2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A candidate that gets "damaged" by a primary run has no business anywhere near the GE. [View all]napi21
(45,806 posts)I think the Repugs, all of them, tried to damage, tarnish, and destroy Hillary for 20 fricking years! They accused her of every crime I can think of and some that I can't. Through all the investigations, nothing stuck because none of it was true. I've asked every person I encountered who they were voting for, and if they said The Con, I asked what they had against Hillary. The responses were all similar. I don't trust her. She's been involved in far too many illegal plots. When I tried to explain that "Yes there were a lot o accusations, but none were true, investigators never found ANY wrongdoing." They'd say, yea, he & her husband bribed or threatened the FBI and anybody else they needed to, to get her off.
I honestly don't know if there was anything she, or any of us could have done to overcome all the slime the Repugs threw at her. I've come to the conclusion that THEY WON. They wanted to make sure she would never become President. They created a wall of untrustworthiness that was just too high to scale.