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Brent Budowsky: How Hillary can win big
The Hill ^ | March 18, 2015 | Brent Budowsky

Posted on 03/20/2015 12:10:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

While Hillary Clinton is under attack from taxpayer-subsidized partisan inquisitions by Republicans in a Congress that is disapproved of by nearly 73 percent of Americans, according to Real Clear Politics, 57 percent of Americans would be proud to have her as our president, according to a new Gallup poll, and she leads all Republicans by double digits in a new CNN poll.

Yesterday, I discussed why Clinton could win big in 2016. Today, we consider how.

True politics is about the narrative of the nation and the stories of our people. We are like protagonists in a great American novel about our country as we engage in a human drama of mortgages, frustrations, faiths, families, ambitions and dreams.

Politicians who win and presidents who matter develop special bonds with citizens who believe the leaders they elect will make life better in the daily dramas of the lives they lead. This is the romance and music of politics, the flesh and blood of the campaign that the candidate who would be the first woman president of the United States has the capacity to wage well and win big.

Hillary Clinton is one of the most widely known leaders in the land. With 57 percent of our people feeling they would be proud to have her as president, she has a dramatic head start building the bond that matters the most in presidential politics.

What Clinton can do in her conversation with America is broaden this bond by trusting the voters and taking them into her confidence, telling them the stories of her life, listening to their stories and explaining her dream of lifting their lives by serving as their president.

She can do this in town meetings and living rooms, with humor and charm, with sincerity and compassion. She can say what it was like to be partnered with a president while they created tens of millions of jobs, lifted millions out of poverty and steered the economy to heights of prosperity — the bedrock of a living American dream.

Clinton can bring to life her conversation with America by creating, and participating in, the largest social media site in history to organize an unprecedented mobilization of women and men, to deluge Congress and demand it enact equal pay for women, a higher minimum wage for workers, a program to create high-wage jobs to rebuild America and make government work the way it did during the Bill Clinton presidency.

The former secretary of State can bring alive again the public spirit of the Kennedy years by reaching out to find a new generation of citizens from all walks of life to staff her government with new people, bringing new ideas from business, academia, philanthropy and faith-based services.

Clinton can work with and propel upward next-generation leaders in Congress such as Reps. Joaquín Castro (D-Texas), Joseph Kennedy (D-Mass.), Patrick Murphy (D-Fla.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and John Delaney (D-Md.), and work assiduously with Democratic leaders to recruit next-generation stars to run for the House and Senate.

Clinton can talk the talk of faith, quoting Pope Francis and the Judeo-Christian ethic, and walk the walk of faith, championing the poor, the hungry, the homeless, the children and the jobless in light of her personal faith and the common values of faiths everywhere.

With Angelina Jolie being the most popular woman in the world, according to a recent poll, Clinton can bring artists and athletes to American civic life, not only because of their wealth and fame, but because of the causes they champion and the good they do in service to the country on issues they care about deeply, as Sinatra and friends championed civil rights during the Kennedy years, as Brad Pitt helped rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, as Bruce Springsteen and Gary Sinise do in service to vets.

If Hillary Clinton champions the best of America, the first woman president will soon lead America.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillary
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No, he's not a high school senior or college freshman writing for the school newspaper or some local weekly. He's 63 and a Democratic operative.
1 posted on 03/20/2015 12:10:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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I have never believed that Hilldog will be the democrat nominee in 2016. I still don’t.


2 posted on 03/20/2015 12:18:34 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can the democrat Messiah scam really work twice in a row?
And this time with an old washed up hag who has more baggage than Delta?

I wonder what House Obama will drop on the wicked witch of the west next.


3 posted on 03/20/2015 12:32:08 AM PDT by Rad_J
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Tax payer subsidized partisan inquisitions”? Brent Budowsky huh? A card carrying member of Daily Kos and Democratic Underground?
BTW, Hilary Clinton should be ahead of everyone else in the polls based on name recognition alone, same as Giuliani was ahead of all GOP candidates this time 8 years ago purely on his name recognition and popularity as “America’s mayor” following 9/11. Brent Budowsky conveniently forgets that Hilary Clinton was far ahead of Obama in the polls this time 8 years ago. How did that work out?


