Posted on 05/19/2016 12:16:13 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Donald Trump kept himself planted firmly in the political spotlight this week with one headline-grabbing move after another — launching a social media defense of his treatment of women, listing possible Supreme Court nominees, rapidly declaring an Egyptian plane crash an act of terrorism.
His likely general election opponent, Hillary Clinton, seemed content to hang in the background.
But Clinton's stay-above-the-fray attitude masks unresolved questions that have gnawed at her campaign since Trump virtually locked up the Republican nomination. How can the wonkish Clinton counteract Trump's finely-tuned ability to command attention? Can she win the White House by letting Trump run on his terms, hoping his unorthodox candidacy wears thin with voters by November?
Or does she need to make a positive case for her own candidacy, something she has struggled to articulate during the Democratic primary?
"She's going to have to do things to keep her side motivated, to keep people excited, keep it aspirational," said Steve Schale, a Florida Democratic strategist who advised President Barack Obama's White House campaigns.
Clinton's unexpectedly tough battle with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders highlights her struggle to make that case thus far.
Sanders' supporters can repeat whole sections of his campaign speech verbatim. Trump's backers chime in on cue when he asks who will pay for his proposed border wall with Mexico.
The former secretary of state, by contrast, throws a policy-filled kitchen sink at voters. She pledges to break down barriers to progress, build on President Barack Obama's priorities and implement lessons learned from her husband's economic stewardship in the 1990s.
And her ability to define the race on her own terms could only get harder in a face-off with Trump, the dominant force in this presidential contest and a master of defining his opponents before they can define themselves.
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“Wonkish Clinton”?
To be a wonk, you have to be smart. When has Clinton ever said anything smart?
Whenever a Democrat proves to be repellent, it’s always attributed to an excess of intelligence.
It’s in the fax sent out to the media wing of the DNC. Another article this week said she has an “unusually good grasp of policy.”
Her problem is that her entire campaign is based solely on being a woman. She can't articulate anything more than that because she has no ideological foundation. Everything she says now can be contradicted by her past statements and actions. (Or lack of action).
Misspelled skankish.
Is Hillary getting maaaad?
LOL.
If you can fake authenticity you’ve got it made.
Hillary can’t fake authenticity and they can’t write it into her speeches. (”I don’t in no ways feel tarred...”)
Hillary won’t do press conferences for two reasons:
(1) The media sometimes messes up and asks hard questions.
(2) People know she’s a fake by the way she dodges questions.
Simplify it: THE Bush Crime Family sounds an bout right>
"Surely"--they think--"if one cannot see the distant, it must be because they are focused on the near."
“Conservative” Republican who trashes anyone who questions global warming?
F him and his whole family, I hope he chokes.
Yes. What qualifies her? LOL, what an empty woman...
Good point.
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