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Inevitability
Comfort breeds laziness. Last time around, Clinton didn’t log the hours of retail politics needed to win Iowa, and then was shocked when she lost it. A month before the caucuses, she’d been to less than half of Iowa’s 99 counties—compared to John Edwards, who’d visited all 99, and Barack Obama who’d been to 68. “Part of the reason she lost the last time was because she ran as if she were the incumbent and she campaigned from behind the rope line as if she was in the White House,” says one of Clinton’s top fundraisers. “So she needs a complete attitude shift.”
Out of touch
In 2008, Michelle Obama pooh-poohed the idea that her husband would run again in 2012 if he failed in 2008. Why? Because they would be too far removed from reality by then and not in touch with everyday Americans. Mitt Romney was hammered in 2012 for saying that while he didn’t watch NASCAR, he had a lot of “great friends who are NASCAR team owners.”
And Clinton should know, since her husband used the presidential bubble against George H. W. Bush during the 1992 campaign. Clinton mocked Bush for not knowing the price of milk. So, perhaps Hillary should not be admitting that she hasn’t driven a car since 1996, as she did at the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting in New Orleans last month.
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Communications
Another 2008 problem was Clinton’s press operation. Her communications team walled her off from the media and treated every unsolicited inquiry—even if it was just for a t-shirt to help write a story on campaign schwag—as hostile. And yet plenty of her staff found time to anonymously trash one another to the media. By the time Clinton herself broke through those ivory walls to do shots of Crown Royal in April in Indiana, she was already well on her way to losing the nomination. If last year’s episode in which Clinton hit her head and had a blood clot was any indication, her press operation hasn’t changed much. Clinton’s people closed ranks around her and their inability to reassure the media and their miserly control of information about her health led to rampant speculation that Clinton’s condition was far worse than it was. Her handlers remain suspicious and hostile to most inquiries, especially any involving a potential campaign.
Read more: Hillary Clinton Could Be Her Own Worst Enemy in 2016 Presidential Race | TIME.com http://swampland.time.com/2014/02/09/hillary-clinton-2016-presidential-race-challenges/#ixzz2swkDbvOl
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Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)and linking to articles about her inevitability, you help to keep the focus on her as a Dem nominee.
Again, thank you, Cali.
You can also help by dnonating here.
https://www.readyforhillary.com/splash
EDITED: to include the donate link
cali
(114,904 posts)as if posting this helps her at all- or hurts her for that matter.
and what are you talking about, pretz? donating where, pretz?
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)showed up. I meant to link here.
https://www.readyforhillary.com/splash
I will go ahead and edit my post to include it.
At least now no one can honestly say Pretzel_Warrior doesn't have a heart!
Walk away
(9,494 posts)that they have NO ONE to run against her. If they had anyone they would write positive posts about them and stop posting anti-Democratic candidate crap all over a Democratic sight.
They practically had a cow because it was pointed out that Warren and Saunders had to make expedient decisions in the past. But they post long, strident and insulting threads all day and all night about the Clintons.
I was going to buy some hearts but I think I'll send Hillary some $$$. I was going to wait until 2014 but my district is solid Blue anyway.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)this was just an excerpt from an article.
you're projecting, hon.
I know Sanders makes compromises. He's my Senator. And sometimes I think (as with the farm bill) he's taken it too far, but he's not a corporate politician. hillary most certainly is/
She's disgusting. a real piece of corporate crap. her "beliefs" are calibrated and calculated to do one thing- advance her corporate ass into the Oval Office.
And whether there's anyone to support, has nothing to do with that she's a piece of corporate shit.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)It's clearly posted to further unite the Democratic Party and will work to see fewer republicans in office.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)I mean, how will Hillary drive "the Beast" if she hasn't driven a car since 1996!??!!
I can see Paul Ryan making this argument.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)This revelation came out recently. Funny how it gets dragged to DU.
Makes you go hmmmm........
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)No matter how many enemies Hillary has, the author of that silliness is not some one the Hillary campaign would ever need to fear.
Pisces
(5,599 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)I wouldn't consider voting for her in the primary for a nanosecond.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Hillary hasn't driven a car since 1996!!!
He dare she not increase her carbon footprint!
La Lioness Priyanka
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arthritisR_US
(7,288 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)And, touted by the 3rd Way in just that way.
cali
(114,904 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
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OKNancy
(41,832 posts)Most of the things in that list can be fixed. I figure she will learn from her past mistakes.
11 Bravo
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LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)had I not been paying attention in 2008, I would suppose that Hillary lost the primary battle very early and by a huge margin from the tone of this article. Since I was actually paying attention, I know that nothing could be further from the truth.