“Hillary Clinton is a flawed candidate.”
If I had a dollar for every time that’s been written or said, I’d be posting this from my casita in Sayulita overlooking the Pacific Ocean. And of course, nary a day goes by without Trump reminding us of just that, lest we forget.
Today, the media is up in arms because she dared appear in a skit on the Grammys. “Isn’t she just fueling division?” Don Lemmon asked Barbara Boxer a tad too earnestly? But then, things are said about every candidate, right? For example, many say that Trump is a grifter, a liar, narcissistic and ignorant. If one ignores the fact that all are demonstrably accurate, how is that any different from what is said about Clinton? Let’s have a look, shall we?
Ignoring the fluff, such as, her voice is shrill, her laugh is annoying, her ankles are thick, she’s dying or at least morbidly unhealthy, responsible for Bill cheating on her, too ambitious, a bitch, wears pantsuits, and she’s, you know, a woman, according to her most zealous detractors, Hillary is actually a felonious lesbian demon, who, when not giving birth to alien babies, is routinely and personally offing anyone, including women and children, who might annoy her or otherwise impede her quest to take over the world.
By all accounts she’s been secretly running the country for the last thirty years. How else could she be fully responsible for every mistake Bush made while she was the Senator from New York, and every mistake Obama made during and after she was his Secretary of State?
She’s been accused of running slave trades, narcotics cartels, and child pornography rings, and that she engineered the terrorist raid on our embassy in Benghazi that killed four people just to hide the fact she was using her illicit email server to give our government secrets to hostile foreign nations.
According to the current administration, she lied under oath to Congress and also to the F.B.I., and committed a host of various and sundry other federal crimes. She overrode eight other departments in order to sell all of our uranium to the Russians, and then pocketed the money. And the coup de grace, she conspired with Russia to get Trump elected just so she could turn around and frame him by faking a dossier that proved it was his campaign that had actually rigged the election.
Which of course all explains why there was universal rejoicing earlier this week, when Hillary was finally caught in something to which she has confessed. Ten years ago, instead of firing a close advisor on the spot, she betrayed all womankind by deciding to reprimand, fine, and order rehabilitation therapy, after an accusation that he kissed a 30 y/o staffer on the forehead without her permission.
And so, yes, I suppose it’s an understatement to say that Hillary Clinton is a flawed candidate. But you know what I really don’t get, and perhaps one of you can explain it to me, is why in the world the far right, the Republican Party, the media, and other naysayers both liberal and conservative, have decided to spend most of the last four decades as well as hundreds of millions of dollars, not to mention countless hours of airtime, written exposés, websites, op eds, films, social media and email campaigns, ...in an attempt solely devoted to stopping such a lousy, flawed, candidate?