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Clinton and her team are aware that her tactics will only hold out for so long and that she’ll eventually have to answer questions about her e-mail practices, but she and her advisers are aiming to delay that moment, ideally until she formally announces she’s running for president. At that point, they hope, the controversy will have subsided to the point where her campaign launch will be a much bigger headline than her response to a month-old scandal. An added benefit to the approach: the potential for Republicans to overreach and overreact while Clinton stays silent."
Friendly analysts concur with the Clinton team's view of the situation. “The energy in this story is enormously defused by committing to release emails in some form or fashion,” said Chris Lehane, who managed the Clinton White House’s response to Whitewater and the Monica Lewinsky scandal. “Having lived through many of these, including many that were far bigger and far more serious, I would say it makes sense to settle in a little bit … people have very short memories.”
What’s more, at least some Clinton allies don’t think that voters will care. “Voters do not give a shit about what email Hillary used. They don't even give a fart,” Democratic strategist Paul Begala, a longtime adviser to Bill Clinton, told CNN on Thursday.
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Here Is the State Department’s First 'Official' Release of a Hillary Clinton Email... Clinton didn't write it"
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Of course the MSM hardly talk about November 2014 but for Democrat power brokers it was an unmitigated disaster. They need someone to lead them out of the wilderness and emailgate Hillary ain't the ticket. Her book tour was a flop, she's old, she's boring, she's the past. And now another scandal. Watch the orchestrated takedown of one of their own by TPTB within the party.
Sorry but everyone lies about E-mails.
What's the difference? Can we talk about the REAL issues facing this country?
Some of us still remember Benghazi.
Besides, Lehane didn't do such a swell job with L'Affaire Monica. That's the one where the whole "charming rogue" bull finally fell flat.
Where is this love and support for Hillary supposed to come from when she keeps toeing the line for Obama?
It's not happening, Hillary, so just stay home until you get it right.
The longer she waits to announce her candidacy, the more she take whatever money she can. Just giving a private citizen money is perfectly fine. It is only when they become an announce political candidate that they fall under various laws to prevent any one individual donating too much money (read gaining too much influence).
The email server thing won't be a big deal unless someone like the DoJ investigates (why are you laughing?). Otherwise, more stories about Jeb Bush having one, or Sarah Palin having an external account, and kitchen sink stories about Republicans. Not to mention the deflecting news story of Bob Menendez being investigated.
Sorry but everyone lies about E-mails.
Hey, I know I heard a version of that somewhere.
A born leader. I'd follow someone like that anywhere. It's truly inspiring to finally see someone in politics who is not just slithering from one scandal to another and bouncing lies off of half-truths while blaming others for their failures.
This is the kind of character you never see in Washington now days - the kind that you can count on to do the right thing, be corruption-free and make you proud of our system and the leaders we choose.
Finally a breath of fresh air.
Not! LOL
You'll know Hillary's in trouble if and when you see smoke signals from Warren's camp.
*burp*
the ads write themselves.
the ads write themselves
Yep. And that linked "we came, we saw, he died" video in particular must be giving all the Dem operatives cold sweats in the night. The cackle, the junior-high mean-girl flavor of it. Hillary at her finest.
The "what difference does it make" one isn't bad either.
Ron Fournier:
"Follow the money." That apocryphal phrase, attributed to Watergate whistle-blower "Deep Throat," explains why the biggest threat to Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential dreams is not her emails. It's her family foundation. That's where the money is: corporate money, foreign money, gobs of money sloshing around a vanity charity that could be renamed "Clinton Conflicts of Interest Foundation."
2008 strategery does not work in 2015. You don't know what's going on, you've been away for far too long, my poor discarded baby, you're out of time, all left OUT, out of there without a doubt.
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