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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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To: Gaffer

O’Donnell’s brother lives in our town and has always been very active in Republican politics.


21 posted on 05/24/2016 8:55:12 AM PDT by surrey
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To: surrey

Well, at least the whole family isn’t a waste of air. Lawrence certainly is.


22 posted on 05/24/2016 8:56:33 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Servant of the Cross

Yet Beltway RINO morons like Bill Kristol and Hugh Hewitt think that she’s gonna take down Trump over his tax returns.


23 posted on 05/24/2016 8:57:47 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Servant of the Cross; All

24 posted on 05/24/2016 8:59:39 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: Servant of the Cross

This is funny! Do they think Trump is hiding something? Trump is baiting them and Love it.


25 posted on 05/24/2016 9:02:19 AM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (Cards are being played, you have been Trumped! TRUMP 2016!)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Suicide watch?


26 posted on 05/24/2016 9:07:00 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Eddie01

Aside from NR, Victor Davis Hanson is one of a few
excellent conservative thinkers coming from academia.


27 posted on 05/24/2016 9:09:17 AM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf.)
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To: tumblindice
Surprised he’s still there, but Hanson is the only one remaining at NR worth reading:

He didn't participate in NR's risible "Against Trump" issue. But it's too late for the failing NR. Hope VDH is lining up another outlet for his columns for whenever his NR contract runs out.

28 posted on 05/24/2016 9:11:40 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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29 posted on 05/24/2016 9:16:28 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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30 posted on 05/24/2016 9:18:10 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

“Donald J. Trump, is written off by most pundits as a buffoon without a chance in the general election.”

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How much more out of touch can np get? They are embarrassment.


31 posted on 05/24/2016 9:22:09 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

The article forgot to mention that the more the media coddles Hillary and attacks Trump the more it strengthens Trump since the major media are clearly a part of the problem and not a part of the solution (in the eyes of most Americans, left, right, and center).


32 posted on 05/24/2016 9:55:09 AM PDT by cgbg (Epistemology is not a spectator sport.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

hell we have been listing to it for 25 years or so already


33 posted on 05/24/2016 10:05:39 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom yes I know)
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To: God luvs America

If you look up smarmy in the dictionary his picture pops up


34 posted on 05/24/2016 10:06:49 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom yes I know)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Right why work when money is tossed at you and your spouse because people in power/politicsEtc think it’s just YOUR TURN now:-)


35 posted on 05/24/2016 10:27:00 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: cgbg

Definitely. This election is opening a lot of eyes to media bias and also to the establishment two-party system.

The realization that they’ve been lied to and manipulated for a long time is pretty upsetting.

Better late than never.


36 posted on 05/24/2016 10:50:53 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: x_plus_one
 
 
Yep - and that's the part that troubles me. How do you defeat that - the machine.
 
 

37 posted on 05/24/2016 3:46:57 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Yes, Cankles is a bad candidate. But VDH does not give Trump near enough credit. He exposes her like a bad Polaroid.

When this campaign is over we will see Ted Cruz was Trump’s strongest opponent, and he was vanquished pretty easily.


38 posted on 05/24/2016 3:58:10 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Red Badger

DUNE


39 posted on 05/24/2016 4:40:36 PM PDT by Not gonna take it anymore (If Obama were twice as smart as he is, he would be a wit)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Thanks Captain Obvious (VDH). 1/2 of the greatest crime couple in the history of the republic has baggage? Who’da thunk it?


40 posted on 05/24/2016 5:12:21 PM PDT by PGalt
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