4 posted on 03/20/2015 12:46:44 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Butcheress of Benghazi already served her 8 years as President.


5 posted on 03/20/2015 12:51:13 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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The Beast can win big if her opponent is Jeb.
6 posted on 03/20/2015 1:39:55 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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It is a wonder he could still write this screed with his lips so locked to her butt.

“bonding, conversation, listening(my favorite for ‘I really don’t have any ideas’), working with (as if), talking.....blah, blah, blah.”

This tripe is so childish, I’m almost embarrassed for her side.


7 posted on 03/20/2015 1:42:10 AM PDT by Gaffer
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I swear that if she wins, then I will move to Alaska and eat nothing but tree bark..and I still won’t be as crazy as the Pinheads who voted for her.


8 posted on 03/20/2015 2:04:44 AM PDT by catbertz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary is still the favorite, due to the incredibly weak GOP field. But I believe it is her brain health that will do her in. She is simply much more ill than anyone (especially her) realizes, according to my former college roommate and neurologist. He said her brain injuries will lead to regressive memory and speech issues, vertigo, double vision and periodic strokes in the next 10 years.


9 posted on 03/20/2015 2:33:15 AM PDT by montag813 (Pray for Israel)
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Here’s how she’ll win....STupid women, feminized men, gays, atheists ,Marxists, Communists, anti-American Americans and ILLEGALS.


10 posted on 03/20/2015 3:01:06 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: catbertz

You say that now, but recall that gwbush’s election didn’t rid us of any Baldwin brothers. :-)


11 posted on 03/20/2015 3:49:18 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We need to go back and interview this guy in two years. Make sure to get it on tape. Have him read the article, and then explain the current situation.


12 posted on 03/20/2015 4:03:32 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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Clinton can talk the talk of faith, quoting Pope Francis and the Judeo-Christian ethic, and walk the walk of faith, ...

I thought her GF was muslim.

13 posted on 03/20/2015 4:23:47 AM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet into FlixNet)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
The Butcheress of Benghazi already served her 8 years as President.


14 posted on 03/20/2015 4:47:26 AM PDT by Iron Munro
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The liberal press blindly thinks that congress is disliked because it is not liberal enough. They completely miss the large segment of the country that dislikes congress because it’s not conservative enough. Sorry Brent, but the ability to work with Reps. Joaquín Castro (D-Texas), Joseph Kennedy (D-Mass.), Patrick Murphy (D-Fla.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and John Delaney (D-Md.), simply does not float my boat.


15 posted on 03/20/2015 4:51:19 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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“She can do this in town meetings and living rooms, with humor and charm, with sincerity and compassion.”

She hasn’t an ounce of it in her body. She’s a sociopath.


16 posted on 03/20/2015 4:52:05 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: jospehm20

Of course she won’t be the Democratic nominee.

They play to win. She is a proven loser. And, since she was exposed by “Obama”, she’s eight years older, haggard, with a voice like a fingernail on a blackboard - the very idea that she would be a major party nominee, not to mention win a Presidential election?

Ridiculous.


17 posted on 03/20/2015 4:53:29 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise. .)
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To: Ann Archy
Here’s how she’ll win....STupid women, feminized men, gays, atheists ,Marxists, Communists, anti-American Americans and ILLEGALS.

She'll be President. But she won't need any of those things to do it.

Republicans will claw each other to bits over minor or perceived flaws. By the time the general election rolls around, it will be over.

18 posted on 03/20/2015 4:59:23 AM PDT by TontoKowalski
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“Here’s how she’ll win....STupid women, feminized men, gays, atheists ,Marxists, Communists, anti-American Americans and ILLEGALS.”

There are two ways she will win.

1. LIE. She is even better than Obama at it. And she has the operatives in the media to cover for her.
2. She doesn’t go through the nominating process. Someone else wins the nomination. drops out in mid October and in a glorious ascension she is recruited as the country’s savior. They can even recycle the columns from Obama’s gala.


19 posted on 03/20/2015 5:14:33 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The answer to that is simple.

Use the media to browbeat the GOP into nominating a squishy slug like Jeb Bush.


20 posted on 03/20/2015 5:47:42 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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