The Last Days of Hillary
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
Hillary Clinton has spent a third of her adult life
trying to become president. All for nothing.
The
first time around, she wasted $200 million just to
lose to Obama. $11 million of that money came from
the notoriously "flat broke" couple. This time
around she was determined to take no chances.
Together with her husband she built up a massive war
chest using money from foreign governments and
speaking fees from non-profits, funneled into her
own dirty non-profit and a complex network of
unofficial organizations staffed by Clinton
loyalists, secured an unofficial endorsement from
Obama and carefully avoided answering questions or
taking positions on anything. There was no way she
could lose.
Now she’s losing all over again.
Hillary has a ton of money, but can’t buy the
nomination. She’s spending a quarter of a million a
day on a campaign operation with no actual organized
opposition to speak of. Even before Biden officially
enters the race, she’s falling behind the joke
candidacy of Bernie Sanders in key states.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign has spent tens of
millions of dollars without making an impact. She
spent almost a
million on polling only
to see her poll numbers drop every week. She dropped
$2 million on ads about her mother to try to make
women like her. It didn’t work. Nothing is working
anymore.
Obama gave Biden his blessing to run. White House
spokesman Josh
Earnest praised Joe Biden to
reporters, saying that there is “no one in American
politics today who has a better understanding of
exactly what is required to mount a successful
national presidential campaign.”
It wasn’t a subtle message.
Earnest suggested that Obama might endorse a
Democratic primary candidate. Despite the deal that
the Clintons made in which Bill would campaign for
Obama in 2012 in exchange for a Hillary endorsement,
it’s looking less and less likely like that he will
back Hillary Clinton. Instead Biden appears to be
his man.
Biden is already polling better than Hillary in a
national election. With Obama’s backing, he can
strip away Hillary’s minority vote while Bernie
Sanders takes the leftist vote. Hillary Clinton is
already doubling down on gender politics by accusing
pro-life Republicans of being terrorists, but it
won’t work.
It didn’t work last time. It won’t work this time.
Once again, Hillary has lost.
The only lesson that Hillary Clinton drew from her
last election was to double down on all the things
she did wrong. Her organization was big last time so
she made it even bigger. It got so big that the
different Super PACs were fighting each other over
fundraising for her campaign. She had lots of money
last time, so she was determined to have even more
money this time. But that money has been wasted
paying an army of useless people who couldn’t even
do something as basic as produce a good logo.
Hillary Clinton was paranoid, controlling and
dishonest last time. She decided to be twice as
paranoid and dishonest this time around and it
destroyed her image and her campaign.
Even before the rope lines and the interview
boycotts, the media hated her. Once she began to
aggressively shut out the media, its personalities
gleefully reported on every email server scandal
detail that her enemies in the White House fed to
theNew
York Times and
other administration mouthpieces.
It wasn’t a vast right wing conspiracy or even a
more real left wing conspiracy that destroyed
Hillary Clinton. If she were a stronger candidate,
Obama and the left would have fallen in line behind
her.
Once again, Hillary Clinton destroyed her own
candidacy. The latest Quinnipiac poll shows that the
top three words
people associate with her are “liar,” “dishonest”
and “untrustworthy.” If she hadn’t planned a
cover-up before there was even anything to cover up
and then responded to its disclosure with a series
of terrible press conferences climaxing in asking
reporters if they meant that she had wiped her email
server with a cloth, her old reputation might have
stayed buried long enough to win an election.
Now Hillary is right back where she was last time
around. She has lots of money, but no one likes her.
She’s trying to build a cult of personality, but
none of the myriads of people who work for her will
tell her the truth about her personality. She
inspires no one and there’s no actual reason to vote
for her.
With her popularity rapidly vanishing, Hillary is
moving to her Führerbunker. Her aides plan to absorb
defeats in early states and concentrate all the
money and organization on
crushing the opposition on
Super Tuesday. They’re conceding that Hillary isn’t
going to out-campaign her rivals individually, but
are betting that her war machine is big enough to
destroy them in eleven states at the same time.
Hillary still hasn’t learned that she can’t just buy
an election. And she may not have the money to buy
it. Donors lost a lot of money funding her failed
campaign last time. They came on board again because
they were convinced that she had a smooth ride to
the nomination. Once Biden enters the race, donors
will wait rather than pour more money into the
struggling campaign of an unpopular candidate.
And many of the Obama donors who haven’t committed
to Hillary will open their wallets for Biden.
ClintonWorld is an expensive theme park to run. All
those staffers the Clintons have picked up have to
be paid. And the Clintons can’t stop paying them
because they have no true loyalists, only
mercenaries. If their checks don’t clear, they’ll be
working for Biden or O’Malley before you can say
"Whitewater."
It will take that machine some time to slow to a
halt. Hillary Clinton burned through $200 million
fighting Obama. Elections have only gotten more
expensive since then. But her donors will learn the
hard way that money alone can’t make an unlikable
politician with no charisma or compelling message,
president.
Hillary Clinton doesn’t have a message, she has
ambition. Her obsession with becoming president has
overshadowed any reason that anyone might have to
vote for her. She offers no hope and less change.
Her candidacy is historic… but only for her. There
is no promise she can make that anyone will believe.
After having spent much of her life trying to become
president, she will leave once again a failure.
Some are hoping that Hillary will go to jail. But
the anger, frustration and bitterness that will gnaw
on her after wasting decades and a small fortune on
two failed efforts to win the White House in which
she had every advantage only to lose before even
leaving the starting gate will be worse than any
prison.
In January 2017, Hillary Clinton will be sitting in
front of a television set watching someone else take
the oath of office. Nothing the penal system has to
offer would be a harsher punishment than that
moment.