Posted on 09/18/2022 3:00:32 PM PDT by algore
Bill Clinton, 76, said that Republicans are only able to 'close' in midterm elections because 'they scare people' into thinking they need to vote in right-leaning politicians.
The former Democratic president said that his party could hold onto the House and Senate in November's election if they 'say the right things' – suggesting that Republicans are better at embellishing to make their cause seem more dire.
While early predictions pointed to a Republican bloodbath in the 2022 midterms, more recent polling has shown Democrats and the GOP at a tie or close to one when asked which party likely voters would rather see control Congress.
An often-repeated historical pendulum pattern shows Congress flipping to the opposite party than a new president in the midterms two years after they are sworn into office.
President Clinton, who was in office from 1993 to 2001, thinks the pattern can be broken this year.
'We could hold both of these houses,' Clinton said to CNN's Fareed Zakaria in a Sunday interview.
But we have to say the right things – and we have to know that the Republicans always close well. Why? Because they find some new way to scare the living daylights out of swing voters about something,' he continued.
The GOP was successfully able to campaign on education issues, winning some key elections by promising parents more say in their children's schooling.
Clinton said Republicans 'scared' voters by making 'critical race theory sound worse than smallpox.'
'And it wasn't being taught at any public schools in America,' he insisted. 'They didn't care. They just scare people.'
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- Senator Bob Kerrey, democrat, Nebraska, 1992 democrat primaries
Billy Jeff: Five dollar a gallon for gasoline, 5 dollars plus for a gallon of milk, 5 dollars 60 for a dozen eggs, soaring vegetable prices, soaring dry pasta prices, outrageous prices for plumbing, electrical, HVAC help...tanking markets, layoffs, recession, out of control inflation...now that’s scary especially when the Dems control the presidency, the senate and the house. STFU.
But offers no suggestion on what those words would be hummmm...
Clinton & company are skilled LIFE-LONG liars.
LOL! In other words, lie through your teeth. Bubba could do that better than anyone. In fact I doubt he's made a true statement in his life.
Who woke up Bubba?!
Bill Clinton was elected in 1992 thanks to the media hyping a non-existent recession and painting President Bush as a wimp, and Ross Perot splitting the vote. Clinton did not receive a majority in either 1992 or 1996, yet per the media he and The Shrill One were universally loved. They drove me from the Dem Party (I was a bit starry-eyed and naive back then).
Fareed Zakaria has managed to elude the chopping block at CNN so far. Interesting. What did Rush used to call his show?
I think Bubba has it dead wrong - parents were pissed that Dems think they - parents - should have no say in the curriculum taught to their children at public schools, which they pay for through taxes. I mean the temerity of those parents .... And yes, CRT is a big part of the problem.
The Clintons have scared the living daylights out of hundreds of victims, just before their suicides.
They could say: We are going to cut spending and cut taxes
But even Clinton couldn’t pull off that lie.
WTF does he know about what is taught in public schools? The only thing he cares about is where his next bl*wj*b is coming from. That's all he has ever cared about.
Oh? Like every democrat since the inception of social security scaring seniors that the evil republicans are dead set on stopping the program and throwing them out in the streets? Like that, Billy Boy, you pervert?
Does Bill Clinton know something we don’t? The fix is in. We are being conditioned to believe the Dems will hold on to Congress. And Joe Biden received 81 million votes.
Well Democrats lose elections by doing things that scare the living daylights out of swing voters.
Absolutely right.
Slick Willy is to lying what Beethoven was to music.
You forgot stock market in free fall
Quite the accomplishment in just a year and a half
Slick Willie the used car salesman says what?
Shove it, Clintoon!
You mean like promising them a middle-class tax cut, then reneging once they're elected?
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