The John Batchelor Show

VIDEO: Mrs. Clinton & the Democrats

March 16, 2015

Thursday  12 March 2015/ Hour 1, Block C: Lara M Brown, George Washington University, political analyst, in re: Hillary Rodham Clinton vs Democrats.  Brouhaha of Mrs Clinton's emails.  Where's the server?  Westchester? Mr Clinton's office in Manhattan, or Mrs Clinton's residence in Washington or her New York office?  Who had access to the server(s)?  The Russian hacker Goosifer suggested other eyes were on her server.  Mr Gowdy expands his Benghazi investigation into email.  Tens of thousands of emails obliterated as soon as the problems start to surface.  Progressive Dems are flummoxed. Hillary Clinton president till January 2025.  Dems will push for her candidacy – maybe not happily.  Were there another adequate candidate, maybe not. They put all their eggs in one basket, let HRC keep the "inevitable" story alive. Weak bench. Its said that the president gutted the Democratic Party with his progressivism.  Normal during a presidency: GOP also had this.  Mrs Clinton was introduced at the UN as "the future president of the United States."  There's not even a Clinton campaign at present. The scandal lingers. The usual explanation used to be "tempest in a teapot" or "right-wing conspiracy."   At the AP suit takes hold, a drip-drip of continuing scandal: 1. email; 2. Clinton Foundation taking money from foreign govts; 3. the double-dipping if HRC's pals at State and taking money from corporations.   Some of the Clinton problems originally sent the Democrats to Barack Obama.   Mrs Clinton's strength is identity politics; this hangs like a shadow over it – document search has nothing to do with policy, or gender gap.  Dems will fight viciously for the team, irrespective of scandals.  Might abandon her if in the polling she can’t stay competitive in the head-to-heads. 
- What's the risk of flying with one big engine (HRC) on a two-winged aircraft (DNC)?
- What happens to the Democratic Progressives in an HRC administration?
- Does the RNC work better with HRC than the DNC??
- Jackie Kucinish's sharp piece: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/11/hillary-s-totally-lame-...