{"id":5520,"date":"2017-05-15T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/15\/why-hillary-lost\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T05:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T05:35:00","slug":"why-hillary-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/15\/why-hillary-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Hillary Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/node\/447431\/print\">analysis<\/a> by Victor Davis Hanson. A <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">rasty<\/span> tasty morsel (<em>O felix erratum!<\/em>):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Peter Schweizer\u2019s <em>Clinton Cash<\/em> is underappreciated for its effect on the campaign. Through painstaking research, it tied together all the strands of Clinton nefariousness: the Clinton Foundation as an excuse to hire political flunkies and provide free jet travel; the quid pro quo State Department nods to those who hired Bill Clinton to speak; and corruption under Hillary Clinton, from cellphone concessions in Haiti to North American uranium sales to Russian interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Add to the Clinton sleaze Hillary\u2019s unsecured server and communications of classified material, the creepy New York and Washington careerists who turned up in the Podesta archives, and the political rigging that warped the conduct of the Democratic National Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The result was that Hillary could no longer play the role of the \u201cgood\u201d Clinton who \u201cput up\u201d with her husband\u2019s \u201cgood ole boy\u201d sleaze. Her new image was that of an equal partner in crime \u2014 or perhaps even a godmother who used the capo Bill as muscle. In comparison, Trump steaks, Trump University, Trump taxes, and Trump ties were old-fashioned American hucksterism, but with one important difference: Trump\u2019s excesses were a private person\u2019s; Clinton\u2019s were those of a public servant.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Should a special prosecutor be appointed? By all means! 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A rasty tasty morsel (O felix erratum!): Peter Schweizer\u2019s Clinton Cash is underappreciated for its effect on the campaign. Through painstaking research, it tied together all the strands of Clinton nefariousness: the Clinton Foundation as an excuse to hire political flunkies and provide free jet travel; the quid pro &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/15\/why-hillary-lost\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Hillary Lost&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}