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In reply to the discussion: State Dept. watchdog: Clinton violated email rules [View all]Moostache
(9,895 posts)I have no personal animosity for either of the Clintons, just remorse for the lost opportunities of Bill's administration and a growing sense of dread that a Hillary nomination will give the USA a President Trump.
She is her own worst enemy. A terrible campaigner, prone to mistakes and secrecy for secrecy's sake decisions that feed the narrative about her - specifically that she is untrustworthy.
That is NOT right-wing attack material, its true. She DOES act in strangely secretive ways - with her staff, with her public records, with her advisors. There is a reason that Hillary Clinton is not seen as honest by >60% of the country, and while the GOP opportunists attempt to conflate that inherent character flaw into THE WORST THING IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY, their hyperbole does not erase her contributions to the narrative.
Red State is it's own beast, but pointing out that Hillary is bringing massive, self-inflicted baggage onto the General Election Campaign trail is NOT a right wing attack, it is a legitimate left-wing concern and I think Hillary's supporters need to start shoring up INTERNAL Party support and unity and stop courting the so called moderate Republicans. Her path to being elected depends solely on motivating and turning out the liberal base, not her more comfortable center-right positions and cohorts.
I want to be wrong here...I want Hillary (or the Democratic nominee in any case) to be our next president, I just hear the vitriolic hate that she engenders in Republicans and the only motivation I am seeing is being spit out by people who want to deny her the White House simply because she is Hillary Rodham Clinton. Pointing out things that fuel that burning hatred on the right does not constitute carrying the water for Red State. It is actually an act of Democratic Party intervention.
There is real danger in a Clinton campaign running totally off the rails as Trump goes full gutter in the fall...