Book of Long Knives

Over at the New York Post, Michael Goodwin tells us that former DNC chair Donna Brazile is putting the shiv in Hillary!:

The explosive book by the former head of the Democratic National Committee is rocking the political world with its tales of Hillary Clinton’s brazen corruption and tawdry deceits. To add extra punch to her insider’s account, Brazile is telling interviewers that Clinton’s 2016 campaign was “sterile” and a “cult,” and mocking it as sexless and joyless.

Sounds right to us.

Goodwin, among  others, has noticed what we've been saying for the last year. Hillary! is laying the groundwork to run again in 2020. We stand by our prediction that she'll be dead before then, either from the syphilis, the Parkinson's or the alcoholism.

But there's no telling Hillary! No.

We suspect Brazile's is the first shot from the Obama wing of the party. After all Barry is organizing as well and intends to be the figurehead of the Democrat Party going forward.

As Stalin once said there cannot be two suns in the sky.

The question, dealt with in this space before, is if not Hillary! then who?

We caught a few minutes of Fox News the other morning (we were changing the battery in the remote) and a Dem consultant argued that in fact the Dems have a pretty decent bench.

We agree. In New York they have Governor Andrew Cuomo, and Bill De Blasio. In California they have Senator Kamala Harris. In New Jersey lies Senator Corey Booker (we think we voted for him. Why not?).

So there are people out there for the Dems.

The problem is even in defeat the Clintons suck up all the Oxygen. Hence Brazile's book. We wonder who strikes next?

Hillary!'s new Plan

Well Hillary! is in the midst of another disastrous book launch. What Happened, (again, that title is so bad you know she insisted on using it) is full of little tidbits that provide a window into how the !@#$ thinks. She has absolutely no self awareness and no ability to assume blame for her loss.

Reader(s) won't need me to go through this with them, will they?

Via Hot Air, reasonable Democrat Doug Schoen looks at this latest bit of Hillary! wreckage and says its time for Hillary! to step aside:

Today, the likelihood of Clinton exiting the national spotlight and allowing a new generation of party leaders to emerge appears to be slim. Clinton’s continued effort to be a leading figure in the party could severely hurt chances for Democrats in 2018, as well as 2020. As I have said before, her terribly unclear agenda, lack of a plan for economic growth and distasteful attacks against Republicans all led to her inevitable loss. She simply does not stand for anything…

We'll come back to that.

Jane Pauley [She's still alive?-Ed] notes:

Former FBI Director James Comey, Russian meddling and the media — she singles out several journalists by name — come in for a beating, while she also lays blame at the feet of Bernie Sanders, Green Party nominee Jill Stein, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, sexism and the electoral system itself.

Let's get something straight. Hillary! lost because she's a bad candidate. Her voice, her cackle its man repellent, and repellent to 52% of white women as well. She is old and desperately tired, so sick she needed to take the weekends off. She took the blue wall states of MI, PA, and WI for granted.

She also lost because she's a bad person, lousy, no good. Do a google search, reader(s). Look up what she did to people like Billy Dale at the White House Travel Office. That's just for starters.

As far Hillary! stepping aside, well, we don't think so.

She's already set up a PAC, and one of her lick-spittles has built this bizarre Verrit social media site for distraught  Hillary! voters.

We see a plan emerging. In 2018 Chelsea will run for congress in our old NY 19 congressional district to keep the Clinton name viable. Hillary! claims she is done being a candidate yet she has already set up a vast campaign organization. Of course the Clintons still control the Democrat Party. This will enable them to edge out potential candidates, fake Indian Elizabeth Warren, half-Indian Kamala (I was Willie Brown's concubine) Harris. The field for 2020 will look weaker than it already is.

The Draft Hillary!! movement will be lead by former VA governor and Clinton lackey Terry Mcauliffe.

We can imagine Hillary!'s announcement speech:

Realizing that America needs a someone who will fight for women and minorities in this time of crisis it is with reluctance that I announce my candidacy for President of the United States.

Why not? She's been doing the same thing for 25 years. Why stop now?

However, we stand by our previous statements about Hillary!'s health. If the Parkinson's doesn't get her the syphilis she contracted from sex-addict Bill will.. Or maybe she'll just have too much to drink one night and have another bad slip and fall.

