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Hillary's Sputtering Campaign
National Review ^ | 5/24/2016 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 05/24/2016 8:25:06 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross

Facing a free-wheeling Trump, she is weighted down by tons of baggage.

This year was supposed to be Hillary Clinton’s “turn,” after her humiliating loss in 2008 to Barack Obama. She has paid her dues as secretary of state for Obama. And the apparent Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, is written off by most pundits as a buffoon without a chance in the general election. Yet, Clinton’s campaign continues to be dismal, and is getting worse — to the point where the socialist Bernie Sanders polls better against Trump than does Hillary Clinton. How can that be?

At least eight reasons come to mind — several of them relating to Clinton’s innate character flaws and past scandals.

1) The E-Mail Scandal
Although the FBI has not finished its investigation and sent its results and recommendations to the Obama Justice Department, most of the media and public have learned enough about the e-mail/server scandal to conclude that had any mid-level State Department or intelligence-agency employee emulated Hillary Clinton’s use of a private unsecured server — along with serial denials and lying about such use — he would have been fired and prosecuted.

Hillary’s exemption so far hinges entirely on the fact that she is the Democratic party’s only viable presidential candidate; her indictment would send the party into crisis, given that the committed socialist Bernie Sanders would be the most deserving to inherit the nomination. So her Sword of Damocles swings with public opinion. What keeps Hillary out of jail, or at least a plea-bargain, is her political viability, first as the likely Democratic nominee, and second as a presumable winner over Trump. But take either likelihood away, and she de facto loses exemption and becomes expendable — a fact that is well known to her ...

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; clinton; cuckservatives; election2016; fail; hillary; hillary2016; loser; nationalreview; newyork; richlowry; trump; vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 05/24/2016 8:25:06 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
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To: Kaslin

VDH ping ...


2 posted on 05/24/2016 8:25:38 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Hillary is completely unlikeable.

And that voice....

Who could listen to that for four years?


3 posted on 05/24/2016 8:27:37 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Servant of the Cross
Candlelight vigil time... haha.
4 posted on 05/24/2016 8:29:34 AM PDT by corlorde
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To: Servant of the Cross

She has paid her dues as secretary of state for Obama”

But she paid them with AMERICAN LIVES, see Benghazi!


5 posted on 05/24/2016 8:31:39 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Like nails on a chalkboard.


6 posted on 05/24/2016 8:31:41 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Servant of the Cross

Hate National Review’s guts.


7 posted on 05/24/2016 8:32:23 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Servant of the Cross

Bernie Sanders polls better against Trump than does Hillary Clinton. How can that be?

For he IS THE KWISATZ HADERACH!.................

8 posted on 05/24/2016 8:35:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Hillary’s farting campaign...more like it.


9 posted on 05/24/2016 8:37:40 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Rudy Giuliani is America’s mayor.

Hillary Clinton is America’s ex-wife.


10 posted on 05/24/2016 8:38:13 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Cruz never could have outfought Trump.But I didn't know until this day that it was Romney all along.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

btw- this is not photoshopped....

11 posted on 05/24/2016 8:38:21 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Eddie01

Surprised he’s still there, but Hanson is the only one remaining at NR worth reading:

“This time around, he (Bill) reappears on the campaign trail as a wraith-like Dorian Gray figure, as if all his sins are written on his face and audible in his raspy voice, rather than being confined to a portrait in the attic.”

“He seems at times not so much out to help his wife, as baying at the moon ... “


12 posted on 05/24/2016 8:39:34 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Fact: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton & the Democrat Party has destroyed themselves. Wait....DJT is just getting started!!! Watch and envy the DJT campaign for African-Americans & Hispanics....you will be amazed how successful he will be, winning and getting their votes. Obama, Clinton, the Democrat Party, the CBC, The NAACP, etc. has done a number on Black folk across the board. Poor souls have never been worse off then under “The first Black POTUS who has screwed them royally”!!!


13 posted on 05/24/2016 8:40:31 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: God luvs America

Squawking t**d alert! (referencing O’Donnell there)


14 posted on 05/24/2016 8:40:41 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: Servant of the Cross

She’s the devil, I swear


15 posted on 05/24/2016 8:42:29 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner: with Cloward Piven for Dessert)
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To: God luvs America

This looks like Lawrence O’Donnell. Amost the same age as me IIRC. Never once served in the military. Rabid, irrational liberal that learned how to sit on his ass and spew his worthless mind to make a living.


16 posted on 05/24/2016 8:43:28 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Servant of the Cross

——her husband’s goatishness ——

hmmm...... that might be correct but it seem a mild characterization.


17 posted on 05/24/2016 8:47:12 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: Servant of the Cross
Older than Clinton, Trump comes across as far more vigorous and vital; he’s a loudmouth, but his voice is not shrill and screeching as is Clinton’s; his political incorrectness both offends and attracts, while her political correctness merely bores and has rendered her a caricature of an opportunistic toady.

Love it.
18 posted on 05/24/2016 8:47:58 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Servant of the Cross
And the apparent Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, is written off by most pundits as a buffoon without a chance in the general election.

Not just pundits - news anchors, political leaders in both parties, rival republican candidates (Jeb, Rubio, Christie, Paul, Huckabee, Santorum, and Gilmore), and Democrat candidates (Bernie, Kasich, and Hillary) all dismissed Trump. The people who wrote him off as a clown missed what to all others was both an important and an obvious distinction between "clown" and "showman".

19 posted on 05/24/2016 8:51:46 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

No one can stand her but her minions own the ballot box, the dead voters, the fake precincts in iowa and the 47% of americans suckling off the federal government.


20 posted on 05/24/2016 8:52:51 AM PDT by x_plus_one (Christ is King, Cruz is not.)
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