Remember how you couldn’t turn on the radio or the television without hearing or seeing something really awful about the campaign? Remember the soft, thoughtful words of talk radio hosts who sometimes seemed to be in a twenty-four hour a day Bash Bill and Hill competition?
Well, good news, folks, those grand old days are back and wouldn’t you know it, the target of all that bile is none other than that other Clinton, you know–the female one. If you’ve been paying attention during the last few weeks you’ve noticed a determined uptick in the number of negative stories about Ms. Clinton and her supposed campaign 2016 kick-off. And what has been the proof offered that Hillary’s popularity (and therefore campaign chances) aren’t what they used to be?
Why, it’s not this purported scandal or that supposed excess or that insinuated rumor. It isn’t Bill’s celebrated extra-marital love life or past impeachment hearings. It’s book sales. Yes, you heard that correctly. The right wing blogosfolks have been inundating us with sales figures for Hillary’s new autobio, “Hard Choices” and these sales figures apparently tell a story of faded reputation and hopeless unpopularity. I mean people had high hopes for this book and what happened? A hundred thousand hard cover copies in a week? Not very impressive. I mean any of us out here in the real world could sell than many copies of our daily diaries, right?
This is, of course, just the beginning of what promises to be the most targeted and attack-happy campaign for president in the history of targeted and attack-happy presidential campaigns. A lot of time and money and effort is going to be spent to savage the reputation of Hillary. Because, after all, her last name ends with that seven letter name.
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