If you see it again in Hitlary 2.0 you know it will be over for She Who's Name Must Not Be Spoken.
Posted on 04/14/2015 5:15:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Please forgive me, but I'm singularly unimpressed with Hillary Clinton in general, but especially as a Democratic presidential candidate. I'm neither smug nor complacent about the likelihood of defeating her, but I am incautiously optimistic.
I hope I'm not wrong; the country can't take four more years of the same disastrous policies.
Frankly, I'm a bit surprised that Hillary appears to be the anointed candidate with virtually no one in the party surfacing to challenge her for the nomination. If she was ever a good candidate, her time has clearly passed, because the mythical image that she has invested so much energy cultivating for herself has mostly been shattered by reality.
Perhaps the main reason the Democratic Party can't come up with anyone to challenge her is that for six or seven years, it has put all its eggs in the Obama basket. Live by the sword, die by the sword. The dirty little not-so-secret secret about Barack Obama is that whatever personal popularity he enjoyed (past tense), it never spread throughout the party.
Not only has he failed to have coattails for other Democratic candidates but also he's been an affirmative liability, as the congressional elections of 2010 and 2014 resoundingly demonstrated. President Obama has been a party to himself, having sucked the party dry of whatever goodwill it once had.
I don't want to underestimate the extraordinary ability of Republicans to squander golden opportunities, but if the Democrats are lethargic, unimaginative and arrogant enough to nominate Hillary, the Republicans start off with an immediate advantage -- especially if they nominate a younger, vigorous candidate.
Why is Hillary such a terrible candidate, you ask? Let me count the ways, in no particular order, as many of them vie for top seating.
--Her main qualification is she believes it's her turn; she's entitled. It's not about what she can do for her country; it's about what her country owes her.
--Obama has been a dreadful president. Our economy and foreign policy are both in tatters. Our health care situation is barely managed anarchy. America's fiscal position, now and projected, is abysmal. People are out of work in record numbers. And never have Americans been more polarized.
--Obama's record necessarily taints Hillary Clinton for multitudinous reasons. Her husband's enthusiastic defense of Obama at the Democratic convention may have saved his presidency. Whatever policy differences the Clintons had with Obama, they effectively buried them there. If that weren't enough, Hillary was an integral part of Obama's administration as secretary of state, where she not only embraced his regrettable foreign policy but also contributed to making it worse. Though certain news reports alleged Hillary didn't agree with Obama on isolated policies, she has been vocally supportive of his policies when speaking on her own behalf, from Obamacare to Israel to "women's rights."
--Hillary cannot credibly claim that her economic policies would foster growth. She'll try to tie herself to her husband's economic record, but this century, she opposes all of the things that saved Bill Clinton's economy from Bill Clinton's policies, such as the forced controls on spending imposed by the Newt Gingrich Congress. Even if Hillary pretends to be a deficit hawk, there is no way she can disentangle herself from Obama, the most reckless spender in the history of the executive office. (And no, the reinstituted Clinton tax rates have not ignited growth but further stymied it.)
--Hillary is unlikable (see the latest poll numbers), conspicuously insincere ("I don't feel noways tired"), untrustworthy (see the latest poll numbers), arrogant ("What difference, at this point, does it make?"), elitist while pretending to be "dead broke," yet masquerading as a champion of the middle class and poor -- and liberal New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said, "Her paranoia, secrecy, scandals and disappearing act with emails from her time as secretary of state have inspired a cascade of comparisons with Nixon."
--She is scandal-ridden -- pick any era, from Travelgate to the present -- with Benghazi, the flushed emails and the sordid foreign campaign money.
--She fully intends to throw gender in our faces for the next decade. I trust that Americans are tired of the Democrats' identity politics always being placed above the national interests and -- to borrow a Democratic prop -- the good of our children. This country is going bankrupt, and that's going to affect every group, not just feminists. Besides, women don't primarily vote based on gender -- thank goodness. Also besides, Hillary lacks authenticity as a fighter for women's rights, considering that she was the combat war general in charge of husband Bill's "bimbo eruptions."
--She has none of Obama's faux charisma; in fact, she has almost developed a sort of reverse charisma. Not even a fawning, wagon-circling media can alter this.
--She says she wants to bring people together "into a nice warm purple space where we're actually talking and trying to solve problems." Nice try, but in the polarizing department, she's a close second to Obama.
--They say she's experienced, but bad experience is not a plus. Her record is shrouded in negativity.
--She's a permanent fixture in Washington. She makes insiders look like outsiders, yet she'll expect us to believe she wants to work for change. Speaking of which, how can she plausibly stump for change when she's wholeheartedly embraced Obama's policies? Then again, how can she afford not to promise change, given his terrible record?
--On top of all this, the Democratic base doesn't even like this woman.
I’m guiltier than most, being Irish, but I think we all have tendency to think evil people are competent. I.e., because Obama and the Democrats obviously would like to kill the American People (with abortion, nukes, disease, etc.), it’s natural to think they will succeed. Hillary! is a reminder that evil people can be failures.
