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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I remember Bill Clinton.
Winning elections by “saying the right things” worked before it became transparently obvious that your side wants to exterminate 90% of the global population, Willy.
I caught that this morning and he wasn’t challenged, of course. “Republicans say things that aren’t true to “scare” the people”. With a straight face, he said that critical race theory wasn’t taught at any school in the country!!! Why are we surprised at their bald face lies? We should be used to it by now.
“”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.’””
This from a guy who used to say during election season “Its Nazi time”, referring to himself calling Republicans Nazis in order to scare people to vote dimocrap?
Even with the horrible job republicans have done this cycle there is no way democrats can hold the house…
But what Democrat can say the truth ?!?!
Have to say what that the party can win no matter what.
Even with the horrible job republicans have done this cycle there is no way democrats can hold the house…
And there was no way Joe Biden could beat Donald Trump. Biden rallies turned out dozens, Trump rallies turned out tens of thousands.
Like scary statistics about the worst inflation in 50 years?
Or mortgage rates?
Or gas prices?
Or national debt?
Who woke up Bubba?!
/\
That’s not bubba,
it’s the demon
that wears bubbas skin suit.
.
The right thing is “Here is more money for your votes.”
Say the right things, not do thing right things.
Classic clintonista parsing of words
The Left needs to motivate its cheater base in order to steal elections. I used to think it was about “framing the issue,” or “moving the needle.” Not at all. This rhetoric, we now can see clearly, is designed entirely to motivate the raw, hateful activists to get out there and cheat.
They don’t care about the middle: it’s all about the hard left, with the added benie that the MSM and their leftwing readers will believe the b.s. But it’s not about them: its about motivating the activists.
Bill’s whole life has been spent saying the right thing to get whatever he wants, being it getting in a girl’s pants, avoiding the draft, or winning an election.
A wise man once said “bill clinton is a rapist”
Jeez, and I THOUGHT this pond scum had “gone under”.
Bill Clinton won his elections before the internet was in full swing. FReerepublic, Drudge (when he was still normal) and Newsmax were the only games in town during most of his presidency.
So he could still play the “good ol boy” in the south during one part of the campaign trail and act another way when he was in the northeast.
Hey BILLIE BLOWJOB, just shut your PERVERTED, RAPIST, PEDOPHILE MOUTH; nobody cares what you or your PARASITIC, CRIMINAL, MURDERING, LIEING WIFE have to say about anything now days.
Other than were ALL looking forward to your OBITUARIES!!
Just one more thing you idiot/pervert/rapist, tell your so called daughter that she is actually uglier than you, unbelievable but true.
“increasingly dementia-riddle speech”
That isn’t dementia, that’s TERTIARY SYPHILIS!
When is the son of a bitch going to keel over? I wish it was yesterday. As many people he and his witch of a wife are responsible for dying.
My wife has asked me why I believe in GOD and HEAVEN and the devil and hell, I just tell her we need someplace to put people like the clintons, obamas, and bidens when they die.
(no caps for criminals)
Just so they don’t pollute the rest of the Earth.
Yes; I’m sure that could be called VENGEANCE (I call it justice) and vengeance belongs to the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.
But I think we all know that these horrible, criminal people will never be brought to justice in this world, so we just have to wait for the next.
Hillary Clinton is to political hit jobs what Beethoven was to music.
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