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The Coming Hillarycult?
National Review ^ | August 15, 2013 | National Review

Posted on 08/15/2013 7:17:41 AM PDT by National Review

The Left may succeed in turning Clinton into a cultural icon in the Obama mold.

By Charles C. W. Cooke

Dispiriting as it is to admit for those of us who like our republics modest and our republicans unassuming, we are living through one of those bothersome periods in American history in which cults of personality are all the rage. Cory Booker’s victory on Tuesday evening was as inevitable as will be his coronation in the Senate, followed before long by the breathless and ubiquitous talk of a Booker presidency. Nevertheless, for all his supposed virtues, the celebrity mayor of Newark will have to wait his turn, for the Obamacult has a different understudy, and she is busily readying herself for a seamless takeover. I refer, of course, to Hillary Clinton.

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TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: 2014election; 2016; 2016election; election2014; election2016; hillary2016; hillaryclinton; nro; obama
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To: cuban leaf
Thing is, if she actually runs, all sorts of dirt will percolate to the surface.

From where? The nanosecond the dems start up their noise about a "war on women" the GOPers will dummy up faster than Lois Lerner.

21 posted on 08/15/2013 7:32:40 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
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To: t1b8zs

Oh my...bump so I can send out in email to certain women friends


22 posted on 08/15/2013 7:33:17 AM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: cuban leaf

“Hillary is done with elected office. She is the left’s equivalent of Sarah Palin, though Palin probably does see elected office in her future. She’s younger.”

Part of me agrees with you.

However, I try not to underestimate the lust for power that exists in the heart of tyrants.

It defies age and logic.

Hills BMI is the same as C. Christies.

I wonder if Barbara Walters will ask if she’s too fat to run, like she did Christie.


23 posted on 08/15/2013 7:33:30 AM PDT by Noamie
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To: Resolute Conservative

“She is a used up, old skag. Not fit to breath our air.”

Which is exactly why she’ll be the next president.

The Country Clubbers will run another moderate milk-toast against her and lose spectacularly.


24 posted on 08/15/2013 7:33:36 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: National Review

One of my homo neighbors had an Odumbo sticker on the car, and after the election, is now sporting a “ready for hillary” one, so i believe the article. Liberals gets more brain-dead as each election approaches.


25 posted on 08/15/2013 7:33:41 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: t1b8zs

Yep... I posted that on FR yesterday too... that Hillary is quite the lady, no?


26 posted on 08/15/2013 7:33:58 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
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To: National Review

If she runs whoever runs against her needs to cut the BS and quit the tiptoeing around the facts.Whoever runs against her needs to bring EVERYTHING to the forefront. All the way back to her college days.


27 posted on 08/15/2013 7:34:33 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: ScottinVA

Sorry didnt see it and search showed zip.I think it was OK to get it out again today and every so often going forward


28 posted on 08/15/2013 7:37:10 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: National Review

The word “cankle” will be removed from the lexicon.


29 posted on 08/15/2013 7:38:16 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: t1b8zs

“F**king Jew bastard” - HELLRY to Dick Morrris


30 posted on 08/15/2013 7:41:53 AM PDT by newfreep (Breitbart sent me...)
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To: t1b8zs

The sad fact is that none of those quotes, or more like them, are disqualifiers for the ‘people’ who would vote for her.


31 posted on 08/15/2013 7:49:25 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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To: t1b8zs
Sorry didnt see it and search showed zip.I think it was OK to get it out again today and every so often going forward

No worries at all.. I meant that it was a GMTA moment! I'm for someone putting this out every day if necessary.

32 posted on 08/15/2013 7:51:01 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
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To: ScottinVA
I just want to hear one real reason as to why they think she’s qualified to be President. I’ve yet to hear it.

They think she's qualified because she's a minority (i.e. a woman), and because she has by far the highest level of name recognition. (I mean, after Obama, the whole idea of being qualified has become very squishy).

They know that with the help of their friends in the press, her time living in the White House, along with her stints as Senator and Secretary of State (however ineffective or incompetence she was) can be spun as relevant, if not stellar and wide-ranging, experience.

33 posted on 08/15/2013 7:51:39 AM PDT by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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To: nascarnation

“Who stole the kishka?”

;^)


34 posted on 08/15/2013 7:52:45 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: jersey117
The chaos in the Middle East is Exhibit A of her abject failure as a Secretary of State.

Maybe there is a cadre of responsible people in the state department who will help ensure she isn't elected, like the Swift Boat group did for Kerry.

.

.

On second thought, nah, prolly not. Not in the state department.

35 posted on 08/15/2013 7:53:42 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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To: RobinOfKingston
The sad fact is that none of those quotes, or more like them, are disqualifiers for the ‘people’ who would vote for her.

Among the lo-fos, those quotes make her even more endearing.

What is really going to irk me... and I'm sure it's coming ... is the band of erstwhile "conservative" prominent women who will oh-so-earnestly stress the need to take part in a historical moment as the rationale for supporting her. A LOT of people we think of as on our side are going to disappoint us in 2016.

36 posted on 08/15/2013 7:54:36 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
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To: t1b8zs

“Whoever runs against her needs to bring EVERYTHING to the forefront.”

The MSM will dismiss EVERYTHING as “unsubstantiated allegations, no evidence, old news etc.” and attack Hellery’s opponent as “nasty, mean-spirited, negative, sexist.”
That is the point we will know if our (?) candidate has any guts to defy the MSM and keep fighting.


37 posted on 08/15/2013 8:06:22 AM PDT by Zuse
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To: ScottinVA

From where? The nanosecond the dems start up their noise about a “war on women” the GOPers will dummy up faster than Lois Lerner.


Things don’t stay the same. We will be in a different world in 2015. I suspect it will be a LOT different.


38 posted on 08/15/2013 8:06:32 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: ScottinVA
I just want to hear one real reason as to why they think she’s qualified to be President. I’ve yet to hear it.

She is not qualified to collect garbage. Odumbo was not qualified either, but he is there. To the leftists, if she is a loud mouthed, ugly old hag, she is qualified.

39 posted on 08/15/2013 8:07:14 AM PDT by Mark17 (Yesterday I couldn't spell it. Today I are one, a creepy a$$ cracker)
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To: woweeitsme
I still don’t understand the media’s love affair with Cory Booker. I realize he saved a person in a fire, but isn’t Newark still an awful, crime-infested sewer?

it's not about merit .... he's a gay black democrat ... what's not to love?

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40 posted on 08/15/2013 8:27:01 AM PDT by Elle Bee
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