Category Archives: 2016 presidential campaign
Scott Walker Snaps Out
Now there are fifteen.
Scott Walker followed the lead of Rick Perry and shut down his campaign. He said we was helping clear the field so a positive conservative message can rise to the top. Supporters thought he would be the one to deliver that message. Between the Donald and the other candidates in the debates he couldn’t get a word in edgewise.
There are other views.
Michael Barone thinks the Republican party now appeals to people beyond traditional conservatives, libertarians, and evangelicals. That might explain Trump, Fiorina, and Carson. And the demise of Walker.
Mark Steyn called him a “performing seal”.
Fiorina Face Time
The consensus seems to be that Carly Fiorina, JV champ of the first Republican debate, was the winner of the second varsity debate.
Interestingly she did it on different sides of women’s issues. She roughed up The Donald implying he insulted all women by making fun of her appearance. Then she attacked federal funding for Planned Parenthood calling its trade in fetal body parts a question of “the character of our nation”.
Hillary Believes
Hillary believes rape victims. Sometimes.
At a press conference this week Mrs. Clinton said college women who claim they were raped should be believed. She even reinforced her remarks by tweeting this little video saying you have a right to be believed.
A discredited Rolling Stone story earlier this year showed that’s not always the case.
What was Hillary thinking? Maybe was reaching out to Juanita Broaddrick. This is from a February 25, 1999 article by Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post:
Juanita Broaddrick told her story to a national television audience last night, saying she did not tell authorities 21 years ago of her contention that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her because “I just don’t think anyone would have believed me.”
Hillary is Sorry About That
Hillary said she’s “sorry about that”. Her apology for using a home-brew email server seemed as sincere as her detailed plan to be spontaneous.
She also says she wants to be “as transparent as anybody ever has been“. That could be a tall order following the most transparent administration in history.
White House Secret Server
Hillary may have had over 300 classified documents on her secret server in a bathroom closet in Denver. She turned a server over to the FBI that had been wiped clean. Bob Woodward compared her email issues to Richard Nixon’s tapes. His tapes only contained an 18 minute gap.
Update:
Former CIA director John Deutch also stored classified information on his home brew hard drive.
He was pardoned in the final hours of the last Clinton administration. Marc Thiessen has details here.
