RNC Chair Reince Priebus
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tacit admission from Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus that Republicans can't hope to beat Hillary Clinton on substantive policy or politics:
“Bill Clinton’s activities are fair game for Hillary Clinton to answer, absolutely. And if there are things that Bill Clinton has done that we don’t know about, politically or through business enterprise, that are questionable and/or illegal, then we ought to look into it and ask Hillary about it too, because the presumption is that she’s gonna benefit from the successes of Bill Clinton, so I think it’s fair game,” Priebus said.
What about his personal life, he was asked. Is that fair game?
“I would say that the Monica Lewinsky stuff is a little stale and old, obviously,” Priebus said. “But if it turns out that there are things that are going on, and that we didn’t know about, he’s a public figure. He’s a former president. And they want to launch Hillary into the public eye. She deserves just as much scrutiny as anybody. And if Bill Clinton was up to things we find to be unscrupulous, I think that people ought to know about it.”
And once again we see that Republicans hope to win not by convincing swing voters to turn out for them but by making irregular voters so disgusted they stay home. All class, those guys.
11:44 AM PT: By the way, a whopping 66 percent of people have a favorable opinion of Bill Clinton. You know, the guy Republicans want to use to take down Hillary.
11:46 AM PT (kos): They're talking about this Bill Clinton:
Asked which U.S. president of the past 25 years they admired most, 42 percent named the 42nd president — more than twice the percentage of any other president.
The other three received roughly the same amount of admirers: President Barack Obama (18 percent), President George W. Bush (17 percent) and President George H. W. Bush (16 percent).