Hillary Rodham: 2017

There's been a lot of speculation of late about alternate Hillary! scenarios. One scenario imagines Hillary! is president. Um...okay.

Another scenario, far more interesting, imagines Hillary! never married Bill.

The question then arises what would the 70 year old Hillary Rodham be doing?

She has a posh apartment in a posh section of Chicago served and serviced by a bevy of super-loyal lesbians (like Huma Abedin for instance). She is a lawyer and teachers a few classes at Northwestern. She's a lawyer who appears of TV. Just maybe she's a Congresslesbian and ranking member of the House Great Lakes Committee.

She has no family of which to speak. At night she gets back from her Pilates class, cracks open a bottle of white wine and watches The Good Wife, she wonders what will happen if the coughing fits come back and she is alone. She wonders how far the Parkinson's has progressed. She wonders how long before she is in senior-care. And she wonders who will visit her.

She quickly downs a glass of wine and refills the glass...how does this damn thing work, she wonders as she fiddles with the remote....

Notes on Huma Abedin in the Wiener Doc

What is Huma Abedin? She has spent 20 years as a high profile gofer for Hillary Clinton. Bill officiated her wedding. Hillary says Huma is her second daughter. Both of her parents were highly educated members of the Pakistani elite. Her mother is a college prof.

Huma has no accent, which seems strange for someone who spent so much of her youth in Saudi Arabia.

Huma is classically beautiful with a pretty face, well made, and hourglass figure. She dresses the way this middle-aged father hopes his three daughters will one day dress, in a feminine way, but with nothing too short or tight.  Huma is over all well turned out and splendidly appointed.

Through most of the doc, Huma never seems to crack an actual smile. There are times when we see her teeth, when she is baring her teeth to show happiness, but she never quite brings the corners of her mouth up.

She seems to maintain a certain distance from the camera, from the campaign staff, from Anthony.

She seems oddly distant to her husband. The only real incidence of spousal intimacy we see occurs in an elevator when she asked him about his pants and tugs at the pocket.

Huma is uncomfortable in front of the camera. One scene were she reads a statement in an event called 'Women for Wiener'. It is painful, almost as if she has learned public speaking from a bad public speaker; come to think of it....she has, hasn't she?

After the scandal breaks we see Huma, humiliated and twister. It's hard to watch. She's going through an existential crisis at the extreme humiliation brought onto her by  a man who has betrayed her twice (three times now at the time of this writing). She says at one point that the scandal was, 'Like living in a nightmare'. By the end of the doc her soul has died. The most heart wrenching scene comes on election night when Sydney Leathers is attempting to ambush Carlos Danger Danger. Huma says, 'I am not going through the indignity of being confronted by this woman'.

Throughout the film Huma and Wiener deal with every matter by considering how it will look how it would seem, how would their actions play on TV that night?

A note on the staff. The office is filled primarily with young hipster types. Many of them no doubt went to the best schools, NYU, Columbia, etc. They have degrees in English (as if you needed to go 200K in debt to read Dickens), Poli-sci (even more useless), maybe Journalism help us god. They loved Stewart and Colbert, now Bee and Noah.  With one notable exception, anyone who watches will see, the young women are badly made up and don't know how to carry themselves. The men, well, I wouldn't want to be a woman sleeping next to one of these guys if I thought someone was breaking into the house.

This is the point at which we are supposed to note how bad we feel for these young idealists. Bullshit these kids are smug know-it-alls and they deserve it. Like Huma none of them seem to actually know how to do anything. Nor do any of them seem to know anything. Like Huma They went to the right schools and met the right people. They are young fixers in proximity to power, like Huma.

As noted in a previous post, Huma went to work for Hillary right after graduating. That's 20 years in proximity to the supreme power in America, the House of Clinton. She has made her career being Hillary's gofer and all around lick-spittle and trading off her proximity to power.

Soon she will not have even that.

Huma! Huma!

Well Huma Abedin is in the news again.

Huma sounds like a fish, because it is a fish. My father, back in his halcyon days, maintained a 55 gallon salt water aquarium that included a Huma Huma, or as it was known in Casa de Stroock the 'Hinga hoongi'. Vicious little thing. When one dropped the feeder fish in the tank the Huma Huma would take  a big bite out of the side and leave the rest for later. 

