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In a normal world, the very thought of the person who sat idly by while four Americans were besieged and murdered at one of our embassies now wanting to be our “champion” would cause every heart in the country to go into immediate arrest. Unhappily, the world is no longer normal, leaving a small and regrettable percentage of the American electorate who will now invite the Inspector Clouseau of American politics to minister to their whims and desires. But, to be sure, they won’t be the same people who learned from experience the pitfalls of placing their hopes and trust in Hillary Clinton.
No need to worry, however, because she promises to bring the same sterling success she’s enjoyed across the globe right to your doorstep. Remember the Russian “Reset Button”? You know, the little gizmo that actually read, “overcharge” in Russian? One wonders, in the wake of all this “smart diplomacy,” whether Ukraine and Crimea would have benefitted from an American champion? Instead, they were invaded by Vladimir Putin, the beneficiary of Hillary’s reset button. Did Poland and the Czech Republic go looking for help when Barack Obama decided to repeal US plans for providing them with missile defenses? Where was the champion then?
Amen to every word.
Someone please forward this to Kirsten Powers.
Dang.
I really hope we can turn that stupid reset button into the “Mission Accomplished” of the campaign.
Terrific post, Dave. Keep ’em coming.
Great to see you again at the Nashville Meet-up.
We need to quit saying it that way – and we need to emphasize that while it was promised to be a ‘reset’ button it was actually an ‘overcharge’ button and it is working exactly as the name implies.
We are being overcharged on the international stage because of the policies this administration and her support of those policies.
But what if you really do want recycled failed ideas implemented at absurd cost, rhetoric that never matches actions, brazen attempts to characterize abject failures as victories, a steady stream of scandals and lies and a persistent general feeling of contempt for your leaders? Isn’t HILLARY! your champion?
To paraphrase, “maybe Hillary isn’t the champion we need, but the champion we deserve”. While I’m wiling to admit I’m not a paragon of morality, I’m not quite sure to what levels of depravity I’d have to sink to deserve her as my champion.
Great post Dave. However,I think we should refer to Mrs Clinton as Ms Rodham,after all if we recognize common law marriage we should recognize common law divorce. Bill has not enjoyed a cigar with Hillary since Chelsea was conceived.
Thanks Dave, she is one evil human.
It’s hard to write about the Clintons without violating the CofC.
But, yeah, the problem is the 51% of voters who might think she is their champion, just as Mr Obama is, all evidence to the contrary.
Agreed to all but this. It’s not a small percentage, and conservatives need to quit pretending that it is. Fully half of American voters will at least consider voting for her.
Those on the Left who disapprove of Clinton dislike her gruff manner, her manipulations of her own side, or her opposition to The One (Barack Obama). They don’t disapprove of her lies, her disregard for law and order, her callous abuses of any opposition, her want of total authority, or her negligence in office.
Fully half of Americans would politely host you and me for a dinner party but then make us slaves, prisoners, or paupers through the heavy hand of centralized, totalitarian government. They would smile and laugh with us, then cheer as media destroyed our reputations or employers dismissed us for daring to disagree with the liberal project.
Conservative pundits are forever confusing the mile-high view with the nitty gritty in polling data. Yes, most Americans will say they want to be free to make their own choices; but half of them will then vote for government control. Yes, most Americans will say they want bipartisan agreement; but then they will cheer as Democrats stick it to Republicans.
There is always hope. God is always with us. But let’s be realistic. This country is at war with itself, not just with a handful of activists and corrupt politicians.
By the way, Dave, I’m always glad to see you contributing to Ricochet. Now that your boss has experienced the thrilling humor and wisdom that comes from so many different angles in the Ricochet community, I hope she will schedule some semi-regular writing time.
What a great post. One of the best and most powerful I’ve seen on Ricochet.
As for the chopsticks simile, I’m also reminded of the “Seinfeld” episode where George rushes out of the bathroom, pants down around his ankles, trying to get to the phone before Kramer can inadvertently blurt out the truth about George’s unemployment scam. Jerry sees him there on the floor, and says, “And you want to be my latex salesman.”
This is how I see Hillary. Benghazi, the email, the reset, these are her pants down around her ankles. And she wants to be our champion.
The point of a champion is someone who fights for us.
Americans fight their own fights. We don’t outsource that.
You’d think she’d know that. But she is, after all, a lawyer – and lawyers want the client to sit quietly while they do the advocating.
Dave,
I’m glad you are on the job here. This woman has such a long list of negatives she hopes that people will get tired and give up.
I especially think the story of how she personally damaged the lives of the women who were sexually harassed, if not raped, by Bill is the most telling. She knew what Bill was up to from the beginning. This is a cold merciless calculator. It didn’t happen one time but many times.
This makes the whole ‘Woman’ campaign angle especially nauseating.
Regards,
Jim
Hillary = Rape apologist.
Dave,
You know now that I’ve had a little time to think about it and you have given me so much to think about, I realize that the Clintons remind me of another power couple. These two really know how to get the job done.
Out out damned spot. Huma get the stain remover.
Regards,
Jim
Each paragraph could be made into a campaign ad. Most people don’t know these things because the media has downplayed them or never reported them . Sigh , if only there was an opposition party. I say it all the time but I don’t think anyone in the RNC has ever even heard of Ricochet.
