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.
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She’s a two time loser that was knee-deep in corruption. She also has over $100 million by selling political influence so why feel sorry for this sorry ass wench?
Whooo boy. Let the floodgates open.
Most Americans are morally good and can recognize a woman of bad character regardless of media covering for her...she is and remains her own worst enemy...then there is Bill......
Because it “was her turn”. LOL.
Answer: Because it serves their nefarious purposes to feign feeling sorry.
It provides them with a convenient "intro" to launch into a denigration of President Trump.
Regards,
...she dismissed half ALL of the Republican voters as “deplorable".
Re: “popular vote”
IIRC, JFK’s father told a campaign leader “I want a win, but I don’t want to pay for a landslide.”
Likewise Trump’s win. He needed to win by the rules, which he did. Winning another 3,000,000 votes wasn’t necessary, and at a cost of about $15 per vote that would have cost another $45,000,000 - just to shut up the “but popular vote!” crowd who would have complained about something else instead.
Had the popular vote actually mattered, Trump would have used a different strategy accordingly. But, it didn’t, so he didn’t.
America will pay dearly if we ever elect Hillary President.
Deplorable AND irredeemable!
When it is she who should be worried about redemption.
They aren’t sorry for her. They’re sorry for themselves because they lost their cash cow and have to find something to cuddle. They didn’t get their grief counselors and there are not enough puppies. So she still has a job.
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Either lock her up or deport her!
And also, the bench of potential Democrat candidates was unusually shallow and thin. After some 24 years of the Clintons breathing up all the oxygen in the room, except for a short period in 2008 when George Soros switched his support to a relative unknown and snatched the nomination away from Herself, then giving Herself a consolation prize of Secretary of State for four years. There was little if any chance for ANY development of a potential successor. Not in the Senate, not in the governorships of the various states, not in the House of Representatives, not even in the various appointive offices.
Answer: Because it serves their nefarious purposes to feign feeling sorry. It provides them with a convenient "intro" to launch into a denigration of President Trump.
I think you nailed it. They know she is a totally corrupt individual, and a terrible candidate. However, she was their best shot for keeping the White House under Democrat control (which tells you just how thin their bench is.) They knew it was a roll of the dice, but they were committed to her candidacy and must now stick to the narrative that she was somehow cheated out of the presidency.
A presidential candidate nominated just because it is his/her turn is sure to lose. The Republicans should have learned that with Bob Dole and John McCain.
As for Hillary being 0bama's biggest mistake in eight years by far, that is not a single blot on an otherwise stainless escutcheon, but merely one more glob of filth sprayed on a mountain of mud. Sullivan can't bring himself to admit that 0bama brought nothing more than melanin to the office, and it was far from enough. And why, precisely, we would have benefited as a country from estrogen being brought and nothing else tells me only that Sullivan has learned nothing from the last eight years.
The personality cult around Hillary is, to be sure, a bit of a mystery, a triumph of psychological projection from those who knew her least and of a mind-numbingly persistent public relations campaign. This "most qualified" candidate had a perfect record of incompetence, corruption, and personal aggrandizement in every one of the roles that supposedly "qualified" her. A wastepaper basket resting successively in the White House, a Senator's office, and overflowing with classified documents at the State Department would be this "qualified" if proximity is all it takes. And considerably less harmful.
It is refreshing to read a New York columnist defend his country against the pervasive accusations of racism - one notes that blind spot in 0bama's direction, perhaps the most racist occupant of that office ever - but what is this?
Asian-Americans are among the most prosperous, well-educated, and successful ethnic groups in America. What gives? It couldn’t possibly be that they maintained solid two-parent family structures, had social networks that looked after one another, placed enormous emphasis on education and hard work, and thereby turned false, negative stereotypes into true, positive ones, could it? It couldn’t be that all whites are not racists or that the American dream still lives?
Careful there, Andrew, that is not an attitude welcome in the thin air of New York intellectual heights. And, as long as we're bringing bigotry up (not to mention self-awareness), what are we to make of a fellow with the surname of Sullivan pulling in his kind of loot for scribbling in the Big Town so shortly after his people came stumbling in from the potato patch? Well, never mind, I suppose we should be grateful for any positive mention of the American Dream and two-parent families from the mavens of high culture. That those are points that we knuckle-dragging Trump voters have been trying to get through his thick skull all along doesn't appear to register with Sullivan. Could it be there actually is something to them after all?
You nailed it!
I still believe Trump really won the popular vote, but we won’t know for sure because absentee ballots were thrown out in some places, while the votes from dead people, illegal immigrants and convicted felons were counted in others.
“America will pay dearly if we ever elect Hillary President”
The thought of that makes my skin crawl......(shiver)
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