By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--March 1, 2016
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Barack Obama has just handed on a silver platter to Republican front runner Donald Trump his biggest break to date; one guaranteed to propel The Donald to the 2017 presidency.
And just to think that it comes via the New York Times from an indiscreet Democrat ‘Inside the Clinton Team’s Plan to Defeat Donald Trump’.“This article is based on interviews with more than two dozen advisers, strategists and close allies of the Clintons, including several who have spoken directly with Mr. Clinton. Some spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss strategy publicly.”
“That strategy is beginning to take shape, with groups that support Mrs. Clinton preparing to script and test ads that would portray Mr. Trump as a misogynist and an enemy to the working class whose brash temper would put the nation and the world in grave danger. The plan is for those themes to be amplified later by two prominent surrogates: To fight Mr. Trump’s ability to sway the news cycle, Mr. Clinton would not hold back on the stump, and President Obama has told allies he would gleefully portray Mr. Trump as incapable of handling the duties of the Oval Office.” (NYT)In the temper tantrum category all Trump is (mercifully) missing is Hillary’s trademark screech and dog bark.
“Democrats say they risk losing the presidency if they fail to take Mr. Trump seriously, much as Republicans have done in the primary campaign.” (NYT)Are you reading this, GOP Establishment?
“The case against Trump will be prosecuted on two levels,” said Geoff Garin, a Democratic pollster and Mrs. Clinton’s chief strategist in 2008. “The first is temperament,” and whether he is suited to be commander in chief, Mr. Garin said, echoing conversations that have dominated Democratic circles recently. The second “will be based on whether he can really be relied on as a champion for anyone but himself.” (NYT)Millions of disenchanted, 8-year-long disenfranchised Americans, who see Trump as their champion, beg to differ.
“The greatest weapon against Mr. Trump, the Clintons believe, is his tendency to make outrageous, even hateful comments that can come across as unpresidential. During the most recent Republican debate on Thursday, Mr. Trump traded schoolyard taunts with his rivals and threatened to build an even bigger wall on the Mexican border because he did not like a rebuke of his original wall proposal by a former president of Mexico.” (NYT)From out of only yesterday’s screechy past comes a Hillary who now declares that Americans needed only more “love and kindness”.
“In South Carolina and Tennessee, Mrs. Clinton began to lay the groundwork for what advisers call “a campaign against bigotry,” in which she will present herself as the fair-minded foil to Mr. Trump. She declared that Americans needed more “love and kindness.” “Instead of building walls,” she has started to say, “we need to be tearing down barriers.” (NYT)Americans saw no “love and kindness” from Clinton’s Secretary of State boss for more than seven long years. All they saw was a country deliberately pushed into decline, and its citizens branded as bigots, racists, and as gun and Bible clingers. Talk about “barriers” needing tearing down!
“During the Republican debate on Thursday, the Clinton campaign posted an image on Instagram that said, “These are not American values: Racism, sexism, bigotry, discrimination, inequality.” Mr. Trump emphatically denies being bigoted, saying he is simply not “politically correct.” But he has already signaled that he would be vicious against Mrs. Clinton. He said that she should be indicted for her use of a private email server as secretary of state and that Mr. Clinton’s extramarital affairs were “fair game” in the election because they were an “abuse of women.” (NYT) “The plan has three major thrusts: Portray Mr. Trump as a heartless businessman who has worked against the interests of the working-class voters he now appeals to; broadcast the degrading comments he has made against women in order to sway suburban women, who have been reluctant to support Mrs. Clinton; and highlight his brash, explosive temper to show he is unsuited to be commander in chief.”So the wife of womanizer Bill Clinton will try to use the misogynist label against Trump to lure “suburban women” to vote for her. Clinton calls them suburban. They call themselves working women, wives and mothers. In truth, Hillary is as antiquated and as outdated as all Women’s Lib organization. Today’s women look out for themselves and don’t need the hypocritical protection of women's’ libber Hillary Clinton, who can legitimately add a second ‘l’ to the one that already spells “Liar”. One thing for sure: No matter what he says out on the campaign trail, Donald Trump will never sink lower than Hillary Clinton did when she said, “What difference at this point does it make..” as she was testifying before the Benghazi hearings. Those fateful words will stand as the ones most degrading to women of all time. Ask any one of the mothers of the four courageous Americans left to die in Benghazi on Clinton’s devastating watch as Secretary of State. It’s time for the followers of Republican hopefuls to coalesce around an ABH (Anybody But Hillary) 2016 presidential campaign slogan.
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