Contrary to MSM narrative the Democratic Primary is not over. A grand total of 3 states have voted. Delegates are at 52-51 and national polls tied. There is still a primary to be had. We do have a choice. People still might not necessarily want to be “firewalls” or “locked up” voter blocks.
Ben Smith at www.buzzfeed.com/… writes about his interview with Paul Begala discussing a potential Clinton vs Trump general election match up in:
The Only Strategy For Hillary Clinton Is To Scorch The Earth
There was a scenario, which looks more like a fantasy, in which Clinton was a movement. Women in their twenties, thirties, and forties would rally to her the way black Americans rallied to Obama; she would run on her own mantle of change.
In reality, nobody is that excited about Hillary Clinton, and young voters, women and men — the foot soldiers of any Democratic Party movement — aren’t coming around. She lost a resounding 82% of voters under 30 in Nevada. Her campaign now rests on the hope that voters of color like her well enough, if nowhere near as much as they like Obama. And that means that when she faces a Republican, she will have to destroy him — something the people who will be doing the destroying acknowledged when I asked them earlier this month.
I was in the Draft Warren camp early last summer. IMO she’d be trouncing HRC by 15% by now. It’s not that I thought she was better on issues than Bernie but I did consider his age and the fact that after 2008 there was a general feeling that it was time for a woman president. I did give HRC fair consideration… Then I closed my eyes and imagined a 2016 race filled with PAC ads dredging up old scandals and flip flopping positions. There had to be a better way. It seems for once Paul Begala and I are in agreement;
“The slogan is ‘Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid,’” said Paul Begala, who is an adviser to the pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA.
Kind of why I throw up in my mouth a little when I hear people claim HRC is the “heir apparent” to Obama’s legacy. Obama ran an incredible underdog grassroots campaign built on small donations. He knew people knock on doors and using social media to go around the MSM would be his path to victory. HRC... not so much.
Democrats are now left to hope that the Republican Party will make a campaign of fear easy by nominating a candidate campaigning on bigotry. Donald Trump has already hinted that he plans to attack Clinton as nastily as possible, on subjects including her husband’s infidelity.
“It will be her versus a fucking asshole in almost any scenario,” mused one prominent Obama loyalist. “It’s going to be a lot of fear, but she’s going to have a lot of room to run, and she’s not going to have to destroy the other person, because the other person is going to be so eminently destroyable.”
Two people with massive unfavorable ratings. One people don’t trust and one that just a flat out xenophobe, negative ad bombing each other into sub 50% voter turnout oblivion….. Are you excited yet?!?!
