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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOne concern I have about Hillary is ...
the Dems are putting all their eggs in one basket.
If the GOP manages to overturn the basket we are screwed.
Normally there would be several candidates so the opposition wouldn't spend a lot of money and effort to destroy someone who might not win the candidacy anyway.
This time it looks like they know who the candidate is right away so all their efforts can be focussed immediately, giving them 19 months instead of the customary 4 to find a chink in her armor.
Granted they've been trying for years to smear her and have never found anything substantial but there will be more money and effort than ever before dedicated to inventing some scandal that could take her down.
If they succeed, the Republican, no matter who it is, will certainly win.
We just have to trust that she will be able to dodge any new poisoned arrows they shoot at her as she has done in the past.
But 19 more months of doing this seems pretty harrowing.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)NT
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)I agree with you fully.
This is a case where they're the smart ones and they're letting us sink our own ship by not calling for more choices.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Hope in a few months time we will have more than one.
All their voices are needed to keep the RW on the defensive.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)And I think it is good this stuff is getting out early. But it doesn't help when the media take a partisan hacks new book as gospel.
Kablooie
(18,637 posts)Especially with Hillary constantly drawing the spotlight to her spot on the stage.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)They have been pillorying Bill for twenty five years and he remains America's most popular ex president and left office with higher approval ratings than any president in history.
I expect Team Hillary to fight back as they are doing and fight back effectively...
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)." Constantly drawing the spotlight".
She barely speaks to the media & her campaign stops have been quiet & private. Away from the spotlight.
What are you referring to?
Wish a couple more would either shit or get off the pot. Wish they would run so the media would have someone else to endlessly dissect.
Hillary hasn't been in the spotlight. That's not her campaign style at all. Quite the opposite.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Neither was Bill Clinton. I don't see that as an overwhelming challenge. People have overcome that in the past.
Rhiannon12866
(205,783 posts)I remember one headline on CNN back in 2008 that asked the ridiculous question whether Hillary Clinton was "too liberal and too angry..." I remember thinking WTF??! at the time...
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,783 posts)I decided I'd had it with CNN after the way that they covered John Kerry back in 2004...
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,783 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,783 posts)Among others, Howard Dean and Eugene Robinson are regulars...
wordpix
(18,652 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)are afraid of Hillary for some reason. I'm sure they should be and that in itself is almost enough for me to commit right now, but not quiet ready yet.
msongs
(67,433 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)I don't think Bernie will get the nomination, he isn't a Democrat for sure, that is a problem.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)So where are they?
840high
(17,196 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)Earth to Rocketship 5. Come in 5 . . .
There are certainly things that she has done that upset people and those may be substantial to others but they don't damage her political future so they aren't substantial in regards to her.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)I'm afraid that value judgement is up to the 45% or so who don't identify with either party.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Highlighted tonight on one of MSNBC's cable shows, either Rachel or O'Donnell. Bill Clinton got $500K to give one speech (I believe pd for by a foreign gov) while Hillary was Sec. of State ---just doesn't look good. Nor does holding a Clinton Found. benefit at a Goldman Sachs venue. Investigating these cozy ties will be front and center if Hill is the nominee so forget about issues like income inequality, infrastructure, war, energy, the environment, education, health care... Is this what we want 2016 to be about? NO!
Hillary as the champion of the 99% and standard bearer against income inequality is not palatable or credible considering all the $ the Clintons apparently have come into since they left the WH, according to Hillary without a penny to their name. And now, they're super rich! thanks to their rich friends who pay $500K for a speech. (One of tonight's MSNBC pundits said we can watch Bill Clinton speak for free on youtube :rofl . In short, the foreign donors and corporate largesse are tremendous problems for our "inevitable" candidate.
Go, Elizabeth, time to move into the debate.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)both parties will have all of their eggs in one basket. As of right now, the basket has a couple of eggs on each side. Kind of the way it works. Right now, neither party has them all in one basket.