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Hillary's Bitter Clinging
National Review ^ | 3/13/18 | Michael Brendan Dougherty

Posted on 03/15/2018 10:47:29 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck

She articulated a central myth of the liberal elite: We are beautiful and successful because we’re morally superior.

Bitter clingers. The 47 percent who are takers. You’d think after Barack Obama and Mitt Romney got burned for coining these appellations, ambitious pols would learn not to talk about the opposing party’s voters that way.

Both those comments were said before private audiences and leaked out. But Hillary did them better by offering her diagnosis of the “basket of deplorables” at a public campaign event. And she refuses to learn even still.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: demshillary; elitism; hillary; hillaryclinton; populism
this, I predict, will remain a major problem for Democrats seeking office and the larger center-left going forward. Their desire to publicly announce and witness to their moral separation from the “rest” of the country frequently outweighs their better judgment on how to acquire power. The Democrats have lost the ability to denounce the “malefactors of great wealth” because they are led by an aristocratic klatch, one that can’t help adverting their contempt for the common man.

Democrats used to run their campaigns on the pretense that they represent the interests of "the workers" and "the common man" against a wealthy elite. They have long since dropped that charade. In fact, they often implicitly or explicitly base their campaign rhetoric on the notion that (white) working and middle class people are the enemy - only the wonder afterwards why those white working and middle class people haven't been voting for them for decades.

1 posted on 03/15/2018 10:47:29 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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Every time she opens her mouth, it’s a new assault on Americans. This campaign of hatred and bigotry by the Democrats is just as amazing as how the Democrats campaigned against Lincoln and the Norther States in 1860-61 which resulted in the Democrats starting their first Civil War. Today it seems as if they are getting ready to start their 2nd Civil War against the United States of America


2 posted on 03/15/2018 10:58:45 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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Their desire to publicly announce and witness to their moral separation from the “rest” of the country frequently outweighs their better judgment on how to acquire power.

Nonsense. They plan to acquire power through the use of deadly force, using methods developed by their 20th Century forebears.

This is why overcoming the Second Amendment is such a constant theme with them.

3 posted on 03/15/2018 11:00:01 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: ek_hornbeck

“I expected white working class people to vote for me. But they didn’t. I have no idea what made those stupid SOBs make such a poor decision. But I’ll make them pay as soon as I get back into power.”


4 posted on 03/15/2018 11:01:31 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The government cannot protect you and isn't even trying. Self-defense is a right.)
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To: ek_hornbeck

Hillary is a bitter clingon.


5 posted on 03/15/2018 11:02:40 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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She's the bitter clinger.

6 posted on 03/15/2018 11:07:32 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Steely Tom

When people tell you they’re going to do something to you... it’s best to believe them.

They usually mean it.

They’ve been telling us for years. In the Soviet Union. In China. In Cuba. In North Korea. In Venezuela.

Good luck with that here, Comrades.


7 posted on 03/15/2018 11:08:20 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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Hillary can kiss my bitter clingers!


8 posted on 03/15/2018 11:09:27 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Liberals can kiss my bitter clingers!)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

One can only hope that those ... public demonstrations of her good health ... continued and get even MORE gooder and betterer...

No one is more deserving than herself...


9 posted on 03/15/2018 11:09:42 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: ek_hornbeck

“She articulated a central myth of the liberal elite: We are beautiful and successful because we’re morally superior.”

Same sentiments from my high school days 68-71. Disagreed with them then, disagree with them now. Don’t give up the fight. :)


10 posted on 03/15/2018 11:18:32 AM PDT by Shark24
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“She articulated a central myth of the liberal elite: We are beautiful and successful because we’re morally superior.”

Which interestingly is also a strange heresy among a huge bunch of followers of certain Christian cults on TV these days. Prosperity gospel is spreading to the DNC.


11 posted on 03/15/2018 11:39:00 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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12 posted on 03/15/2018 12:02:04 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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A loving, caring, considerate nation would offer the Hildabeast permanent accommodation in an assisted care facility for the rest of her life.


13 posted on 03/15/2018 12:31:08 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Venezuela is Socialism perfected)
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Her mouth is why I thank God everyday.


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16 posted on 03/15/2018 1:07:34 PM PDT by DannyTN
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Rush is right.

The Democrats should be confronted with Hillary’s quotes and challenged to either endorse or distance themselves from her. On national TV


17 posted on 03/15/2018 1:50:06 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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“I expected white working class people to vote for me. But they didn’t. I have no idea what made those stupid SOBs make such a poor decision. But I’ll make them pay as soon as I get back into power.”

Hillary's campaign message to the white working and middle class: "I despise you and blame you for everything that's wrong with the world. I expect you to grovel and apologize to every racial minority, illegal immigrant, radical feminist, and transgender activist who is rightly offended by your very existence. Oh, and by the way, vote for me if you know what's good for you."

18 posted on 03/16/2018 7:44:40 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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A year after and all she can talk about is losing the election and it makes her crazy every second of the day. She’s created her own hell a la Dante’s Inferno, this is better than jail. I’d give up a lot to see video of her on election night from 5 PM until Huma could get enough vodak and Xanax in her to put her to bed. That would be comedy gold. I have no doubt that the tantrum was epic.


19 posted on 03/17/2018 7:36:56 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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