“Add that to the usual fare that accompanies the anniversary of any major news event and you get a headache for the teams surrounding Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. For both, it’s a stubborn political problem that will likely never go away, no matter how many investigations clear the senior players of the worst allegations of wrongdoing,” Mr. Seitz-Wald observes. “And it’s little doubt why: Polls suggest that Clinton is vulnerable on Benghazi ahead of a potential 2016 presidential run, with members of both parties listing it as her biggest weakness.”
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All that matters are the optics - because you know, what difference does it make?
We don't need to know why these men in our embassy were murdered. Just take the story that Hillary and her media feed you, swallow it whole with reverence, and move on.
"What does it matter" is more like a wish than a statement.
Clinton playbook: Deny, Deny, Deny!
Her best political hope is to break with the party line and to come clean with what happened during those weeks leading up to the 2012 election. That goes double for Candy Crawley.
I kind of like that shade of green, so she's got that going for her.
Hillary's being bullied by Republicans! Hillary's being bullied by Republicans. Women of America, rally round a SISTA!
I don't believe it's the case, but lets say it became clear that Hillary was directly responsible for the loss of those men out of pure incompetence. She would still win a majority of the female vote and at least 47% of the whole country against a Republican, because Republicans don't care about people, and we need a woman for a change.
She could've chopped their heads off with her vagina dentata, laughed about it on tape, mocked their grieving families, and had victory sex with Huma on the White House lawn in front of little kids at the Easter egg hunt ...
And most women would still vote for her.
I should check again with my mother-in-law to see if she still likes Hillary Clinton or whether she's back to hating her guts.
I won't be surprised if Sarah Palin becomes more prominent in the media as crunch time approaches.
Sort of like a booster shot for readily-aggrieved older women.
I love women, and most of my friends are women. Even my mother is a woman, but she is one of the few women I know personally that has not dug herself into a hole either financially or otherwise. All of them keep digging regardless of how obvious you make an alternative strategy. I don't know what causes this even among intelligent women, but this is now a serious weakness for the country because democracy. I'm hoping the next election will prove me wrong.
All the women I know like this are Obama voters, and they now all either openly admit his failure, or don't want to talk about it. I think they will all vote for Hillary, and see their Obama vote to be a mistake only in that they could have voted for her instead.
While I think there is some real need to get the facts clear in the Benghazi story, I think the GOP is making a mistake pursuing this at this time. The serious investigation ought to have happened sooner, instead of the unserious committee hearings that have dominated all this time.
The GOP should be focused on winning elections in November. This doesn't help them win; it may cost them seats, by being a distraction from issues that matter.
I.e., even if they manage to prove, somehow, that Secretary Clinton and President Obama and others in the administration are the worst people in the world, none of those people will appear on the ballot this fall.
On what theory does proving Obama, Clinton & Co. cause Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas to lose a significant number of votes this year?
...no matter how many investigations clear the senior players of the worst allegations of wrongdoing...
Notice the weasel-word phrasing: the worst allegations of wrongdoing.
That leaves open that they haven't been cleared of:
1) the whole catalog of lesser "wrongdoings"
2) that there were no "wrongdoings" at all, but rather simply astounding incompetence.
I always suspected option 2 to be the case rather than that there were "wrongdoings".
A bull dyke, a communist and a brain damaged bint in goggle glasses walk into a bar.
Bartender says "What'll it be, Hillary?"
Women voters are not the only problem, but they are the biggest one. A lot of men are also immune to the idea of hiring a President on the basis of merit and ability.
The truth is that ideology does trump all else for everyone. I won't vote for the better qualified person either if they think things like government controlled wealth transfer are good things for people in America.
Ideology is the most important qualification. Second is that the President should be someone that the Press will be willing to criticize and expose, and third they should have some history of success with big things especially organizational. Both Hillary and Obama fail all my tests. So did McCain, but not Romney, or W., or even Palin. These are just the lowest bars needed for my vote and I wish they were for most of us, so we could be battling over the higher more nuanced differences between well-qualified people.
When the time comes, ask yourself: who do you think ISIS or Putin would prefer as President?
Aren't you a life-long democrat?
Yes, but,:
1) I do learn from my mistakes.
2) I'm too lazy to re-register.
3) I love the Democrat junk mail I get. It makes a better case for voting against them than anything their opponents put out.
I was just trying to figure out who you were trying to convince.
Did you vote for Obama more often, less often or exponentially more times than Lem?
I voted for the guy with the binders, because and I think Lem was in one of those binders including some revealing photos and a rather risque, although highly qualifying, resume'.
And Lois Lerner's emails...
The job market sucks here too.
" no matter how many investigations clear the senior players of the worst allegations of wrongdoing"
I hear several Democrats make this argument over and over, and not just for this scandal. They never seem to get it. Ok, let's pretend Hillary had no idea that Stevens request for additional security was squashed from her office. The question is, who did she hold accountable when she learned of this detail, and what assurances do we, the people, have that the wrongdoer will never be given such responsibility in the future? That no information on accountability is forthcoming makes me wonder, why are senior players not holding anyone accountable?
