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.
I think the DemocRATS will go “sauve qui peut”, let Hillary run and get crushed while trying to save state and local seats. Hillary may be a disaster but Biden is a loser too.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the October surprise will be the passing of Bill Clinton. As suspicious as I would be about the timing, the sheep would give her a ton of sympathy votes. She would privately not care at all about it, but everywhere she goes she would cry and say “Bill would want me to continue on.”
She’ll have a new campaign theme - “We must elect Hillary! so she can pardon herself!”.
Bill dying to get the Hillary-sympathy voters?
Could be, could be. Bill would be susceptible to even more likely threats ... if he were living with Hillary though.
Hard to imagine a ex-president needin SS protection from his wife though, isn’t it?
Certainly fits his psychological profile!
Biden runs stronger than Hillary. Will help them down-ticket even if he should lose. If the Dems have ideas of taking the senate, getting rid of Hillary is the safe play.
The question is: will former President Obama's permanent Secret Service detail stand idly by while Obama foments a coup d'etat against the current President, or will they be loyal to the Constitution and the Treasury Department and speak out and refuse to protect him while he agitates against his own country?
-PJ
“white hot hatred she reserves for the man who scotched her absolute best chance at achieving her goal on a mild early September morning in 2001.” (Osama bin Laden)
Interesting thoughts. Take that one step further and it explains even more.
That white hot hatred, if it were pointed in the direction of the 2 people who had multiple chances to kill Bin Laden after the 1993 WTC attack, would be directed squarely at the Bill-Hillary co-Presidency. When Bin Laden was spotted in Afghanistan and our military was begging for orders to turn him into dust, ‘ol Bill was out on the golf course and wouldn’t give the orders. (I’d love to know what Hillary was doing on that day in 1998).
If it weren’t for all the dead people caused by their inaction from ‘93 to 2000, we could be happy at the full circle of justice that kept her out of our White House.
A very interesting perspective. Bush would have been vulnerable, if for no other reason than many already considered him an illegitimate president elected by a minority of the voters. And Bush turned out to be an ineffective president at that, though that became clearer in the second term. Lacking 9/11 he may have been seen that way much earlier. Thanks for posting this.
True enough. But who will bell the cat and tell her to drop out?
It's the Muslim issue which he will use to get a place at the world leftist roundtable. He will become very valuable to nations that oppose America.
The Secret Service will be bound to protect him physically, and will be true to their oath. But he's a tight-rope walker, will overstep, and stumble at some point. He is delusional, a narcissist, and will find there's a great deal more animosity toward him than people are willing to express right now. Because racism. This will change.
IMHO he'll end up behind bars, not necessarily in this country.
*THAT*, in a nutshell was her secret weapon (albeit not so secret) for the 2004 campaign. Her entire strategy hinged on that, but when Mohammed Atta and crew struck, and the towers came down, her entire strategy became unglued in a "rally 'round the flag" moment. She never recovered from this, and in the final analysis, it cost her the chance to ever gain the Presidency (she has been shown to be vulnerable, and there is now little chance for her to achieve her goal.)
As Nita pointed out, the persons *most* responsible for this situation are in fact, the Clintons themselves, as they had the opportunity to take out OBL, and passed on it. If they knew then, what they now know, OBL would have been a grease spot almost immediately upon learning that the opportunity to remove him had arisen. Since the Clintons mentally cannot fault themselves for anything (a trait they share in copious abundance with their fellow travelers), they have to blame OBL...
the infowarrior
Hmmm... How enthusiastically did the Clintons campaign for Gore to win in 2000? And how hard did Bill fight for Gore in the Gore vs Bush court actions in Dec 2000? I wasn’t really paying attention because of the hanging chad fiasco. Hillary’s plan for 2004 would have necessitated a Bush win in ‘00 so she could run against him in ‘04.
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