Posted on 11/10/2016 12:09:36 PM PST by TigerClaws
Excuse me, but at what point during all these protests and identity politics parades did we forget that the Hillary Clinton campaign hand-picked Donald Trump to be her Republican opponent? Is anybody going to pause in the midst of their social media demonstrations of self-righteous outrage to recall that the Pied Piper email released by WikiLeaks clearly shows Clinton campaign staff conspiring with the DNC to use their media leverage to elevate Trump above the other candidates? Are we at some point going to take a breath and acknowledge the fact that, after manipulating the primaries of both parties to ensure a Clinton vs. Trump ticket, the Hillary campaign then started literally paying people to make the public terrified of Trump and his supporters, and that we’re seeing the effects of that fearmongering playing out right now? Or are we still going to try and blame Berners and bigotry for this mess that Hillary Clinton and her goons are solely responsible for creating?
In a memo attached to the aforementioned document, staff are seen discussing a plan to “tell the press” to focus on the most extreme candidates in the Republican primary and take them seriously rather than marginalize them, in order to hurt the campaigns of the more moderate candidates with a better chance to win. The candidates they listed, called “Pied Piper Candidates” in the memo, are Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, and Donald Trump.
Clearly, as evidenced by the highly disproportionate amount of coverage he received in the Republican primaries in comparison to the other candidates, they went with Donald Trump.
As crazy as it is that the Clinton campaign is seen sending memos to the Committee responsible for ensuring unbiased Democratic primaries in April of 2015, and as shocking as it is to see a candidate’s campaign staff casually mentioning how they’ll instruct members of the press on how to cover the candidacies of the opposing party, the real bombshell when this email came out was the knowledge that the elites of the Democratic party didn’t just rig their own primary, they rigged the Republican one as well. They planned to use their appalling but well-documented amount of leverage over the media to elevate Trump above all the other candidates in order to undermine the campaigns of the moderates, and it worked. Trump won as a direct result of this.
The Clinton campaign then went to work making sure that the American public is as terrified of Donald Trump as possible. The staff of the New York Times (former crown jewel of the Fourth Estate, now shameless neoliberal shill rag) was shown in another Wikileaks release scheming with Clinton campaign staff on a “story” (read: full-page campaign ad) they wanted to do on how Clinton and her supporters view Donald Trump. In this email, they said the following:
“We’re told that President Clinton (like Mrs. Clinton and some other Dems) thinks that Trump would be a formidable opponent in the general election, and that Dems are in a form of denial if they dismiss Trump as a joke who would be easily defeated in November. President Clinton, like others, thinks that Trump has his finger on the pulse of the electorate’s mood and that only a well-financed, concerted campaign portrayed [sic] him as dangerous and bigoted will win what both Clintons believe will be a close November election.”
So we know they were planning a fear-based campaign from the beginning. But then you have another sycophantic fake news organization in CNN showing Van Jones tearfully decrying the fact that children all over the country are now terrified of the impending Trump presidency.
Of course they’re terrified, you monsters! You made them that way! On purpose!
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/3696795/you-all-know-that-the-clinton-campaign-deliberately-plotted-to-get-trump-nominated-right/#EQp1JZRerHhRvkEU.99
Thanks for recalling that. I remember it well.
There were even some (EX-)FReepers who were positing that Trump was a “stalking Horse” for Hillary, that he was going to bail when it would have been too late to replace him, that the DNC had put him in the race to split up the vote, etc etc etc, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I may be old, but I have a great memory!
I agree, the key was the Enthusiasm Gap. no other GOP candidate could have garnered the level of enthusiasm that Trump did.
Trump may have had higher negatives than the other candidates, but Hillary’s negatives cancelled that out.
Cruz *might* have been able to win on the Rove strategy (OH, FLA, VA, plus reliable red states), but Virginia would have been just as tough, if not tougher, for him to crack than Trump. Cruz never would have taken the Midwest like Trump did.
I've been studying Trump's SCOTUS list. Some of the names I'm not especially enthused about, for reasons of either track-record or age. Mike Lee is on the list, as you probably know -- he is a bit of a skunk, but he's rock solid on life and the 2A, and he's only 45. I think I'd like to see him be Trump's first SCOTUS appointee. I certainly don't want anyone over 50 -- we need to hold onto the court for a long, LONG time.