Tell me Huma Abedin doesn't look like that fish.

I've been fascinated by this woman lately. She's the pathetic star of the Wiener documentary. Man do we ever feel her pain.

Of course she was caught in NYC a few days after the election walking down the street in tears.

Twenty years as Hillary!'s young Lesbian lover only to end up a loser.

Huma and I have a few things in common. Like me she was a White House intern.  I was in '94, the summer before Monica.

Unlike me she parlayed this into a career, namely being Hillary!'s young Lesbian lover and gofer.

She applied to George Washington University. I applied to George Washington University.

Unlike me, Huma was accepted by GWU. I only lived there during the summers of '94 and later '95 when I interned for Senator William V. Roth.

For years now we've heard about how smart and talented is Huma. I guess. She was accepted to GWU. She was an editor at some sort of Islamic journal.

As noted above, Huma is in the news. Right now the Clinton people are turning their guns on her. She's the most vulnerable, after all. We doubt that Huma actually made any decisions during the campaign, that's not the role of young Lesbian lovers and gofers.

Well, for the first time in 20 years Huma is out in the cold. She hitched herself to her Lesbian mentor and crashed violently. Now she's got to get a job. On her talents and merits. Those are exactly?

She's about to be tossed out into the cold world by team Clinton. Poor thing. Climbing that career later only to fall off.

Maybe Anthony will catch her.

You Went Full Paranoid....

...Never go full paranoid.

Right now the Democrat Party is looking about casting blame for the electoral defeat of the goddess-empress Hillary! It;'s getting ugly.

So off the top of my head, Hillary! lost because of James Comey, or Russian hacking, or media bias (you can laugh yourself to death on that last one), sexism, ageism...did I miss anything?

Oh, and Fake News. That's my favorite.

All of these excuses add up to one thing: the Democrat party is is deep denial.

Or they're just nuts.

Look after 2012 we on the right looked at the disaster before and thought, 'Ok, let's figure out what we did wrong and never do it again.' There were no excuses. After 2008 we in the conservative movement looked around at the smoldering ruble that was our ideology and said, 'Ok, how do we fix and rebuild this?' We needed new ideas and leadership.

So why did Hillary! lose? She was an awful candidate and is an awful person. She was bereft of ideas, except for one big idea: herself. The Democrat Party is an organization of bi-coastal elites concerned with boutique issues that no one else cares about. They and Hillary! are seen as representative of a cocooned global elite, great for Wall Street, San Francisco and New York, but bad for Main Street.

Right now the Democrat Party is basically arguing that America sucks. Lemme tell you something, there guy. It's not America that sucks, it's YOU that sucks.

You've been Stroocked

Yeah, I got it right. I saw the signs, yes, I saw the signs.

I honestly don't understand why so many people are stunned by Mr. Trump's victory.

Let's take this number by number, real slow, so that even a J-school trained media stenographer of the kind working at the Times or the Post can understand it.

1-There were plenty of polls that showed the following:

1.1- Trump locked up Ohio. He locked up Florida. By the last week Mr. Trump was campaigning in PA, MI, WI, and Minnesota. None of these states had gone GOP since the 80's. Minne-frakin-sota!

1.2-We've had five major elections in the western world in the last few years: the US midterms, Israel, Canada, Britain and Brexit. In four out of five of those races polls consistently underestimated conservative turnout. The one exception was Canada. Why Canada? Because there was no social cost for supporting Prime Minister Zoolander.

2- You need three things to win. Circumstances, candidates and ideas (thanks Rush).

2.1- Well, the circumstances for Hillary! were terrible, weren't they? The economy stinks. Our foreign policy is a wreck and it is really, really hard to replace an incumbent in your own party.

2.2 - Hillary! had all the charisma of a damp rag (to borrow from Mr. Farrage) and a low grade bank clerk, (to borrow from Mr. Farrage again).  She was a horrible candidate. She's Bobdole without the Viagra.

2.3 - Hillary! had no ideas. Hillary!'s idea was Hillary!

3- We all got Trumped

3.1 He had circumstances.

3.2- He had a couple of very sloganable ideas.

3.3- He turned into a good candidate. He was fun and exciting.

4.0 Anecdotal

4.1- You could feel it. You could see the Trump stickers and the Trump yards signs. They were everywhere.

