Posted on 12/03/2013 5:53:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The news keeps getting worse and worse for the Democratic Party as it contemplates 2014 and 2016. The congressional wing of the part finds itself strapped to Obamacare, a disaster that promises to anger voters even more next year than this, with tens of millions losing coverage through employer-provided policies, and back-end website chaos leaving people who thought they were covered uninsured when show up at the emergency room.
But Democrats comforted themselves with the notion that the "historic first" strategy that worked so well with Barack Obama would repeat itself in 2016 with Hillary Clinton becoming the Republic's first woman president. The excitement over the 51% of the population that is female mobilized to push Hillary and the entire ticket to success has been almost the sole comfort for the donkeys.
But there are signs that this is as much a fantasy as the notion that if you like your insurance and doctor, you can keep them. Paul Bedard writes in the Washington Examiner:
"A new YouGov/Economist poll found Clinton, whose approval ratings have typically been sky high, with an unfavorable rating of 48 percent, more than the 46 percent who have a favorable opinion of her.
The YouGov pollsters said that the change in American attitudes toward Clinton "suggests that negative press surrounding the tragic September 11, 2012 attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which led to the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, may have impacted views about Clinton and her tenure at the State Department."
During her time at State, Clinton's favorable ratings were typically 15 points higher than her unfavorable ratings."
I always believed that Hillary's approval ratings as Secretary of State were purely the result of the enthusiastic media coverage she received,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
If you think no one can trust Obama?
If Hilary wins the primary, I hope that we hear the word “Benghazi” until it no longer seems like a real word!
Here’s to wishing her an election like McGovern had in ‘72!
Fraud and intimidation will turn those number around.
If you like Obama as POTUS (with his picture)...
You can keep him! (with a picture of Hillary)
Excellent! Hope that gets picked up.
Not really.
It’s interesting that on my facebook feed, Emily’s list is always asking me to support this aged harridan. When I click on the link, it is overrun by people - left and right - who really seem to hate her. It’s fun trolling through the comments.
What will stop Hillary is daughter Chesea, giving her grandchildren.
Totally agree! Don’t pick on this nice woman.
“He will say she was a great SOS but he disagrees with her on the issues of the day.”
Sadly, you are likely correct.
She worked for Obama. There is no policy of his that she does not support by default. Hang his entire administration around her neck.
You are correct about Benghazi. Who’s going to bring it up?
The GOP?
Christie? He’s so busy schmoozing whomever fits in with his weekly plan he doesn’t know what character even means, let alone conservative or the interest of the American people.
Ryan? Ron Paul?. ? He’s so busy backtracking his positions and disappointing his GOP colleagues he’d drop the fight and run over to her side so fast it would shock
AMEN to that!
Just pray that the morons running the GOP back off of their love affair with Chris “LARDASS” Christie, otherwise we could end up with Her Thighness or worse.
She’ll have Hispanics,blacks,gays,single women with children, disability recipients and Ebt cardholders. What’s the problem?
Meaing 46% of our population is perfectly willing to kiss the hand that holds the whip - not out of fear, but with adoration.
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