Posted on 03/05/2014 11:48:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A clever rejoinder from CNS to the “Ready for Hillary” crowd: What is it, exactly, that you’re ready for? Lest you think they’re cherry-picking the least articulate Democrats they ran into, have a look at this new data from Pew. Alex Seitz-Wald, citing other data from the same poll, frets that Benghazi is more of a liability for Hillary than liberals think because it topped the list of her biggest negatives at 15 percent. Is that really her biggest liability, though? Behold:
She spent eight years in the Senate and another four as secretary of state and yet her time as First Lady (including dealing with her husband’s affair!) is still her second-biggest credential within her own party. That’s her core liability. She’s been an icon for so long that people take for granted that her iconic status is based on major achievements. And it is, sort of — she’s achieved lots of power. She just hasn’t done much with it, which is why voters mention her tenure as SoS as something positive about her without mentioning anything she did as SoS. In fact, Hillary’s a more interesting example of the celebrity candidate than even Obama was. Obama skyrocketed to stardom and didn’t have to worry about the thinness of his actual record; that was, after all, one of his big selling points, that the country was ready for someone young and unspoiled by politics after the Bush years. Hillary’s trying to pull off something much harder, a celebrity candidate whose own fame has been his/her biggest credential for decades yet who, necessarily, will be running on experience. The better the GOP does at giving her the emperor’s-new-clothes treatment, demystifying her by forcing people to focus on how thin her record really is, the harder she’ll have it during the campaign — in theory.
I say “in theory” because … well, just watch these people cooing over her for no particular reason, by their own admission. The same Pew poll I cited above shows that 67 percent approve of the job she did as secretary of state even though there’s no “achievement” from her tenure commensurate with the disaster of Benghazi. There are lots of independents out there who couldn’t name a Hillary accomplishment either and who’d nonetheless behave just like the Democrats you see below. Demystifying an icon is very hard. And don’t forget that Hillary, uniquely among celebrity candidates, is able to run on someone else’s record in lieu of running on one of her own — namely, Bill’s. She won’t be easy to beat, as comically surreally true as this is.
Hillary’s accomplishments amount to no more than checking off all the right folks and venues on a political dance card, as if merely being in some place at some time is an accomplishment.
As Secretary of State she had two jobs. For the White House her job was to do nothing nor attempt to accomplish anything on foreign policy, that was not HER job; it was the preserve of the White House. Obama had her IN his administration, to keep her from being a kibbitizer from the sidelines. Hillarys other job was for the geopolitical influence peddling business of Billary, to get around and get as many photo ops with as many foreign dignataries as possible, as though a photo op translates to an accomplishment.
Her major accomplishment is to have (so far) stayed out of prison for her many,many crimes.
She did it @ her Chapaqua estate. She hit a pedestrian and ordered the secret service to not stop. Medical attention was needed.
Hughie and Tony bought and traded some nut trees using her name..........................
Some people say Hillary gave the order that caused 30 American children to be burned to death at Waco... I assume she counts that as a success...
A story about it was posted here a few days ago...
Oh, they’ll find one to mention shortly. It will be attached to the horse head they wake up with in their beds.
Hillary also ordered the bombing to start in Bosnia!!
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