Hillary in 2008 -- Bill's Worst Nightmare
One aspect of Hillary's run for president that I haven't seen raised elsewhere is the terrible impact such a run will have on Bill's legacy. Anyone paying attention to liberals over the last couple of years should have noticed that Monica Lewinsky is the best thing that ever happened to Bill. As far as the left is concerned, Bill's only scandal was lying about sex. Remember, White House lawyers once needed several pages of their legal pads simply to list, single spaced, all of the Clinton scandals involving crime, corruption and dishonesty which kept them busy. With the help of his compliant cheerleaders in the MSM, all of that has been reduced to nothing more than he lied about sex. And, of course, to liberals the real scandal was that the GOP overreacted with impeachment (because of their hangups about sex).
As 2004 showed us, however, bloggers and 527s have joined talk radio as alternative sources of information. Does anyone doubt that some 527s will run hard hitting ads over the air and on websites which will educate a lot of voters to scandals the MSM never got around to mentioning? Or that bloggers will explore all the lies and coverups?
What percentage of the voting public knows who Jaunita Broderick is? Webb Hubbell? John Huang? Riady? Kathleen Willey? The pardoned Marc Rich and his financial ties to terrorists? Some might be inclined to write them all off as old stories. Yet, I'd be willing to bet that fewer than half the voters can tell you anything about any of them.
And what about all the scandals that the MSM stonewalled? The INS putting 100,000 felons on our streets to continue their crime spree rather than deporting them as required by law? How about the revelations by Colonel Buzz Patterson, keeper of Clinton's nuclear football, that our military had an operation ready to take out Bin Laden, only to have Clinton dither away the chance because he couldn't make a decision? Or the air strike against Saddam that had to be scrubbed because Bill was too busy partying at a golf tournament to get on the phone to give presidential approval?
Can anyone doubt that rehashing the old scandals and pushing new revelations around the MSM's crumbling Maginot Line will bring Bill's approval ratings down to their lowest level ever?
As 2004 showed us, however, bloggers and 527s have joined talk radio as alternative sources of information. Does anyone doubt that some 527s will run hard hitting ads over the air and on websites which will educate a lot of voters to scandals the MSM never got around to mentioning? Or that bloggers will explore all the lies and coverups?
What percentage of the voting public knows who Jaunita Broderick is? Webb Hubbell? John Huang? Riady? Kathleen Willey? The pardoned Marc Rich and his financial ties to terrorists? Some might be inclined to write them all off as old stories. Yet, I'd be willing to bet that fewer than half the voters can tell you anything about any of them.
And what about all the scandals that the MSM stonewalled? The INS putting 100,000 felons on our streets to continue their crime spree rather than deporting them as required by law? How about the revelations by Colonel Buzz Patterson, keeper of Clinton's nuclear football, that our military had an operation ready to take out Bin Laden, only to have Clinton dither away the chance because he couldn't make a decision? Or the air strike against Saddam that had to be scrubbed because Bill was too busy partying at a golf tournament to get on the phone to give presidential approval?
Can anyone doubt that rehashing the old scandals and pushing new revelations around the MSM's crumbling Maginot Line will bring Bill's approval ratings down to their lowest level ever?
posted by Stan at 7:16 PM
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All that said, it's not Bill that will be running. Some will vote against Hillary as a proxy to voting against Bill, but I'm guessing the majority will separate the two.
The guy that will have a nightmare media experience will be Kerry, if he's daft enough to try to run again. There won't be a complicit media shielding him from the consequences of his treasonous behavior as there was in 2004.
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