And it spells HO.
If you see it again in Hitlary 2.0 you know it will be over for She Who's Name Must Not Be Spoken.
HO, HO, HO!!!!
Thank you for posting another great article. I think Hillary has made a fatal mistake by couching her run as a third Obama term. Did she miss the anger that put the Republicans in control of Congress for the express purpose of stopping the oBama agenda? Of course, so far they’ve done a lousy job of it, but hey could fix that with new leadership in both houses.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you and you’re very welcome
“The big issue that will hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign is her age—she will turn 69 less than a month before Election Day 2016.”
Ronald Reagan was 69 when he took office in 1981. But Reagan was hale & hearty, and exuded youthful vigor & optimism.
Hillary looks like a half deflated blimp in comparison.
The left is so threatened by an honest conservative woman that they become hysterical jackals. Sarah is too pure for their agenda and will fight them tooth and nail and Win! She absolutely terrifies them.
I don’t want a woman for President at this time because of who our enemies are in the world and how they view women. I want a man like Ted Cruz who will scare the Hell out of them!
Watch what you wish for. Free Republic poster ArtDodger says it like it is. This is why Clinton will be the next POTUS:
“Make no mistakes, she will have a tremendous backing, each and every one with a hand out. All the registered dem voters, all the blacks, all the latinos, all the jews, all the women, all the unions, all the government workers, all the greenies, all the welfare people, all the gays and all the liberals who think they are independents. Add to that the seniors after the MSM tells them the Republican candidate will cut social security, and don’t forget who the dead will vote for in droves. On top of that, SEIU has been servicing the voting machines for several elections now and they have the programming down pat. Same with the media, they have their propaganda technique down to a fine art. The IRS is up and running like a Dusenberg and awaiting orders to pounce on any political group that dares to think the incorrect way.
I tell ya, the ONLY thing that can stop this major push for Marxism is a very, very big explosion.
On top of all that dem unity, there is the conservative fracture. A large amount of conservatives won’t vote for the candidate because he is too far to the right, another large group won’t vote for him because he isn’t far enough to the right. Another huge group thinks he is too strong on abortion, another group thinks he isn’t strong enough. Groups are afraid he is going to let the borders remain open, others fear he is going to shut them.
The dems and the media have done an outstanding job of target groups that don’t like ... something... and then linking that something to the (R) candidate. He is too rich, he is too white, he is too religious, or he isn’t enough of any of the above.”
by ArtDodger
There are a whole lot of factors that favored the Kenyan communist that will just not be there for the Hildebeast. Like unusually high black voter turn out for example. And the charisma and ability to excite is just not there for Hilary. The Republican base will be very highly motivated to come out in their tens of millions to vote for a Ted Cruz. Just don’t see Democrat turn out being great for Hilary.
Yesterday she stopped to buy some food and wasn't recognized wearing sunglasses--it appears she did not try to interact with any of the employees or other customers. On Fox & Friends they were talking about it--Steve Doocy, I think it was, commented that Bill would have been talking to everyone and would still be there.
It worries me, because a convicted pedophile throwing puppies into a wood chipper on live TV could get 50% of the vote, as long they promised to steal from the productive and give a healthy share to their followers.
If Leftists were consistent, they wouldn’t be Leftists.
Hillary looks like a half deflated blimp in comparison.
Completely correct. Reagan--unlike Hillary--was BELOVED by most Republican voters by 1980. And he was such a sharp contrast to Jimmy Carter's "malaise" that a huge fraction of Democratic voters ended up voting for Reagan.
Another huge issue that faces Hillary is that she is one of the "political elites." As such, her stop at Chipotle looks really disingenuous (and will make her compared to Teresa Heinz-Kerry from 2004, and we ALL know how Heinz-Kerry got ridiculed back then).
I really think despite what the corporate elite says, privately they hate the increased business regulations and just about the highest corporate tax rate in the world during the Obama years. Imagine what corporate profits will be like with less business regulations and much lower corporate tax rate--profits high enough to actually do a broad-based economic growth that benefits everyone.
Yep, and if that happens, Republicans will have deserved it for refusing to crack down on the open primary states.
Bob Dole was a terrible presidential candidate.
“Then we get Jeb vs hillary, and it doesn’t matter”
I am by no means even a minimal Jeb supporter, but if it came down to Jeb or hitlery, Jeb would be the better of two evils by a very wide margin and regrettably “better or two evils” is often the reality of politics.
“Better or two evils” does not have to be our lot. For us to get a nominee other than Jeb means we have to contribute to and work for a better candidate, like Cruz or Walker. We can not sit on our collective asses until Primary day and not expect the Big Money guy to not win.
Add to her knocking more than a few back, the pictures of “ragged out” hitlery right after she got elected to Senate from NY?
Wish I had saved those photos.
I’m not sure you understand how big a deal letting Terri Schiavo die is with many who support life. I couldn’t vote for Jeb any more than I could vote for hillary. I would vote for a third party candidate that was on the ballot as that’s a better kind of protest than a write-in (they aren’t counted) or staying home.
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