Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

TygrBright

(20,733 posts)
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 01:37 AM Oct 2016

Tomorrow's RNC conference call: Paging Sophocles...

Twenty-four years ago, Bill Clinton committed the Ultimate Crime against the GOP Oligarchs:

He won.

Never mind that he was roughly aligned (ideologically) with the Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party, prepared to 'reform' welfare, enact NAFTA, and create a Wall Street Paradise. None of that mattered. He "stole" the White House from a sitting GOP President with a term still to run.

It was unforgivable.

And it did not escape the GOPpie Oligarchs' notice that a key member of Bill's strategy team was the woman who'd helped him retake the Arkansas state house and build a solid political machine. A woman smart and tough enough to be trouble.

And sure enough, no sooner did she get off the campaign trail and into the family suite at the White House than she began making more trouble, pulling together a solid health care reform plan, pushing no end of irritating liberal agendas, working the back rooms and the wonk brigade.

A right nuisance, that Hillary.

Then she really pissed them off.

They had a plan to use Bill's mistakes against him to make him a one-term President- just the beginning of a fitting punishment for his crime.

But Hillary didn't play along. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say that her level-headed, strategic approach to the whole thing helped Bill pull out that astonishing upset in 1996.

That painted the crosshairs on Hillary's back.

Bill left office and it became clear that Hillary wasn't going back to Little Rock.

Yeah, she scared the crap outta them.

The plans were laid. Just in case.

How do you keep her from being a threat?

You make people hate her as much as the GOP Oligarchs hated her. You begin an unprecedentedly vicious, sustained, relentless campaign of vilification and slander, bolstering vitriolically-spun exaggerations with innuendo, conspiracy-mongering, and outright lies. You keep it up for DECADES.

The goal: Make her UNELECTABLE.

It didn't work in New York, obviously... those stupid lefty liberal New York voters just didn't get it.

(Never mind that she won plenty of solid support from the conservative upstaters... you can always blame Manhattan.)

You make her ABSOLUTELY UNELECTABLE.

You push her "unfavorability" ratings through the stratosphere with hate radio, yellowrag fear-stoking, and a full-spectrum bash-her-from-both-sides sustained offensive. You make her The Most Hated Woman in Suburbia.

Relentlessly ginning up every concievable accusation, pushing every narrative of sleaze, orchestrating every kind of mud for every kind of audience, you ensure that even though years of shameless pandering to Tea Party extremism has gutted your bench of any real talent to run against her, she'll STILL LOSE. No matter what.

Even though you've got no viable candidates left who aren't moronically empty suits posturing for the Useful Idiots, your party can't lose.

The gods love hubris like that.

And what more perfectly-crafted Samson to lean on those pillars and bring the whole temple of greed and callous indifference crashing down, than the Compleat Narcissist himself, the Nuclear Cheeto?

Sophocles himself couldn't have written it better.

I would pay a year's mortgage payments to a charity of Hillary's choice, just to hear that conference call tomorrow, and bathe in the sweet GOPpie tears.

But it probably wouldn't be good for my karma.

After all, there's a limit to MY hubris.

wistfully,
Bright

11 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
3. key segment, which is the continuation of what you are describing: the VRWC, which began with the
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 01:42 AM
Oct 2016

Powell memo

You make people hate her as much as the GOP Oligarchs hated her. You begin an unprecedentedly vicious, sustained, relentless campaign of vilification and slander, bolstering vitriolically-spun exaggerations with innuendo, conspiracy-mongering, and outright lies. You keep it up for DECADES.

The goal: Make her UNELECTABLE
.

thankl you, Floyd Brown, David Bossie, Richard Mellon Scaife, David Horowitz, Rush Limbaugh....should I go on? it would take many hours to list them all
 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
4. if they keep the senate, they'll try to impeach her almost immediately
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 01:44 AM
Oct 2016

just watch

maybe they don't care, just like they didn't with her husband

that impeachment actually DID work, because it was what cost Gore the election, because he was afraid to let them campaign for him

 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
7. they'll make obama's last six years look like most of FDR's term
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 02:26 AM
Oct 2016

do you think Hillary will fire comey, and get a real FBI head in there? that was what almost killed her campaign

when she does, I hope she has them pay close attention to anything trump did that warrants at least a four year investigation....hopefully eight

TygrBright

(20,733 posts)
8. Comey's ready to go anyway.
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 02:32 AM
Oct 2016

My guess would be Hillary will pick a solid, reputable law enforcement leader with a non-partisan reputation, and focus them on real threats to law and order (hopefully "sovereign citizens," militia wackjobs and other whiteboy terrorism) rather than anything that could look the least bit retaliatory against the Nuclear Cheeto.

There are enough lawsuits, investigations, etc., already underway to keep him flailing about and smacking himself in the eye for a few years already.

speculatively,
Bright

 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
9. he just signed on for ten years, didn't he?
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 03:51 AM
Oct 2016

my hope, actually, is that immediately after the election, Obama demands he step down

respect your opinion, espec after reading your great OP/post about the right wing maniacs never ending quest to destroy ANY dissent from their grand plan to control everything

Hekate

(90,202 posts)
10. Trump tried to bring the Eumenides onto the stage, but Hillary ignored them. Trump will..
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 04:25 AM
Oct 2016

....end up in his golden tower alone: wives gone, sons gone, possibly only his faithful daughter to attend him. Or not.

The playwright could write him a mad scene -- wandering from room to golden room, toga rumpled, hair in disarray, still convinced the world revolves around him.

There is no limit to his hubris, after all.

Classically,

Hekate



Latest Discussions»Retired Forums»2016 Postmortem»Tomorrow's RNC conference...