Every Major GOP Prez Hopeful Used Private Email Accounts.

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Tuesday March 31, 2015 · 5:52 PM PDT

2015/03/31 · 17:52

Even as the habitual HRC demonizers whip themselves into ecstasies of rage over whatever scraps that they think they can find to keep alive a story the NYT was forced to walk back over two weeks ago, we've found that at least seven front-running Republican presidential candidates for 2016 used private email accounts for official business: Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, and Scott Walker, themselves have used private email accounts in the course of official business. (Jeb, in fact, had at least two.)

And, of course, they all bashed Senator Clinton for doing what they themselves did.

To this list of seven known hypocrites, we may now add a eighth: Mike Huckabee.

Follow me across the Bridge of Mendacious GOP/Media Hypocrisy for more.

Mother Jones' Tim Murphy (who I found via MSNBC's Rachel Maddow) has the goods:

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee thinks questions about Hillary Clinton’s emails as secretary of state “will linger” throughout the 2016 presidential race. “If the law said you had to maintain every email for public inspection, that’s what you got to do,” he recently told ABC News. Huckabee also suggested that the missing emails might shed new light on the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya in 2012.
Huckabee, who is considering a second run for president himself, is probably right that the issue of secrecy will dog Clinton’s campaign going forward. But he might not be the best man to make that case. As Mother Jones reported in 2011, Huckabee destroyed his administration’s state records before leaving office in 2007.

There you have it: Every single major Republican presidential candidate for 2016 has done the exact same thing for which they and the press stenographers who love them have all heatedly attacked Hillary Clinton.

But the press will, of course, forget about what these men did and focus on the former Madame Secretary instead, hoping that we, too, will have forgotten that all eight of these men did the same if not more so.

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