Hillary Lost Because ... [View all]
Between FaceBook, other social media, and the many political sites I frequent, apparently HRC lost the election for at least a hundred reasons – and counting.
She didn’t connect with voters, she didn’t hold enough rallies, she didn’t smile enough, she didn’t debate well, she spent too little time in some states, she spent too much time in the same states. She was too much like Obama, she wasn’t enough like Obama. Her speeches were too subtle, her speeches were over-the-top. She played to the right audience at the wrong time, she played to the wrong audience at the right time.
She should have focused more on policy, she should have focused more on personality. She went too negative on Trump, she should have gone for Trump’s throat. She had the wrong campaign advisors, she had the wrong spokespeople. She was too confident, she was not confident enough. She wore the wrong clothes, she was too concerned about her appearance. She was too dumbed-down, she was too intellectual.
She shoulda, woulda, coulda won easily if only she’d listened to the Monday morning quarterbacks who have become overnight experts on political campaigns – but only after-the-fact. But that’s always the way. It’s only after the game is called on Sunday afternoon that the experts show up to explain how the team would have gone on to certain victory, had their heretofore silence been heeded.
The fact of the matter is that HRC won the popular vote. That means that for all of the kvetching by the “she did everything wrong” crowd, she apparently did a lot of things right. The majority of voters heard her message loud and clear, and cast their ballots accordingly. The majority of voters embraced HER message, and dismissed Trump’s “make America great again” bullshit. The majority of voters chose HER vision of what the country could be and should be, and rejected the inane ramblings of a bigoted racist who took pride in his own ignorance, his own dishonesty, and his own abject stupidity.
When the majority of voters voted for HRC, it seems rather ludicrous to talk about how she went so wrong.
And let’s keep something else in mind. Hillary WON the majority of votes despite the fact that she has been scorned and ridiculed for thirty years without respite, despite the fact that the MSM fawned over Trump and ignored all of his obvious lies, fraud, lawsuits, and conflicts of interest, despite the fact that she was an “uppity woman” competing for a job many consider to be the sole domain of men, despite the fact that she has been cast as a criminal for doing the same things in office her predecessors have done, and despite the fact that the media focused on Benghazi-and-emails while never even mentioning Trump’s inexperience, ignorance of how government works, and his blatant stupidity in respect of every facet of foreign and domestic affairs.
Add into the mix that despite the fact that the FBI, via Comey, declared that HRC was “still under active investigation” for wrongdoing when she clearly wasn’t, that so-called “truth-tellers” like Julian Assange released emails that cast Hillary as the ultimate villain while never saying a word against Trump or his shady dealings with Putin and the PTB in Russia and elsewhere, and that Hillary was accused of having literally murdered scores of political adversaries by so-called “progressives” who regurgitated all of the above, because they’d rather see Trump in the White House than be cheated out of saying “I told you so” to those who didn’t support their candidate-of-choice in the primaries, HRC STILL WON the majority of votes cast.
I cannot think of another politician in our country’s history who could have withstood the constant onslaught of lies paraded as truth, three decades of scrutiny by those determined to vilify her, and a never-ending army of nay-sayers set on her destruction – while she STILL went on to win the support of the majority of her fellow citizens.
So spare me the “Hillary lost because …” bullshit. She didn’t lose – the country did. And so says the majority of those who bothered to vote, as opposed to those who spend their lives on websites bragging about their after-the-fact political expertise.
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