Hillary Who? The GOP Can't Wait To Take Millennials Back To The 1990s

[DonViejo]

DYLAN SCOTT – MAY 5, 2014, 6:00 AM EDT

When the 2016 presidential election finally rolls around, many of the voters casting ballots will have been so young that they hadn't even attained what could be properly considered personhood when Hillary Clinton last occupied the White House.

Even more of them -- anybody up to, say, 30 -- will have only been children or adolescents during the Clinton administration.

For the youngest generation allowed to vote in the next presidential election, the Clinton years could be a hazy picture of the booming economy and budget surpluses that descended into the Bush years of 9/11, the Iraq War and the Great Recession. That is, unless conservative strategists have anything to say about it.

They don't expect a re-litigating of Gennifer Flowers, Whitewater or Monica Lewinsky to be their ticket to keeping another Clinton out of the Oval Office if Hillary decides to run. But GOP operatives are bent on combatting any effort by the pro-Hillary machine to seize on the nation's fond memories of the 1990s.

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[DetlefK]

1. Much more interesting question:

Who will be the GOP-candidate? An empty business-suit or a christian Taliban?

Let's recap:
- The GOP has no charismatic candidate.
- The GOP has a deep rift what kind of candidate they should present.
- The GOP has no record to stand on.
- The Democrats do have a candidate with name-power and track-record.
- The Democrats do have a record to stand on.

[IronLionZion]

7. They should run Jeb

Clintons and Bushes can rule America forever!

[joshcryer]

12. Huntsman is the only one I can think of.

But I doubt he tries again, last time he ran it was like being in a circus of insanity.

[tanyev]

2. GOP won't understand why the millenials won't give a rat's ass about that stuff.

[Kelvin Mace]

3. Here is what will stick in the mind of young voters about the Clintons

- Bill played the sax, how cool was that?

- All of the really rad technologies from the web, to iPods, to Napster, were invented in to the Clinton years.

- Amazon, Google, and Ebay started in the Clinton years.

- Bill got a blow job and it upset a lot of old people who seemed rather jelly about it. Also, a lot of the same old people are still around and are even older, and are still mad about the blowjob.

- Clinton went to war in some pace called Kosovo to stop genocide, stopped the genocide, then he brought the troops home and only 30 soldiers died.

- Everybody had jobs.

[IronLionZion]

8. sweet!

I think Hillary's going to win this one.

[Jamaal510]

9. And at least he never

got the country involved in a couple of pointless wars.

[CTyankee]

17. And wait until the young 'uns hear what the GOP thinks about contraception...

and how that lines up with being against abortion...the disconnect in logic is breathtaking and the young voter, particularly the women, will say "Huh?"

[Beacool]

4. Yeah, that's a winning strategy for the GOP.

Bring up the fabricated scandals of the 90s and the latest hit at the top of the charts, Benghazi.

Wash, rinse and repeat.

[dionysus]

13. some true patriot DUers will be all over the manufactured scandals as well...

[Beacool]

14. Yep, same vitriol, different party.

[dionysus]

15. that's why i made an overnight order from the banky factory. for you, dear;

[Beacool]

16. Oooohh, that's some fancy knitting.

Thank you, sweetie.

[pansypoo53219]

5. gee. i just remember an economy that was zooming.

[DonViejo]

6. If Jeb is the GOP nominee...

they'll have to explain how the zooming economy was ruined by his big brother, Dubya. That would seem to be a dangerous strategy for the 'pukes.

[MillennialDem]

10. 33 here, remember the booming Clinton economy and bullshit sex scandals the

GOP tried to make up.

Here's where it will kill them.

a. We aren't stupid. If anyone is guilty in the Clinton family of anything, it's Bill. Hillary did nothing wrong and to try to pin Bill's cheating on Hillary is ridiculous to anyone but a froth at the mouth GOPer.

b. We aren't sexual prudes like baby boomer conservatives are.

[craigmatic]

11. As a millennial I don't think any of what the repubs are selling will work.

We're poor, underemployed, and tired of their pointless mean spirited culture wars. I remember the 90's they were economic good times but most people my age give credit for that to the Clintons. We supported Obama twice and Hillary could probably win in a landslide because we just don't trust republicans who only care about the rich.