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Hillary’s Sputtering Campaign: Facing Trump, she is weighted down by tons of baggage
National Review ^ | May 24, 2016 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 05/24/2016 2:40:28 PM PDT by billorites

Edited on 05/24/2016 3:48:32 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

This year was supposed to be Hillary Clinton

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cuckservatives; election2016; nationalreview; newyork; richlowry; trump; vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 05/24/2016 2:40:28 PM PDT by billorites
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2 posted on 05/24/2016 2:46:33 PM PDT by doug from upland
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And yet, and yet, NR still fosters this belief that The Donald must “inevitably” lose the election to either Herself, or to Bernie.

NR continues to sink into mediocrity and irrelevancy, while the tsunami continues to gather strength, which they neither acknowledge nor recognize.


3 posted on 05/24/2016 2:47:21 PM PDT by alloysteel (The Triumph of Trump - finally, does the hegemony of the Republican elites get broken?)
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Hildebeast has baggage? Who knew?


4 posted on 05/24/2016 2:48:19 PM PDT by Romans Nine
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Trump in a landslide.


5 posted on 05/24/2016 2:49:40 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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“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.”

I think that should be: “Donald J. Trump is written off by the buffoonish pundits at National Review, because they like to pretend that several recent national polls show Trump ahead of or even with Hillary don’t exist.


6 posted on 05/24/2016 2:51:33 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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I remember how everybody seemed to be saying how Romney was going to mop the floor with Obama in 2012.


7 posted on 05/24/2016 2:53:58 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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this hag doesn’t have baggage, she is such the criminal, I’d call it cargo


8 posted on 05/24/2016 2:55:08 PM PDT by drypowder
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"NR continues to sink into mediocrity and irrelevancy"

People I previously admired have been driven crazy by Trump. I can understand why and don't blame them really. He's a heretic in many ways and there is a class-based disdain that certain bow-tied bum kisser have for him.

Slowly, incrementally, many of them are starting to come around. They may never be Donald fan-boys, but will do the right thing and support the nominee. I'm surprised how far some never-Trumpers have come along already.

9 posted on 05/24/2016 2:55:13 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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10 posted on 05/24/2016 2:55:15 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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Is VDH turning a leaf? Seems unlikely. He still rails against DT but, perhaps, with some increased clarity. He is, after all, an historian with a penchant for linear, disciplined thought. As much cannot be said of Trump. Except, of course, Trump is not a loose cannon. His shots are deliberate and well aimed. He is, moreover, disciplined in his outrageous demeanor, a condition VDH and other intellectuals miss. They may well have their best friend in DT if they are disciplined enough to accept his input and reason with him as an equal.


11 posted on 05/24/2016 2:55:18 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Stop the Left and save the world.)
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Anyone at this late stage who’s for Hillary is ipso facto a moron, so rational arguments don’t apply.


12 posted on 05/24/2016 2:55:19 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Do not discount the possibility, though fast vanishing, that something may still occur that derails the apparent advantages available to The Donald, and that, somehow, the implosion long predicted will still come.

Even if it has to be manufactured by some external agency.

I’m sure you have watched at least a few episodes of “Scandal”.


13 posted on 05/24/2016 2:57:22 PM PDT by alloysteel (The Triumph of Trump - finally, does the hegemony of the Republican elites get broken?)
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“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.”

Stepping out of Bizarro World and back into our own Earthly plane of existence in our own non-alternate universe, this statement would read : “Donald J. Trump is written off by the buffoonish pundits at National Review because they like to pretend that several recent, credible national polls that show Trump ahead or even with Hillary don’t exist.


14 posted on 05/24/2016 2:58:21 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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No, not a fan of that tv show.

Any possible implosion is going to take place most likely among the Dems in Philly. Get the popcorn ready, think of Chicago 1968.

Pretty going foward the Donald is a done deal.


15 posted on 05/24/2016 3:00:33 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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Trump will win all 57 states.


16 posted on 05/24/2016 3:01:34 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and silver are real money, everything else is a derivative)
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Pretty much, going forward, to do a little correcting.


17 posted on 05/24/2016 3:01:40 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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I am looking to the possibility, however remote, of an assassination attempt, much like what brought down George Wallace, though he was not killed, but removing him as a serious contender, or Huey Long, who was killed. Of even Bobby Kennedy, on the eve of almost gaining the Democrat nomination in 1968. All these were history changers, and not necessarily for the better.

It ain’t over until it’s over. And that may be 2024.


18 posted on 05/24/2016 3:10:40 PM PDT by alloysteel (The Triumph of Trump - finally, does the hegemony of the Republican elites get broken?)
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If he’d campaigned as hard against The Won as he has campaigned against Donald Trump, he would have mopped the floor in 2012.


19 posted on 05/24/2016 3:15:05 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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But but but you and your pals at National Review are still voting for her right Vic? I mean you could never vote for Trump right, guy?


20 posted on 05/24/2016 3:16:43 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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