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Why Do Democrats Feel Sorry for Hillary Clinton?
New York Magazine ^ | April 14, 2017 | by Andrew Sullivan

Posted on 04/14/2017 8:52:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

... I’ve done what I could in this space to avoid the subject of Hillary Clinton. I don’t want to be the perennial turd in the punchbowl. I’d hoped we’d finally seen the last of that name in public life — it’s been a long quarter of a century — and that we could all move on. Alas, no.

And everywhere you see not an excoriation of one of the worst campaigns in recent history, but an attempt to blame anyone or anything but Clinton for the epic fail. It wasn’t Clinton’s fault, we’re told. It never is.

Clinton had the backing of the Democratic establishment, and was even married to the last, popular Democratic president. As in 2008, when she managed to lose to a neophyte whose middle name was Hussein, everything was stacked in her favor. In fact, the Clintons so intimidated other potential candidates and donors, she had the nomination all but wrapped up before she even started.

“But … but … but …” her deluded fans insist, “she won the popular vote!” But that’s precisely my point. Any candidate who can win the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes and still manage to lose is so profoundly incompetent, so miserably useless as a politician, she should be drummed out of the party under a welter of derision.

Whenever she gave a speech, you could hear the air sucking out of the room minutes after she started. In the middle of an election campaign, she dismissed half of the Republican voters as “deplorable.” She lost Wisconsin, which she didn’t visit once. I could go on.

And so I find myself wondering at odd times of the day and night: Why is Trump in the White House? And then I remember. Hillary Clinton put him there.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andrewsullivan; clinton; crookedhillary; dopeydems; hillary; hillary2016
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To: caww

As much as I would like to see that happen, she’s all they have. And they have invested a mess of money, time, and bodies in her. She also knows where the bodies are buried, literally, and she is still stupid enough to have aspirations for power so she can get her fix for it. She has never done anything successful in her life other than bed Bill to create the next generation of liars and idiots through Chelsea. And that has already started with their foundation.

red


41 posted on 04/14/2017 8:32:26 PM PDT by Redwood71
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Why Do Democrats Feel Sorry for Hillary Clinton?

They don't!

They feel sorry for THEMSELVES!!!

She was merely the process thru which they thought to retain power.

42 posted on 04/15/2017 2:40:29 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
America will pay dearly if we ever elect Hillary President.

We've already seen what the 'cost' of CHOICE is.


How many more dead future American Citizens will it take to wake us up?

43 posted on 04/15/2017 2:42:31 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She’s a horrible person and Democrats have more than their share of miserable people in their ranks.


44 posted on 04/15/2017 3:04:15 AM PDT by Vision (Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid - Reagan)
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To: Redwood71

Yep......the only reason she’s still standing is because she has the goods on many.


45 posted on 04/15/2017 6:16:30 AM PDT by caww
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The article starts off very well but then he has to dump on Trump.


46 posted on 04/15/2017 6:40:00 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She may have done worse in Wisconsin if she had visited, lol.


47 posted on 04/15/2017 12:58:25 PM PDT by Impy (End the kritarchy!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Read this article and see how a committed never-Trumper cannot exist more than a few minutes outside of their own narrow-mindedness. Pokes his widdle head out of the hole and sucks it right back in. Smarter than you, better than you, more astute than you, knows what’s better for you than you.


48 posted on 04/15/2017 8:31:11 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: Billthedrill

“Quite a bipolar piece from Sullivan, and one measure of how the Dems he’s talking about don’t get it is that he doesn’t himself. Three paragraphs wasted in an insensate misrepresentation of Trump’s first weeks in office didn’t help. It isn’t a New York real estate developer that’s the problem, it’s the New York media.”

You read it precisely as I did.


49 posted on 04/15/2017 8:32:58 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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