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Clinton Staffers Toyed With Using 'Because It's Her Turn' As Campaign Rallying Cry
businessinsider.com ^ | Apr. 22, 2017

Posted on 04/25/2017 4:35:02 AM PDT by Helicondelta

Staffers on Hillary Clinton's losing campaign struggled to come up with a coherent explanation for why the former first lady and secretary of state wanted to become president.

Some top aides, in turn, floated the idea of using "because it's her turn" as a campaign rallying cry, Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes report in "Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign," a new book revealing the Clinton campaign's inner workings. The book details the competing egos and reported infighting among Clinton campaign staffers.

The candidate herself could not articulate vision for why she wanted to be president in calls and internal meetings with her staff, the book says.

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To: Flag_This

“I don’t have any policies, I just wanna be president.”


I think the same could be said for Obama. He liked the things that go with being President. And, he might have liked the idea he could “stick it to the man”, but as far as actually doing the day to day stuff, not so much.


41 posted on 04/25/2017 6:03:20 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: Helicondelta

because when you shatter the glass ceiling, there is definitely brain damage: Hillary. It’s her turn.


42 posted on 04/25/2017 6:03:37 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Helicondelta

This sounds like a bad joke.

Too many who were against her thought she had gotten the nomination exactly because “it was her turn.” To turn it into a campaign slogan would have been incredibly stupid.


43 posted on 04/25/2017 6:04:20 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: rlmorel

Harold Stassen should have had that phrase trademarked and copyrighted.


44 posted on 04/25/2017 6:10:38 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: SamAdams76

Remember the George H. W. Bush was taken down by “the vision thing.”


45 posted on 04/25/2017 6:13:27 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: GOPJ; Bikkuri; Jane Long; DollyCali; MinuteGal; RitaOK; jsanders2001; V K Lee; HarleyLady27; ...
NEED ANOTHER CLUE, PEOPLE? Dems are pumping who THEY consider to be THEIR best 2020 candidates for president: namely Sanders, Warren, and, Clinton.

Once again, Dumbos are oblivious to the optics.....this is indicative of not just a party in disarray, but a desperate loser party sliding into oblivion.

46 posted on 04/25/2017 6:20:11 AM PDT by Liz (Shutting down conservatives' free speech IS a form of hate speech. samtheman)
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Couse, there's the excitement Tim Kaine brings to Democrats.
Remember him? Hillary's choice for VP.

Kaine on the campaign trail.....the enthusiasm was palpable (smirk).

47 posted on 04/25/2017 6:27:37 AM PDT by Liz (Shutting down conservatives' free speech IS a form of hate speech. samtheman)
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To: Helicondelta

Being president is not like ‘your turn’ to use the ladies room.


48 posted on 04/25/2017 6:28:23 AM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: Liz

Tim Kaine gave the democrats a lock on the creepy old white gay man vote -


49 posted on 04/25/2017 6:37:35 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Helicondelta

To be honest, her campaign slogan wasn’t that different, in spirit, than that.


50 posted on 04/25/2017 6:38:42 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: Helicondelta

“It’s my turn” might not have been Hillary’s official slogan, but her pet media puked it forth as one of her two main messages. The other was “Vote for Hillary because she is female”, loosely defined.

“Hillary’s turn” might appeal to the pre-school set, and her gender might appeal to bigots. Most voters have only a tiny personal stake in a candidate “BEING” anything (with the exception of Black, which HRC was not). Votes are cast because of what voters believe a candidate will DO. Hillary’s history suggested that would involve corruption, incompetence, micromanagement, skullduggery, scandal, amorality, egotism, and government that was a bully at home and a pansy abroad. Small wonder Hillary repeatedly fell back on “re-introducing” herself. But even that was all about who she IS, not about what she would DO. Trump was all about what he would DO.

Lesson: Action defeats Being.


51 posted on 04/25/2017 6:46:01 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: atc23

He’s perfect for Democrats.....LOL.


52 posted on 04/25/2017 6:49:54 AM PDT by Liz (Shutting down conservatives' free speech IS a form of hate speech. samtheman)
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To: Helicondelta
I really wish they would have used this line. Then we wouldn't have had to hear about the popular vote BS.
53 posted on 04/25/2017 6:50:28 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Helicondelta

“Because it’s her turn.”

Personally, I preferred “Because she has a vagina.”


54 posted on 04/25/2017 7:29:23 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Helicondelta

Clinton, isn’t she dead?


55 posted on 04/25/2017 7:32:59 AM PDT by Herakles (Diversity is a globalist scam for power!)
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To: Jumper
Good point, Jumper. No one deserves to be President due to the long public service. In fact, serving too long in government can disqualify someone in my book.

Tillerson may be the next President after Trump. I'll place my bet on T-REX!

56 posted on 04/25/2017 8:03:54 AM PDT by poconopundit (FR: Self-Reliant Lovers of Liberty who can't stop the Chatter in the Skull)
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To: Chewbarkah; Liz
Another slogan she could use again for 2020...


57 posted on 04/25/2017 8:08:09 AM PDT by poconopundit (FR: Self-Reliant Lovers of Liberty who can't stop the Chatter in the Skull)
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To: Helicondelta
but it was MY TURN!!!

58 posted on 04/25/2017 4:18:05 PM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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