Why Hillary Lost: A Premature Obit (HuffPo meltdown!)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-hillary-clinton-lost_us_57dc4bece4b04a1497b491b6?section=& ^

[TigerClaws]

On the high, crenelated ramparts of Castle Clinton, a chill breeze is stirring ― a faint but gnawing sense that the White Walkers are coming, wearing “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” baseball caps on their skinless noggins.

If Donald Trump does sack the fortress, no one who lost the battle will want to admit it was Hillary Clinton’s fault. It will have had nothing to do with, say, “transparency” or calling bearded villagers “deplorables” or the Iraq War vote or the simple fact that middle-of-the-road Clintonism ran out of gas as a public philosophy.

No, other individuals, groups and forces will have to be blamed. In fact, they already are, pre-emptively. If Trump wins, we’re all going to be too busy moving to Canada to read the postmortems (or write them), so we offer them to you now: RANK REASON

1 THE MEDIA Everyone’s piñata. Trump will blame the media. Gary Johnson will blame the media. Jill Stein will blame the media. (The media will ask, “Wait, which one was Jill Stein?”)

2 THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING Actually, they arrived long ago and got into her phone.

3 MILLENNIALS Ugh. F**cking idealists, right?

4 BERNIE SANDERS Remember when people worried that running unopposed in the primary would hurt Clinton? It's going to be an endless wail about how Sanders should have withdrawn sooner.

[libertarian27]

[Vaquero]

Let’s not get too cocky people.

She ain’t lost nothing yet. Stay allert!!

[Biggirl]

Hillary was FINISHED as of the weekend of the 9/11 anniversary and this past weekend.

Get ready to say President Elect Donald J. Trump.

[Helicondelta]

Hillary lost the will to win. It’s obvious. She barely campaigns anymore.

Her bad health and a republican congress would make her presidency just an endless nightmare to her.

[Salvey]

She's a Bill Ayers extremist

And she's a Bill of Rights hater.

[Billthedrill]

Her Royal Heinous is a bit of a test, really, a test to see if the political establishment, the media, and the academic "opinion making" machine has accrued political power sufficient to package and elect a candidate who has never actually won an election at the national level on her own merits. Her New York senatorial seat was precisely such an experiment itself at a state level, as was 0bama's campaign at a national level, and their success has led, I think, to a certain hubris on the part of the aforementioned machine.

It clearly was a fairly significant miscalculation, because Yeb! Bush was exactly the same sort of candidate with, such as it is, a more solid track record than She Who Must Not Be Named. 0bama must be considered a rather special case inasmuch as race became the factor that dares not to speak its name. Feminism has proven an entirely inadequate substitute in this election, outdated to begin with and thoroughly uninspiring except to a small coterie of True Believers. Who takes a "glass ceiling" seriously when its complainant has a hundred million in the bank and a term (however disastrous) at State behind her capacious belt?

It is not so much populism that informs the Trump campaign, but patriotism and iconoclasm. Either one of the latter will suffice, which explains the draw he has for the nominally incompatible Bernie crowd. Establishment statists mouthing proto-revolutionary slogans are the most laughably insincere and unconvincing candidates on the slate - here again I cite my man Yeb! - and attempting to seem cool has led a 70-year-old woman to flail mightily at a cartoon frog as a serious statement of political acumen. It's painful to watch and with painful desserts. Please clap.

[Red Badger]

... “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” baseball caps on their skinless noggins.

I wonder what the writer meant by that little jab?..................

[OKSooner]

Booze, overeating, sedentary lifestyle, and resulting medical issues, written all over her. Also the guilt and stress of what she's been doing for whom for the last 8 years, have taken their toll.

Also the possibility of recreational drug use and other medically disastrous causes, but those are not certain. The former may as well be hung around her neck with one of Jeff Foxworthy's signs. Let's pray that they will be on election day.

[Mr. Mojo]

If Trump wins, we’re all going to be too busy moving to Canada

If only...

[OKSooner]

White, red neck old men is what I infer.

[Go Gordon]

wearing “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” baseball caps on their skinless noggins.

So the writer wants you to picture bloody heads? Idiot.

[Enchante]

ROFL you said this in June after the Orlando attacks.

You said the same thing after the Nice attacks.

If Trump was already guaranteed victory early in the summer, then it is not because of something more recent.

[dp0622]

I dont. We know.

[Red Badger]

I was thinking he meant ‘hairless’ instead, or maybe inferring they are Skin Heads..................

[CapitalistCrusader]

If Trump wins, we’re all going to be too busy moving to Canada

I'll chip for airfare. Just GTFOH!

[Pravious]

“The answer is easy. Because America is filled with sexists and misogynists who hate to see women get ahead.”

And racists, too, because a rejection of Hillary is a rejection of Obama (according to Obama).

[nutmeg]

LOL! That pic of Hitlery looks too healthy though...

[TigersEye]

LOL

[Pravious]

“Let’s not get too cocky people.

She ain’t lost nothing yet. Stay allert!!”

YES!

Remember - people elected Obama. The American population has clearly been dumbed down to the point where they’re barely functional and half of them WILL vote for the Witch (if they can figure out how to vote).

[TigersEye]

And those are her good points. And that’s not a joke.