Hillary Clinton is honest and trustworthy

[David Horn]

(08-15-2016, 05:08 AM)Mikebert Wrote:

(08-12-2016, 08:30 AM)David Horn Wrote: Hillary is very talented but also highly flawed.  She always sees herself under siege...

Are you suggesting she is not?  Presideint Obama is not a Clinton.  He is as gifted a pol as Bill--yet he is far more hated on the Right than Bill was. It is likely Hillary will be even more hated than Obama was.  Do you deny this?

Do you beleive that there exists an uppity Democrat* who would NOT be under siege by the right?

*Uppity means having the unmitigated gall to believe that someone like them deserves to be president--and then winning.

I don't disagree that, in what may be the final days of their party's existence, the entire GOP roster will do anything and everything to make the not-GOP POTUS squirm.  It's about all they have left.  In his time, FDR got the same treatment.  The difference between then and now is how the response was handled.  FDR stood his ground, and gave better than he got.  I don't see Hillary in that role, because it's not in her nature.  Worse, this is not something that can be handed to surrogates, so it will not get done. 

If she had any vision of where she is going and how she might get there, she should be moving her message away from all-Hillary-all-the-time to a unity message with the down-ballot Democrats.  She should hang Trump on the entire party and call for a wholesale replacement of Congressional GOPpers with people who will move the country forward, rather than sink in a mire of incompetence.  She should encourage others to do likewise ... but she's not.

There's actually a possibility that Pat Toomey might get reelected, yet Hillary is only focusing on herself in PA.  And Toomey is only one of several solid targets she's ignoring.  She may pay a high price for that starting in January 2017.  If the Senate remains in GOP hands, they'll burn the place down before they lift a finger to help her in any way, then they will put the blame on her -- probably with a modicum of success.