I think I'm doing a re-think on Hillary...This "pile-on" of her is so ridiculous and just seems

[wyldwolf]

23. Actually the pattern is this...

People create trumped up "scandals" then whine about them incessantly. Even when MILLIONS are spent to investigate and prosecute them, the most we get is a blow job. But because people are tired of the incessant whining from the right (and the left) they give in like they do to crying babies. ANYTHING to shut the babies up. But after a little while they realize giving in to the whiners only empowers them.

The Clinton years were different, not because Republicans despised that Democratic president any less, but because of what they thought his particular sins were. They knew in their hearts that Bill Clinton was venal and duplicitous, and if you scratched any surface you'd find the corruption lurking within. But they didn't think he was betraying America, just that he was doing everything from running drugs to having his political enemies killed. There was no matter too trivial or ridiculous for them to investigate; it may have reached the height of absurdity when the Republican Congress heard 140 hours of testimony on whether the Clintons had misused the White House Christmas card list. And when he made for himself an actual sex scandal, all the resentments of the 1960s culture wars came gushing out, and at the end of it they were disgusted with a public that didn't share their moral condemnation.

By the time Clinton's administration was over, he did something that incensed Republicans more than all his previous sins put together: he got away with all of it, and in style. Impeachment failed, and the last Gallup poll of his term pegged his approval at a stunning 66 percent.

Barack Obama won't ever again get approval ratings that high, because of how polarization has intensified since then. But his term may well wind down without any of the mini or fake scandals of his presidency taking much of a toll. Should that happen, Republicans will insist that if they only had more time, and if only the media had paid more attention, and if only the public had its head screwed on right, then everything would have been different. But by then they'll be focused on Hillary Clinton, convinced that any day now they'll discover the scandal that will bring her down.

http://theweek.com/articles/542494/what-hillary-clintons-emails-tell-about-scandal-age-obama