How exactly will they topple Hillary? By attacking her family ties/Benghazi involvement? By taking advantage of voter fatigue?
Republicans mercilessly attacked Obama for every misstep and perceived weakness in his record and still lost by a convincing margin in 2012. How in the world do they stand a chance against Hillary, who arguably has less baggage (considering she's not an incumbent with mediocre job approval ratings, and thus has no such record to criticize) than Barack?
Thoughts?
I'm unsure. There will probably be a fair amount of running against Obama, and promises to make whatever issues their focus groups tell them likely voters are concerned about "better". The plan will be to accomplish the "make things better" via the usual Republican nostrums of less regulation, lower taxes for those already paying low taxes, and cuts to everything the Republicans don't like. All with a new coat of makeup and a facelift, but otherwise the same as they've been since Reagan. They'll be some talk about new national greatness and some careful dog-whistling for the various flavors of bigot.
The nominee will probably be very careful to attack Hillary's positions and plans, but likely will not attack her directly - they'll leave that to the externally funded and nominally independent PACs and the like. The "outside" attack on Hillary will pull no punches and go after every single thing they possible can, and then some.
That's only if the candidate remains sane, though. If one of the nuts actually gets the nomination, then they'll run on God, Guns, and Gynecology with maybe a side-helping of Greed is Good. But then Hillary wins, so it doesn't matter.