Collusion between a servile media and Democrats ... Tammany Hall is back under new name, we’ve finally figured it out, and hopefully this bunch will be seeing jail some time soon!
What was that diatribe, anyway? I mean who was she speaking to and why was it so weird?
What happens to Huma now?
Does she hold onto her Weiner?
Or does she continue to be Clinton’s ..eeh “aide”
LOVE the visual!!
“I think that (any) other Republican, would have been beat.”
I agree. While I still think Cruz is better qualified to be President, he would have to get there first, and there’s no way it would have been a fair fight. Trump only made it because he’s a real scrapper.
This was a video made to her labor union boss pals. Why it’s so weird was because it was an unguarded, unscripted moment. I believe it reveals Hillary as she actually is.
A classic case of “Be careful what you ask for”...
I was worried about the things you mentioned. Before the primaries Trump had me 90% convinced he might be the real deal. I did vote Cruz in the primary here but Trump woulda been my 2nd or 3rd choice of the barage of candidates. For my husband and I, one of the big convincing factors was the number of people we did have some trust in coming out in support of Trump. When he won state after state in the primaries it also became evident that he was CONSISTANT in his message. He didn’t change his tune to convince each demographic. This is a man who could say, “yes, this is my plan, you may not like it but this is how it will benefit you.” Yes, his crowds and momentum were good but his message is what made him good.
By the time the convention rolled around it was wonderful to have a candidate we didn’t have to hold our nose or puke to vote for. Just ticks me off, if people (I mean young impressionable minds mostly) will just listen to what the man says, it is so much better than life under rat hussein.
Now, I’m praying that the younguns experiencing President Trump’s tenure of service will notice how much better liberty can be.
No other candidate would have fought back like Trump did.
Yep - she and hers expected He would be the easy one to beat - and probably ended up with the only one of the bunch that could beat her.
That's right. Her instincts are terrible. And her head is not well. She needs someone to sober her up.
She probably thought Trump would be an easy opponent. She overvalued her legal education and years of politics and couldn't see that a businessman with real leadership experience could be a worthy opponent.
Or she picked trump to be the next President, intentionally losing to him. That would be very, very hard to believe, because she didn't lose by a very big margin, actually winning the popular vote. And all indications are that she was fighting to win. She can't be that good of an actor.
IOW, Hillary and her campaign staff and the DNC, got what she they wanted, and as the saying goes: “Careful what you wish for; you just might get it”.
She, and democrats, got what they wanted, and they got their asses handed to them.
In any case, she is the one that lost the election, and the DNC lost the election too, by insuring that she would be their nominee. Worst decision if their primaries’ history. They didn’t think that the people would remember who Hillary is, and where hopeful that there would be enough young and ignorant people who were not around when she and her husband were using their positions to get away with their many crimes.
Mostly, Hillary lost the election because she concentrated on making the campaign about the sexual harassment claims against Trump. The vast majority of the commercials she and the DNC ran, were about Trumps alleged abuse of women. Meanwhile, I don’t really recall any commercials that she ran with content regarding the real issues, such as the economy and border security and e-mail “mishandling” and foreign affairs and her support for late-term abortions, and many more. It’s was about 90% anti-Trump nonsense, while the issues went mostly unmentioned.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Hillary has learned her lesson for the next time. But in another life. ;)
Yep you are right.
And if there was a conspiracy to elect Trump. I can’t think of the downside. If Trump has been truthful in what he has said, he will make a phenomenal president.
The only possible downside would be if Trump went back on everything he has said and turned out to be another Soros crony like so many RINO’s we’ve been duped into electing. But I just don’t see that at all.
I looked at the SCOTUS list also. At some point in the future I’d like to see Cruz added to that list. Not at this time for the Scalia spot. But we will have more to fill. I think Cruz could be a potential Scalia. He’s experienced before the Court, definitely doesn’t mind standing his ground even when wrong, and an originalist on the Constitution.
Yes, he ticked me off too at the convention. He’s ticked too many people off to likely keep his Senate seat. But I believe the SCOTUS is a better fit for him than either of those positions in the first place.
Agree with you 100%
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