Zax, Bill Clinton won an election in 1992 with large deficits in the honesty department…. Four years later, when Clinton was seeking reelection, he was underwater on the ABC/Post honesty question… In fact, Bill Clinton remains one of the most loved presidents of our time. ... So to answer your question, yes, Hillary Clinton can easily get elected despite Whitewater... err Benghazi, or whatever dead end bullsh*t the right wing is wasting millions on bogus, dragged out investigations in order to try to raise Clinton's negatives at the moment. Keep believing that, Zax.
In the meantime, an independent socialist from Vermont, who will turn out to be older than McCain was when he ran for president, is denting Hillary's armor of inevitability. You already see Hillary responding by basically acting like a socialist herself. (Which of course no one believes.)
All this is because people are tired of the Clintons. She could have survived Benghazi, but the personal e-mail server just proves that the fumes of corruption and dishonesty always seems to emanate from the direction of the Clintons. They are the very definition of "politics as usual," and people hate that.
It's this very distaste that allowed a freshman senator from Illinois, who brought nothing but his skills at giving speeches, to overcome the Clinton political machine and win the nomination in 2008.
Heck, it's even this very distaste that allowed George W. Bush to win a contest that should have been a walk in the park for Al Gore in 2000. "He was selected, not elected" is an excuse that would never have been needed by a guy who won his home state of Tennessee.
Hillary may still end up winning the Democratic nomination, but at what cost to her and to the political landscape? If she gets nominated because people see her as a fighter and not as a corrupt powermonger, what will that say about the already low standard of politics these days?
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