The Clinton campaign in a nutshell

[whatchamacallit]

Primary - Clinton runs to the left to secure the nomination. Her supporters tout her liberal evolution. Of course the trick is talk the talk without actually committing to any lefty positions the republicans could use against her in the GE. This would explain her reluctance to take a hard stand on many polarizing issues.

GE - Having secured the nomination, Clinton runs to the right to mop up. Her supporters forget about her "evolution" and tout her pragmatism. She returns to her natural, default neoliberal state.

If her campaign doesn't self-destruct, I think that's how it will play out.

[postatomic]

1. I can't believe how many Psychics there are here

Thanks for your 'reading'. Oh, can you tell me if I'm going to win the Lottery? Should I buy a ticket?

[libdem4life]

2. Newsflash...psychic and opinion and commentary are not synonyms.

And, you shouldn't be wasting your money at the Lottery, but that's not psychic...it's well-founded opinion.

[postatomic]

3. I've always thought that seeing into the future was being Psychic

Okay, I'll forget the Lottery. Thanks.

[AgingAmerican]

4. Rebut it then

[postatomic]

8. It's difficult to rebut an Opinion

It requires some level of fact based analysis and I don't see that here. This opinion is less about historical precedent and more about feelings. Feelings about a person that you are trying to present in an unfavorable light.

[Bjorn Against]

5. So are all the Hillary supporters who insist that she will be the nominee psychics?

[George II]

7. No, I think they're realists.

[Bjorn Against]

9. And I think the people who believe Hillary will change her positions yet again are being realists

[postatomic]

10. Nope. I'm certainly no Psychic.

I base my support on what I see in the 3 Dimensional World and I'm very confident that she will be the nominee. But, I could be wrong. I doubt it, but there is always that possibility.

[Bjorn Against]

14. So in other words you hold others to a different standard than you hold yourself

If others can't make predictions without you snarkily calling them "psychics" then your predictions should also be snarkily dismissed as "psychic".

[frylock]

6. Past history is almost as good a predictor as a crystal ball.

[postatomic]

11. I would love to see some past history to support this OP

Until then I will stand by my position that this is nothing more than a negative opinion based on personal feelings.

[HereSince1628]

19. THe basic pattern is play to the base in the primary, and to the middle in the general.

It's been that way for decades.

You have to get to be nominee so you -must- appeal to a majority of the base. This cycle, the base seems much more toward the traditional left. The successful candidates will all run lefter than usual.

But you also have to get a majority in the GE so campaigns move toward the middle, which for dems is obviously back toward the right from their primary position.

It's a theme that even ran across a handful of episodes of West Wing

[Autumn]

17. We have seen this movie before. No Psychics needed.

You can't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket and Hillary will run to the left but won't stay there. Just common sense.

[oasis]

12. What would her Supreme Court nominees look like? pray tell

Oh Knowledgeable One.

[hedgehog]

13. It is my opinion that the Democratic Party has a better chance

of winning the election if Hillary is not the candidate. So, given my concern over the Supreme Court.......

[oasis]

15. On what do you bias your opinion?

[hedgehog]

16. Having seen the elections of Nixon, Regean, Bush I and Bush II which I attribute

to poor turnout by the Democrats, knowing that many in the Democratic Party are unenthusiastic about her, knowing that many Americans absolutely hate her and fearing that Trump will be her opponent, I don't think she would be our best candidate.

[oasis]

18. Woman presidential candidate. Different dynamic. (eom)

[Fearless]

20. Sounds like the president actually

[whatchamacallit]

21. Yup, same playbook

[One of the 99]

22. Sounds like every other President

Run to your base in the primary. Run to the middle in the general. Nothing earthshaking there.

[Fearless]

23. FDR? W. Bush? Reagan? Kennedy?

[One of the 99]

24. Yup!

[Fearless]

25. Good luck with that.

[One of the 99]

26. Don't need luck

Have reality on my side.

[Fearless]

27. But you do need the last word?

[One of the 99]

28. Yup!

[GoneFishin]

29. Yep. And brought to us by the same bankster/corporatist Wall Street crowd.