Hillary for President

http://freebeacon.com/politics/the-bigger-they-are/


..."A similar disconnect characterizes Clinton’s domestic policy — to the extent that she has one. She wants to fix Obamacare. She is for equal pay for women, for voting rights for minorities, for same-sex marriage. But she has yet to find a heroic cause, an issue around which to rally the youthful and diverse Democratic base. There is no war for her to run against. She is not about to go the full Snowden and argue, like Rand Paul, for the abolition of the NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program. On marijuana legalization, another issue dear to the coalition of the ascendant, she is circumspect. The banks? She’s taken $200,000 paydays from Goldman Sachs and the Carlyle Group. The 1 Percent? Her net worth is estimated at $21.5 million.

About the only constituency that is truly excited about a Clinton run is the class of wealthy donors to the Democratic party and its pet causes, the power players and lobbyists and CEOs and film executives and trial lawyers and liberal bankers and green entrepreneurs who know that a Hillary Clinton White House would be a field day for special access, a celebration of cronyism, a flagrant and grotesque division of spoils. They see the way the Clintons have managed their foundation; they are aware of the consulting company, Teneo, to which the Clintons have been tied. They see the favoritism and glad-handing with which Clinton’s State Department dealt with Boeing, they remember the selling of nights in the Lincoln Bedroom, they ignore the fact that Clinton donors have a habit of winding up in jail.

Undistinguished, hawkish, corporate, opulent, for sale — Hillary Clinton is like a caricature of a Republican. As long as she can obscure that fact from the Democratic masses, from the anti-corporate doves whose social progressivism is far more strident than her own, she will be able to maintain the illusion of the impregnable frontrunner. But nothing lasts forever. Either Clinton will realize this soon, and spend out her days relaxing and cooing over her grandchild. Or she will realize it later, the hard way, sometime in 2016.

I’m not saying it’s going to happen. I’m just saying there’s a chance.

— Matthew Continetti is the editor-in-chief of theWashington Free Beacon"

Caricature of a Republican? I like that.

BlazerBob wrote: freebeacon.com/politics/the-bigger-they-are/


..."A similar disconnect characterizes Clinton’s domestic policy — to the extent that she has one. She wants to fix Obamacare. She is for equal pay for women, for voting rights for minorities, for same-sex marriage. But she has yet to find a heroic cause, an issue around which to rally the youthful and diverse Democratic base. There is no war for her to run against. She is not about to go the full Snowden and argue, like Rand Paul, for the abolition of the NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program. On marijuana legalization, another issue dear to the coalition of the ascendant, she is circumspect. The banks? She’s taken $200,000 paydays from Goldman Sachs and the Carlyle Group. The 1 Percent? Her net worth is estimated at $21.5 million.

About the only constituency that is truly excited about a Clinton run is the class of wealthy donors to the Democratic party and its pet causes, the power players and lobbyists and CEOs and film executives and trial lawyers and liberal bankers and green entrepreneurs who know that a Hillary Clinton White House would be a field day for special access, a celebration of cronyism, a flagrant and grotesque division of spoils. They see the way the Clintons have managed their foundation; they are aware of the consulting company, Teneo, to which the Clintons have been tied. They see the favoritism and glad-handing with which Clinton’s State Department dealt with Boeing, they remember the selling of nights in the Lincoln Bedroom, they ignore the fact that Clinton donors have a habit of winding up in jail.

Undistinguished, hawkish, corporate, opulent, for sale — Hillary Clinton is like a caricature of a Republican. As long as she can obscure that fact from the Democratic masses, from the anti-corporate doves whose social progressivism is far more strident than her own, she will be able to maintain the illusion of the impregnable frontrunner. But nothing lasts forever. Either Clinton will realize this soon, and spend out her days relaxing and cooing over her grandchild. Or she will realize it later, the hard way, sometime in 2016.

I’m not saying it’s going to happen. I’m just saying there’s a chance.

— Matthew Continetti is the editor-in-chief of theWashington Free Beacon"

OH PLEASE......THEY ALL DO IT......least we forget the Halliburton/Cheney/Iraq war connection
it just the "way" things are done in DC....I do however, STILL believe that the part about
"cooing over her grandchild." will be the end result.....rather than POTUS.....JMO

homeagain wrote:
OH PLEASE......THEY ALL DO IT.....

Is there anything in the piece that suggests that they all DON'T do it?

A reminder of the "rest of the story"..........it's Partisan Politics at play.....

It is not made clear often enough that Democrats are just as guilty of cronyism and that she too will go along with the system as is, one in which, among other things, the NSA increasingly abuses its powers against us, as pointed out.

Thank you for posting this. Are there any candidates at the national level, Republican or Democrat, whom we can look to at all who are for us?

Rand Paul I thought was going to be more independent but lately he has been talking to the Romney money guys.

homeagain wrote: A reminder of the "rest of the story"..........it's Partisan Politics at play.....

Just for you ha.

"A New York GOP strategist has asked a federal judge to delay his corruption trial, arguing that the legal proceedings could reveal Republican strategies ahead of the 2014 state legislative and gubernatorial elections, according to the New York Post.

Vincent Tabone, former vice chair of the Queens Republican Party who is accused of allegedly accepting a $25,000 bribe to allow a Democratic state senator to run for mayor as a Republican, has requested that his June 2 trial be rescheduled for December or later."...

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/n ... l-election