Posted on 05/11/2016 9:05:02 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
Donald Trump dispatched his Republican rivals by branding each one with an insulting but memorable nickname: “Lyin' Ted” Cruz, “Little Marco” Rubio. As the general election campaign nears, Trump has settled on a label for the likely Democratic nominee: “Crooked Hillary.”
“It works,” he boasted to the New York Times. “It flows.”
The problem for Hillary Clinton is that he may be right.
All campaign long, pollsters have found that many voters — including some Democrats — don't think she's principled. Maybe it's her four decades in bare-knuckle politics, ancient questions about investment deals in Arkansas, her entanglement in her husband's personal scandals, her decision to set up a private email server when she was secretary of State, her big-dollar fundraising and speech fees — or all of the above. Fairly or not, Clinton can't shed her history.
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This branding is particularly clever. Bill Clinton is rumored to have Peyronie's Disease and there are victims of his who use it as an indication that they're being truthful.
You'll have to research Peyronie's Disease and Bill Clinton to get the gist of it.
Elizabeth Warren immediately and frantically tried on Twitter to counter the “Goofy” nickname he stuck on her.
Trump must have chosen that label precisely to put Hillary in that position. Perhaps her jowls gave him the idea.
Such a great Dr Who scene. Tennant delivered so much steely eyed quiet power in his delivery. You are so correct in comparing this to Trump, even if Donald delivers his verbal judo with a certain twinkle in the eye.
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