That'd be my guess...
Posted on 05/08/2014 6:53:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The GOP’s Benghazi disease has metastasized into yet another committee in the Republican House of Inquisitions, seeking to waste taxpayer money in yet another failed effort to exploit the death of Americans and prosecute yet another witch hunt against Hillary Clinton.
Clinton has answered. In her most important and profound speech since leaving the State Department, Clinton touted the benefits of ObamaCare and warned about the culture of gun violence that has killed far too many of America’s children. Speaking to the National Council for Behavioral Health, she called for redoubled efforts to redress economic inequality and a return to a society in which Americans care about one another, in an economy with rising tides that lift all boats. The battle is joined. The GOP addresses its partisan and extreme right-wing base with a venom toward others that mocks the legacies of Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. Clinton addresses the nation as a whole in tones reminiscent of Pope Francis, calling for a nation where no girls or boys have shorter life expectancies than their moms or dads. She champions an economy where aspirations grow higher while the number of jobless falls lower. She stands for politics where data and facts replace delusion and deceit. She proposes a discourse where mutual respect replaces the negativity and hatred that are trademarks of the modern Republican Party.
While the GOP looks downward and backward in its negative politics of derision, aiming its appeal to an extremist faction, Clinton reaches outward and forward in her positive politics of opportunity, aiming her appeal to the nation at large. If she runs in 2016, she could well carry 45 states and sweep into office many Democrats running for the House, Senate and governorships.
Ignore the vast wasteland of political “reporting” about a potential Clinton candidacy, such as the idiot punditry about Monica Lewinsky and the irrelevant bromides about who is allegedly up or down on Planet Hillary. Consider carefully, instead, what Clinton is saying this week.
Benghazi? We do not have enough fingers on our hand to count the House Republican committees that have investigated Benghazi.
But even after all of these sham public relations operations — sandwiched between long House Republican recesses and vacations — potential 2016 GOP candidates cannot see the color of Clinton’s pantsuit because she is running so far ahead of them.
ObamaCare? Clinton understands that by November 2016 there will be 12 million people, or perhaps 15 million or more, signed up along with children covered under a parent’s policy.
The Republican nightmare is Clinton in 2016 accusing the party that wants to cut Social Security and Medicare of trying to force 12-15 million consumers to give up healthcare plans they purchased, trying to strip people with preexisting conditions of the insurance ObamaCare provided, and telling millions of parents that their kids lose the insurance that ObamaCare gave them.
Medicaid? Let right-wing Republicans tell voters why they hurt their state budgets and poor folks by refusing to accept federal Medicaid money.
War against women? Let Republicans tell voters why Clinton is wrong about pay equity, better child care, paid parental leave and more help for poor women who deserve better than hungry children and premature death.
Jobs? Minimum wage? Income inequality? The GOP is busy creating jobs for GOP hacks working for partisan committees investigating Benghazi ad nauseam and for GOP flacks writing press releases advocating the repeal ObamaCare health plans consumers want. Meanwhile, Clinton is envisioning an America where parents don’t have to worry about their children being gunned down in school, workers don’t have to worry about being left behind in an economy without jobs, politics is not poisoned by hatred, and our social fabric is not torn apart by economic inequality and social injustice.
This week, Americans heard Republicans talk about Benghazi while Clinton talked about them. Upon such things historic landslides and realignments are born. Republicans, consider yourselves warned.
- Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and Bill Alexander, then chief deputy majority whip of the House. He holds an LL.M. degree in international financial law from the London School of Economics.
That'd be my guess...
In order for Hillary Clinton to win 45 states, she would have to be the Democrat nominee in 2016, 2020, and 2024. If she averages 15 states per election, she would win 45 states total.
Because she's famous. She even knows Oprah. :)
Hillary couldn’t even beat the community organizer.
“Don’t take the brown acid!” - Woodstock reference
Cruz is great. One of the few to confront the crooks.
I would vote for cruz any day of the week. Palin has been put through their smear machine too many times. The mud has stuck.
I would vote for anyone other than Hillary, but what does any of that matter if the machines are rigged.
I think she knows the machines are rigged because she wouldnt stand a chance otherwise. Benghazi hasnt gone away.
They boldly put her up because its her turn. Thats ridiculous. VOTER FRAUD!!!!
-——I would vote for anyone other than Hillary——
Heresy! Have you no principles? /s
The your expectation of Republican leader up against a Marxist soldier with the $$Mult BILLION funding of the worlds drug cartels, the man power of the nations unions, and the Soros propaganda machinery that would make Goebbel's proud? Your either one of their gargoyles on payroll, or a flaming liberal in disguise, or both.
Not in his wildest dreams.
RE: we will see Andrew Cuomo as the Dem nominee for President in 2016.
Yep, the same guy who FORCED gay marriage into New York and then said conservatives aren’t welcome in the state.
My point was simply that Pence and Walker have been able to keep in the background away from the line of direct media fire, to let their record speak for them.
This means they are free to define themselves rather than the media cornering them for demonisation before they enter the race.
Comprende?
Let’s see ‘we pick the losers’....you mean Like Romney and McShamey????
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