Clinton Campaign Seem Determined To Snatch Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory

Am I the only person who believes Hillary Clinton is running a really horrible campaign? We can all agree Hillary Clinton is a weak candidate but did they not learn anything from 2008?

Maybe I am alone on this , but it seem that there is real­ly no coör­di­nat­ed mes­sage com­ing out of Clinton’s Brooklyn Campaign headquarters.

Donald Trump’s entire life is a smörgås­bord of dis-qual­i­fiers. For some rea­son which is lost at least on me, the Clinton cam­paign seem to believe that their can­di­date has the elec­tion in the bag.
What’s shock­ing about this whole débâ­cle is that Donald Trump is lit­er­al­ly the worst and most dan­ger­ous can­di­date to ever be nom­i­nat­ed for the American Presidency, at least in mod­ern times .

He has stead­fast­ly refused to play by estab­lished rules as it relates to releas­ing his tax returns . There is no law forc­ing him to, but for over forty years pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates of both par­ties have released their tax returns to the public.
Trump’s own vice pres­i­den­tial run­ning mate has released his returns , yet there is no pub­lic or media pres­sure for Donald Trump to show respect to the American vot­ers he so des­per­ate­ly want to lead. Obviously the rules do not apply to the Republican nom­i­nee on anything.
Donald Trump has respond­ed claim­ing that he is under audit and thus restrained.
The IRS has rub­bished Trump’s claim argu­ing he is absolute­ly not pre­clud­ed or pre­vent­ed from releas­ing his tax returns dur­ing an audit. Despite this, Donald Trump has refused stick­ing to the lie and the media allows him to get away with it.

On his health Donald Trump had his Doctor cob­ble togeth­er a let­ter claim­ing he is the health­i­est per­son ever to run for the pres­i­den­cy . Literally every med­ical pro­fes­sion­al asked to respond to the let­ter has heaped scorn on it, and that does not even include the miss-spellings and the lan­guage used in the letter.

Hillary Clinton clear­ly adopt­ed a strat­e­gy she would run out the clock. During the month of August bask­ing in the glow of her extend­ed cam­paign num­bers , Clinton was large­ly absent from the cam­paign trail.
Her sur­ro­gates argue she was engaged in fund rais­ing events .

Look , there is a legit­i­mate argu­ment to be made for her using the time , there months away from the elec­tions , good poll num­bers, to fund-raise.
There is also an argu­ment to be made that she want­ed to scoop up all the cash she could for the final stretch of the campaign.
However,when The oth­er can­di­date is vis­it­ing flood rav­aged areas, vis­it­ing a for­eign head of state and is just plain all over the media, there is just so much mon­ey is going to do to stop that surg­ing opponent.

Hillary Clinton is a weak can­di­date, her cam­paign is prov­ing to be equal­ly as lethar­gic. As I said in a pre­vi­ous blog her cam­paign lacks nim­ble­ness. Either it is not using the huge trove of neg­a­tives out there against Donald Trump or using them has had no effect on his candidacy.
It is unimag­in­able that the Clinton cam­paign would allow the Trump cam­paign to flip the nar­ra­tive from a ref­er­en­dum on Trump to one on her despite her out­spend­ing Trump as much as ten to one by some estimates.

The Trump cam­paign takes Clinton’s attack lines flip them and are using them against Clinton with marked effectiveness.
♦Clinton argues Trump is unfit . Trump says Hillary has no sta­mi­na. ♦Clinton argues Trump is dis­qual­i­fied from serv­ing as com­man­der-in-chief because of the dis­parag­ing com­ments he made about sev­er­al groups of peo­ple. Donald Trump flipped the same com­ments say­ing Hillary is dis­qual­i­fied because of her “bas­ket of deplorables” com­ments.

The fact is that it is impos­si­ble to turn on a tele­vi­sion set for two min­utes with­out hear­ing the name Donald Trump,the media is total­ly fix­at­ed on the guy. It’s kin­da like the way radios sta­tions play bad songs over and over on short rota­tions to the point you hear them even when you sleep. You get to the point you begin to start think­ing you like the song because that’s all you hear.

