Posted on 08/27/2015 4:14:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Another day, another poll to rattle former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm, found her on Tuesday trailing Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., by seven points in New Hampshire's first-in-the nation Democratic primary. It was the second poll to get such a result.
Why is this happening? Clinton's coronation as the Democratic nominee was once taken for granted. Some of it has to do with left-wing Democrats' justifiable sense that she is not one of them but, rather, an entitled millionaire who cuts an odd figure as a populist champion of the middle class.
Most of it is due to her lamentable but characteristic decision six years ago that she was above federal laws and regulations governing transparency and secrets. She has done many deeply questionable things over the decades and gotten away with them, but the decision she made as she entered the State Department in 2009 may prove to be her undoing.
Clinton set up a secret, private, unsecured email server in her own house and used it to conduct all State Department business. In the process, she not only thwarted Freedom of Information Act requests for her correspondence, but also exposed top secret classified information and sensitive conversations about America's high-level diplomacy as easy bait for minimally competent hackers.
Clinton has given Americans every reason not to trust her. This is the main reason she already trails comparatively unknown Republicans in states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio.
The newest poll showing Sanders' lead in New Hampshire actually predates the latest chapter in her tale of concealment and deception. Clinton's email problem became known in March. She asserted then that there was no classified information whatsoever on her server.
Months later, it was revealed there was classified information within her email account, including "top secret" information. At that point, she and her supporters tried to characterize her role as that of an unwitting "passive recipient" of such information.
Then this was also exposed as a lie. Recently released emails show that Clinton discussed sensitive enough matters by email that large and small sections of her conversations have been redacted in their publicly released versions and formally marked as classified to protect national secrets. Because of the sensitive topics she discussed, these emails are considered classified from their inception; the chronology of their formal classification is immaterial.
Even sensitive information from America's foreign allies was compromised by Clinton's recklessness. One email from the Clinton cache released in July pertained to then-British Foreign Secretary David Milliband's 2009 trip to Afghanistan. A five-page message from his aide was forwarded to Clinton's unsecured private email address by her longtime aide Huma Abedin. In its publicly released version, nearly every word of it is redacted and marked as classified until the year 2029.
Why is Clinton struggling? Because she broke the rules and then repeatedly offered false explanations and excuses. Is she electable? It should be easy to give a resounding "no" in answer to that question, but Democratic primary voters may not come to that conclusion in time.
Even so, there is also the possibility, as Vice President Joe Biden smells blood in the water and considers a presidential run, that Clinton herself will prefer a semi-dignified early exit from the race rather than a battle to the end and ignominious defeat.
That's what Bubba said about.....woops. Back to topic, llevrok!
Good points.
She is inexorably moving towards a unique footnote in history. How the once almost crowned Queen prevaricated herself into obscurity.
Funny, that's what Huma said. LOL
Amazingly, her email felonies pale in comparison to her traitorous backing of Mohammed Morsi in Egypt, her failed Russian Reset resulting in the mass murder of Crimeans and Ukrainians, her money laundering over at the Clinton Foundation and the SELLING OF AMERICA’S FOREIGN POLICY, her failed BENGHAZI hostage-taking PLOT of Ambassador Stevens in exchange for the Blind Sheik on behalf of her BFF Morsi, ... Uh, okay I’ll stop. LOL
Don’t forget, Al Capone went to jail for income tax evasion. It’s always the paperwork that trips them up.
> there is also the possibility, ...that Clinton herself will prefer a semi-dignified early exit from the race rather than a battle to the end and ignominious defeat
I have a great imagination but I literally cannot imagine her bowing out gracefully. This is a woman who suggested that Robert Kennedy’s assassination was a historical precedent that justified hanging in against Obama after she was already clearly on the path to defeat.
She could not do dignified if her life depended on it.
The Clintons have no shame, no love of party or country. They will not be pushed out, bow out nor intimidated out of what they have schemed and conspired to acquire. Anyone who seriously challenges her right to be the first woman president will have to seriously weigh if they want their reputation and life destroyed. There is nothing they would not do, even children are not off limits. Mess the hidabeast and you will get horns.
That's where I'd place my money as well. It'll be sort of like Hitler in the bunker.
Hillary won't give up until she's mathematically eliminated during the Democrat primaries.
Nixon’s ghost is having schadenfreude thinking about the karma in this situation...
October 8,
1998 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted 258-176 to approve a resolution launching an impeachment inquiry of President Bill Clinton.
Look for Hillary to fall down again at home and claim that she, like Sergeant Schultz, knows and remembers nothing. She will again avoid testifying before the House Intelligence Committee. After a few weeks, she will be diagnosed as having had multi-infarct dementia with little chance of ever remembering anything from January 2009 to the present which will likely also shield her from prosecution for her crimes.
I hope the maelstrom continues swirling about her with rapidity, to where she is in the middle of it, and then somehow goes apoplectic!
She take her broom and get out of Dodge.
After all these years and all those lies....Never!
After all these years and all those lies....Never!
I agree, and she’ll say it is for health reasons.
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