Posted on 05/25/2016 8:27:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The State Department's report on Hillary Clinton's insouciant attitude toward cyber-security would finish any other American politician. She ignored the law, flouted it repeatedly, and didn't care; folks are in prison for less. The only thing that's holding her up at this point is her Amen Corner in the media, most of whom know her personally and who long for a Clinton Restoration in order to reclaim their places as house courtiers. But 2016 is not 1992 or even 2008, and the retinue of retainers is as long in the tooth as the former first lady herself. They can't protect her as they once could, and the multiplicity of media means that while the gatekeepers are still at the gates, the walls on either side have fallen. Meanwhile, State has publicly called her a liar and left a stinking mess on her doorstep that even her faithful house boys are going to find difficult to sweep aside. Now what? Maybe this what:
The Democratic National Committee is considering a plan to re-insert Vice President Joe Biden into the presidential race, Donald Trump said Wednesday in California, a stunning claim on a day when front-runner Hillary Clinton faced new questions about her classified email scandal.
'I hear they're gonna actually slip Joe Biden in and he's going to take Bernie's place,' Trump told a rally audience of thousands in Anaheim, California, referring to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. 'I hear they want to slip him in,' he repeated. 'Cause I will say, the system is rigged against Bernie, 100 per cent.'
Well, that's certainly true. Mrs. Clinton was declared the nominee even before the first pro-forma ballots were counted, and nothing that's happened since -- including Sanders's remarkable series of victories over Hillary -- has changed the official narrative. But the State Department's report is yet another straw on the staggering camel's back.
Biden, who has been vice president since 2009, withdrew himself from presidential consideration in October, citing family pressures following the death of his 46-year-old son Beau. 'I believe we're out of time – the time necessary to mount a winning campaign,' Biden said then.
But if Clinton were forced out of the race, Sanders – who describes himself as a 'democratic socialist.'– would become the presumptive favorite. That's an outcome the Democratic Party could find undesirable.
Trump was reacting to a damning report from the State Department's Office of Inspector General report that clobbered Clinton over the security of the private, homebrew email server she used exclusively during the four years she was America's top diplomat. Among the report's conclusions was that on at least two occasions hackers tried to penetrate the server, which was housed at the Clintons' home in Chappaqua, New York.
Sliding Biden into the top spot would not be all that difficult for a party that doesn't care what the law says anyway. In fact, it would be a Torricelli Maneuver on a grand scale, the illegal replacement of an all-but-dead candidate with a party hack. There's no way the establishment Democrats are going to hand over control of their cozy racket to a crazed geriatric communist who wasn't even a member of their party a few months ago.
Whether they can get away with it, of course, is another story. The Clinton's hold on the media is waning; she is a terrible candidate, even worse than she was eight years ago; and by the time the campaign hits the summer, her unfavorables will be far higher than Trump's. For all their bravado, the Democrats are looking at a very bleak future. And if the FBI recommends prosecution...
It might actually be doing the Democrats a favor. Obama, crocodile tears in his eyes, can say he did his best, but guess what: Hillary ain't that likable after all. Attorney General Lynch can move forward with an indictment, schocked, shocked to find gambling going on in the casino. Under pressure, Hillary pleads health issues and steps aside -- but not before tossing her delegates to Biden. Riots ensue, but the party leaders don't care: la cosa nostra is safe for another generation.
And here you thought the GOP had problems.
Trump smelled blood, and hammered Hillary on Wednesday at the Anaheim Convention Center. 'Crooked Hillary!' he boomed. 'She's as crooked as they come. She had a little bad news today ... not so good. The inspector general's report. Not good.'
'But I want to run against Hillary,' he insisted, even if her legal problems make her candidacy untenable. 'I just want to run against her. Look, I don't know if you're going to be able to. It could be we run against Crazy Bernie. That could be. He's a crazy man, but that's okay. We like crazy people,' Trump said of Sanders.
Somebody call the men in white coats.
No matter how guilty, no matter how bat s$!t crazy she comes across as...
She’s not dropping out.
She is a Clinton.
She’ll run even if indicted and not a single democrat will blink.
If Obama decides to stick with Hillary, what he might do to drag out the FBI inquiry until after the election is to fire Comey...not over the email investigation but by claiming that he is guilty of racism because of disagreements with the White House over the rise in crime since the Ferguson riots. (Unlike Obama, Comey doesn’t seem to be in favor of anti-police violence or Black Lives Matter activism.)
Warren or probably Biden. I just don’t thing Bernie will prevail. Warren is auditioning now. Clinton is tanking and anyone can see it if they just open their eyes.
The next step would be to validate the FELONY violation in the failure to protect, and failure to report the mishandling of TOP SECRET, SCI data.
