Posted on 05/02/2017 1:16:10 PM PDT by drewh
Hillary Clinton lost. She, her family, her party, and the media are having a hard time coming to grips with that reality. She failed to connect with the people and couldn’t escape her own self-inflicted injuries and scandals. She also relied on data and analytics that never told her the real story and only re-enforced what her operatives thought was true.
Democrats act like “no one” could have foreseen Hillary’s loss. How could they? All the polls and data pointed towards a landslide historic victory for Hillary Clinton. Everyone KNEW this would be the case.
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Except for one man. He knew what was happening the whole time and tried to warn the campaign but he was marginalized and ignored.
That man was the former President Bill Clinton:
Via The New York Post and the Best-Seller on the meltdown of the Clinton campaign Shattered:
He’d seen the trans-Atlantic phenomenon of populist rage at rallies across the country, and warned friends privately of his misgivings about its effect on Hillary’s chances. Now his focus turned back to the international movement he’d seen gathering. “It’s like Brexit,” he lamented. “I guess it’s real.”
He saw the tide turning. He knew that populism was rising against the establishment and the elites. Why Hillary thought she could out-ride or escape that moniker is anyone’s guess.
But Bill knew, and he was ignored repeatedly.
For Hillary Clinton’s chief strategists, the unique challenge of reconciling working-class and white rural frustrations with the Obama administration’s handling of the economy proved too difficult a riddle, and they chose in the end to focus their efforts elsewhere, much to Bill Clinton’s reported protestation.
A bunch of young campaign operatives thought they knew better than a man who won the popular vote twice and was uniquely able to target white working class AND minority votes:
“Bill Clinton’s viewpoint of fighting for the working-class white voters was often dismissed with a hand wave by senior members of the team as a personal vendetta to win back the voters who elected him, from a talented but aging politician who simply refused to accept the new Democratic map,”
Just astounding. I am so glad Hillary is not our President, and the debacle that was her campaign is reason enough. How could we expect this woman to run this country when she ran a campaign that was filled with nothing but sycophants and arrogant opportunists? Bill Clinton is scum and was a horrible President, but you can’t deny the man knew how to win. If Hillary wanted to win, she should have listened to him.
They both belong in prison.
Good point which is lost on the liberals.
The liberals, who today bitch about the electoral college, didn’t bitch when Bill won election with only 43% of the popular vote.
And Perot had some deep deep seated hatred for George w. Bush.
They both belong on Dancing With The Stars ... dancing the Tyburn Jig.
The writer meant to say wished were true.
“6. Do you really want your wife to be president? Heck no.”
My wife would make a great President. My ex-wife? Not so much. Hillary is every divorced man’s ex-wife.
That dog gets his 15 minutes of fame and he’s hiking his leg...
I would not want either to be president.
But yeah, Hillary reminds every guy of “the ex-wife”. Whether they have been divorced or not.
Like him or not, Bill Clinton is the best politician of our lifetimes.
America's ex-wife
except for POTUS 45... :)
I thought that as well, but if it were illness, and visibly so, they would not have let him out of the van, much less in front of a camera...............
I hereby declare that you have just won the internet.
Love your tagline BTW.
Freegards, SirL
And the 2nd place.............
The Dems did not understand. They all went to private schools. Hillary was a shocking reminder of every fourth grade teacher in public school: harsh, scolding, mean, ugly, awful.
HILLARY JUST WON’T GO AWAY
(5 MINUTE VIDEO PARODY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufPA6NS1Kt8&t=31s
BE WARNED: “F” BOMBS GALORE FROM THE NUTTY “PROFESSOR”
:)
Let’s face it, bubba was able to portray himself as the kind of guy most people would like to have a beer with.
Everything he did, no matter how awful, was framed with a “don’t take this the wrong way — I agree with you except...” then say the opposite of you. Or, mor often, just agree with you and then stab you in he back.
hiLIARy is the kind of person you would pour a beer ON.
He lies everywhere he is. His death bed will be no exception.
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