2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe "Hillary is sick" angle...
Throughout this campaign so far, Hillary has played it very smart. She hasn't been on "silence", really, but I think it's fair to say her and her camp has played by the rule of "sit back and let Trump be Trump."
It's worked well so far, because Trump is a human garbage fire.
Trump and Co are rapidly running out of ammo, so one of their few tactics left would be to "flush" Hillary out, in the hopes that more air time would at least give them some more words to twist against her.
So their plan? Tell everyone she's sick. "Make" her come out make more appearances. They know she's not sick. None of the media lizards believe it, but they'll all parrot the hell out of it. Only the real right wind morons might think it's true.
To their credit, I think drawing her out a bit more might have worked. She has been a little more out in the open the past couple of weeks.
The problem with their plan, of course is, the woman is a genius. Letting the idiot Trump hang himself was the smart move because it wastes little energy, little money, and just gives us more talking points. But them flushing Hillary out is like a heard of goats flushing out a lion.
She can wipe them out with her words just as easily as they can wipe themselves out with their own. Just another failed plan from their "master strategists".
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)spectacularly. First that wretched dr drew's show was canceled this morning and this article from cnn give the whole argument the scorn it deserves.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/23/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-health/
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Idiot Republicans never learn from their mistakes, even though we tell them everyday what they are doing wrong. My patience with them is paper thin at this point. I'm gonna tell them one more time:
You can't hate your way to the Presidency.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)ReformedGOPer
(478 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)Trump and his surrogates have been trying to paint her as a cartoonish stereotype for mature women, as someone who is weak and feeble, infirm, mentally unstable, sickly, and even physically incapable of getting out of her deathbed without assistance.
Being fat and older than Hillary, Trump is trying to shift the focus on her because he can't risk revealing whatever health issues he has that would be exposed if his own medical records were made public.
narnian60
(3,510 posts)Hillary has never looked better.