Jeffrey T. KuhnerPosted on 09/21/2016 4:59:15 AM PDT by taildragger
Going down: Hillary Clinton has already lost
Special to WorldTribune.com
Hillary Clinton is illegitimate. Whether or not she wins in November, Clinton has forfeited the political credibility and moral authority to be our next president.
Hillary may not know it, but she has already lost.
Polls now show Donald Trump is surging; Clinton is plummeting. A major reason for her decline is the utter derision and disdain she recently displayed against Middle America.
At a lavish $2,400-a-plate LGBT fundraiser, Hillary said that one-half of Trump’s supporters can be placed into a “basket of deplorables.” Clinton smeared them as “racists, sexists, xenophobic, homophobic and Islamophobic.” In other words, she called a quarter of the country bigoted scum, who — according to her — are “irredeemable.”
She also insulted the other half of Trump’s backers, saying they are driven by “economic anxiety.” According to Hillary, these voters are the “forgotten” ones, pitiful losers who feel the government and the economy have abandoned them. Hence, Clinton divided Trump’s supporters into two categories: Closet white supremacists or the pathetic economically downtrodden. Ultimately, she simply expressed liberals’ hatred and contempt of middle- and working-class Americans — what Richard Nixon termed the Silent Majority.
Her anti-American bigotry may play well in progressive circles. But her comments have shattered her ability to be the next commander-in-chief.
Then-candidate Barack Obama in 2008 famously disparaged rural voters in Pennsylvania as those who “bitterly cling” to their Bibles, guns or “antipathy” to “immigrants.” His comments were pernicious (and false). Yet, they didn’t go anywhere near as far as Hillary’s “deplorables” comments.
She has done something unprecedented: openly revile and vilify half of the country. She has crossed the Rubicon. She cannot possibly unify or lead America after publicly demonstrating such outright contempt and disgust with 50 percent of Americans.
Think about it: What leader — outside of a dictatorial demagogue — could possibly govern a nation, half of whose citizens are loathed? Moreover, those very citizens — the “deplorables” — will not respect or pay allegiance to a regime and a leader who says they are not only “irredeemable” but not even a “part of America.” They will be rendered exiles in their own land, a relentless target of government abuse and harassment.
If Hillary wins, she will preside over a deeply fractured and alienated country. She will lack the ability — even the very legitimacy — to govern. Under her tenure, America will continue to slowly break-up — morally, culturally and politically. The center will not be able to hold.
Moreover, she is Nixon in pant suits. Watergate eventually destroyed him. Clinton’s rampant criminal behavior will destroy her as well. There is one over-riding truth about Hillary: She is a political gangster, a Balkan-style oligarch who belongs in prison. Leave aside Clinton’s scandals regarding her personal server and emails, which compromised top secret classified information and violated numerous laws.
The deeper crime was the reason why she set-up a personal email system: to turn the Clinton Foundation into a secret slush fund to enrich her (and Bill) to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Since the Clinton Foundation was created the Clintons have amassed nearly $240 million in personal wealth. This grotesque amount is only what we know; the real figure could — and probably is — much higher.
In other words, she engaged in a massive criminal enterprise involving selling access, bribery, influence-peddling and corruption, in which she pimped out vital national security interests and even positions within the State Department to major Foundation donors.
It was a classic “pay-to-play” scheme. The Russians, Saudis, Gulf Arabs, Chinese, the Muslim Brotherhood — practically every U.S. enemy benefited from it.
When former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich engaged in pay-to-play, trying to sell a Senate seat, he got 14 years in prison. His crimes pale in comparison to Hillary’s. Yet, she still walks free — for now.
If Clinton somehow manages to grind out a victor in November, these facts will not disappear.
Liberals are supporting a criminal and a traitor. She sold her country out for power and money. This may fly with the morally bankrupt progressive Left. But it will not — and should not — with Middle America.
We will demand justice. And, just like Watergate, eventually we will get it.
One way or another, Hillary is going down.
Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a columnist at WorldTribune.com and the host of “The Kuhner Report” weekdays 12-3 pm EST on WRKO AM-680 in Boston.
I would say she is going down but Bill and Monica sort of ruined that one...
Yeah, but you guys have to remember: With the Democrats you’re vote is actually going to Sauron, not Saruman.
She, like Obama, will simply be the figure head standing in front of the evil-eye.
I, and many of us, have been saying all year that the "why" of the personal email system is the most important issue. Means, motive, opportunity. What was the motive? An insane jones about personal privacy? Or, a real practical need to keep prying eyes away from Foundation business?
Yes, their personal wealth might "only" be $240 million, but the Foundation had $450 million in assets as of Dec. 2014, and for the last year and a half, I'd bet it's raked in at least that much again, as it looked like Hillary would get elected. While they can't touch and hold that money in exactly the same way as their personal money, they control it. It sends them and their cronies all around the world in first-class comfort. The minimal amount they have to donate doesn't even deplete it very much, as the accrued funds also earn tax-free income.
She is corrupt beyond belief, and it has made her rich.
Excellent!
Good article summarizing the Clinton criminal enterprise.
And to top it all off, her health is extremely questionable. She probably is suffering from Parkinson’s or some other neurological illness, so it’s likely that she will get propped in a chair and the nation will be ruled by the first husband, the known sexual deviant, Bill Clinton.
She is losing. She has not yet lost.
Too much complacency. We have to fight like we are fighting hell itself. Certainly we are fighting hell’s proxies.
It is not yet in the bag.
Points about Clinton are all true but not to be overlooked is the hideous ignorance of the man in the street. That man doesn’t absorb history from the media or any internet forum. I talk to him several times a day. All he knows is that campaigning is tough and everyone gets sick now and then, and it’s time for a first woman POTUS.
Nor is he willing to listen very long to the record of Clinton’s crimes. Sadly, it’s quicker and I believe more effective to say simply that she’s past her expiration date and she kneecapped good old Bernie, who, yeah, “had some good ideas.”
As you may have inferred, my man in the street is usually 20-something and never employed yet. College crawler. Though some are older, and still they don’t know anything bad about Clinton.
My thoughts exactly.
The MSM is now doing a full-court press to bring him down. If Trump can continue to speak PAST them, we’ll have a chance.
Praying the dems do not swap her out for someone else at the last minute.
Ping!
Just don’t get Dick Morris to say TRUMP LANDSLIDE Victory!!!
Trump isn’t going to let up. He is a closer. He’s saved his energy and money for the last month or so. He won’t let up even if the press says he has it in the bag, and I don;t think his supporters are going to lose enthusiasm as the contest day draws nigh.
Hillary has a rally at some dump center in Orlando. Across the street appears to be “government housing”....aka...a future dump site.
Dividing this country is their goal. All she needs is about 45 percent of the legal vote, 100 percent of the dead vote, felon vote, multi vote, and alien vote.
Why are we excluding dictators?
“Already lost” is a dangerous assumption by us, a lot can change. Our favorite LA Times poll has the race tightening to a 4-point Trump lead and his support down to 6% with blacks. Since it’s a rolling poll, I’d expect it to tighten further over the next couple of days.
We will also break up economically as well. The $20 trillion in debt will look like a paltry amount compared to the financial sink hole she will put us into.
Of course, under Hillary an increasingly expansive government will be needed to keep the people in check. Welcome to paradise comrades.
Well she won’t be seeing any tax money from me.
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