2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIt's like they are pre-emptively swiftboating Hillary with THEIR negatives
A few weeks ago, it was all Clinton Foundation fiasco, and, like every scandal they throw at her, it is unfounded.
But then the Trump Foundation crime hardly made a blip on the monitor...
They bring up email when they want to obfuscate Russian ties...
And now, this 'health' scandal. Interesting that Don the Con left that ceremony early too, and no one is mentioning it
Vinca
(50,278 posts)Trump is still Trump whether Hillary is healthy or ill. He's the Chief Deplorable who probably won't get through the first debate without calling Hillary a bimbo . . . or worse.
louis-t
(23,295 posts)attention.
Jason1961
(413 posts)This election is Hillary's and it has been since 2008, she's guarded it pretty jealously thus far (sorry Bernie but you fell flat) so the Republicans, especially Trump use their only tactic, negative campaigning. Unfortunately it seems that forces are lining up to take it away from her, she's had the worst luck of any politician I can think of.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)and losing. Just because they get a jab in
here or there doesn't mean a whole lot.
In totality, Trump is getting creamed.
A total choke artist.
vadermike
(1,415 posts)Because this was here to win she has bad luck gets sick and is now going to
Lose automatically cause if this bukkshit ??? Geez if that's the case we are a more fucked up country than I thought
LyndaG
(683 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)"... so we have to attack his war record."
I'm just sitting back and waiting on that one, and in another twenty years, I'm going get to work to have the service records of every one of those Swift Boat Veterans permanently sealed for impugning the character of a fellow officer. For ever after, history will remember them as (name deleted for conduct unbecoming).
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)Watch what they attack her with...a few weeks later, THEY get shown for something *worse* but in the same wheelhouse, and it doesn't render even a blip.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)And being "deplorable" into the discussion.
If she said it doing a naked handstand they'd ignore it- but at a "private event"? Lol. She played them.
duncang
(1,907 posts)The I'm rubber your glue bit. You could probably go back through his entire campaign including the primaries and see what his problems are. His repeated Little Rubio line comes to mind.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)That means anything they attack Hillary on they are most likely guilty of.
wishstar
(5,270 posts)And their headline paragraph starts with "Newly released emails reveal former secretary of state was irked by Clinton "hubris" over email controversy"- so even these revelations where he slammed Trump far more than Clinton, are presented with emphasis on what Powell said about Clinton, to neutralize the effect