2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I Listened to EVERY Second Of "Hillary's Show" With Rachel One On One Tonight... [View all]mikehiggins
(5,614 posts)That was an opinion flowing out of the tv earlier.
Why? Well, here's a hint...
Just list all the advantages she started out with. The media in the tank. Obama. Internationally known name recognition. Millions upon millions of dollars of support from business and special interest groups. Bill CLinton. All the unions. All the feminists. All the LGBT groups. Practically every elected official in the country with a D after his or her name. All of everything. The DLC headed by a crony. Debates set up to give her cover without having to say much about anything.
I'd go on but my typing fingers are beginning to hurt.
Her opponents? A clown car full of ridiculous GOPuke clowns, including another Bush for Christs sake. Four loser Dems including Jim Webb, Martin O'Malley, Lincoln Chaffee (Who?) and some balding septuagenarian grouchy old Jew originally from Brooklyn who now is somehow a sitting Independent Senator from Vermont who claims the mantle of democratic socialist, like we were living in Denmark or something.
Faced with a life and death contest like that would you lose even a minute of sleep about your chances?
The current situation is an unparalleled disaster in political terms. Even Tweetie and the Toad can see it for the train wreck its becoming. HRC most likely will manage to eke out a victory over the course of the next months, and she does have all those SuperDelegates to count on as well, but this campaign of hers can be doing nothing but reassure whichever GOPuke moron she ends up facing in November.
I think the operative term is "hubris."