Just remember: This is merely the primary campaign season, and an early phase of it at that. Any of you thinking of actually voting for this woman, we're in for four years of this crap if she somehow gets herself elected. I don't know if I can take it. I don't know if anyone can.
The slavish devotion to the talking-point denial is really quite something. No matter how much we've learned to the contrary, Hillary just sticks to her story. Whatever do you mean? What I did was completely allowed. It was totally up to me what I had to turn over. Would have been the same if I'd used the government server, don't you know. Why do you keep asking me? No one cares about this!
It would have really been funny if, instead of the lame line about the cloth, she had said toilet paper - not only because of where the server was apparently located, but also because you know perfectly well where she's pulling her answers from:
Here's one thing I'm still trying to work out: Does Hillary live in this little world where she really thinks no one but the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and their dutiful media mouthpieces cares about this? Or is pretending to believe that all part of her act? It's hard to tell because she's such a bad liar, but at the same time she really has no core convictions. So whether she's outright lying or expressing things as she kinda sorta really sees it, she sounds insincere either way.
My guess is this: She thinks the whole thing about the private server and the rules she broke is esoteric enough that the voters are mostly yawning even as the media pay more attention to it, so she can keep treating the story with boredom and disdain in the hope that people watching are having the same reaction. More of this? Really? Get back to the issues!
Remember, that play worked pretty well for Bill with the Monica thing. In case you've forgotten, that's where MoveOn.org got its name. Clinton's supporters said enough already, time to move on, and the public largely agreed. But of course we've noted more than once that Hillary isn't Bill, and boinking an intern - while horrendous - is not the same thing as dealing with top secret information on a slipshod homebrew e-mail server that you insisted on using because you didn't want your correspondences to be subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
And that's where I think, despite her capacity for delusion, Hillary knows she's in trouble. There's a reason she went to so much trouble to avoid using the government's server. If it's true, as the FBI apparently thinks, they can recover the data from the server Hillary thought was wiped clean, then Trey Gowdy will be able to subpoena all the content and we'll know everything - about Hillary's discussions with Sid Blumenthal about Benghazi, about her use of e-mail to solicit money for the Clinton Foundation in exchange for policy favors . . . everything. All her money grubbing. All her attempts to cover up her own incompetence. All her use of people like Blumenthal who weren't supposed to have anything to do with State Department business.
This is why the questions irritate Hillary so much. It's not the process violations she's afraid will trip her up. It's what will happen when we can actually read the e-mails. Hillary is bad enough when we see her public persona. Once we can see what she's really like when she thinks no one is looking or reading . . . you'll wish you could wipe the server of your brain of what you'll see, with a cloth, with toilet paper, with anything you can get your hands on.
It will be that nasty. The truth about her always has been.
Just remember: This is merely the primary campaign season, and an early phase of it at that. Any of you thinking of actually voting for this woman, we're in for four years of this crap if she somehow gets herself elected. I don't know if I can take it. I don't know if anyone can.
The slavish devotion to the talking-point denial is really quite something. No matter how much we've learned to the contrary, Hillary just sticks to her story. Whatever do you mean? What I did was completely allowed. It was totally up to me what I had to turn over. Would have been the same if I'd used the government server, don't you know. Why do you keep asking me? No one cares about this!
