As I write this, I’m preparing for my day, having and spent the night at the Delaware Water Gap in New Jersey. It’s a beautiful morning here, and these hills are just gorgeous. I’ll head down to South Jersey later this morning, and then from there, who knows? I never know from one day to the next where I’m going to be, but that’s part of the game here. Welcome to my world.
It’s fascinating to me, that for all the questions being tossed at Republican candidates about whether or not they would have invaded Iraq, knowing then what they know now, nobody has bothered recently to ask Hillary Clinton that question. This, despite the fact she alone of the current crop of declared candidates was in a position to vote for the blessed thing in the first place.
If you want an example of how the press is protecting Hillary Clinton, I can’t think of a more potent one than that.
And why is it that nobody, but nobody has asked Hillary Clinton if she considers the current state of Iraq to be among her big accomplishments as Secretary of State? Again, protecting the favored candidate.
Now, she’s going to have to come out of her shell eventually. If you look at her poll numbers, the pattern that becomes very clear indeed is that when she says nothing in the press, when she is basically invisible to the electorate, her numbers go up. On the other hand, everytime she opens her mouth, her poll numbers drop like a bungee jumper, without the bungee.
Does that give you any indication of how she’s going to do, when we get closer to the 2016 election cycle? She’s not even polling well among Democrats these days, much less the rest of us.
Like it or not, she’s the Democrat front runner, and she can’t even muster enough support from her own party to make a dent in the upcoming general. It’s simply not going to happen. I am rapidly coming to the conclusionthat the Democrats have absolutely nothing to bring to this party. First of all, the Democrats as a party, even, are simply unelectable at this point. No matter who comes to the party, it’s simply not going to happen. The brand has been so damaged by the Clintons and Obama, Harry Reid, et al, that there isn’t a person in the party today you can salvage the party’s chances of regaining the losses that they suffered. Certainly, nobody capable of taking the White House.
And given what’s happened to previous people within the party and without that have crossed swords with Hillary Clinton, other political fortunes after that confrontation, there’s not going to be many people that are going to want to do so in this cycle. This is Hillary’s last hurrah, no matter what happens. There’s going to be a lot of people who are going to be willing to sit back and wait for her to be gone, and time to heal the wounds that the Democrat Party has caused both to the country, and to the party itself.
And down the road I go. I’ll see you tomorrow.