The aver­age vot­er may not like Trump or may even be unsure about him but they can’t help hear­ing his name and accord­ing to the polls they are begin­ning to feel maybe, just maybe this guy is not as bad as they say.
We keep wait­ing for the moment when the Clinton Campaign unleash­es some­thing which will suck the air out of the Trump lying racist and divi­sive cam­paign once and for all.
Instead Donald Trump is out on the cam­paign trail using words he does not know the mean­ing of to describe Hillary Clinton’s com­ments about half of Trumps sup­port­ers are in what she call “part of a bas­ket of deplorables”

The fact of the mat­ter is that whether it’s half or the whole of his sup­port­ers are ♦Racist♦Xenophobic♦Sexist♦Misogynist♦Islamaphobic♦ Nativist , it’s pret­ty damn deplorable.
A can­di­date who accord­ing to one poll is viewed by 60% of the nation as racist , a can­di­date who mocks a hand­i­capped reporter , thats pret­ty deplorable. A can­di­date and his run­ning mate who refuse to denounce David Duke and oth­er racists are pret­ty deplorable. A can­di­date who cas­ti­gates and labels an entire race of peo­ple as rapists and mur­der­ers is pret­ty deplorable.

A can­di­date who says that a Federal judge with an exem­plary record, is inca­pable of com­ing to a fair deci­sion in a case he is hear­ing because of his race, that’s pret­ty darn deplorable.
A can­di­date who mocks a fam­i­ly who lost their son in mil­i­tary ser­vice of the United States , that’s deplorable.
A man who mock John McCain a dec­o­rat­ed war hero who was cap­tured and tor­tured, that’s deplorable.
A man who spent over $85.000 in 1989 to dem­a­gogue 5 inno­cent black and brown teenagers in the New York Press. Demanding the death penal­ty for them, poi­son­ing the jury pool result­ing in an incor­rect find­ing of guilt and a sub­se­quent 13 year impris­on­ment before they were exonerated.
That’s pret­ty damn deplorable.

There should be no hes­i­ta­tion about say­ing those peo­ple are deplorable. Yet Donald Trump’s run­ning mate Mike Pence, the sit­ting Indiana Governor, was asked whether David Duke is deplorable, Pence replied “I’m not in the name-call­ing busi­ness.”
That exact­ly goes to the argu­ments Hillary Clinton has been making.
Trump/​Pence wants every­one to believe these are ordi­nary American work­ing peo­ple , you know farm­ers, cops, butch­ers, bar­bers, cops . Well if true what does it say about them?

The fact is nei­ther Trump nor Pence wants to denounce the most rad­i­cal racist zealots who find their voice as a result of their can­di­da­cy. They have been the life-blood of Trump’s can­di­da­cy from day one.
That’s the rea­son guys like Jeb Bush , and John Kasich are watch­ing these elec­tions from the sidelines.

Despite wads of cam­paign cash the Clinton cam­paign seem to be like the car­toon character

legs spin­ning but not moving .
Those who see her can­di­da­cy as the only remain­ing buffer between a Trump Presidency are ner­vous and fret­ful at what appears to be a cam­paign unsure of what to do.
The grunts you hear are com­ing from Republicans climb­ing back on board Donald Trump’s cam­paign ship . Good poll num­bers, and an insur­gent cam­paign final­ly show­ing some dis­ci­pline and Republicans are falling over them­selves to ingra­ti­ate them­selves with Donald Trump. It may be late but not too late for Clinton to call up David Plouffe and David Axlerod two of the archi­tects of Obama’s two wipe-outs of Republicans in 208 and 2012.

Of course in vin­tage Clinton style they will stick with the lack-lus­ter cam­paign , even as Trump is on his third set of cam­paign staff.
Hillary Clinton seem des­tined to snatch defeat from the jaws of vic­to­ry unleash­ing on the world a xeno­pho­bic, racist , misog­y­nis­tic, con-man and that’s just the beginning.
It’s nev­er too late to make a change.

In the end Hillary Clinton may be able to eke out a vic­to­ry in November . If that hap­pens it will be a func­tion of how deplorable a can­di­date Donald Trump is .
Given a stronger Democratic can­di­date with less bag­gage Democrats would have been guar­an­teed the White house, and maybe , just maybe the House of Representatives would have been up for grabs, not to men­tion Governorships and oth­er offices down ballot.
At this stage eking out a win will be a huge vic­to­ry for Democrats and President Obama’s legacy.