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Hillary Clinton

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BlueMTexpat

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Wed Dec 30, 2015, 09:53 AM Dec 2015

Daily Kos: Preview of Politico attacks on Hillary Clinton [View all]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/29/1464556/-Politico-previews-how-it-intends-to-help-Republicans-attack-Hillary-Clinton-if-she-s-the-nominee

Politico is at it again, deciding that Hillary Clinton will be "haunted" in the general election, should she get the nomination, by six "choice remarks and positions" she's taken in 2015. Because you know, unlike Clinton, the eventual Republican nominee will have never said anything controversial.
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But on to the real meat of the story, which posits that the things Clinton has said and positions she's taken will fuel a potential general election campaign against her. Those issues: on ISIS ("We now finally are where we need to be." Note that the Iraqis just had a pivotal victory against ISIS in Ramadi); on Republicans (the enemy she's most proud of, compared to the kinds of things Republicans have been saying about her and her husband for the past 23 years); on the nothingburger email scandal (her joke about wiping her server "like with a cloth or something&quot ; and her support for closing the gun show loophole and an assault weapons ban.
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Clinton certainly isn't running a perfect primary campaign and wouldn't be perfect in the general, but the idea that anyone in this Republican field could make hay on any of these things is pretty laughable. This Republican field, full of blowhards and pathological liars. Not that Politico won't do its very best to help.


Politico also has a lot of help from some here on DU.

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Thanks underpants Dec 2015 #1
The haters are playing to win on all fronts Protalker Dec 2015 #2
Mika Brezinski Tommy2Tone Dec 2015 #3
I didn't like her father either, a Kissinger wannabe. comradebillyboy Dec 2015 #4
Mika loves being 'one of the guys' Rose Siding Dec 2015 #5
Good take on her Tommy2Tone Dec 2015 #8
Rats, hate to hear that Rose Siding Dec 2015 #10
Oh yes the men kept their jobs. Tommy2Tone Dec 2015 #11
Can't stand them Starry Messenger Dec 2015 #6
Those are quite weak. Dooshes. eom fleabiscuit Dec 2015 #7
Hillary will be the most vettedpresidential candidate, EVER. Thinkingabout Dec 2015 #9
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