Its actually worse, because there is direct evidence of Hillary DIRECTING the removal of Classification markings to facilitate unsecured transmission.
It is quite likely that this data was also TS.
I cant imagine what is going on behind closed doors. She will pull out ===>everything<=== she has to stay the candidate because she needs the ever shrinking possibilty of being president. She will b in a world of hurt if she cant attack and hurt others beforehand and she can only do that w the power of the presidency behind her.
Hillary will never, under any circumstances, drop out. I’m sure she was smart enough to compromise every Superdelegate in a way which would make it every difficult for them to abandon her.
This is a great point. President Hillary would have an enemies list that will make Nixon look like a piker. That condition can only lead to her making grievous mistakes, which can only lead to impeachment, making Bill and Hill the laughing-stock legacy of husband-wife Presidents to be impeached.
Nice eye candy. I’ll believe it when I here the old bag has quit. I’ve lived over twenty years seeing the Clintons weasel out of major felonies.
If she doesn’t get out she’s sure to have her ass handed to her in the general and that’s something the party bosses just can’t allow.
Hillary’s out very soon.
“The Clintons never quit.”
“Hillary will never, under any circumstances, drop out.”
Clinton drops out of U.S. presidential race, June 7, 2008
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/clinton-drops-out-of-u-s-presidential-race-1.755018
The big story here isn’t the democrars. It doesn’t matter what they do or who they end up with. Witch, socialist, plagerist or sqwaw. It just doesn’t matter. The only story here is Trump, and how he’s truly hitting his stride and whoever the dims put out in the field in front of him he’s going to run them over, run them right down into the ground, run right through them... without even breaking a sweat.
That’s the story this year. That’s what people will remember about 2016.
Just like Bill, Hillary needs to get elected to stop the prosecution. Remember how he fired all the US Attorneys after he was elected in order to can the one in Kansas City who was investigating him...
She should be indicted AFTER she secures the nomination. That will make for some interesting theater.
I’m not sure which would be worse, Hitlery actually getting the nomination (and the possibility of a Hitlery presidency) or having her drop out and the possibility of a Sanders or Warren presidency. I think Hitlery is truly evil, Warren is evil, but probably not quite up to the level of Hitlery (but maybe she just hasn’t had as many opportunities). Sanders I suspect is more of a socialist crackpot than truly evil, but idk, I haven’t looked at him that closely since I figured his chances were remote.
She’s not dropping out.
She is a Clinton.
I agree. I believe it's pure fantasy, and maybe even wishful thinking on the part of some, that the Democrat party will replace Hillary Clinton as the nominee.
It's interesting to notice, however, that the Democrat primary system appears to be even less "democratic" than the GOP system.
It's actually a pretty slick trick when you consider the fact that these major parties have taken power in the state and federal legislatures, for instance, and then they construct laws that prevent ballot access to "outside" parties.
This helps to maintain their monopoly on power, against which backdrop they can structure their respective nominating processes in a sufficiently anti-democratic manner so as to allow party insiders to negate the voters' will whenever it suits them, without any negative ramifications. This is because ballot access is so difficult for third parties that they don't have any chance to take hold and supplant the dominant parties, which are ultimately two faces of the same ruling power structre.
It looks to me like we're going to be forced into using this same phony two-party system for the foreseeable future, until someone truly capable like Donald Trump runs on the Libertarian ticket or some such.
The two-faced Uniparty has really set itself up nicely for permanent power over all of us, eh?
The divisive spirit of "party" or "faction" is something that Founders such as George Washington tried to warn us about, believing it was damaging to the public good. I'm not familiar with the subtleties of his objection, but I'm going to go back and review it.
But now it seems like this corrupt Uniparty has become entrenched legally, culturally and traditionally, and has made itself seemingly perpetual.
I mean, think about it: we've pretty much been stuck with both of these political parties since at least as early as what, 1856? Starting with the end of the Civil War in 1866. that's basically 150 years of "Uniparty" rule.
That's why I hope Donald Trump shakes this whole corrupt DC cartel to its very core!
We need a real Revolution!
Vote Trump!
“The Democratic National Committee is considering a plan to re-insert Vice President Joe Biden into the presidential race, Donald Trump said Wednesday in California, a stunning claim on a day when front-runner Hillary Clinton faced new questions about her classified email scandal. “
Yet ANOTHER BRILLIANT move by Trump! It forces Crooked Hillary to deny this, which once again puts her on the defensive, throws her off of her game (such as it is), refocuses the media and everyone else on her escalating email scandal, and denials by politicians like her always make it seem like there just MIGHT be some truth in what’s being denied.
Once again trump has positioned his opponent in a lose-lose situation.
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