The Patriot Post - Alexander's Column 8-19-2015

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The Patriot Post - Alexander's Column 8-19-2015
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Another Teflon Clinton?
Hillary's Wall of Shame — Will Any of it Stick?

By Mark Alexander

Aug. 19, 2015

“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.” —Thomas Jefferson (1785)

(On a personal note: Last week, I concluded my column with an appeal. For the first time since our 1996 inception, we were facing a third quarter revenue shortfall, and we were sweating bullets. We have not raised our budget1 in three years, though we have greatly enhanced our website, email publications and social media outreach. This week, we have closed the gap with thanks to all and special thanks to a fellow Patriot who has offered a 1:1 match. I am confident that incoming donations2 will have righted our ship by the end of today. On behalf of your entire Patriot team, thank you!)

Pundits right and left are insisting that Hillary Clinton’s presidential aspirations are in big trouble — at least according to the latest polls. Most argue that the secret email server scandal is driving down her credibility and that is transferring support to her socialist fringe opponent, 73-year-old Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

But questions about her “private emails” and whether this self-spun web of lies will ensnare her are not what is threatening Clinton’s candidacy. Nor is it her abysmal record3 as first lady, senator and secretary of state.

Democrats are discontent with their establishment candidate, and that’s what’s driving up Sanders' stock. If this theme sounds familiar, it’s because that’s precisely the same discontent driving Donald Trump’s4 stock to new highs.

It’s not so much that Democrats trust Sanders or Republicans trust Trump; it’s that the messages of these two outliers resonate with grassroots voters on their respective ends of the political spectrum. Those voters perceive, accurately, that their party leaders have no spine and are accomplishing nothing good.

An editorial in the uber-leftist rag Daily Kos — Three Big Reasons Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President5 — aptly sums up why the Left doesn’t like her: “She has zero record of accomplishment. She’s a terrible role model for women. And she’s kind of dumb.”

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is that when it comes to the general election Demos will vote for any braying jackass (or jenny) with a “D” by their name, no matter how much baggage they have in tow. When it comes down to it, they don’t care about all the scandals; they’re totally dependent on government6, and they want to keep the free stuff flowing!

The irrevocable fact is, as Mitt Romney7 accurately (if inartfully) claimed in 2012, “There are 47% of the people who will vote for the [Democrat], no matter what … who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That’s an entitlement, and the government should give it to them. And they will vote for [the Democrat] no matter what.”

Republicans, on the other hand, will divide and conquer themselves, and if Trump breaks ranks to run as an independent, enough conservatives will follow him right down a rat hole, ensuring the White House will be in Democrat hands for four or eight more years, and the failed domestic and foreign policies of another leftist will continue to undermine Liberty and free enterprise.

However, what will stick to Clinton are felony charges, and now that another 300 emails have been recovered from “lost” State Department servers that appear to have classified content and went through Clinton’s private server, felony counts may be coming.

Of course, the real reason then-Secretary of State Clinton routed all her email communication through a private server in a closet of her New York home was not as she claimed: “I thought it would be easier to just carry one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two.”

The private email server ensured she could protect her communication from public scrutiny, thus protecting her future political ambitions. Or so she thought.

When challenged about the server, Clinton now insists, “I won’t pretend that this [email scandal] is anything other than what it is — the same old partisan games.” (Shades of that “vast right wing conspiracy”!)

She added, “There is an unfortunate tendency to try to make partisan a tragedy in Benghazi, which I just fundamentally disagree with. I don’t think it’s right, and I will not participate in it. … I won’t get down in the mud with them. I won’t play politics with national security or dishonor the memory of those who we lost.”

Ah, yes, Benghazi — a case study of how Clinton “played politics with national security and dishonored the memory of those who we lost.” I encourage you to review the details of Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi cover-up8.

Fact is, she spit on the graves of four Americans in order to protect Obama’s 2012 re-election bid. She lied, claiming the attack on our embassy was inspired by an obscure Internet video rather than a well-planned and executed al-Qa'ida assault on the anniversary of 9/119. When challenged about this fabrication, she replied in testimony before the Senate, “What difference, at this point, does it make?”