4.2- He packed them in, everywhere he filled arenas.

4.3- This made for a vast enthusiasm gap.

5 Trump was underestimated

5.1 He vanquished the best slate of candidates the GOP has fielded in a generation. Ted Cruz is picking up Trump's dry cleaning. Rubio wants to know what time his cheerleader wife should be at Trump's suite, and Jeb Bush's political skull is being used as an ashtray for Mr. Trump's victory cigars.

5.2 Yet still the Dems underestimated him. Morons.

You all listened to a bunch of number-crunchers with a lot of high-falootin degrees analyzing distributions and regression lines; I don't even know what that is. Old Washington hands assured us that is was over when the tapes came out (I'm looking at you, Chuck Todd, who I'm pretty sure interviewed me for a job at Roll Call in 2000). Mike Murphy and Bob Shrum assured us all Hillary! was gonna win. Check the resume's of those two clowns, see what they ever won.

Meanwhile, me with my on-line degrees, my little free blog,  and my self-published books, saw what they couldn't.

Bow down. Bow down before me. Not because I have the sight, the clairvoyance, or even the Force. Bow down because I opened my freaking eyes.

Jerks.

Keep on Trumpin'

Once again we see the university polls showing Hillary! with a substantial lead while the daily trackers show Mr. Trump with a small lead. I prefer to believe the daily trackers. Why not?

I should add there is some anecdotal evidence supporting my supposition:

First, most of the polls showing Hillary! ahead show her beating Mr. Trump by wider margins than Barry beat John McCain. ABC has her 12 points ahead. That is ridiculous. Obama was a phenomenon and beloved. Nobody loves Hillary! Not even Bill and Chelsea.

Bill: 'I didn't rape that ugly one, did?'
Chelsea: 'That's mom.'

Second, Trump packs 'em in. Yesterday in Ohio he filled a 30,000 seat arena. Hillary! can't do that. There's a massive enthusiasm gap here. Counting bumper stickers is dangerous, Trump stickers are everywhere, but that particular poll is supported by the above mentioned evidence.

D, the historical factors all favor Mr. Trump. As mentioned previously, it is very hard to replace the sitting president in your own party, ask Nixon and Algore. This is a change election.

5th, polls underestimated conservative turnout in America in 2014, in Israel in 2015, in Britain in 2015, and in Britain's Brexit vote this year.

6th, lefties can mock Trump all they want, but his 'the system is rigged' message is powerful with a lot of regular people.

Eta, the left really hates her. I mean, they really, really, hate her.

Just remember that. And also remember that in 2012 I assured everyone I knew that the polls were skewed and Mitt! would win. What a tosser.

That said, this represents where the race stands:

Election Feels

I've been thinking a bit about the election 2008.

That year a new, different candidate came out of nowhere to defeat Hillary! and then John McCain.

I speak about Barrack Hussein Obama, of course.

Now the interesting about 2008 is John McCain. Going into September he led by 3 or 4 points and the Party of Jefferson Davis was becoming concerned. It is possible, I think that McCain could have won if not for a single event. The Financial Crisis. As the crisis unfolded I watched his lead shrink from three to two to one to zero; followed by Obama's taking the lead. He never relinquished said lead.

Other than the crisis, McCain faced a yuuge problem. He was a man out of his time. McCain's year was 2000. Did he blow it in the primaries against Bush? I guess, but honestly I don't know how he could have beaten the establishment colossus. Senator McCain, whom I voted for and even donated the max, would have walloped Algore, say 53-45? The man was a national hero.

2008 was HIllay!'s  year and she royally blew it, counting on her establishment status and huge war chest to outlast Obama. After he basically won the Super-Tuesday round of primaries, Hillary! had no plan.

My main point here is that this election feels like 2008. Hillary! was decently ahead at one point, but that lead has evaporated and Mr. Trump seems to be ahead 3-4  points.

What's the event that catapulted Trump? Hillary! is the event. The almost daily revelations, new emails found, the FBI notes, Huma's Mulsim brotherhood status. etc etc...heck Anthony Wiener, If Bill Clinton had a son, he'd look like Anthony Wiener.

Hillary! and the party apparatchiks looked terrified. I know I was in 2008.

Usually caveats apply, of course! But man, it doesn't look good for Hillary!.