WHY CLINTON LOST -- POSTMORTEM
The election of 2016 is now a week in the rear
view mirror of our nation. It is over but for the wailing and gnashing of teeth,
rending of garments, blame sharing and recriminations. Following the example
offered by the current incumbent, Hillary Clinton is blaming everyone but
herself for her unpredicted loss. So let's let some daylight into the swamp,
shall we?
Mrs. Clinton, it is not the fault of Comey, Limbaugh
or Fox News that your attempt to gain the presidency failed. As is generally the
case with us humans, your worst enemy looks back at you from your mirror every time you look into it
. BTW, I am calling you Mrs. Clinton and not using any of your
honorifics since if you were not Mrs William Jefferson Clinton, you would not
have attained any of these, nor had even the chance of a one legged man in an
ass kicking contest of seeking the highest office in the land.) So let's examine
your failure, eh?
The first problem is you personally. You have shown
yourself to be a rude, unpleasant person whose record when objectively analyzed
is one of serial failures. Your arrogance is abrasive and annoying. Your
dishonesty is a matter of record, as is your disdain for ethics. This record
reaches back more than four decades, to your termination from the Watergate
investigating committee for dishonesty and unethical conduct. Your dishonesty is
of the most stupid variety, as you habitually lie when the truth would serve you
better. Default dishonesty is not a recommendation for the person who sits
behind the desk in the Oval Office. Incidentally, your alleged brilliance was
not manifested when you failed the DC bar exam. Your failures of judgment and
policy stretch from your failed health plan during your husband's tenure, which
resulted in the DP debacle in the midterms elections of 1994 which restored the
House to RP control. They run through the recommendations of some the worst
candidates to appointed office in recent history. Probably the most egregious of
these appointments was that of Janet Reno to AG, in which office she directed
the killings of the Weaver family on Ruby Ridge, the wholesale incineration of
86 live men, women and innocent children in the Branch Davidian compound in
Waco, TX, and the Gestapo tactics used to thuggishly remove the seven year old
Elian Gonzalez from his family's home. It culminated in the worst performance in
American history as Secretary of State, overseeing the abject weakening of
relations with Russia and China, enabling ISIS, destabilizing the entire Middle
East and Muslim Africa, and laying the groundwork for the woeful agreement with
Iran.
The second major problem is the Democratic Party
which you typify so clearly. The DP abandoned any pretense of representing
working class America decades ago. The contempt in which you hold working class
Americans is best exemplified by the acceptance with which the party and its
media hacks and water carriers greeted your candidate's deeming us
"deplorables." I would suggest that the DP power structure, composed of elitists
and white collar criminals, comprises the true "deplorables." How long did you
think that you would be able to con the majority of Americans that you were on
their side, or that you had any intention of even making a minimal effort to
represent our interests? You represent an ever diminishing minority of career
politicians, lobbyists, corrupt leadership of the unions that have progressively
lost power due to their failure to represent anyone of than their own interests,
professional race baiters, illegal aliens, and irrational or venal environmental
extremists.
The third problem is the recent track record of
Barack Obama and his minions in the Congress. Did Democrats really believe that
the recent increases in health care insurance, after the promises that costs
would go down, with a concomitant reduction in promised services and benefits,
would go unremarked by the American people? Did they really believe that the
citizens would not see through the criminal behavior of their candidate, abetted
and covered by the corrupt AG Loretta Lynch? Did they truly believe that the
voters would not realize that corruption and cronyism were rampant among the DP
leadership? That the voters would not figure out that the Clintons could never
have gone from zero to +/- $300 million honestly and ethically in just twenty
years, or that the increase in Speaker Pelosi's net worth from $8 million to $35
million during her short tenure was suspicious? Were they so utterly arrogant
that they thought that the smug, dismissive hubris of John Koskinen would not be
noted, or that the stonewalling of Lois Lerner did not indicate criminal abuse
by the IRS and other executive branch functionaries would not be construed as
the criminal behavior it was? Did the DP power structure really think the
American people so stupid or compliant as to permit such behavior forever?
My lifelong activist Democrat
father, who was honest enough that he would be appalled at what the party he
loved and for which he worked for decades has become, frequently quoted the
great Democratic President, Harry S. Truman's guidance to "Trust the people." It
garnered Truman a victory in 1948 which was almost a model for Donald Trump's
recent victory; against the odds and in the face of all "learned"
prognostication. The Democratic Party, and its woefully flawed candidate, not
only ignored this advice from one of its great representatives, but treated the
people with total disdain.
These factors, not the machinations of the forces arrayed against her, resulted
in the defeat of Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton.
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