When things get really tough Hillary is going to come out of the closet and look for sympathy. That is her pathology. She does best in polling when she's the victim. Dems love to be victims.
-"mercifully Benghazi-free months"
-Renewed attention a "headache" and a "problem" for Clinton and Obama teams.
-"investigations [that] clear the senior players of the worst allegations"
Democratic operatives with bylines.
one of the few women I know personally that has not dug herself into a hole either financially or otherwise.
Bagoh, this is the opposite of my experience. Including my own mother and one of my sisters. Both of them dug serious financial holes. In fact, at points they were complicit. At the end of their lives I handled my parents finances for them and all that became crystal clear.
The other of my sisters is conservative and rational as most of the women I know.
Most women I know are sensible, reliable and basically conservative in nature except that they all vote Democrat.
And they have a million ways to be dismissive like when I am asked who will I vote for and why and I answer with Carter sank the presidency and Clinton's character was known as a candidate, they answer, "And we survived."
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Women and blacks and gays, minorities in general honestly think Democrats are for them without 1) bothering to analyze how targeted policies actually harm them and the nation as a whole, and 2) that Republicans generally do not see them as special in anyway, rather, would treat each minority exactly the same as so-called majority, that is precisely equal as citizens. This leads me to believe women and minorities want to be thought of as special needs cases in need of extra boost from their government.
The other chief way of being dismissive is tu quoque.
I notice also things are changing. The family situation I grew up with and consider normal is no longer the case. I realized this when I overheard an apartment full of women, apparently lesbians gathered for election results, shriek, and I mean blood-curdling shriek at the moment the results of Obama win were announced.
Also, I notice a lot of women around here raising children by themselves, often mixed race. A few women with lots of children. And I must add, some of the most charming children I've ever seen. Much more charming than myself.
I interact with them, briefly, going through doors, elevators, walking down hallways, in the garage, and such.
Yesterday the woman said, to her two tiny sons (Spanish) "Hold the door open." The boy did. I walked through.
"Such a gentleman."
Big smiles all round, for being so polite to the tall white guy.
More graciousness with doors, Elevator. "Five please." Mum point to five, the tiny one pushes the button. "Thank you. You are a very good button pusher."
Right in front of me the first boy tuns his little brother toward him and kisses him right on the mouth.
Turns out they are on my floor and we walk together down the hall. "See you later, Alligators." Giggling all around.
Honestly, these kids get me, pow, right in the heart.
I hear their little footsteps racing back and forth up and down the hallway and think, "Aw bless." I recall as a tot when I couldn't walk a long hallway either. I could not understand how anyone could go so slowly as walk. Halls must be run.
Yes, more women than men vote for progs and/or the leftier of the two candidates (which is one reason why even squishes like McCain and Romney still lost).
Another reason is that the difference between the left and right candidates used to be much more clear. More women used to vote more conservatively when we had Republicans who made their position clear and distinct from that of the progressive candidate and weren't try to squeak by as Progressive Lite/Compassionate Conservative.
Also, there's the role of the MSM. Consider the possibility that it was perfectly logical to vote for a politically moderate well-spoken black guy over a cranky (McCain) or faint-hearted/reticent(Romney) RINO. Voters as a whole do not pay attention to facts that are not obvious and the MSM hid a lot of facts from voters.
Also, please consider that there are still many women who vote conservative. The Tea Party was powered by conservative women. There have been some courageous and intelligent and effective conservative women and we conservatives throw them away because the left (!) deems them insufficient (while vigorously promoting their vile hogs - not in the Titus sense - at the trough). They know us well; it's just too uncool and too much trouble to defend Palin or Bachmann too strenuously. They're women.
Lastly, consider that women vote left because of expectations and assumptions on both sides of the political divide. How about wising up and realizing that your personal, anecdotal experience with the women you know is not representative of women as a whole. You are viewing women as a "community," just like a progressive would, but without the benefit of capturing their vote. Maybe that's a MISTAKE?
Why do we insist on irritating and alienating an enormous percentage of the electorate by dismissing them as illogical and disorganized? Stop now. Stop assuming that every like-minded woman is automatically going to sympathize with your hurt feelings and understand that you weren't referring to her but to all those "other women," the numerous whorribles. The left succeeds because they can organize "communities" based on an "us" against "them" scenario. Yes, obviously fake communities; there is no community based on race or sex or sexuality, that's all an illusion. But people buy into it because it flatters their feelings. STOP HELPING THAT EFFORT.
And so then I went over to Instapundit and saw the link to "only half of British women know where their vagina is located" so ... um.
Hells bells, people
I'm sure MSLSD thinks this is a non-story, but it's funny how you can find a path from there to our current round of predicaments.
"It was the video" lie is the lie that should sink her.
All sorts of fail layered with that specific lie on top of it all. But the media and the left insist we shouldn't care. Because, Clinton.
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