I am going to say it. Hillary Rodham Clinton was correct when she said...

[madinmaryland]

"There is a vast right wing conspiracy" in this country. The fact is there are now indictments saying exactly that. Conspiracy against the United States of America. It will be right wing conspiracy and it WILL be VAST.

Thank you Hillary Rodham Clinton for noting this 25 years ago.

[Squinch]

1. Also about that "deplorables" thing.

[ClarendonDem]

3. Massive error for her to say that

Might be president today if she hadn't.

[Va Lefty]

4. You may be right. You don't win elections in this Country be telling the truth!

[Little Star]

6. Putin is the real reason she is not president imho........

The election was stolen from her & us. Trump is a fake president who was not elected by the people.

[RKP5637]

7. It was the right idea, but really poor word choice IMO. n/t

[world wide wally]

31. Yeah, she should have used the word assholes

[RKP5637]

33. Good choice!!! n/t

[bigtree]

9. interesting

...we're to be slaves now, I suppose, to whatever republican, conservative bullshit they spread around.

She was right, and it was good politics, if you're more concerned with organizing Democrats than sucking up to opposition pols and pundits looking to deflect from their criminal, treasonous party.

We need more people to speak truth to power, not a generation of politically timid legislators more concerned with their deplorable supporters than with the sane, majority of Americans who see right through republicans' self-serving bullshit.

[samnsara]

11. its sad when our society will condemn a woman for saying..

..something as bland as deplorables and trump is rewarded for being an admitted sexual predator. If our country is THAT FUCKED UP then Hillary wouldn't have won if she called them all angels.

[ClarendonDem]

12. I'm not saying she was wrong

Just that it was a mistake.

[leftofcool]

14. No it was not.

You can keep on believing that if you like.

[ClarendonDem]

17. Of course it was

Even HRC admits it was a mistake. Why would you pretend otherwise? https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/09/09/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-basket-of-deplorables/index.html

[ChubbyStar]

30. She did not say it was a mistake

She said she REGRETS saying it. Keep digging Clarendon.

[ClarendonDem]

34. So you think it helped Hillary

To call folks "deplorable"? If so, you aren't paying attention. Huge mistake, and just about everyone admits it, even HRC and HRC's supporters (which include me).

On edit, read this and let me know if you think HRC would like to have that comment back - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clinton-trump-deplorables-2016-election_us_59b53bc2e4b0354e44126979

[ChubbyStar]

36. Did i say it helped her?

Fishing is fun huh?

[ClarendonDem]

37. Fishing can be fun

But I'm just trying to understand what you think about HRC's deplorable statement. I've said it was a mistake, and it hurt her election chances. Do you agree? If not, do you think her deplorable statement helped her? You keep attacking me Chubby, and ignoring the import of what HRC said.

[ChubbyStar]

40. Sorry not playing

[ChubbyStar]

44. Hilarious

[ClarendonDem]

45. Disagree

Trolling on DU is discouraged, not hilarious. Despite that, I invite you to opine on HRC's deplorable statement.

[leftofcool]

15. No shit!

[Squinch]

43. This exactly. And the reason she didn't win was not because of any statement she made.

She lost because the fix was in.

In Russia.

[Xipe Totec]

23. Deplorable if true. nt

[Squinch]

39. She's not president today because of a lot of other issues. She told the truth with that statement.

[ChubbyStar]

41. Yes she did!

[magicarpet]

22. Also HRC was the first to ring the alarm...

about Russia and tr-dump being Putin's puppet.

tr-dump was so hurt by the accusation he hit back and hollered out with his - no your the puppet... your the puppet as he interrupted her mid-sentence.

HRC hit the nail top dead center on the head, he was hurt and offended by the truth and reality of correctly labeling him so.

[Squinch]

38. Yes she did!

[Control-Z]

49. I don't know if many have thought about it

or even noticed, but if I'm not mistaken, that happened right before the weekend when she had trouble standing and needed help getting into the car at the 911 ceremonies - because she had PNEUMONIA.

I remember thinking she didn't look well while she was speaking after she had gotten off her plane, I think it was on Friday. And when she made the deplorable comment, as accurate as it was, it didn't sound like something she would normally say. When she had trouble on Sunday and we found out the reason why the comment made perfect sense to me. Just my 2 cents.

[Panich52]

2. She was right about a lot of things,

Esp concerning Trump

[oasis]

5. I never doubted the validity of her VRWC statement.

The evidence was always there for those who were willing to open their eyes.

[RKP5637]

8. There is a strong conspiracy IMO by the RW to bring the US down, and they call

themselves patriots, the real Americans and all of that BS. Now it's easy to see why Joseph Goebbels was so successful in WWII Germany. They had damn fools too.

[Kath2]

10. Right on.

It was true then is true now more than ever.

[joshcryer]

13. When she said that in the 90s it sounded like crazy talk.

But it's the reality. She and Bill were under investigation for the entirety of their careers. The right wing literally spent tens of millions investigating them. Tens of millions. In retrospect and in reality, it's completely uncontroversial that she said that and absolutely true.

[murielm99]

16. I thought it was true when she said it.

I thought they were ridiculing her because the comment hit too close to home.

[BadgerMom]

21. Me, too.

It was true then but discounted at the time. As time has passed, it’s become clearer and clearer just how true the statement was and is.

[Gabi Hayes]

35. It was discounted because the nyt and wapo were in the vanguard, following the lies of David bossie,

that pig from newsmax, and assorted other
Professional liars who’ve been feeding at Clinton fake news trough for 25 years +

Just google Gerth fools for scandal, for starters

[Glorfindel]

18. " Thank you Hillary Rodham Clinton for noting this 25 years ago" and for many, many other things too

In my opinion, she would have been the most qualified and effective female leader of any country, anywhere, since Queen Elizabeth I of England and one of the most qualified leaders of any country, anywhere, in the history of the world. What a sad loss for our country.

[ProudLib72]

19. Then the right wing meme should be

HRC knew about our conspiracy and did nothing! Lock her up! Anything ending with those three words is accepted as gospel truth by deplorables.

[Podkayne K]

20. And all the other D's

deplorable, disgusting, dastardly, despicable, diabolic, disdainful, dirty, damnable, degenerate, debased, and depraved.

[BigmanPigman]

25. And they are using a whole different set of "D's" now to continue their plan...

of using Distraction, Division, and Diversion to hide from the facts/truth.

[ChubbyStar]

46. Don't forget DEFLECT

They love that tactic

[Podkayne K]

47. DEFINITELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

24. Richard Mellon Scaife...

... and that's all you need to know! Thought I would provide a seed towards mind expansion on a Saturday night. Google is your friend! So is Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, et al...

[jalan48]

26. I thought this after both Kennedy's and MLK were killed in the 60's.

[alfredo]

27. The GOP was always dirty, not like now.

I blame it on them foe embracing the religious right. There was no way they were going to share power with the party, they wanted to rule the party, then all the levers of power in DC. A deal with the devil

[Iggo]

28. And they're deplorable. And they cling to their guns and bibles. It's all true.

We're just not supposed to say it out loud so we don't upset the bigoted assholes...um..excuse me...I mean, The White Working Class.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

32. I've been saying for many years

That the GOP as an entity and it's members should be subject to RICO indictments. It's looking more and more, to me, that I was right all along.

[lancelyons]

48. She was right that half are in a bucket of deplorables. Its very clear..

She was right that half are in a bucket of deplorables. Its very clear.. The GOP is chock full of deplorables.