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Why Hillary Lost: A Premature Obit (HuffPo meltdown!)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-hillary-clinton-lost_us_57dc4bece4b04a1497b491b6?section=& ^

Posted on 09/19/2016 9:04:55 AM PDT by TigerClaws

On the high, crenelated ramparts of Castle Clinton, a chill breeze is stirring ― a faint but gnawing sense that the White Walkers are coming, wearing “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” baseball caps on their skinless noggins.

If Donald Trump does sack the fortress, no one who lost the battle will want to admit it was Hillary Clinton’s fault. It will have had nothing to do with, say, “transparency” or calling bearded villagers “deplorables” or the Iraq War vote or the simple fact that middle-of-the-road Clintonism ran out of gas as a public philosophy.

No, other individuals, groups and forces will have to be blamed. In fact, they already are, pre-emptively. If Trump wins, we’re all going to be too busy moving to Canada to read the postmortems (or write them), so we offer them to you now: RANK REASON

1 THE MEDIA Everyone’s piñata. Trump will blame the media. Gary Johnson will blame the media. Jill Stein will blame the media. (The media will ask, “Wait, which one was Jill Stein?”)

2 THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING Actually, they arrived long ago and got into her phone.

3 MILLENNIALS Ugh. F**cking idealists, right?

4 BERNIE SANDERS Remember when people worried that running unopposed in the primary would hurt Clinton? It's going to be an endless wail about how Sanders should have withdrawn sooner.

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


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To: SERKIT

21 posted on 09/19/2016 9:27:03 AM PDT by libertarian27 (FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
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To: TigerClaws

Let’s not get too cocky people.

She ain’t lost nothing yet. Stay allert!!


22 posted on 09/19/2016 9:28:36 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: TigerClaws

Hillary was FINISHED as of the weekend of the 9/11 anniversary and this past weekend.

Get ready to say President Elect Donald J. Trump.


23 posted on 09/19/2016 9:30:10 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: wbill

Hillary lost the will to win. It’s obvious. She barely campaigns anymore.

Her bad health and a republican congress would make her presidency just an endless nightmare to her.


24 posted on 09/19/2016 9:31:45 AM PDT by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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To: ClearCase_guy
She's a Bill Ayers extremist

And she's a Bill of Rights hater.

25 posted on 09/19/2016 9:31:56 AM PDT by Salvey
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To: TigerClaws
Her Royal Heinous is a bit of a test, really, a test to see if the political establishment, the media, and the academic "opinion making" machine has accrued political power sufficient to package and elect a candidate who has never actually won an election at the national level on her own merits. Her New York senatorial seat was precisely such an experiment itself at a state level, as was 0bama's campaign at a national level, and their success has led, I think, to a certain hubris on the part of the aforementioned machine.

It clearly was a fairly significant miscalculation, because Yeb! Bush was exactly the same sort of candidate with, such as it is, a more solid track record than She Who Must Not Be Named. 0bama must be considered a rather special case inasmuch as race became the factor that dares not to speak its name. Feminism has proven an entirely inadequate substitute in this election, outdated to begin with and thoroughly uninspiring except to a small coterie of True Believers. Who takes a "glass ceiling" seriously when its complainant has a hundred million in the bank and a term (however disastrous) at State behind her capacious belt?

It is not so much populism that informs the Trump campaign, but patriotism and iconoclasm. Either one of the latter will suffice, which explains the draw he has for the nominally incompatible Bernie crowd. Establishment statists mouthing proto-revolutionary slogans are the most laughably insincere and unconvincing candidates on the slate - here again I cite my man Yeb! - and attempting to seem cool has led a 70-year-old woman to flail mightily at a cartoon frog as a serious statement of political acumen. It's painful to watch and with painful desserts. Please clap.

26 posted on 09/19/2016 9:36:41 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: TigerClaws
... “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” baseball caps on their skinless noggins.

I wonder what the writer meant by that little jab?..................

27 posted on 09/19/2016 9:36:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
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To: libertarian27
Booze, overeating, sedentary lifestyle, and resulting medical issues, written all over her. Also the guilt and stress of what she's been doing for whom for the last 8 years, have taken their toll.

Also the possibility of recreational drug use and other medically disastrous causes, but those are not certain. The former may as well be hung around her neck with one of Jeff Foxworthy's signs. Let's pray that they will be on election day.

28 posted on 09/19/2016 9:37:29 AM PDT by OKSooner (She was practiced at the art of deception, you could tell by her bloodstained hands.)
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To: TigerClaws
If Trump wins, we’re all going to be too busy moving to Canada

If only...

29 posted on 09/19/2016 9:37:39 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo ("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Teddy Roosevelt)
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To: Red Badger

White, red neck old men is what I infer.


30 posted on 09/19/2016 9:38:42 AM PDT by OKSooner (She was practiced at the art of deception, you could tell by her bloodstained hands.)
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To: TigerClaws
wearing “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” baseball caps on their skinless noggins.

So the writer wants you to picture bloody heads? Idiot.

31 posted on 09/19/2016 9:39:21 AM PDT by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: Biggirl

ROFL you said this in June after the Orlando attacks.

You said the same thing after the Nice attacks.

If Trump was already guaranteed victory early in the summer, then it is not because of something more recent.


32 posted on 09/19/2016 9:39:37 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Red Badger

I dont. We know.


33 posted on 09/19/2016 9:40:49 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: OKSooner

I was thinking he meant ‘hairless’ instead, or maybe inferring they are Skin Heads..................


34 posted on 09/19/2016 9:41:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
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To: TigerClaws
If Trump wins, we’re all going to be too busy moving to Canada

I'll chip for airfare. Just GTFOH!

35 posted on 09/19/2016 9:42:31 AM PDT by CapitalistCrusader
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“The answer is easy. Because America is filled with sexists and misogynists who hate to see women get ahead.”

And racists, too, because a rejection of Hillary is a rejection of Obama (according to Obama).


36 posted on 09/19/2016 9:42:52 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: Rebel_Ace

LOL! That pic of Hitlery looks too healthy though...


37 posted on 09/19/2016 9:44:23 AM PDT by nutmeg (I am a proud Deplorable)
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To: Rebel_Ace

LOL


38 posted on 09/19/2016 9:46:17 AM PDT by TigersEye (~Questionable Hillary thinks Putin made me post this!~)
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To: Vaquero

“Let’s not get too cocky people.

She ain’t lost nothing yet. Stay allert!!”

YES!

Remember - people elected Obama. The American population has clearly been dumbed down to the point where they’re barely functional and half of them WILL vote for the Witch (if they can figure out how to vote).


39 posted on 09/19/2016 9:46:40 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: Gaffer

And those are her good points. And that’s not a joke.


40 posted on 09/19/2016 9:48:49 AM PDT by TigersEye (~Questionable Hillary thinks Putin made me post this!~)
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