Thank you sir! Great to see you too!
Well, you could always write in General Custer.
You mention polling data, and I’m wondering if you have some to highlight for me. I tried to reference Gallup just now, because I seem to remember the percentage of those who self-identify as liberal in low 20s. Unfortunately, the site is down so I can’t verify that at the moment. I’m wondering, then, when you write that “fully half” of Americans would be as genteel as you please while enslaving us — are you referencing the hard core left supporter, or including with them the independent vote? I ask because I have to wonder if independents are starting to sour on the liberal agenda, and I’m curious as to whether or not you share that hunch.
It’s entirely possible that half of the electorate are simply impervious, but I’m wondering what path you take to that conclusion.
I’m delighted you wrote this comment, both because it give me that rarest of opportunities (that of offering a gentle correction), and because it gives me a chance to brag on my fiancé!
I know you’re kidding, but I won’t pass up the chance to point out that Shelley is most emphatically not my boss. That’s a position she never applied for and wouldn’t want. Best friend, confidant, life’s partner, soul mate, source of comfort, strength, and wisdom? Yes indeed. But boss? Nah.
That said, the only impediment I have to writing is my work schedule, which is why it has taken nearly 12 hours to even answer your comment! The chief challenge is that on those rare days when my work schedule permits time to write,…by the time the day is ended, I’m simply fried both physically and mentally. It’s a predicament I hope to free of at some point.
Dave,
Excellent post. I hope the younger voters get your message as they may not be old enough to have a reference point about the corruption and moral decay that was the hallmark of the Clinton administration.
God help us if America is stupid enough to elect Hillary President. If that occurred, it may be time for all of us on Ricochet to chip in and buy an Island.
I don’t remember if it was Jonah or Jim Garaghty who said, after the “foreign funds to the Clinton Foundation,” and the “deleted emails” scandals that this is what a Clinton presidency would look like. I’m suffering from scandal fatigue already, and we’re just getting started. Unfortunately, only those who lived through the first Clinton presidency remember what it was like. Those who were children during the first Clinton presidency, or born then, have no inkling of the constant drumbeat of scandal. Hillary’s a clean slate, with no baggage.
He went on to say that scandal wasn’t going to defeat Hillary. Everyone accepts that the Clintons are corrupt. Some just don’t care.
How do you really feel about Hillary Dave?
Well said.
I’m including the voters who would enslave us through ignorance rather than malice. Voting data is more informative than polling data. Half of American voters not only elected Barack Obama to be President, but re-elected him. Half of Americans thought President Obama was, if not a good President, at least preferable to a President Romney.
Now, I believe we should fight on for the sake of truth and justice even if the “war” is already lost. And I don’t want to casually toss aside what you and so many others enlisted for. But American culture has split evenly all the way down to the foundations. We are divided on the most fundamental perceptions of human nature and social organization.
And we must not pretend that the portion of liberals gripped by malice is insignificant in number. Everyone on this site encounters such people. Our neighbors, coworkers, and even old “friends” accuse us as if we were vicious, greedy hatemongers.
For evil to reign, it is not necessary for the majority of fellow Americans to hate us so. It is only necessary for that minority to create an atmosphere of fear and doubt in which the wicked may direct the ignorant and the weak-willed. We call it political correctness. Conservatives have already become accustomed to hiding their more important values at work, online, and even at private dinner parties.
Unless we are bold, all the horrors of the 20th century will become possible on American soil. There’s more at stake than affluence, American exceptionalism, or even the Constitution.
Aaron, I’d like to think that your diagnosis is mistaken. I’d really like to think that something significantly less than “over half of the voters” would continue taking us down this road. The 2014 election results, for example, tend to argue the opposite. But then so did the 2010 mid-terms, right? So I can’t be sure. But as you say, we must press forward, “for the sake of truth and justice.”
Just brilliant, Dave.
I continue to be gobsmacked that the woman married to our most depraved president – a woman whose political life (1) has been marked by continual scandals and failures and (2) can only be attributed to her association with said depraved president – is the presumptive Democratic nominee.
As I’ve said before, her candidacy violates the spirit of the 22nd Amendment, and to my mind, her seeking the office actually disqualifies her for it. Furthermore, she is transparently animated only by wealth and power – not by any desire to be anyone’s “champion” or “fighter”. (And whenever a politician says, “I’ll fight for you!” she diminishes herself by using the language of the ambulance-chaser.)
Aside #1: If I were directing the next James Bond movie and cast Hillary Clinton in the role of the villain (admittedly, an unlikely scenario), I could not do any better in terms of hair, makeup, and costuming than the version of Hillary at the top of this page.
Aside #2: Why is she called “Mrs. Clinton”? Shouldn’t a feminist be called “Ms. Clinton”?
Aside #3: Her characterization of “everyday Americans” was pitch perfect, if what she was going for was sounding like an imperious, condescending elitist. “Everyday” is an adjective that should be applied to objects, not people. One may have “everyday china” or wear “everyday shoes”, but an American should not be described as “everyday”. One imagines that Herself (as Kevin Williamson calls her) thinks that we everyday Americans should eat everyday cake.