Posted on 06/02/2016 5:20:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
o, for the umpteenth time in the last several weeks, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is attempting to explain to Americans how she will take on wild card Donald Trump in the general election. And for the umpteenth time, she’s failing. A woman with all the charm of a 1980s-era withered plastic sofa cover will try to outplay a man who got famous being likeable on television. And she’ll do it with policy! POLICY, I TELL YOU!
According to The New York Times today, Hillary’s speech today in San Diego will target Trump over his foreign policy incoherence:
The argument will include specific criticism of comments Mr. Trump has made about rethinking the United States’s support of NATO; his proposal to allow Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia to acquire nuclear weapons; his vow to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the United States; and his pledge to advance the use of torture and kill the families of suspected terrorists. But Mrs. Clinton will also invoke her experiences as secretary of state, including in 2011 when she supported President Obama’s decision to send Navy SEALs on a raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden, to make the case that Mr. Trump does not have the temperament to make such decisions.
Epic, epic fail.
Now, Hillary’s right about Trump’s foreign policy. It’s disastrous – at last what he’s expressed of a foreign policy. But Hillary’s own record is even more disastrous. And trying to stand on the body of Osama Bin Laden to push her election bid reeks of inauthenticity – and, what’s more, trying to make the case that Trump doesn’t have the temperament to kill Bin Laden is absolutely asinine. If there’s one thing Trump does have the temperament to do, it’s tell the military to kill people. Hell, the man even says he’ll have the military violate all basic standards of morality and law and purposefully murder family members of terrorists.
Beyond that, Hillary outhawking Trump doesn’t help her – it hurts her with Bernie supporters. And hawkish Republicans don’t trust Hillary, not after her disastrous dealings with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
That’s the problem for Hillary: her record is so terrible that Trump always has an easy comeback.
Take, for example, Hillary’s twitter feed. Here are some of her tweets, along with quick one line responses Trump could dump on her:
(VIDEO-AND TWEETS-AT-LINK)
This is true of all of your Democratic voters.
Hillary is endlessly vulnerable. Furthermore, she has no angle of attack on Trump: all of his foibles are doubly true of her. Which is why she’s in trouble.
Now, he still has a massive statistical hill to climb in this election cycle. She’s leading him in all the swing states, she hasn’t consolidated her Bernie base yet, and she’s about to unleash President Obama to prod minority voters to get behind her. But she’s incompetent. Deeply incompetent. And Trump is an attack dog par excellence. At the very least, this is going to be a combustible election.
LOL! I wondered where you were going with that... :)
Beck is crumbling under the strain of displeasing his #NeverTrump Wall Street masters, but it looks like Shapiro is going to be more agile, and attempt to stay relevant during at least one term of President Trump. That’s going to be tricky, unless he gets the blessing to go full Trojan Horse while waiting for Trump to falter.
Of course, if the populist, America first conservatism that Trump represents turns out to be two term phenomenon, or even worse, a movement that survives without Trump at the helm, these talkers will get one more shot as attack dogs, and then cucumber sandwich guys who own them will have them cast aside and they’ll just hire some new talent.
What’s a former “conservative” talker to do without the book deals, speaking engagements and such?
No wonder Beck is distraught. It’ll be amazing to see how many try to pull an Ariana out of their butts and go over to the dark side.
“Hi, I’m Ben Shapiro, and yes, I was a conservative talker until Trump betrayed me and I became aware and adopted the progressive agenda..”
News to Ben...Trump was famous long before the TV show.
Yep - it's pathetically entertaining to see some of these folks try to act as if they're being objective as they struggle with the schizoid voices in their heads...
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