Al Qaeda/ISIS/ Boko Haram/ incompetence dereliction of duty messes
-- BENGHAZI (situations TOO numerous to compile)
-- $6 Billion missing at State Dept
-- Hillary Clinton Broke all Federal Ethic Rules with a $500,000. Gift from Algeria
-- Bill, Hillary, Chelsea Clinton Foundation receiving massive $ foreign contributions
-- E-mail gate (private server/classified emails/deleted emails) all prohibited by Federal Law
-- Hillary Clinton’s health, thyroid condition, alcoholism, blood clots (right transverse venous thrombosis), heart rhythm and heart valves conditions, fainting,


~~ ~ The Hillary Clinton Lies List ~ ~~



13 posted on 07/31/2015 8:29:41 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough--the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing/fundraising)
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To: Zakeet

No one has ever liked Hillary. Bill never liked her and finds comfort elsewhere for obvious reasons. Even her supporters never liked that cold socialist.


14 posted on 07/31/2015 9:46:09 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Pollster1
I wish what you said was true. I have looney toon relatives and in-laws that adore her and cannot wait to vote for her. We have a lot of stupid people in our midst.
15 posted on 07/31/2015 9:52:28 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Just mythoughts

I know people who want to vote for a woman, but I haven’t met any who care whether it’s Hillary or Elizabeth Faucahontas Warren.


16 posted on 07/31/2015 9:59:39 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Pollster1
The only place I hear about warren is when I read about her on FR. These saps love Hillry the liberal. They actually are very much like her. One of these relatives raised her daughters to emulate hillry’s mo. And these liberals in their daily lives have the same double standards that does Hillry. Not all are female. Things are ugly and depraved out here across our country.
17 posted on 07/31/2015 10:36:52 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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