2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFirst GOP "Big Lie" for the 2016 Democratic Primary "Hillary is Too Elite to Care."
Just as they did in 2008, the GOP is trying to muck around in the 2016 Democratic Primary the way Pat Buchanan taught them to do in 1972. Hillary has them scared. She has more balls than their ballsiest ex-pow military politician.
She has more real executive and foreign policy experience than their oldest, gray-est gray hair.
She beats the smart Bush...in his own state.
And, of course, no one in the GOP wants to see her debate this man
Therefore, the corporate media is now participating in the creation of a new Big Lie. This one goes something like "That Hillary is SUCH an Elite Snob. She may have started out cooking for Bill in a trailer back in Arkansas, but now she thinks her shit doesn't stink. Look at her globe trotting all over the world, drinking tea with queens. Look at all those $$$ that the press keeps putting next to her name in big, bold letters. How shameful! Someone like her would never understand the needs of an ordinary hard working American who has lost his job and his home."
This Big Lie is for Democratic Primary consumption only. If Hillary makes it through her own primary and is the nominee, the GOP will quickly remind its own party faithful that Hillary is an armpit hair toting, Marx reading, "cooks her own supper" trailer park trash slut of a woman who will never in a million years understand the special needs of corporate executives.
It isn't too late to order your own copy of Mytholgies by Roland Barthes. Don't become road kill on the information superhighway. "Consume" the news, before the news "consumes" you.
abakan
(1,815 posts)I'm afraid they are going to have to do better than this. The hypocrisy is legend......
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)And the Dems are more organized, because Citizens United has pitted a bunch of crazy as shit criminal billionaires like Sheldon Adelson and the Kochs against each other. I don't know which Tea Party darling I favor. They are all so delightfully deranged.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)Republicans seem stuck in a place wehre they accuse democrats of doing what they do - apparently it is OK for them to be like that, but not democrats - so lets make up somne shit about them and say it loud and often so some jerks will believe it.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)The GOP can not talk about their pitiful platform and high is if the Democrats are foe it then we are against it. You probably not see many lists of Hillary's accomplishments next to another candidate because there will be great differences in the accomplishments.
rocktivity
(44,572 posts)Last edited Sat Jun 28, 2014, 05:48 PM - Edit history (1)
...because he's not elite enough..."Have they ALREADY forgotten how well that worked out for them the LAST time around?
rocktivity
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,587 posts)rocktivity
(44,572 posts)If we ever need YOUR advice about marketing OUR candidates, we'll ASK you for it.
You concentrate on the care and feeding of YOURS, and we'll concentrate on the care and feeding of OURS.
rocktivity
justhanginon
(3,289 posts)you can take a tax deduction for your dancing horsey ala Mittens and queen ann!
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)This one doesn't work for the GOP.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)Hillary was strictly middle class, but Bill's family was working class. In 1992 when Bill ran for president, his governor's salary was a measly $35K per year. Hillary was the breadwinner of the family. They had the lowest net worth of any presidential couple since Truman and that includes the two couples who came after them. Bush is very wealthy and Obama was worth more than $4M in 2007.
People know that any substantial money that they have made was earned after they left the WH. They know that they weren't in politics for the money.
One thing though, Hillary can't cook. She can make a salad and scrambled eggs, that's about it.